Figma Reviews

Converted to this app from sketch. Program is a nice upgrade. But one huge design flaw that I can’t get over. When I run my prototype to present, this app loads my assets one by one, it causes an issue because assets should be completely loaded before starting a presentation. Common sense.

When you first run the presentation let the loader ACTUALLY load the assets then start the presentation. It is embarrassing. What is the point of showing you are loading a prototype if your assets are not actually being loaded.I don’t want to have to tell my client oh wait for your assets to load. That’s unprofessional. Doesn’t matter if the asset is large or not. Load my assets first before presenting.

This is huge because if I am presenting to a team, they should not see anything in the presentation other than the intended first frame not have the prototype assets load one by one like a website they can click on things before ready. Doesn’t matter if I have large assets or not. When you load a presentation. Load it. Show a spinner. But don’t show the actual assets loading. Automated actions fail to show and overall is not good practice.

If this is fixed this program will allow me to stop my subscription to my other programs. It’s too embarrassing to load my prototypes to my clients right now. I hope this is fixed so I can centralize my programs I use to this app.

I love this app on desktop but the mobile app on phone and iPad fall short in a big way. I use it almost exclusively for the mirror function and I would have given it 3 stars if it weren’t so buggy.

Bugs I have found while using mirror include:
- Loses connection periodically
- Freezes often and needs to be restarted
- The prototype doesn’t always appear exactly as on screen. For example, I had an icon with a transparent container around it and layers that had shadows. It looked fine on the computer screen but on the phone, the container background appeared white and the shadows were applied to the container instead of the objects inside it.
- It would be nice to have an option to turn on/off status bar and home bar if they are already on your designs.
- Animations are not very smooth.

Aside from the mirror feature, I wanted to view and respond to a comment while I was on the go, but I can’t see the comments.

It seems all that I can do view my frames. I would really love editing capabilities, especially for iPad. If I could design in this app on iPad it would save my hand so much from all the mouse clicks. In the meantime, I’m just trying to learn all the shortcuts keys!

I love the direction of Figma but there’s some things that would make it a more fluid experience.

Firstly it would be amazing if there was a better experience when previewing designs. Trying to see all screens when a flow is set is a nightmare, not all my screens are tied to a flow 24/7 but I still want to be able to individually launch a preview, however I get auto launched to the first flow which isn’t great when it’s not what I want loading.

Secondly, mirroring can be a hit or miss when on wifi. Sometimes I need to close the desktop or mobile app and hope it will prompt my mirror CTA. Frustrating when I need to quickly mirror it.

Lastly, it’d be nice to have more tools available like moving art boards, leaving comments, tap on an image and replace with images from camera roll, and having files organized in a card grid instead of rows since it can be hard when you have lots of files.

this app is good at many things, but vector editing is definitely not their strong suit. Neither is photo editing. It is optimized for quick & relatively low skill mocking, but not for creating actual elements of the design, like high quality iconography. So I still very much need Photoshop and Illustrator. Animation abilities are also very limited. So there’s no way to make a realistic prototype with just this app. Please provide at least an ability to copy paste vector INTO Illustrator, not just from.

I love using this app, but the persistent bugs that exist on Figma are frustrating. Figma is super useful; I love it. It’s simply a frustrating experience a large portion of the time. It’s unfortunate to see a lack of development and care put towards it. I switched over from Adobe XD, and they had a better app experience— as the reviews show. Hoping for improvement here.

Hi,
I could not log in into my account after I installed the latest update. I tried changing my password, reinstalled Figma . everything works on my desktop.
Figma doesn’t provide a system respond on what’s wrong, just shows the log in page. Doesn’t say if password or email are wrong. (Which they are not). When I press on Log in button, the focus state goes on passes field (which already has my password). Please help.

