Hello,
My team just switched from a Sketch/Abstract combo over to Figma, mainly because of the auto layout engine and the flexible component system.
One thing I am somewhat concerned about is how collaboration, and communication, with product owners and developers works in Figma - or I should say, doesn’t work.
In Abstract we prepared Collections, where we specifically selected the relevant artboards. Links to those collections, and sometimes even directly to artboards, were then shared on Jira, etc. People visiting those links always only had 1 artboard (=screen/state/whatever) in front of them and could comment and annotate away. Switching to a different artboard was always a deliberate choice and a very obvious user experience. Also, you would only ever see comments that were posted on that specific artboard.
In Figma, on the contrary, you have free navigation on the infinite canvas of a page. Yes, you can share direct links to artboards and on visiting those links you are taken directly to that artboard. However you will still have to navigate freely to move between artboards, zoom in and out, etc. This is much more complex and overwhelming than having always only 1 artboard on the screen and moving via arrow left/right. Furthermore the right sidebar for comments will show all comments on the whole page (not only the artboard in view) which makes the comment function more overwhelming as well.
is this something you’re working on? Or perhaps I have I overlooked some clever functionality?
Designers - have you maybe been in the same boat and found a good solution? Any best practices you can share are super appreciated!
Many on our team are regretting the choice to switch. Now with the Adobe purchase, perhaps justification to return to Sketch.
