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    It’s not just developers. I’m in web marketing and I’m expected to do front end work including creating figmas and writing code. This is along with my regular duties as a marketer.

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        UX designers use figma to create mockups that front end developers use to make landing pages.

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        2 months ago

        Open source alternative is called penpot.app

        Worth checking out

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          There are so many plugins for figma that it is hard to switch to anything else.

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            Yeah, I’m full stack and use it for quick mockups and communication with our marketing person at work.

            But I never hoped on the figma train fully, so penpot works for me.

            What are some integrations that I might find useful?

            (I work predominantly with a Stencil.js website and react native app (traditional MERN stack for the app, the stencil website has tons of custom integrations))

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              I use a handful of tools. I think the one I use the most is build. Io. It basically scrapes a page and creates a figma design from a webpage. It’s useful if I’m planning on building a test or creating a new page that requires me to bring elements from other pages.

              It cuts my workload in 1/2.

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      I’m falling into that myself… It seems my boss is trying to prevent me from being Pidgeon-holed into being just a programmer.

      Aka, he is diversifying my portfolio to keep me on board as an employee.

      Guess it helps some full-stack’ers if they also have experience in graphics design and copywriting.

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          …and that, too. Tried to look at it as an existing Jack of All Trades. Get to learn new stuff!

          But yeah… I feel like I’m being taken advantage of, sometimes.