It is good to see new functionalities in the this app app. However, the double tap bug still persist in the prototype view. Every tap is registered as a double tap. When the tap heat map are located at the same place in multiple pages, it skips to the second page. This is a major bug that needs to be fixed ASAP. This bug has been on this app since 2018.

Right now my only comment would be to move or give me the option to move the control bar from the bottom to the right or left vertically. When using the apple pen, I keep accidentally changing tools with the base of my hand. If the option exists, I haven't been able to find it yet.

I love Figma , I just have one concern… with ltest update when using long press menu opens up, but with that gestures like: “touch down” or “while pressing” that were used in this app prototype doesn’t work because now menu opens up…

I log into different accounts on this app, one for work, two for another clients and one for personal use. However on this mobile app, I can’t switch between profiles. I need to log out and login with a different profile which is a real hassle!

Why can’t this app mobile my allow me to switch logging profiles?

I’ve never been more upset with an app. Why does my Apple Pencil work perfectly on other apps, but this one is SO BUGGY. Sometimes it will let me drag a shape with the pencil, then it will completely ignore the pencil as if it doesn’t exist. THEN it will not let me type into the shape or sticky. Even the pen tool doesn’t work, it just makes a bunch of random marks?!? The most infuriating. Would have been better for Figma to not exist than bring my hopes up about working on my iPad.

When I check out Figma in the beginning I didn’t understand it completely, but investing some time in it and it blows my mind! Powerful and simple, now is the standard place when I start my projects.

So convenient to be able to mirror screen on a real device. Loving the new update and looking forward to playing around with it.

The iOS experience with Figma is about as non-intuitive as any app can be. View a project and there is literally no button or pop up control to exit that view - so it needs to be hard shut down. Try and zoom in on an active project, and the whole view is scrambled during zooming. Hopefully the experience and menu’ing can be improved.

I love that fig jam has come to iPad it’s really amazing I think the only glitch is that there needs to be a better pen. It’s very lowfi when you first write and then it smooth out. Would love to have it as smooth as goodnotes or something else

I want to love Figma, because I love this app and the care they usually taken in product development. Figma often crashes or gets frozen when I try to mirror my designs. It’s hard to understand how we still can’t make mirroring a fast and stable experience.

It loses connection, I have to restart Figma every few minutes, etc.

But this app is life so take your 5 stars <3

Latest update is quite helpful

Recently I’m not able to move around in files or draw with the Apple Pencil. It works once a blue moon. I’m able to tap on comments, and switch tools but actual panning doesn’t work.

Congratulations to the team on their release! Figma looks and works great, highly recommend for designers.

I’m not entirely sure who the audience is for this. I use it as a way to keep track of designs and comments on this app, but there are enough rough edges that I hesitate to open it.

1. Comment functionality was added (yes!), but you can’t find new comments within the file. You have to close the file, go to the alerts section and tap the comment there to then re-open the file to the new comment. Opening the file can take a minute, so this is really inefficient.

2. Within a. Few minutes of opening the file and zooming / scrolling around, the system seems to forget how to scroll and every swipe, two finger or one, activates the zoom. You have to force-quit Figma to get it working again, and within a few minutes it’s back to zooming on every touch.

I think the team need to focus on why Figma exists. I would love if it was for my use case—non-designer that needs to review mocks and make comments—but even if that wasn’t the goal, it needs some clear workflow definition.

The overall app is pretty decent. I enjoy being able to look and access projects that I’m currently working on while away from my desktop. However, do you guys think it might be possible to add an editing option? As far as maybe adding text/information into certain fields? Or being able to add photos. I could understand how prototyping might be an issue but Figma would be so much more beneficial if capable of doing more.

The whole point of me downloading Figma on my phone was so I could see how my prototype of a mobile app would look on my phone. I thought it would be easier to gauge if my font sizes/weights look fine when viewing it on an actual mobile device rather than my mac. And it was.

