Figma Manufacturing Reviews & Insights

Score8.9 out of 10

1,380 Reviews and Ratings

Overview

Synthesised from 14 reviews | Last Published May 27, 2026

Figma is a comprehensive tool for product design and development, widely adopted by design, product, and engineering teams. In TrustRadius reviews, it serves as a primary platform for wireframing, prototyping from low to high fidelity, and crafting graphic elements; 64% of reviewers highlight its critical role in this area. Its core strengths include robust real-time collaboration, comprehensive prototyping capabilities, and effective management of design systems, which streamline workflows and ensure consistency.

Reviewers also highlight its improved developer handoff features and the cost-effectiveness gained from pre-development visualization. However, some desire more advanced prototyping functionality, such as API integration or complex multi-page interactions. Performance can degrade with larger files, and non-designers may face a learning curve. Despite these points, the overall sentiment indicates Figma significantly accelerates development and enhances team communication.

Pros

Real-time collaborative design and iteration
Comprehensive and interactive prototyping capabilities
Effective management and consistency through design systems and components
Streamlined design-to-development handoff via Dev Mode
Accelerates product development workflows and reduces rework

Cons

Limited advanced prototyping features (e.g., API integration, complex multi-page flows)
Performance degradation and slowness with large or complex files
Steep learning curve and navigation challenges for non-designer stakeholders
Lack of a dedicated offline mode
Limitations in supported file formats

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Figma Reviews

19 Reviews

ManufacturingAutomotive5Food Production1Food & Beverages2Furniture1Pharmaceuticals2Apparel & Fashion1Consumer Electronics1Consumer Goods1Sporting Goods1Computer Hardware2Medical Device2

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 (Computer Hardware company, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Figma, our go to UI design tool

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 8, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Figma to create user interface designs and prototypes for quick usability studies. Figma hosts our entire design system and keeps our brand consistent across all of our products. The business problem it addresses for us is that it allows us to create consistency across our products, and also allows us to create quick yet high fidelity prototypes for our impromptu usability studies.

Pros

User Interface designing
Component creation
Prototyping
Developer Handoff

Cons

Variables and Tokenization
More customizable frame system

Likelihood to Recommend

Figma is the go to user interface design tool. It continues to grow with more and more features. The variables and tokenization function is essential to making designs configurable in a very quick manner. I do wish it was much more integrated as the variables feature is quite hidden. Also, if it had a better branching / change control process, especially for the medical device industry, it would be amazing. The current version history is quite basic and minimal.

Johnathan Do

Technical Product Manager in Engineering at BrightInsight (Medical Device, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

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The new dominant design tool

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

June 5, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I work for an ecommerce company and I use Figma to deliver visual mockups of new feature enhancement and redesigns to development. We used to use Sketch for designing mockups from wireframes but the limitations of Sketch to just mac meant we could not use windows machines plus we needed to pair sketch with Abstract for version control. Figma is a complete design, collaboration and versioning tool.

Pros

Figma includes robust prototyping features, allowing designers to create interactive and animated prototypes
Figma integrates well with various other tools and platforms, including Slack, Jira, and user testing tools
Figma has a vibrant community and a wealth of resources, including templates, plugins, and tutorials.

Cons

Limited offline functionality making it less reliable on the job
The performance gets slow when working with large or complex files
It lacks some advanced prototyping features such as more complex animations, micro-interactions like Axure RP

Likelihood to Recommend

Figma is perfect for illustrating high level design animations which will wow clients but lack control and flexibility when you want to communicate how animations should work to developers who need an exact guideline towards what to animate, when to animate, and in what order. This means extra work in annotating and dev sessions communicating the vision.

Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering (Consumer Goods company, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Love Figma!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 31, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Figma daily. we have several use cases that we use it for. One is to design web page component prototypes to present to stakeholders. The other is to review other designer's design wireframes and protypes and provide feedback within Figma. Another use case I use it a lot for is to play around with ideas, whether it be to help me organize my thoughts, or come up with quick visuals.

Pros

easy to use and navigate
uses similar patterns as Adobe which helps a lot for people who are transitioning from those platforms.
there are a lot of helpful resources to help me solve things im stuck on.

Cons

If there was a Loom integration, or a way in which i could record both my screen and face at the same time to explain certain concepts to my collegues, that would be really nice
The main area where you can see your team folder, personal folder, and the rest of the organizations teams could use a bit of simplification
when it comes to sharing libraries, there is some laguange that could help make the sharing process easier to understand.

Likelihood to Recommend

Figma is by far the best in class of its kind. Once you begin designing and understanding how to use it and how powerful it can be, its quite easy to use. There are tons of resources within Figma where you can see both videos explaining how to do things, or read an article about it instead. Although the learning curve isn't extremely steep, the fact that there are so many educational resources on how to do things within the platform makes it all very easy to navigate and learn.

Verified User

Team Lead in Marketing (Pharmaceuticals company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

An amazing tool, for any amazing team.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 27, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Figma to create designs and any changes to the website. I also helped design emails that will eventually be put into production. Figma helps facilitate communication between marketing and comm when designers talk to developers about possible features, how they will look, and whether they are doable.

Pros

Collaboration
Mockup
Design
Illustration

Cons

Easier ways of exporting images.
Fixing the logging issue, sometimes logging in doesnt seem to work and requires different browsers.

