“I hadn't touched Figma Make in a bit and decided to give it another go. I mean, surely than can tap into their OWN design files and create a prototype that's as close to it as humanly possible? No, it can't.”
“But figma sucks at complex interactions, progressive disclosure and all that. So I've been toying with the idea of offering our devs basically 3 handoff artifacts per project.”
“Yes, although I’ve been using it for 30 something years I do worry about its relevancy and I might be making more money if I was better at Figma but again maybe I wouldn’t have a job if I depended on Figma because I don’t have hardly as much experience”
“Sorry to break it to you like that - if the job was product design Figma is fine, but to a lot of people brand means print, and print and Figma aren't close companions.”
“Figma is not the right tool for at least half of what brand designers do. There's a tool for every job, and figma just isn't it. Figma isn't good at creating functional vector graphics, print layouts, and doesn't have native CMYK support.”
“Figma is amazing for digital products and collaboration (I even love it for presentations) but it isn't suitable for professional brand design and print work. It's one tool in the bag, but brand design requires a bigger bag.”
“I don't know if it's changed since, but I once tried to prep a file for print in Figma and it was a nightmare. It was missing technical parameters that are essential to printing.”
“Figma is not a graphic design tool. It can be helpful and it's very complete for prototyping and UX/UI work, but it's lacking in the GD field. Learn actual tools aimed towards creating graphic materials and vectors if you want to work in this field.”
“If this were a UI/UX design job you were applying for, it would certainly be unusual -- Adobe have pulled out of this space and Figma is now the defacto tool for that strand of design work.”
“While many studios are Figma first now (owing primarily to its multiplayer capability), Adobe still offers superior illustration, photo-editing and animation tools. Not knowing Adobe CC is imo a red flag for any role senior and above.”
“Also if they use Adobe and you only work in Figma then they would expect you to work in Adobe if you were to work there. If you have no experience in it they may think it’s easier to hire someone who does.”
“Most in-house brand teams I’ve interviewed with the past year are primarily in Figma for day-to-day and brand system, only Adobe for complex work like vector illustration, print, or extensive layout.”
“The strategy part, you can do in figma these days and it's probably quicker than Adobe. When you get into the more detailed phase, it's off to Adobe 100%.”
“Nah i got rejected by a job bec I use adobe and not figma as main tool for print designs. Reason is the inhouse people don’t know how to use adobe and they only rely on figma.”
“Figma might not be the industry standard for branding, but it's a very capable tool. It covers all the basic needs for a logo design or a full branding project.”
“Figma's first MCP server started as somebody's one-day-a-week side project. @jesselumarie, a software engineer at Figma, tells that story in "Building the Engine While Flying the Plane: Launching the Figma MCP Server," on @aiDotEngineer's YouTube channel.”
“But trying to navigate this figma board makes me feel about as efficient as if I had two left hands, my monitor was turned upside down and someone stole my glasses.”
“I haven’t actually needed Figma in my workflow yet, so I haven’t used it. I usually design directly in HTML and CSS, then refine everything in the browser.”
“Since you're interested in UX/UI and storytelling, I'd suggest starting with Figma for layout design and prototyping. Focus on learning basic layout principles (grids, visual hierarchy, spacing, and typography) before jumping into code or page builders.”
“But Figma definitely isn’t just a visual guide. If the file is well structured, a developer can use it to understand spacing, typography, responsive behaviour, component states, tokens, assets, interactions, etc. Dev Mode helps with exactly that.”