Nine frames and a few animations later I get a message saying that I can no longer view the prototype on my phone because the file is too big. Seriously? After only 9 frames? I don’t know if this is a bug or not but Figma is pretty much useless to me now since I do all the actual work on my mac. So that was disappointing.

I could really use a few things:
- Better Apple Pencil support in figjam (real palm rejection; allowing me to write inside of a blob (shape) with my Apple Pencil and convert it to text.)
- Let me move the toolbox out of the way on the screen.
For the preceding improvements I would be willing to pay 2 stars.

I’m so shocked by how buggy Figma is that I have to write a review. Mobile designers rely on the mirror function heavily, but it is barely usable, the toast at the bottom never dismisses, it loads slowly and often disconnects, or loads the wrong page and you have to deselect and reselect the frame on computer to trigger the refresh, it ignores your frame selection if u have a flow on this page and will just keep playing that flow… I have no idea who made and approved this, and I’m just simply afraid to touch the open file feature. Also no real iPad apps in 2022. Hello??

Apple Pencil is barely supported. Drawing is excruciatingly slow. But the best part is that when using the text tool, whether for existing text or new, at least 4/5 times it doesn’t activate the keyboard.

So unless you’re not in a hurry, and have an external keyboard connected, you will not have any fun creating or editing jams on the go.

Two stars for the basic utility of (very, very slowly) accessing your team documents, and at least you can cross things out and leave comments.

I want to be able to design using my iPad Pro. This is somewhat possible via the browser, but the annoying ‘open in app’ banner never goes away. The iOS/iPadOS app just seems like yet another port of the web app but with edit functionality switched off—why do that? I guess because it’s an imperfect experience? I don’t care, I still want to design with my iPad.

I don’t understand why there is no functionality to edit files in the this app app. I can open this app in a web browser on my iPad and make edits there, but that’s more of a hassle than just being able to use Figma . I don’t view prototypes or use figjam as often, so Figma is kind of useless as it is now.

It auto updates when you update the design on computer.

You can use your phone to show off your progress to your friends.

This is one amazing #this app

I downloaded this app expecting to be able to work on design files without needing to go the website. If adobe can make a downgraded illustrator, then why can’t this app do the same. If it works in the browser, why not an app. Also, You can only use this app jam which is very limited in its features. There are very few fonts and colors. Figma is limited and it’s use as another viewer is pointless as you can use a browser. Unless, Figma allows making and editing of design files, then it fails to do a pivotal purpose of why people purchase and use this app in the first place.

What makes this app special is definitely the attention to details and how well the team decides to build Figma to solve real user need. Keep up the good work and I’d love to see a much more powerful app in the future!

iPad version fundamentally can’t handle a moderate to high number of images on one page, in fact it says as much when it inevitably crashes.

I guess it’s nice for people who are mostly reviewing simple vector work but for anyone who interacts with many raster images on one page it’s totally not workable. I don’t really understand why they couldn’t integrate some kind of low-res display mode, or selective loading of just certain images, or something more than “Sorry can’t be done.”

It’s a little disappointing that this app doesn’t have an iPad app version that is similar to the desktop app version they have. Because what i can do with the iPad app version is very limited.. I can only comment and view others work. I can’t edit or anything. to do that i would have to log into this app on the browser. It’s a little bit annoying that’s all.

For my use case I mostly use the this app App to test prototypes and check context of designs on an actual device. The other features feel like nice to haves based on my personal workflow.

My frustration with Figma comes mostly with connectivity issues. this app mirror often lags and doesn’t update based on the frame selected on my computer. I often to need to restart the proton or hard reset Figma . Would love to see a connection that is allowed through a cable vs WiFi.

Figma is so amazing! I’m still learning how to use it, but so far it has been “just wow”. I hope that you can add more cute patterns to the tape, and also in Figma you can’t adjust corner radius on the rectangles but you can on the website, but I like to use Figma because I have a 1 hour time limit on safari. Hope you can fix that. Other than that, ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️!
Thank you!