Figma Open Source Alternative

Figma is a propriatary UI/UX tool available as an web application for all platforms. There are some good open source# alternatives to Figma for the same purpose and goal with more or less functionalities.

Penpot

https://penpot.app/

Penpot does provide most functionalities presented in Figma, with an additional advantage over Adobe XD where it can change the canvas’s background colour. However, as for now, it doesn’t support component states or micromanagement, auto-layout and plugins.

You could create a template for a particular device creating a “Board”. All UX options for the components are available in “Prototype” section.

Quant UX

https://quant-ux.com/#/

Quant UX is a powerful UX tool. User can define a variable or constraint on a component’s action using logic element where it can produce a different result accordingly. Moreover, it can integrate with web services such as REST API. It also provides means to view Performance Testing# results gathered from user’s interaction with the template. Mouse click action from the user are tracked, in either the form of heatmap or continuous journey, which the designer could view later on for Usability Testing#.

It supports conversion from Figma and Zip archive format, and can export to #vue , #css , and #html source.

Plasmic

https://jamstack.org/headless-cms/plasmic/

Plasmic has a great integration with #javascript framework such as React.js as it provides various commands such as plasmic init, plasmic sync --projects {project-id} and plasmic watch. Designers could view the live changes from the code base as they are editing the template in Plasmic.

#uiux #vue #css #html #javascript