Figma Reviews

1. Maksym Moskalenko

   | Founder at Mixcode.io | about 2 months ago
   Everything you need for design

   My favorite tool right now.

2. Olaniyan Samuel

   | Content writer at Saas2biz.com | 6 months ago
   Figma: An Essential Tool for Web Designers and Collaborators

   Figma, a versatile cloud-based design software, stands out among design tools due to its real-time collaboration feature. It caters not only to web design but also to print projects. Offering an intuitive interface and powerful features, it allows simultaneous editing, eliminating the hassle of file sharing. Figma's adaptability covers website, mobile app, and print layout design, supported by an array of customizable templates.

   Beyond designers, collaborators benefit from Figma's capabilities too. Project managers and clients can offer real-time feedback, streamlining reviews and expediting project progress. Its pricing model, featuring a free version with limited features and a paid option, suits various budgets, ensuring accessibility to freelancers and larger agencies alike.

   Core features like real-time collaboration, prototyping, and reusable design elements distinguish Figma. These features facilitate efficient design iterations, ensuring consistency and enabling users to test ideas before development. The tool's emphasis on seamless collaboration makes it a valuable asset for teams, fostering clear communication through comments directly on the design file.

   🏁 Competitors: Adobe XD, Framer, Sketch, Moqups

   👍 Pros:    Real-time collaboration|Versatility|Intuitive user interface|Feedback and communication|Prototyping capabilities|Accessibility

   👎 Cons:    Learning curve|Internet dependency|Limited free version|Security concerns|Complexity in large projects
3. Hussain Raza

   | Design at Fiverr.com | 7 months ago
   The best designing app for your website!

   It is user friendly app with alot of modern features which give your website a cool look

   🏁 Competitors: Adobe Illustrator

   👍 Pros:    Easy to use|User friendly interface

   👎 Cons:    Expensive

Laigter Reviews

Figma mentions (101)

• How to build a Good Portfolio Website - My Approach.

  Planning and Design: Adobe Xd (but you can also try Figma). - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: What's the best way to write a book in Markdown?

  Hey, I've wrote a few books (https://kerkour.com/books) with only markdown, https://excalidraw.com and https://figma.com I've detailed my complete setup and shared the Dockerfile that I use to convert the markdown into ebooks (EPUB, PDF and Kindle) on my blog: https://kerkour.com/book-self-publishing-pandoc. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Build Products that don’t SUCK

  Create a low-fidelity mockup or wireframe of your MVP using tools like Balsamiq, Sketch, or Figma. Or use an easier-to-use tool like Uizard, which also has text-to-design capabilities. Source: 10 months ago

• Syncing Figma Variables and StyleDictionary with GitHub Actions

  Figma recently announced its new Variables product, allowing you to define and manage your design tokens directly within Figma. I have been experimenting with Figma Variables for a few weeks and am reasonably impressed with how it works. In this article, I'll share how I've been using Figma Variables to support my design projects and how I've been syncing them with my codebase with GitHub Actions and... - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago

• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Figma Link Figure Revealed: TotK Ver. Goodsmile

  Did anyone else think of Figma the design software or is it just me? https://figma.com. Source: 12 months ago

Laigter mentions (10)

• I just wanted to share with you a cool lighting effect I made for 2D drawings.

  Yes it's blender! I just painted normal maps by hand. Red for right side and green for up- It's very quick to do if you master well volume. And the good things, is that it deduce the down, and left.. So it can do cool stuff! If you don't want to paint it, there is this cool software that can do it : Https://azagaya.itch.io/laigter. Source: 12 months ago

• Is it possible to "procedurally" add shading (shadows and highlights) to my sprite, so when rotated, the shading doesn't just stay on the same side? (Godot 4)

  If you need a tool to make normal maps (The tech behind the 2D lighting you desire) I recommend laigter: https://azagaya.itch.io/laigter. Source: about 1 year ago

• AI generated normal maps: are we there yet?

  I really like the normal maps this tool generates for 2D assets: https://azagaya.itch.io/laigter. Source: over 1 year ago

• Normal maps are a god send

  There's also Laigter, which makes it incredibly easy to generate normal maps for textures. I've used it for wall and ground textures in the past to great effect. :). Source: over 1 year ago

• A quick broken-down cart I made tonight. Hand-pixeled in Aseprite, normal maps and light animation created in SpriteIlluminator

  However the march of time continues and searching around there now seems to be a free opensource alternative that you might want to investigate that got an EPIC MegaGrant: Laigter. Source: over 1 year ago