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Figma vs UXPin: What are the differences?

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1. **Collaboration Features**: Figma allows real-time collaboration with multiple users working on the same file simultaneously, enabling seamless teamwork. UXPin, on the other hand, focuses more on version control and feedback management, ensuring design consistency and effective communication among team members.
2. **Prototyping Capabilities**: Figma offers advanced prototyping features, including interactive animations and transitions, making it ideal for creating high-fidelity prototypes. In contrast, UXPin provides a vast library of UI components and interactions for rapid prototyping and usability testing.
3. **Code Generation**: Figma provides CSS code snippets for design elements, facilitating developers in implementing the design. UXPin takes it a step further by offering code export options for various front-end frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue.js, streamlining the handoff process from design to development.
4. **Design System Management**: Figma offers robust design system capabilities with components, styles, and shared libraries, enhancing design consistency across projects. In comparison, UXPin focuses on design systems' documentation and governance, ensuring teams adhere to established design principles and guidelines.
5. **Integration Ecosystem**: Figma has a wide range of integrations with popular tools like Slack, Jira, and Zeplin, enhancing the design workflow and collaboration. UXPin, on the other hand, focuses on integrations with usability testing tools like UserTesting and Hotjar, prioritizing gathering user feedback and insights.
6. **Learning Curve and Support**: Figma has a user-friendly interface and extensive community support, making it easier for beginners to learn and master the tool. UXPin provides in-depth onboarding resources and personalized training sessions to help users leverage the platform's full potential efficiently.

In Summary, Figma excels in real-time collaboration and advanced prototyping, while UXPin emphasizes version control, code generation, and design system governance in the design process.
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ZeplinZeplin

Hello, I want to start an unlimited graphic design service. (yes, yet another one, but bear with me)

It’s the second week that I’m working on this project, my goal is to test the market as soon as possible.

One element that is missing is the solution to handle communication between the clients and the designers.

• Mandatory: it needs to communicate instructions, progress/status, and design files (exported from Adobe Illustrator or similar). • Optionally it would also display the design inside the app so the files don’t need to be opened. • Optionally it would let the client easily mark the design where he wants revision.

• Mandatory: it needs to have unlimited clients and unlimited projects (I’ll have hundreds of clients and each will have at least one project) • Optionally it would auto-assign a new project to the first available designer, or let the designers choose themselves which project they want to work on • Optionally it would have groups (corresponding to a subscription plan) with different clients and different designers in each • Optionally it would communicate with other apps so that client and designer management tasks (access, payment, etc) can be automated

I’m open to all suggestions, not just the selection above. Ultimately I guess I’ll have a custom app developed on a no-code platform, but to begin with I need something simple and ready.

Reminder: it is only for graphic design, between my designers and my clients

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SketchSketch

Zeplin is great for Developer handoff and setting as source of truth for Design and Developemt. InViosion is the standard for communicating/testing design ideas and prototypes with stakeholders. Both applications offer unlimited projects. I use them on a daily basis at big enterprises and for small weekend projects.

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Mert Torun
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BasecampBasecamp

I have been using Basecamp since 2008 to handle my client communications. I have gone through all of its three iterations.

I'd recommend Basecamp above the others because:

  • It is a communication tool through and through. Looking at your description, that seems to be what you need. Zeplin is a developer handoff tool. It isn't designed to cover a more broad use case as you describe. Invision has some features that you want, but it is primarily a tool for building quick low-fidelity prototypes from website mockups. Figma is a great design tool. For the last two, communication is a secondary feature.
  • It was designed by a design agency (37 Signals) for their own needs, which were quite similar to yours. (They later closed the agency to focus on Basecamp as a product full-time)
  • It has flat pricing that doesn't count the number of projects, clients or team members you have. You don't have to think twice about opening another project or inviting another user. You always pay the same price.
  • It can separate team and client communications. The team can talk about something without the client ever seeing it, in the same context.
  • It can keep todo lists, which I think you will need anyway.
  • Access control is based on projects. Every team member or client will only see the projects they are invited to. They will not even know the existence of others. (Except admins. They can see and join all projects)
  • It is easy to understand and use. The design is free of clutter and easy on the eyes. Your clients (especially the tech-averse ones) will appreciate it.
  • It has mobile/desktop apps with the full functionality of the web app. You won't have to wait for someone to sit down to get a quick approval.

The only real downside for me was the lack of language support in the user interface. You will be fine if your users understand some very basic written English. Some of my clients did not, so I had to walk them through it.

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Pros of Figma
Pros of UXPin
  • 18
    Web-based application
  • 10
    Intuitive interface and perfect collaboration
  • 8
    Free software
  • 7
    Works on both Mac and Windows
  • 7
    Highly Collaborative
  • 6
    Great plugins, easy to extend
  • 5
    Works on multiple OS's
  • 5
    Imports Sketch files
  • 5
    Large community, tutorials, documentation
  • 5
    Hands done the best design tool for collaboration!
  • 4
    Prototyping, design files and comments all in one place
  • 4
    Interactive, event-based prototypes
  • 3
    No more syncing between Sketch and InVision
  • 5
    Semantic UI support
  • 5
    Can make unique interactions
  • 2
    Jira Integration
  • 2
    Prototyping
  • 2
    Design Systems
  • 1
    Co-Design together real-time with designers on my team
  • 1
    Design Libraries Auto-Generated
  • 1
    Animated Gif Support
  • 1
    Unlimited Previews (no charge for reviewers)
  • 1
    Document and Annotate Designs
  • 1
    Unlimited Storage for all file types
  • 1
    Sketch Integration
  • 1
    Photoshop Integration
  • 1
    Sharing prototypes on mobile device
  • 1
    Prebuilt & Customizable UI Patterns

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Cons of Figma
Cons of UXPin
  • 6
    Limited Export options
  • 1
    No free tier

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What is Figma?

Figma is the first interface design tool with real-time collaboration. It keeps everyone on the same page. Focus on the work instead of fighting your tools.

What is UXPin?

It is a code-based design tool that merges design and engineering into one unified process. Thanks to conditional interactions, variables, state-based animations, and powerful expressions, you can build prototypes that feel like the real thing. In other words, anything that's on the web can be accurately prototyped in UXPin.

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