Figma.
Figma is a collaborative interface design tool running in the browser, where design files, components and prototypes are shared and edited by several people at once. It is where most commercial product design work happens.
Where Figma fits on a long engagement.
Figma matters less as a drawing tool than as the place a design system lives. Components, variables and libraries are what keep an interface coherent as it grows, and they need continuous ownership — a system nobody maintains diverges from the product within a year.
The handover between design and code is where quality is usually lost. A component named and structured to match how it is built survives implementation; one drawn as a picture does not. That alignment comes from the designer and the engineer being on the same engagement long enough to develop it.
What an assigned team does with Figma.
A design system is a maintenance commitment disguised as an asset. It is accurate on the day it ships and drifts from the product every week after, and the drift is invisible until somebody builds from a component that no longer matches what is live.
Keeping them aligned needs the designer and the engineer on the same engagement long enough to develop shared conventions, which is why design capacity is usually assigned next to software development outsourcing rather than bought separately.
What we use Figma for.
- A design system that stays true Components maintained in step with the code, so the file remains a reference rather than an aspiration.
- Prototypes for real testing Interactive flows built well enough that usability sessions produce findings you can act on.
- Consolidating drifted files Several generations of design brought into one library with a single source of truth.
How Figma capacity is assigned.
Design capacity is assigned under outsource UX design, working in your Figma workspace — files and version history stay with you.
Tell us what your roadmap needs Figma for.
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