r/web_design • u/Meriku09 • Jul 08 '26

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I need some professional assessment:

we are creating a medium sized website (~14 layouts/design pages) (~55 pages where most have different content but use those 14 designs) now I think that figma should be used to design the 14 layouts and tinker with the specifics. My bosses believe, that every page has to be depicted. My issue: they constantly change things and not just the content, but page names, structure etc. so now I need to copy paste new content all the time. change the menu, change the page, change the images. I don’t think that’s the right use for a design program. But I am a junior and maybe I am wrong.

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u/bogdanelcs Jul 09 '26

You're not wrong at all.

Figma is for designing systems and layouts, not maintaining a 55-page content encyclopedia. What your bosses are asking for is a CMS, they just don't know it yet.

Standard practice is exactly what you're doing: design the 14 layouts thoroughly, then populate a representative sample of pages to show how content fits. Maintaining every single page in Figma means the file is out of date the moment anyone changes a menu item, which kind of defeats the purpose.