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What is Figma?

Written by Figma Man

Updated at June 19th, 2025

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  • Administration – Figma Learn
    Manage files and projects Manage a team Manage your account Manage a Figma organization Manage Enterprise plan settings and permissions Billing Manage Figma in a school
  • Figma Design – Figma Learn
    Create prototypes Import and export Create designs Tour the interface Dev Mode Work together in files Build design systems Figma Draw
  • Get started – Figma Learn
    Set up your account Layers 101
  • FigJam – Figma Learn
    Import and export Run meetings Work on boards Tour the interface
  • Community – Figma Learn
    Explore the Community Creator tools and resources
  • Help – Figma Learn
    Troubleshoot Common questions Work with support
  • Work across Figma – Figma Learn
    Figma AI Work across Figma
  • Courses, tutorials, projects – Figma Learn
    Courses Projects
  • Figma Slides – Figma Learn
    Create and edit slides Present slide decks Tour the interface Import and export
  • Figma Buzz – Figma Learn
    Templates in Figma Buzz Create and edit assets in Figma Buzz Overview
  • Figma Make – Figma Learn
    Tour the interface Work with Figma Make
  • Figma Sites – Figma Learn
    Design a site Create webpages and breakpoints Make your site interactive Preview and publish a site Tour the interface
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Working in Figma Design Working in Dev Mode Working in Figma Slides Working in FigJam  Why people use Figma Flexible Multiplayer Always available Get started

Figma's mission is to make design accessible to everyone. Our products help people express their ideas visually and make things together.

  • Figma Design is for people to create, share, and test designs for websites, mobile apps, and other digital products and experiences. It is a popular tool for designers, product managers, writers and developers and helps anyone involved in the design process contribute, give feedback, and make better decisions, faster.
  • Dev Mode unlocks a feature set within Figma Design that helps transform your designs into code. With Dev Mode, designers and developers can stay on the same page, making sure important details aren’t lost in the handoff process.
  • Figma Slides is a slide deck creation tool that lets you and your team create beautiful presentations. Insert designs and prototypes from Figma Design, co-create and present confidently with collaboration and presentation tools, and use interactive widgets to gather stakeholder feedback before your presentation even ends.
  • FigJam lets you create online whiteboards where anyone can take part. People often use FigJam for meetings, brainstorms, diagrams, planning, and research. In FigJam, you can use text, shapes, drawings, images, sticky notes, and other elements to visually represent ideas and jam on work together.

You can create a free account and use each product for as long as you like.

 

Working in Figma Design

Design files are powerful, collaborative environments where you turn your ideas into responsive and interactive designs. They're useful for creating and maintaining artifacts and assets, where detail and precision are of the utmost importance.

You can create multiple pages within a design file, each with its own canvas.

  • Add shapes, images, text, and other layers from the toolbar
  • Select layers and assets from the navigation panel
  • View or adjust properties in the properties panel
  • Toggle rulers, guides, and the pixel grid for pixel-perfect precision

Explore Figma Design files.

Working in Dev Mode

Dev Mode gives you everything you need to collaborate with developers and transform Figma designs into code.

  • Access advanced inspection capabilities with codegen support in multiple languages
  • Make sure you’re building with the latest specs by easily comparing frame versions
  • Quickly review designs that are ready for development with statuses and annotations
  • Streamline workflows with developer-focused integrations, like JIRA, Storybook and GitHub
  • Explore all variants in a component set without editing the file
  • Link designs to tickets, documentation, and code components
  • Inspect designs and write code side-by-side using the Figma for VS Code extension

Explore Dev Mode.

Working in Figma Slides

Figma Slides pairs the power and precision of Figma Design with easy-to-use presentation tools to bring your narrative to life and drive alignment.

  • Choose from flexible templates to design powerful presentations for any audience
  • Use multiplayer and collaboration features to co-create decks, and present together with shared presenter notes and co-presenting controls
  • Use interactive widgets to capture stakeholder feedback
  • Bring in your designs and prototypes from Figma Design with just a few clicks

Explore Figma Slides files.

 

Working in FigJam 

FigJam files are online whiteboards, approachable spaces where anyone can take part. They tap into the spontaneous, joyful nature of working together.

FigJam files have curated tools for exploration and discovery. They're great for meetings, brainstorms, diagrams, and research.

  • Find settings and perform actions from the menu
  • Select collaborative tools in the navigation bar
  • Use the creation tools in the toolbar
  • Connect in the moment with emotes, stamps, and spontaneous cursor chats

Explore FigJam files.

Why people use Figma

Flexible

Figma is used by solo designers, as well as teams at the largest organizations in the world (and everything in between).

Multiplayer

Multiple people can work on the same project at the same time, making it easy for everyone to collaborate and share feedback both asynchronously and in real-time.

Always available

You can use Figma in a browser, or in our desktop or mobile apps. Your work is always backed up so you don't need to save or create multiple versions.

Get started

  • Create a free account at figma.com/signup
  • Download the desktop app at figma.com/downloads
  • Take the Figma Design for beginners course
  • Visit the Figma Community 
  • Try a starter project

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