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Figma

Definition

The industry-standard collaborative design tool for creating UI/UX designs, prototypes, and design systems. Used by designers, developers, and increasingly founders to visualise products.

Why it matters

Figma bridges the gap between idea and implementation. As a founder, using Figma to sketch your product before development saves significant time and money, developers build what you meant, not what they guessed.

Example

A founder designs her app's user flow in Figma before hiring a developer. She creates a clickable prototype, shows it to potential users for feedback, and refines it 3 times, before a single line of code is written.

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