Figma Sites, a website builder inside Figma. A revolution? No. My take
Draw it, press a button, get a website. What's genuinely great about Figma Sites, where it falls short, and how I actually use it.
Figma has released Figma Sites: you can now build full websites right inside the design interface. No export, no coding: draw it, press a button and get a working site with animations and responsive layouts. Sounds like a dream, but it's not all smooth sailing.
An example I put together in a couple of minutes: purse-figma-novel.figma.site
What's genuinely great
- You build the site right inside Figma, quickly and intuitively.
- Everything lives in one ecosystem: from social posts to landing pages and a CMS.
- Animations, interactivity and multi-page sites are all there.
- It's great for MVPs, quick prototypes and client presentations.
But there are big downsides
- $20 a month even for a simple one-pager. Ridiculously expensive.
- No proper export: if you want to host the site yourself, you can't.
- No CMS yet. Whether there will be one, and at what price, is unknown.
How I use it
- For prototypes: to show a client how things look live, not just in a picture.
- For testing animations: you see right away how the UI behaves on different screens.
- For quickly building sections: sketch, export a chunk of code and drop it into WordPress or another engine.
- For training designers: they immediately see how their layouts work and stop drawing things that can't be made responsive.
The verdict
Figma Sites is a tool, not a platform. It's not a replacement for WordPress, Webflow or proper front-end work. But as a way to quickly build a prototype, test an idea and show a client, it's excellent.
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