🎨 Section 4: Using Figma in the Design Workflow - FadiZahhar/WebflowTraining GitHub Wiki

🧩 Why Use Figma Before Webflow?

Figma is a collaborative interface design tool that helps teams:

  • Build, test, and iterate UI/UX
  • Create reusable systems before jumping to development
  • Collaborate in real-time with designers, developers, and stakeholders

In Webflow terms: Figma is your design lab; Webflow is your production factory.

🔧 4.1 Figma Styles: Build with Consistency

💅 What are Styles?

Reusable design tokens for:

  • Colors: Primary, secondary, background, text
  • Text: Headings, paragraphs, captions
  • Effects: Shadows, strokes, blurs

✅ Benefits:

  • Makes your design system scalable
  • Easy to update brand elements globally
  • Mirrors the concept of “Global Classes” in Webflow

🎯 Think of styles as the design DNA of your project.

📦 4.2 Figma Components: Reuse and Standardize

📐 What are Components?

A component is a master version of an element (e.g., button, card, navbar) that can be reused across your design. Any update to the component updates all instances.

🔁 Use Cases:

  • Buttons (with hover/disabled states)
  • Modals
  • Forms and form fields
  • Icons and CTAs

🎛 Variants

Let you group different states (e.g., primary, secondary buttons) into one component. Keeps your library clean.

🔄 Webflow Comparison:

Figma Components ≈ Webflow Symbols + Combo Classes

🧠 Consistency = less redesign, faster development, better UX.

🧱 4.3 Auto Layout & Responsive Design

Auto Layout lets you build smart frames that:

  • Respond to content changes
  • Maintain alignment, spacing, and distribution
  • Adapt to screen sizes

Why it matters:

  • Prepares you for Webflow’s flex/grid structures
  • Enables you to test mobile responsiveness before exporting

🧰 4.4 Wireframe Kits & Design Libraries

Use prebuilt kits to speed up ideation and prototyping.

🔹 Top Wireframe Kits:

  • Untitled UI Wireframes
  • Figma Community Kits (Search: wireframe kit)
  • Webflow’s own Figma Kits

🧱 What they include:

  • Grids and layout templates
  • Sample blocks (hero, CTA, testimonials)
  • Placeholder components
  • Documentation patterns

⚡ Start with a wireframe kit → replace with your real styles and components.

🧠 Final Thoughts for Section 4

  • Use Figma to prepare. Webflow will only be as good as your plan.
  • Think in components. What you reuse in Figma, you can replicate in Webflow.
  • Build responsive. Figma’s auto layout trains you to think mobile-first.