Figma vs. Visily

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.

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When building a new product or even a new startup - this tool is priceless, in demonstrating a product's potential without really building it and investing expensive resources before you have users' validation. It's less usable for any backend planning, or when the system behind is too complicated and any user interaction changes the dataset behind the scenes

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• It's efficient, very efficient. Many things that take multiple clicks on other platforms can be completed in less than half the clicks, for example.
• Alignment of objects is fast, accurate and easy as red line guides appear when moving objects around.
• Autolayout ensures a balanced visual experience and aligns with CSS grid systems.
• The ability to specify a grid and use it. For example, a 2pt or 4pt or 8pt grid.
• Components and the ability to create a design system speeds up future work tremendously and creates design and brand consistency.

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• Prototype feature: enables to move from one screen to another as if the buttons are real
• Premade elements: makes it easy to build the mockup and give it a professional look and feel
• Easy to edit and change as we go

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• Animated prototyping.
• Tappable overlaid layers - bugs on fixed components, such as an app navigation footer in a prototype
• Swapping a component but retaining inputted copy or imagery.
• Performance on prototypes to work better in UserZoom - having to delete hidden layers manually, optimize images, and streamline the file, in general, is time-consuming
• Folder structures - larger teams need multiple layers of folder structure to help find things.
• Branch performance - we need better, more user-friendly solutions to get designs to merge better.
• Branch performance - branching with the option to choose which pages you want in the branch without deleting each page you don't need.
• Default sharing options need improvement.
• Responsive ratios' in prototyping without having to recreate pages.
• Better collaboration with Jira to bring in links in the design mode not just dev mode.

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• When navigating on the big board, it's hard to track the different screens when there are a few dozen of them
• Prototype mode: there should be an easier way to track the screen that needs to be connected from a specific element
• I'd like to use a proofreading extension on top of Visiliy, such as Grammarly, so I won't have to look for those typos

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Figma is a pretty cool tool in many areas. My team almost uses it on daily basis, such as, brainstorming on product/design topics, discussing prototypes created by designers. We even use it for retrospectives, which is super convenient and naturally keeps records of what the team discusses every month. Furthermore, I do see the potential of the product - currently we mainly use it for design topics, but it seems it is also a good fit for tech diagrams, which we probably will explore further in the future.

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It's easy to use for designers who are familiar with design terms and functions from Photoshop and Illustrator. However, non-tech and non-designer collaborators have a hard time figuring out how to leave comments and apply changes, compared to other online design tools like Canva and Squarespace. Even simple drag-and-drops and rearrangement of certain blocks become too complicated due to uncommon functions like Hug and Lock.

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The only regret I have is, its not available when there is no internet

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I think its great, As there are many other software or systems which can be integrated with it as plugins or API's

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I haven't used their support lately but in the past, they had a chat that I used often. They often responded in a few hours and were able to give a satisfactory solution. I would imagine it's less personal now but the community has expanded drastically so there are more resources out there to self serve with a bit of Google magic.

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In-person training has its own benefits - 1. It helps in resolving queries then and there during the training. 2. I find classroom or in-person training more interactive. 3. Classroom or in-person training could be more practical in nature where participants can have an hands on experience with tools and clarify their doubts with the trainer.

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Online training has its own merits and demerits - 1. Sometimes we may face issues with connectivity or the training content 2. The way training is being delivered becomes very important because not everyone is comfortable taking online training and learning by themselves. 3. With the advancement of technology online training has become popular but there is a segment of people who still prefer class-room training over online one.

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I learned UX Design using Sketch and my team was using Sketch when I joined. We no longer use Sketch, and therefore I cannot compare its current functionality to Figma, but at the time of our switch, Figma just had more advanced capabilities- better collaboration, auto-layout tools, prototyping, etc. From what I can tell, it remains best in class for UX Design tools.

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The possibility to animate to mockup is very valuable and needed at the product's early stage and validation stage

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I think this is great and as I mentioned at ADP we use Figma extensively whether by designers, researchers or content writers

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• Allows us to get funding for further phases of the project (which is uncountable)
• Well, it lets us show off when needed due to well suited UI-oriented character
• Easily approachable by anyone (browser use)
• User friendly interface
• More advanced cooperation requires some of the users to have a license

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• Saved us hours of developing the wrong product, since we could enhance validation by demoing a pre-built product by using Visily
• Helped us communicate ideas between Product and Developer roles within our team
• Cost us some extra time in design, because we didn't import the design from Visily to Miro, which created an overlap

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