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3 tips for advanced prototyping in Figma

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3 tips for advanced prototyping in Figma

Gone are the days of tangled prototyping spaghetti. And thats a good thing. Welcome to the new era of conditional logic design.

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AI Generated illustration with little edition in photoshop of a sad unicorn in the grave of spaguetti prototyping. On the right a sad character resembling the figma tool.

Let’s be honest. Duplicating frames like crazy and getting blue spaghetti in Figma is cool. Although a little messy, prototypes done this way kind of work to share concepts, test usability or document interactions for handoff. Why then, force us to use new features like variables and expressions to get them done in a totally different way?

The answer is simple. Prototypes should serve as blueprints for the final design. Product owners never set a duplicating screen task or features resembling spaghetti in user stories. Developers don’t build spaghetti in their final code...or at least they shouldn’t. User stories define actual behaviors of the product. Development crafts real validations in a single screen so the product is understandable for them and easy to give maintenance and upgrades. Done by themselves or even other unknown developers in the future. Prototypes should mirror this way of work. Otherwise, we designers potentially are not truly grasping the actual validations or data we bring to the final UI.

And we’ve been able to craft actual prototypes on other tools for a while now. Protopie, Framer, Axure


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