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And yet another story about moving design files to Figma
With my process and some of my learnings for other people thinking of making the transition
If you are reading this, means that you are interested in how and why to move your designs projects to Figma. Don’t expect a detailed guide on what’s the most optimised way of doing it, but rather the whys and hows of how I did it recently and why I believe it was a successful move.
In November of 2020, I joined the talented team at Florence to lead a group of passionate, motivated and very creative designers. As part of my initial work, and as a way of getting onboarded I suggested trying Figma as part of our tool stack to design our products. What I didn’t think is how much that could affect our workflow and influence the whole approach to the design of the product team and how it would end up becoming the adopted tool for all UX and cross-team design work.
I started my job as any other designer that joins a fast-paced startup that has gone through a lot of lean development process; learning where all the design files are. And as in every other small startup with a relatively complex product portfolio, when you start asking around about where the design files are, things start to get messy and you end up trying to ask too many people for things…
