Figma Reviews & Insights

Score8.9 out of 10

1,380 Reviews and Ratings

Overview

Synthesised from 17 reviews | Last Published April 23, 2026

This product overview synthesizes 17 recent reviews to provide a comprehensive assessment of Figma. Figma is a collaborative web-based design tool used by designers and developers for interface design, prototyping, and design system management. A significant portion of reviewers (41%) use Adobe products alongside Figma, indicating its position within a broader design ecosystem. Figma excels in collaborative workflows, with 7 of 17 reviewers specifically praising its real-time collaboration features. Prototyping capabilities are also a strong point, mentioned positively by 6 reviewers. Furthermore, design systems and component libraries are valued by 4 reviewers for improving design consistency and efficiency. Recent improvements to developer handoff, particularly the new dev mode, have also garnered positive feedback from 4 reviewers. However, some reviewers (4 of 17) find Figma's prototyping capabilities limited compared to alternatives. A smaller subset of users (3 of 17) find the learning curve steep, especially for non-designers. Additionally, 2 reviewers cited missing features and performance issues with large files as areas for improvement. Overall, Figma offers a strong value proposition for teams needing collaborative design and prototyping capabilities, but potential buyers should consider its limitations in advanced prototyping and potential performance bottlenecks with large projects.

Pros

Real-time collaboration enabling seamless team communication
Robust prototyping tools for creating animations and interactive designs
Design systems and component libraries for maintaining design consistency
Improved developer handoff with features like the new dev mode
Broad compatibility and integration with other design and project management tools

Cons

Limited advanced prototyping capabilities compared to dedicated prototyping tools
Steep learning curve for users without prior design experience
Missing advanced image editing features
Performance issues with large and complex files
Limited support for opening specific, less common file types

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Figma Reviews

203 Reviews

A revolutionary tool

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 10, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Figma from the ideation stages, when we need to experiment with concepts through wireframes and other low-fidelity deliverables, through flow design and up to the final design deliverables within the squads, where delivery includes navigable high-fidelity prototypes for business teams and documented deliverables for developers, in the process we call handoff.

Pros

High fidelity prototypes
Handoff for developers
flow design
rapid prototyping focused on initial concepts

Cons

Prototypes capable of handling databases
Ability to populate information in an automated way
generate higher quality source code for development teams

Likelihood to Recommend

Figma is an excellent tool for teams that work with a focus on design. From the ideation stages, when we don't yet know exactly what we're going to develop but need to make things visible to multidisciplinary teams (which involve people from business, technology and others) to the delivery stages, when we need to put the projects to the test.

Verified User

Engineer in Professional Services (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

With Figma, you can create clickable prototypes that feel close to the real thing

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

February 10, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Figma is used to create website designs, landing page sketches, and even small graphics for Final Apps. Pretty easy to use and collaboration with the team is also good. Has a good collection of icons and resources. The mobile app is also very useful. Have used it more multiple projects.

Pros

Website UI
Graphics
Landing page designs

Cons

Maybe more fast
Making it more user friendly for people without design knowledge

Likelihood to Recommend

files back and forth—everything updates in real time. Design Systems – Components, auto-layout, and shared libraries make it super easy to build and maintain consistent designs. Prototyping – No need for extra tools. You can create clickable prototypes that feel close to the real thing. Since it’s browser-based, you can access your designs from any device, and also the mobile app.

Verified User

Strategist in Marketing (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Excellent, on the verge, and a bit buggy

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 5, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for
- Building systemic mappings (blueprints, flow maps, information architecture maps)
- Building low-fi visions
- Building prototypes for testing
- Documenting in hi-fi for Dev handoff

We are a team of 6 professionals (me as a Lead, 3 Interaction Designers, a Content Designer and a Researcher)

Pros

Collaboration in real time, zero delays, extremely lightweight application for being a web application
Componentization, super flexible set of properties and combinations
Highly detailed version history

Cons

Autolayout is still not as complex as CSS Flex, it should aim to be at par
Variables should be able to be tied to Components and referenced when prototyping to have the concept of Local Variables (this.Variable)
Components have a bug. If you create a Component in File A, then insert an instance of that component in File A, then copy-paste it into File B, the instance in File B never receives updates on the original component. But if the instance is inserted through the Library, it does get the updates. That's a huge bug.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for
- Component/Design system building
- Hi-fi deliverables for Front End Development

Not well suited for
- Flow mapping, they've built FigJam for that, but you cannot make diagrams personalized to a complex degree
- Low-fi wireframing, the pixel perfect interface tends to force people to think in hi-fi

Federico Romano

UX Lead Designer in Information Technology at ITX (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

Verified on LinkedIn

The most complete design tool for product designers at the best price.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 3, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Today, Figma is my main tool. I use it to create prototypes, flows, and even graphic designs. I use daily in my layout design process and share the files with developers for implementation. Figma makes my work easier by simplifying the presentation of new layouts to stakeholders. It also streamlines collaboration between designers and developers.

