For years, the best minds have been working to make online teamwork convenient and efficient. Designers, developers, and managers know well how important it is to work together, to be able to make changes, and to adjust the course of a project promptly. Having taken the urgent needs of the IT sphere into account, Figma presented a versatile product combining powerful design features and real-time online collaboration. Considering the innovative nature of the product and the prospects of its use, the experts at the World Future Awards recognized Figma as the winner in the category of Best Online Collaboration Tool.
World Future Awards is a global award selecting, recognizing, celebrating, and promoting the best products, software, and services that will transform the global economy and define the landscape of the future. The organization researches inventions across all categories, including technology, beauty, health care, food, home, and entertainment, that are making the world better, smarter or even a bit more fun. The Figma team created a product that offered a new way of looking at online work and provided an innovative approach to more effective collaboration between specialists, customers and performers. The work model proposed by Figma can become a standard in design and other fields.
Figma is an online graphic editor for web design and development of program interfaces, websites, and mobile applications. This next-gen software is a cloud-based web service for Mac, Windows, and Linux. The Figma toolkit is accessed through a web browser interface; the program does not require installation, and all projects are accessed in their current state via cloud storage. Cloud technology is one of the main factors opening up radically new opportunities for developers and other team members working on the project.
Figma toolkit allows you to create interactive prototypes of websites and applications, illustrations, vector graphics. In addition to the design tasks, Figma provides ample opportunities for entrepreneurs, SMM specialists, and project managers who can lead projects with Gantt Chart and create advertisements with templates for Facebook.
Figma’s main advantage over other graphics editors is that it provides a single environment for real-time team collaboration. Thanks to this, each project participant sees the current state of the design and can correct his part of the work, and the customer can leave comments on the design directly in Figma.