Figma

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “Figma has become a very expensive virtual whiteboard. It's still in our loop, but only as a starting point for ideation and moodboarding.”

  NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-06-23

• “figma allows me to set proper constraints (screen size, for example), that give it a more grounded "shape"”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-07

• “building a quick (not production quality) frontend demo in code was already often faster than getting the right interaction working in Figma”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-07

• “I spent the last ~2 years working 60-80 hour weeks at Figma. At one point my boss asked me to work from my honeymoon. My life, health, and relationships suffered because of the pressure I was putting on others as a result of that.”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-05-31

• “improved performance, including but not limited to the support of large design systems, was also a commonly cited reason among paying customers for migrating to Figma”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-20

• “Figma-like commenting and find myself pulling it into all kinds of personal projects”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-09

• “I've always had trouble designing my emails in Figma first and then coding the HTML”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-08

• “I'd spend hours fiddling in Figma and nothing would ever be quite how I wanted”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-27

• “It's so easy nowadays to get a Figma file with an established design system and produce new features”

  MIXED · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-20

• “being able to comment and collaborate in Figma is important, as is being able to go find specific icons and components on my own”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-20

• “Figma defaulting to 1440px so every design only really works at that width”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-18

• “Their binary format is so much of a "let's reinvent everything" which I think come from the fact it's a tool you can use for web design, android app design, ios design and anything-you-want design that it became a jack of all trade and so mapping it to web is not a perfect 1:1 translation. And for being useful to agent, any people who got to implement the figma from a UX guy know that even human can't know truly the intent of most figma design”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-18

• “What Figma achieved technically in the 2010s was amazing. Coded the app in C++ and then used WASM to deliver it as a multiplayer web app.”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-18

• “designers create entire pixel-perfect, component-based sources-of-truth in Figma (which evolve! they aren't delivered static and complete) -- these are also what the client sees and approves”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-18

• “I dont even use Figma for personal & side projects because its so expensive”

  NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-04-18

• “Figma costs cuckoo bananas money for your entire team for the privilege of enduring this byzantine nightmare”

  NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-04-18

• “I did cancel Figma today. We've barely used it in months and this was the nail in the coffin.”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-04-18

• “Extremely underwhelming. There's hardly any difference between using Figma and just designing it with Codex and Claude Code.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-17

• “AI (Figma, Claude) has produced UIs which look better, are more accessible, and get through review and QA and product approval, faster and more reliably”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-14

• “Our onboarding of the same class (30 students or so) to Figma took us two full days, it was a disaster”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-13

• “Figma still hasn't got any further in years - design tokens need a 3rd party plugin and responsive designs are a pain in the bum”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-12

• “found it very underwhelming. The result is less that I want to go to Figma directly and more that I just want to skip it entirely.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-29

• “I can use things like figma and countless other apps because it runs on the web, it would otherwise never have been possible”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-16

• “Got tired and opened figma, used it to refine it to what I wanted.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-15

• “working with groups in Figma is much more powerful than illustrator”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-07