Figma
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What is Figma?
The industry-standard, browser-based collaborative interface design tool used by teams to create wireframes, UI/UX designs, and interactive prototypes.
Figma changed UI design by bringing it into the browser, allowing multiple designers to work simultaneously on the same canvas like a Google Doc. It is the central hub for modern product development, utilized for creating design systems, high-fidelity mockups, and developer handoffs.
How it relates to Orbit
Sweep, Orbit’s visual reviewer, checks a built screen against its mockup, which is often a Figma design. See Sweep for details.
When you would use it
You use Figma when you need to design, prototype, and share user interfaces and design systems collaboratively before writing any code.
Common operations
- Designing responsive web and mobile application interfaces.
- Collaborating in real-time with product managers and engineers on UI changes.