Pros

It has excellent framework libraries, containing numerous frameworks, workflow templates, and symbols for use in prototype creation.
Delivers tools for creating an interactive prototype to test with the users.
Facilitates communication with my squad to exchange knowledge and provide feedback on the prototype.

Cons

If it had some features from Photoshop, like the ability to edit image colors, it would be perfect.
It would be great if it could open .PDF files or .EPS files.
Having functionality with standard components to create quick low-fidelity models would be important.

Likelihood to Recommend

The Prototype feature is very easy to use, unlike other tools I’ve tried. There are many actions you can apply, which makes the prototype feel very close to the final product. It also offers a wide range of plugins that are easy to integrate. In my interactions with customer support, they were very efficient and helped me resolve my issues. To edit images, I still need to use Photoshop, as Figma doesn’t have many features for this purpose.

Suélen Maiara dos Reis Nascimento

Product Designer in Information Technology at Assertiva Soluções (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

Verified on LinkedIn

Great design tool

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 3, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Figma for designing apps, mockups, wireframing, creating icons and creating design docs. It also serves as the reference for our development team to develop apps based on the design. Our devs use the dev mode to make it easier and faster to develop the apps as it provides some styles to be used in the apps. It serves to model user flows in the app and derive use cases as well.

Pros

The auto layout makes for great easily configurable designs that are simple to develop and adapt to various devices
Dev mode makes dev handoff particularly painless
Ease of creating mockups and making quick changes using the editor is nice as well
The real time collaboration features enable easy remote communication.

Cons

All android phones are chalked up to a 375px width size, while iPhones' resolutions get preferential treatment. With a wider range of resolutions, android could have better support in the design toolbar
Pricing for dev mode could be better.
Allow devs to install plugins that only run in dev mode.
The view only mode got nerfed to make dev mode look better.

Likelihood to Recommend

Any time you want to design for an app, website or other such use case, Figma is the best choice. When designing icons, sprites, etc., as well Figma really shines. The only place Figma lags is when compared to full blown image editors like Photoshop. But that is a difference use case. One that Figma was not made for.

Aniruddha Ganesh

Full stack developer in Engineering at Mithyalabs (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Best design tool out there

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 16, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a UX designer I use Figma everyday to design prototypes, wireframes and mockups for our web and mobile interfaces.

Pros

Collaboration with team members
Handoff to dev team
Compatibility with adobe illustrator

Cons

Could be easier to design for responsive web without extra plugins

Likelihood to Recommend

Figma is the best for designing interfaces and just ok for graphic design. It’s easier to design graphics and illustrations on illustrator even though Figma has a vector tool

Verified User

Contributor in Product Management (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Best-in-class tool

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 11, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Figma was introduced into our organization after Invision announced it was ending. Prior to Figma, our designers were using Invision, Adobe XD, and Sketch. I personally despised using Sketch for UX/UI projects and design systems work. It was such a pain using Sketch because I felt like the interface was clunky and not intuitive. Figma is far superior. Both Figma, and Figma Jam will be used to help our teams collaborate and work on visual, brand, and UX/UI projects.

Pros

Design systems organization
Component library management
Collaborating in real-time with others
Working with devs
Providing pixel perfect tools
Figma design community (I absolutely love it)

Cons

Honoring clipping masks when playing the prototype. It's super annoying because Figma acts as if there isn't a clipping mask and adds extra padding to my screen designs when presenting.

Likelihood to Recommend

Figma is the go-to tool for UX/UI, prototyping, etc. I've used it for app design, wireframing, user flows, and collaborating with devs. It also has great tools for managing your component library and design systems. I also appreciate the how flexible the permissions are. I wouldn't moodboard in Figma, which is why I appreciate Figma Jam. I like how you can copy and paste things from one program to another.

Verified User

Consultant in Marketing (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Figma for Crafting the User-friendly Design Solutions

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 9, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I oversee the In-house UX/Product Design team for the organization aka company that I work for. I serve as the UX Authority in the leadership-level role within the company. I and my Product Designers in my Design team use Figma to craft the user-friendly UX design concepts and solutions for our SaaS Advertising Tech products/platforms that accommodate 2 lines of business: Demand side for the Advertisers and Ads Agencies & Supply side products for the Publishers type of user profiles.

