Five areas Figma need to improve on to stay a step ahead

Steve Dennis
UX Collective
Published in
15 min readAug 30, 2022

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A modern glass office building with a Figma logo faintly visible on the windows. It’s partially covered by yellow construction material, with a maintenance crew working on scaffolding outside the building.
All images by MidJourney, directed by the author.

It’s 2022. Figma has completely taken over the Product Design world over the last four years. It’s rare to see a company gain such rapid adoption across an entire industry so quickly.

With that kind of growth comes a lot of problems. The product accrues debt in different areas (both technical and UX) as a team tries to scale fast. Business and user pressures lead to…

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Senior Design Manager @ Onfido, writing about design systems, product design, leadership, and tech @ clipcontent.substack.com.