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How to build trust with others by organizing your Figma files
Creating an organizational management system to deliver assets will improve the speed and quality of your work, enable better collaboration and gain deeper trust with your partners!
Hi there! 👋🏻 We are Raquel Piqueras and Christina Yang, we work together at Microsoft where we design a set of internal and external tools that are part of the Azure Cloud.
In the last few months, we have been doing some housekeeping in our Figma files and have realized how much the way we work impacts the trust our product teams have in us. In this article, we will deep-dive into the intentional changes we made to keep our Figma files organized, which resulted in fewer meetings, higher quality work, a more agile environment, and a few praises from our partners along the way. We hope you find it as insightful as we do!
We have put together a workspace toolkit in the Figma community to get started with our method. Feel free to check it out:
Clutter takes away your credibility
Have you ever worked with a large, disorganized Figma file? One that takes forever to load and may crash at any moment? With screens scattered everywhere, it can be difficult to understand the flows or the final product. Imagine being the developer tasked with building the final product from this mess, or the project manager who needs to review the latest design iteration. What if you are a fellow designer joining the project to help?
A cluttered workspace can instantly damage your credibility, even before the quality of your work is assessed.
On the other hand, a designer who delivers clean, organized, and straightforward work may be seen as a leader and gain the trust of their peers, manager, and product team even before they see the quality…
