Arlind Musliu
April 24, 2020 · 6 min read · 394 views
April 24, 2020 · 6 min read · 394 views
Figma has become a game-changer in professional design, offering an innovative platform that lets design teams work together smoothly. At Lucky Media, Figma is an essential part of our digital toolkit, and this article continues our insightful series "Which technologies do we use and why?". Here, we explain why we rely on this dynamic tool every day.
Figma stands out with its flexible and easy-to-use interface that suits both beginners and expert designers. It meets various needs, offering packages from a free option for solo designers to premium ones with advanced features for teams. At Lucky Media, our designer and CEO use the premium features, while developers only need viewer access. Developers and clients can also add comments and discuss design features within Figma.
This feature, which allows multiple team members to work on and view designs simultaneously (similar to Google Docs), has significantly transformed the design industry. It paved the way for other tools, to adopt live collaboration as well.
UX/UI designers benefit from Figma’s Project Pages, where they can view the latest updates, and the Team and Organization Pages, which allow for easy tracking of contributors and projects. Real-time editing and the Observation Mode let designers watch every pixel and make instant corrections.
Live collaboration in Figma helps prevent design errors early on. Imagine working for hours only to discover a mistake made in the first few minutes. With live collaboration, such errors are caught and corrected before they escalate.
Figma enables seamless UX/UI design on a single platform, accessible from any device, at any time. Taking design tools to new heights, Figma introduced another groundbreaking feature: the FIGJAM virtual whiteboard tool which enables remote teams to collaborate and brainstorm ideas in real-time. Figma also announced an exciting update allowing users to create custom FigJam widgets and plugins.
Figma is used across many industries, benefiting from a large network of users who contribute to its growth and innovation.
Before Figma, design tools were limited to specific devices and required specialized skills. Figma changed that completely.
As more people started using Figma, it became a welcoming community for designers of all levels. It’s a place where beginners feel encouraged to start designing, and experienced designers find new ways to create.
Figma's value grows with its wide range of plugins, each made to solve specific design challenges. These plugins make the design process more efficient and precise, letting designers focus more on creativity and problem-solving.
At Lucky Media, these tools are key to giving great design work that meets our clients' needs and pushes what's possible in digital design.
Here at Lucky Media, we depend on those important tools (plugins) that help us improve our design work and everyday tasks. These plugins are essential to how we work, making our creative process smoother and more efficient.
Here are some tools we use that might benefit you too:
Using Styles and Variables helps us keep a consistent design system, saves time, and reduces mistakes. With the Batch Styler plugin, you can apply styles and variables to many elements at once, which saves time and effort.
Content Reel is a plugin that lets you make custom content and share it with others. Its best feature is that it makes working together easier than ever! From images to SVGs and text, we use the plugin almost every time we have a collection, which speeds up our workflow a lot! Everything is saved on the cloud, so it's easier if you use multiple devices.
After we make wireframes, we use the Contrast plugin to make sure our colors are accessible. Checking our products thoroughly is very important to us. This tool saves us a lot of time, and we're very thankful for it!
Icons are very important in user interface design, and the Iconify plugin gives you access to a huge library of icons. You can search for the perfect SVG icon and put it right into your Figma file. The icons can be resized without losing quality, so your final design looks sharp and clear.
Vector graphics are important for high-quality, scalable designs, and the Image Tracer plugin makes it easy to turn raster images into vectors. Whether you're working on a logo, an illustration, or any scalable graphic, Image Tracer does the job quickly and keeps your original image's details.
Design mockups often need placeholder text, and the Lorem Ipsum plugin is perfect for that. It can fill a few text boxes or a whole layout, letting you focus on design without distractions. This makes your mockup look more real and helps people see what the final product will look like with real content.
Good images can make a huge difference in a design, and the Unsplash plugin gives you access to lots of free, high-quality photos. You can search for and add photos from Unsplash right into your Figma projects, making your design look better and more professional without needing a stock photo subscription or downloading images by hand.
For prototyping, being fast and clear is important. The Wireframe plugin has ready-made layouts and mockups to start designing user interfaces. With this plugin, you can quickly make the structure of a webpage or app, which lets you make changes and talk about it before making detailed designs.
Figma is more than just a design tool at Lucky Media—it's a foundation of our creative process. We use it for many projects, from making our own marketing materials to creating custom websites and mobile apps, branding solutions, and more for our clients.
Figma is more than just a design tool at Lucky Media—it's a foundation of our creative process. We use it for many projects, from making our own marketing materials to creating custom websites, mobile apps, and more for our clients. It is not just about the tools we use, but also how they improve our work and why they're important. Figma shows our commitment to quality, efficiency, and new ideas in every project we do.
This article is part of our ongoing series, "Which technologies do we use and why?", where we explain the technologies that we use on a daily basis and the reasons behind our choices.
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