{"id":449,"date":"2021-06-09T13:58:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T13:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2021-06-09T15:11:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T15:11:09","slug":"figma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/software\/figma\/","title":{"rendered":"Figma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.figma.com\/\">Figma<\/a> is a prototyping app similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/software\/adobe-xd\/\">Adobe XD<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/software\/axure-rp\/\">Axure RP<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/software\/framer\/\">Framer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/glossary\/sketch\/\">Sketch<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/software\/invision-studio\/\">Invision Studio<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.figma.com\/education\/\">Figma is free for students to use<\/a>, and can run entirely in a web browser, or downloaded as a desktop app for PC and Mac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Unique Advantages<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Launched in 2016, it was the first app of its kind to be able to run entirely in a web browser, and to feature a live multiplayer collaboration mode allowing team members to contribute simultaneously to a design, although this feature is increasingly becoming available in other prototyping apps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a Figma app for iOS and Android which allow app prototypes to be tested on-device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A feature called Interactive Components allows re-usable groups of components like menus to be built, which helps avoid excessive duplication of screens when designing interactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figma is a design and prototyping app, free for students to use, which can run entirely in a web browser, or be downloaded as a desktop app for PC and Mac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}