Figma 4+

Figma has been the one app I go to for doing any kind of initial design work. Once you’re there with all the shortcuts the speed of delivery is better than any other I’ve tried. The ease of sharing a link with an end user and watching their cursor on screen when giving notes is unparalleled imo. Clearly I’m talking about the desktop app but the ability to see notes on iOS is very useful.

I love Figma on desktop but the mobile app on phone and iPad fall short in a big way. I use it almost exclusively for the mirror function and I would have given it 3 stars if it weren’t so buggy. Bugs I have found while using mirror include: - Loses connection periodically - Freezes often and needs to be restarted - The prototype doesn’t always appear exactly as on screen. For example, I had an icon with a transparent container around it and layers that had shadows. It looked fine on the computer screen but on the phone, the container background appeared white and the shadows were applied to the container instead of the objects inside it. - It would be nice to have an option to turn on/off status bar and home bar if they are already on your designs. - Animations are not very smooth. Aside from the mirror feature, I wanted to view and respond to a comment while I was on the go, but I can’t see the comments. It seems all that I can do view my frames. I would really love editing capabilities, especially for iPad. If I could design in Figma on iPad it would save my hand so much from all the mouse clicks. In the meantime, I’m just trying to learn all the shortcuts keys!

I now understand that the headline says “View designs. Comment. Mirror.” There’s no mention of “Edit” - however, on the app’s main page in the App Store on iOS, there’s a screenshot that looked to me like the app provided editing capabilities. Since the whole point of Figma is to design, I don’t really get the utility of this app if all one can do is add comments or see how designs look on a phone screen? And as far as seeing how the design looks on a smaller screen, I don’t need an entire app that only does that when there are test suites that do that for me. Or..by actually seeing the live application on my phone rather than just looking at the design on my phone. But that reflects some of my own development decisions, so that could just be me. You can edit things on Adobe’s mobile apps, so I don’t quite understand the hesitation to include editing capabilities here. Of course, the editing capabilities are more limited on mobile apps, but they are possible. Plus it’d be nice to be able to draw with the touchscreen. Is an editing feature being developed for future release?