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First Design in 5 Minutes

See the magic of product-aware designing. We’ll create a real interface for your product that uses your actual design system and understands your user context.

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Before We Start

Quick checklist:
  • ✅ Figr account created and project set up
  • ✅ Basic product context provided (even minimal is fine)
  • ✅ 5 minutes of uninterrupted time

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Choose Your Design Challenge

Pick a design that would be useful for your actual product:
  • New Feature Page
  • Improved User Flow
  • Mobile Adaptation
Perfect for: Adding something new to existing productExamples:
  • User settings page
  • Analytics dashboard section
  • Team management interface
  • Notification preferences
Why this works: Figr can reference your existing patterns

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Step-by-Step Design Creation

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Start with Context

Open your Figr project and click “New Design”Instead of starting with a blank canvas, describe your specific need:
Good prompt: "Create a user profile settings page for our 
B2B analytics platform where marketing managers can update 
their notification preferences and team access permissions"

Generic prompt: "Create a settings page"
Figr interface showing design prompt input with context-rich example
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Watch Figr Think

Figr analyzes your request against your product context:

Context Analysis

  • Reviews your uploaded product information
  • Checks your design system assets
  • Considers user research insights
  • Applies technical constraints

Pattern Recognition

  • Identifies relevant existing patterns
  • Finds similar interfaces in your product
  • Selects appropriate components
  • Determines optimal layout approach
This takes 15-30 seconds - much faster than traditional design tools
3

Review Initial Design

Figr presents your design with context-aware reasoning:
Generated design with explanatory sidebar showing reasoning
What to look for:
  • Does it use your actual colors/fonts?
  • Does the layout feel familiar to your product?
  • Are the components similar to existing ones?
  • Does the information hierarchy make sense?
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Make Targeted Improvements

Instead of starting over, refine specifically:
  • Content Adjustments
  • Visual Refinements
  • Functional Enhancements
“Move the save button to the top right to match our other admin pages”“Add a bulk edit option since enterprise users often manage 50+ team members”“Include the user’s current plan type like we show in the billing section”
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Export and Share

Get production-ready assets:

For Developers

  • Component-mapped React/Vue code
  • CSS with your actual design tokens
  • Responsive breakpoints included
  • Accessibility attributes added

For Designers

  • High-resolution PNG/SVG exports
  • Figma-compatible file export
  • Layer-organized design file
  • Annotation with specifications

For Stakeholders

  • Interactive prototype link
  • PDF with design rationale
  • Before/after comparisons
  • Implementation timeline estimate

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Real Examples

Here’s how different teams used this 5-minute process:
Context: B2B project management tool, mobile-first usersPrompt: “Create a project overview dashboard for team leads to track sprint progress and resource allocation”Result:
  • Mobile-optimized card layout (matching their mobile-first context)
  • Used their existing progress bar component
  • Included team photo avatars (learned from their collaborative focus)
  • Added quick action buttons (understood their fast-paced workflow)
Time to production: 2 days (including development)
Context: Fashion retailer, high cart abandonment on mobilePrompt: “Design a streamlined mobile checkout that reduces steps and builds trust for first-time buyers”Result:
  • Single-page layout (addressing abandonment concern)
  • Trust signals prominently displayed (understood first-time buyer anxiety)
  • Used their brand colors and product photography style
  • Included estimated delivery (learned from their customer research)
Time to production: 1 week (including A/B testing setup)
Context: Healthcare platform, HIPAA compliance requiredPrompt: “Create an admin interface for managing patient data access permissions with full audit trail”Result:
  • Table-based layout optimized for data density
  • Clear hierarchy for compliance requirements
  • Used their medical industry color coding
  • Built-in audit log display (understood compliance needs)
Time to production: 3 weeks (including security review)

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What Just Happened?

Traditional AI design process:
  1. Generate generic template
  2. Manually adapt to your product
  3. Adjust colors, fonts, components
  4. Rework layout for your users
  5. Add missing functionality
  6. Total time: 2-4 hours
Figr’s product-aware process:
  1. Generate context-specific design
  2. Make targeted refinements
  3. Export production-ready assets
  4. Total time: 5-15 minutes

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Common First-Time Surprises

It Knows My Product

Surprise: “It used our exact button style without me asking”Explanation: Figr learned your patterns from project setup and applies them automatically.

It Understands Context

Surprise: “It included features I didn’t explicitly request but totally need”Explanation: Figr infers requirements from your product type and user research.

It's Actually Usable

Surprise: “I could ship this without major changes”Explanation: Product-aware design means designs fit your real constraints from the start.

It Gets Better

Surprise: “The second design was even more accurate”Explanation: Figr learns from each interaction and builds deeper product understanding.

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Next Steps

1

Try Another Design

Build on your success:
  • Create a complementary interface
  • Explore a different user flow
  • Test Figr with a more complex challenge
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Add More Context

Enhance Figr’s understanding:
  • Upload additional design system assets
  • Share more product screens
  • Add user research findings
  • Document technical constraints
3

Involve Your Team

Collaborate on designs:
  • Share your creation with colleagues
  • Get feedback through Figr’s comment system
  • Create designs together in real-time
  • Build shared product knowledge

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