Clara Ujiie led Workday’s migration to Figma in 2019. Now as a Designer Advocate at Figma, she helps other teams through similar transitions, sharing ways to work better together. Based on these experiences, she is offering a blueprint for teams adopting Figma.

I have a dedicated tag #Switching to Figma for this topic, but out of 60 shared stories only one was added in the last 2 years — a pretty good indicator of adoption.

At Microsoft, Figma is winning over Adobe XD as their design tool of choice. Jordan Novet wrote an interesting profile for CNBC showing how several acquisitions and internal demand led to its rise in popularity, even while Microsoft and Adobe have worked together for over 20 years.

The team at Onfido Tech moved to Figma from Sketch and Abstract, and they organized projects and files to work around the lack of branches back then. Their structure may be a good fit for a larger organization.

Good write-up from Think Company on switching to Figma from the perspective of an agency working with high-profile clients.

Karl Emil James Koch writes for 8px Magazine about using group renaming and his plugin the Batch››styler to migrate a design system from Sketch to Figma.

Karen Liu shares the pains of using Sketch + Abstract combo and why her team at Brave embraced Figma, even while it meant completely rebuilding the design system.

“As the coronavirus hit the travel industry earlier this year, the design team at Agoda looked at how we could save costs without sacrificing the quality of the work we’re doing. The collaborative features and the opportunity to shrink the cost of multiple license fees to just one were two compelling reasons to review Figma and eventually propose a plan to migrate our whole design organization to the new tool.”

“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.”

A short but solid overview by Alberto Orsini.

A while ago, Rafal Tomal recorded an hour-long video on getting started in Figma, and now he shares why he switched to it completely.

The team at Youse switched to Figma from Sketch, Marvel, Zeplin, and Google Drive. They tried to solve their problems with Abstract, but gave up and moved everything to Figma after a few months. Not only that improved collaboration and handoff process within teams but also saved almost 65% of tools cost.

The team at Little Miss Robot wasn’t happy with their workflow, and how many tools they had to use, so they decided to try Figma. The beginning of COVID-19 made it the perfect setting. The result? ​“We feel like Figma isn’t just another design tool, but rather an ​“enabler.” It lets you create without adding many technical limitations. And you can use it to collaborate and communicate in a no-nonsense but versatile way.“

A framework for evaluating design tools from the team at Figma. ​“To find the right fit, it’s not just about reading countless articles and reviews to identify the ​‘best in class‘ option. Rather, there are a number of considerations — team size, distribution, workflow — that should inform the decision.”

After leading two migrations from Sketch, Abstract, and Zeplin to Figma in the past two years, Iougo Huan shares what he learned to help your team in the migration process.