Likelihood to Recommend

Web design, including both UI and UX design. As it is a great way to plan the design, find elements that might or might not work as well a prototyping the design before fully coding it.

Verified User

Employee in Marketing (Apparel & Fashion company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Magical tool that keeps up with ongoing industry demands

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 24, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have several teams who all utilize Figma differently, so I will speak to the B2B team only. We use it daily to keep track of designs, functional requirements, component documentation, UI library and connect it with the work we're doing on Confluence, in Jira and on Storybook. We will also create interactive prototypes to review design concepts with the business and users. Our developers use Figma to gather requirements and build out pages or components depending on scope of project. We recently started to manage translations with a Lokalize plugin as well.

Pros

Communication regarding updates and changes
Thorough documentation in video and text formats
Growing with the industry – acknowledging shifts in workflows and updating the product to meet ongoing needs of designers and developers

Cons

Overrides are a pain especially as they tie to a component library. Some updates clear overrides to text fields creating extra work.
Integration with Jira and Storybook could be better. It's key to a well rounded interconnected workflow.
When new features are released, it's increasingly harder to update files and large libraries as the process is time consuming. One reason we haven't fully invested in working with variables.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's well suited for design and development professionals who are in the field of UX. It can be picked up by anyone, however, there's a steep learning curve. Developers do not see Figma (yet) as one of the tools core to their workflows. The moment that it will shift will be momentous, as it will bridge the gap between devs and designers even more.

Bartek Lewandowski

Senior UX Designer, B2B in Information Technology at Specialized Bikes (Sporting Goods, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

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The top UI Design Tool

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 23, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Developing UI prototypes for testing and usability studies, analysis of varying user workflows, and alignment between different teams/stakeholders regarding the final product design. Primarily used for designing mobile apps and interfaces for health care providers and allows for screens to be shared with regulatory bodies when making changes and providing change rationales.

Pros

Allows for a UI design source of truth
Allows for exporting of actual UI to prototyping tools
Allows for fairly easy modelling of user interface workflows

Cons

Design control is challenging
Creating object instances

Likelihood to Recommend

Figma is great for introducing new stakeholders to the project and all the high level workflows that a user is able to navigate in both a mobile application or desktop website. Brainstorming product changes is also a use case that is frequently seen in the team due to the ability to develop a high fidelity user interface. It has been a challenge pursuing the use of Figma flows as a design controlled version of a user interface.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (Medical Device company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Great Design Product

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 22, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We sometimes use Figma to design what a potential solution would look like. This allows our developers to understand the expectations set by business for looks, functionality, and understanding how their development should align with the vision of business. This outline also allows the business to dissect what different features and functionalities are offered during each stage of the development process.

Pros

Outlining an app's development
Designing the interface being used in each stage of a product
Use predefined components to understand what the end product looks like.

Cons

I think there should be some options for freeform design
I think there should be some integrations with cloud storage solutions
I think there should be some increased extension compatibility with browsers

Likelihood to Recommend

Figma was well-suited when our company was in the early stages of designing a look for the product we were developing. I think another area that Figma was extremely useful was when the business was defining all the different requirements for each screen/transition element of our product. It helped to bridge the gap between the development portion of the product and the business side of the product.

Jan Ponti

Software Engineer in Information Technology at General Motors (Automotive, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Collaborative product design & quick turnaround times!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 22, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Figma is used throughout all of our product teams and is the best collaborative design tool we've ever used! We could integrate our design system, so now it's super easy for our product designers to set up different projects and drafts all in one coherent look. We use Figma mainly for product design of our digital projects.

Pros

Collaboration
Ease of use
Prototyping
Super fast delivery times

Cons

Export option
Licensing
Versioning can get tricky

Likelihood to Recommend

Very well suited for all digital product companies, that have to design & test their products. We're at a point where Figma is considered the gold standard of digital product design and rightly so. We use it on feature level, to build different versions and iterations of a solution. Those drafts can then be user-tested and directly implemented afterwards by our product team. Therefore, turnaround times are super fast!

Verified User

Consultant in Product Management (Automotive company, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Figma is the go-to for screen-based design

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 29, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We switched from Sketch to Figma for the more open collaboration that Figma provides as well as the smart tools like the developer preview and auto layouts, symbols, etc. Previously we were using Sketch with Zeplin for handoff of our designs to engineers, but after switching to Figma, everyone agreed it was better and cost-saving for us.

Pros

Being able to leave comments on mock ups for more collaboration
Auto layout tools that you set up once and don't have to think about again or manually adjust things.
Easy prototyping tools within the application

Cons

Access control - it wasn't apparent to me at first that a project was shared with everyone in the company vs just people i choose to share it with. I think the inverse should be the default.
Sometimes it struggles to import old sketch files - no clue how to make this better, but its frustrating

Likelihood to Recommend

Figma is great for mocking up digital designs - websites, mobile sites, apps, UI's etc. You still want to optimize your graphics in Photoshop for photos and Illustrator for vector illustrations and icons, but then can easily bring them into your Figma designs. A bonus are the FigJam boards for brainstorming and collaboration that also erases the need for apps like Miro or other whiteboarding tools.

Verified User

Employee in Professional Services (Furniture company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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