Pros

Figma can be used to craft great UX design solutions via modern generation web browsers as well as Desktop app which enables multiple product designers and cross-functional product squad team members to collaborate together quite well.
Easy to create UI components and set up a common design system components library and IxD patterns showcase library for cross-functional product squad teams to utilize and be aligned among different disciplines (UX/PD, PM, Eng)
Create clickable prototype to simulate the intended user experience that can be utilized throughout the conceptual design stage, including for usability testing research studies all the way through the detailed design stage of high-fidelity mocks & prototype and during Implementation stage when the Engineers use the Dev Mode to access the design specs in order to build the software products accordingly.

Cons

It will be great if Figma will consider having the Pages where interactions can be stitched together among the Pages and not just one page with so many Frames to create the stand-alone clickable prototype that can be used to simulate the intended UX
Bring back the Inspect Mode tab right on the right-side panel of the main workspace instead of hiding behind the Dev Mode.
Figma Slides feature could be improved quite a bit more in order to be easier to assemble slides into a presentation deck and having pre-built templates for slides can be useful too.

Likelihood to Recommend

Figma is a solid design tool to craft the UX design concepts/solutions for digital products. For printed marketing materials such as brochures, marketing flyers, press releases, etc, other design tools such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, or InDesign might make more sense to use for those use case scenarios.

Verified User

Director in Research & Development (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

Figma is the best software I've ever used

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 9, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Figma for almost everything. Brainstorming, presenting, organizing thoughts, making user flows, creating designs for new development.

Pros

Ease of use
Collaboration
Efficiency
Fast performace

Likelihood to Recommend

Figma is my favorite product I've ever used. It can be tailored to almost every use case that involves whiteboarding, collaboration, design.

Rachel Dulcich

Product Lead in Product Management at Rize (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Figma is the #1 tool for UX Designers

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 27, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a UX Designer, Figma is the #1 tool that I use to create highly detailed wireframes, new icons, and even basic graphic design elements for our site. Additionally, Figma is useful for creating prototypes of various interactions, and connecting screens together to share with developers and stakeholders. The new Figma dev mode helps us communicate with developers and explain various nuances of our designs. It's not the most intuitive tool for those who don't use it much, but for superusers (such as those on the UX team, it's the best all-in-one tool out there.

Pros

Detailed enough to create pixel perfect designs with total control over the outcome
Creating and implementing design systems to improve consistency and speed up design work
Robust prototyping tools to create simple animations or to connect various pages
I love autolayout, which improves design spacing and responsiveness

Cons

I've heard from those who don't use Figma as much (stakeholders, developers) that it is confusing to navigate. Maybe that could be improved on our end with how we structure our files, but there could potentially be improvements from Figma (and barring that, guidance on how best to organize things)
I don't know that any platform does this, but stakeholders always want more advanced prototyping than is available in Figma (e.g. including APIs for real data)
I am occasionally not able to do something because of how something is configured. It would be awesome if Figma pointed out the blocker so that I could more easily find it to do something about it

Likelihood to Recommend

Figma is well suited for UX Design- I personally think it is the best tool out there. Our team started with Sketch, but ultimately switched over when it became clear that it was the superior tool.

It's pretty good for handing off designs to developers, although other tools claim to be able to take design to code more easily.

It's not the most powerful tool for graphic design, though I still use it for simple things (e.g. icon creation) because I am not well versed in Illustrator and the learning curve for Adobe platforms seems rather steep.

Jade McGill

UX Designer at The Motley Fool (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Verified on LinkedIn

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Figma for Crafting the User-friendly Design Solutions

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 9, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Figma can be used to craft great UX design solutions via modern generation web browsers as well as Desktop app which enables multiple product designers and cross-functional product squad team members to collaborate together quite well.
Easy to create UI components and set up a common design system components library and IxD patterns showcase library for cross-functional product squad teams to utilize and be aligned among different disciplines (UX/PD, PM, Eng)
Create clickable prototype to simulate the intended user experience that can be utilized throughout the conceptual design stage, including for usability testing research studies all the way through the detailed design stage of high-fidelity mocks & prototype and during Implementation stage when the Engineers use the Dev Mode to access the design specs in order to build the software products accordingly.

Cons

It will be great if Figma will consider having the Pages where interactions can be stitched together among the Pages and not just one page with so many Frames to create the stand-alone clickable prototype that can be used to simulate the intended UX
Bring back the Inspect Mode tab right on the right-side panel of the main workspace instead of hiding behind the Dev Mode.
Figma Slides feature could be improved quite a bit more in order to be easier to assemble slides into a presentation deck and having pre-built templates for slides can be useful too.

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Director in Research & Development (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience