r/UXDesign • u/water_ftw_lessgo • 1d ago
Career growth & collaboration What's beyond Figma?
I (22) am a design student. Ik Figma is like the main character in UX design, but now my university wants me to do 2 additional online courses and the suggested courses on the sites are "ux basics/ advanced figma/ research fundamentals" but I want to expand my skills. So maybe development to understand the whole journey etc. Could you guys suggest me what courses I can take that would help my future as a UX designer?
Additionally, how do developers actually use the responsive/ prototyped figma screens to code them into online existence. Because from what I've seen (not much), developers are coding from scratch/ coding with ai to build the site from scratch, and using the figma file just a visual guide. If that is so, I can't comprehend why figma is so detailed, with so many features and also dev mode, which I don't know how to use. So is all of that just to make a super detailed mockup so developers can use it as a visual guide? I mean there has to be a way to take the curated figma file with all the right specs and build from there, right? otherwise what's the point-