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Figma
A cloud-based interface design tool that helps you design and collaborate in one place.
About Figma
Figma is built for your entire product design workflow. Create and collaborate on a design file. Prototype interactions. Share a link to your file or prototype. Gather feedback via comments. And grab all the code snippets and specs you need for development.
Figma is the current reigning queen of collaborative design software. Originally built to be used in your browser, they also offer a desktop version for both Mac and Windows so anyone can use it anywhere.
It's truly limitless designer-centric features offer everything you need to create digital products as a UX/UI or product designer on your own or with small or large teams. It's become the industry standard, relied on and trusted by some of the largest product companies in the world.
Here are some ways you can use it:
Figma is the current reigning queen of collaborative design software. Originally built to be used in your browser, they also offer a desktop version for both Mac and Windows so anyone can use it anywhere.
It's truly limitless designer-centric features offer everything you need to create digital products as a UX/UI or product designer on your own or with small or large teams. It's become the industry standard, relied on and trusted by some of the largest product companies in the world.
Here are some ways you can use it:
- Create wireframes and wire-flows
- Prototype things together very quickly
- Generate shareable presentations from your designs
- Whiteboard and brainstorm with your team mates
- Create presentations and slideshows edit and share them on the fly
- Create high-fidelity, pixel perfect designs
- User auto-layout to magically create responsive, adaptive mock-ups
- Comment and redline designs for developer hand-off
- Use the inspector panel to peak under the hood at the CSS of your designs to make developer communication even easier
- Automate you work with amazing plugins
- Borrow from an extensive library of existing resources and UI kits from the Figma community
Figma is excellent for really owning the entire product design process and solve high-level problems and collaborate on solutions.
🏆 We are an official Figma Education Partner!
DesignerUp is an official Figma Education Partner that has gone through a rigorous course approval process to be able to afford our students free access to all Figma products and features in the Figma Pro Plan completely free for 12 months! That's over $200 dollars of access to everything in the Figma family including:
Core Products:
Core Products:
- Figma Design: The core product used for creating, sharing, and testing designs for websites, mobile apps, and other digital products. It allows for wireframing, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototyping with features like Auto Layout and shared components.
- FigJam: A collaborative online whiteboard space designed for meetings, brainstorming, diagramming, and research using sticky notes, shapes, and drawing tools.
- Dev Mode: A feature set within Figma Design that helps translate designs into code, streamlining the handoff process between designers and developers with inspection tools and code snippets.
- Figma Slides: A presentation creation tool that lets teams co-create slide decks, insert designs and prototypes from Figma Design, and gather feedback with interactive widgets.
New & Beta Products:
Figma recently introduced several new AI-focused products in 2025:
Figma recently introduced several new AI-focused products in 2025:
- Figma Draw (New): Provides advanced vector illustration tools like brushes, texture fills, and a shape builder directly within the Figma environment.
- Figma Sites (Beta): Allows users to publish fully responsive websites from their Figma frames without needing external web development tools.
- Figma Buzz (Beta): A content production tool for marketing teams to create on-brand assets at scale while maintaining design control.
- Figma Make (New): An AI companion that translates plain-language prompts into functional prototypes and web apps, generating readable code.
Other Offerings:
- Figma AI: A collection of features integrated across products that uses artificial intelligence to help with tasks like removing image backgrounds building apps, generating prototypes, and creating wireframes.
- Figma Community: Figma has a vast community ecosystem offering free and paid templates, plugins, UI kits, and widgets to enhance workflows.
