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What is Figma?

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Figma’s mission is to make design accessible to everyone. Its three products help people express their ideas visually and collaborate effectively.

Figma Design is built for creating, sharing, and testing designs for websites, mobile apps, and other digital products and experiences. It is a popular tool for designers, product managers, writers, and developers, helping everyone involved in the design process contribute, give feedback, and make better decisions faster.

Figma Slides is a presentation tool that allows you and your team to create beautiful, engaging presentations. Insert designs and prototypes from Figma Design, collaborate in real time, and present with confidence using built in collaboration and presentation tools. You can also use interactive widgets to collect stakeholder feedback before your presentation is even finished.

FigJam allows you to create online whiteboards that anyone can join. People often use FigJam for meetings, brainstorms, diagrams, planning, and research. In FigJam, you can use text, shapes, drawings, images, sticky notes, and other elements to visualize ideas and collaborate effectively.

You can create a free account and use each product for as long as you want.

Working in Figma Design

Design files are powerful collaborative environments where you turn ideas into responsive and interactive designs. They are essential for creating and maintaining assets and resources, where detail and precision are key.

Working with multiple pages

You can create multiple pages within a design file, each with its own canvas.

Adding elements to your design

Add shapes, images, text, and other layers from the toolbar.

Managing layers and assets

Select layers and assets from the navigation panel.

Adjusting properties

View or adjust properties in the properties panel.

Improving precision and alignment

Enable rulers, guides, and the pixel grid for pixel perfect precision.

Working in Figma Slides

Figma Slides combines the power and precision of Figma Design with easy to use presentation tools to bring your story to life and create alignment.

Designing with flexible templates

Choose from flexible templates to design powerful presentations for any audience.

Collaborating on presentations

Use multiplayer and collaboration tools to build decks together, and co present with shared speaker notes and co presenter controls.

Collecting interactive feedback

Use interactive widgets to capture stakeholder feedback.

Integration with Figma Design

Insert your designs and prototypes from Figma Design with just a few clicks.

Working in FigJam

FigJam files are online whiteboards, open spaces where anyone can join in. They support the spontaneous and joyful nature of collaboration.

Brainstorming effectively with FigJam

FigJam files include purpose built tools for exploration and discovery. They are ideal for meetings, brainstorms, diagrams, and research.

Managing settings and actions

Access settings and perform actions from the menu.

Using collaboration tools

Select collaboration tools in the navigation bar.

Working creatively with FigJam

Use the creation tools in the toolbar.

Communicate interactively

Connect instantly with emojis, stamps and spontaneous cursor chats.

Why people use figma

  • Collaboration: working in the same file with multiple people at the same time.
  • Providing feedback: Figma makes it easy to add a comment to share your feedback.
  • Flexible: the platform can be used individually as well as in a team.
  • Always accessible: you can use Figma anywhere as long as you have an internet connection.
  • Multiple options: accessible via a web browser, desktop app or mobile device.
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Last updated on: 04 Sep 2024
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