It's not just developers. I'm in web marketing and I'm expected to do front end work including creating figmas and writing code. This is along with my regular duties as a marketer.

[–] Cornflake_Dog@lemmy.wtf 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)

What's figma?

[–] teejay@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I need to figma resume and get out of here.

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

UX designers use figma to create mockups that front end developers use to make landing pages.

[–] Cornflake_Dog@lemmy.wtf 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Figma balls

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Fuckin goteem

[–] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Open source alternative is called penpot.app

Worth checking out

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are so many plugins for figma that it is hard to switch to anything else.

[–] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, I’m full stack and use it for quick mockups and communication with our marketing person at work.

But I never hoped on the figma train fully, so penpot works for me.

What are some integrations that I might find useful?

(I work predominantly with a Stencil.js website and react native app (traditional MERN stack for the app, the stencil website has tons of custom integrations))

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use a handful of tools. I think the one I use the most is build. Io. It basically scrapes a page and creates a figma design from a webpage. It's useful if I'm planning on building a test or creating a new page that requires me to bring elements from other pages.

It cuts my workload in 1/2.

[–] Kojichan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Build.io? I'll have to look into that plugin. Is it a paid one, or does it come with the Figma seats?

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Sorry, wrong name. https://www.builder.io/blog/ai-figma

It's free.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Ligma's cousin

[–] Kojichan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm falling into that myself... It seems my boss is trying to prevent me from being Pidgeon-holed into being just a programmer.

Aka, he is diversifying my portfolio to keep me on board as an employee.

Guess it helps some full-stack'ers if they also have experience in graphics design and copywriting.

[–] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah your boss is just getting you to work beyond what you're paid to do.

[–] Kojichan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

...and that, too. Tried to look at it as an existing Jack of All Trades. Get to learn new stuff!

But yeah... I feel like I'm being taken advantage of, sometimes.

[–] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Yea, do it to fill your resume with some good points but once you're not learning anything new it's time to leave.