From the course: The Freelance Stack: Real Project with Next.js and Strapi

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What Figma is and how to use it

What Figma is and how to use it

So when I introduced the freelance stack, I said there were two main pieces of technology We are going to be using to build this app and that is true, which is Next.js and Strapi That's going to be our focus but I also want to take at least a few minutes just to talk about the design tool that we will be using because I've Been seeing it more and more in practice just to pre-emphasize this, right? It's not super important which design tool you're going to be using But there's a very good chance that it will be Figma, because it has been taking the design community by storm. And I'm not even a design guy, and even I know that. Before that, there were a lot of people providing designs in Adobe XD and Sketch, as well as in Figma. But by now, pretty much everybody that I know is actually using Figma. So let's take a moment to look into the different things we actually need to know to be, as a developer, as quick and efficient as we can with Figma. know exactly how we can transform the…

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