UI design in Affinity Designer

[ceocan]

I'm looking into UI design and see that everyone is talking about designing UI's in Figma and Adobe XD. Since I have the V2 Affinity Suite I'm wondering if Affinity Designer can replace these programs or would that be a pain in the ass?

[DGee]

15 minutes ago, ceocan said:

I'm looking into UI design and see that everyone is talking about designing UI's in Figma and Adobe XD. Since I have the V2 Affinity Suite I'm wondering if Affinity Designer can replace these programs or would that be a pain in the ass?

No, they cannot replace those apps. It's a different concept, they complement each other though.

[ceocan]

That's a bummer. What's the main difference? Is there some sort of interactivity in the programs?

[v_kyr]

Of course you can use ADe also for UI/UX design etc.

25 minutes ago, ceocan said:

What's the main difference?

Figma is a webbased app and build for collaboration in mind here, can import Sketch files etc. Offers interactive event based prototypes ... and so on.

See also some comparisons ...

• Figma vs Affinity Designer Comparison (getapp)
• ADe vs Figma (Slant)
• ADe vs Figma (Stackshare)
• Can I use Affinity Designer for my UI/UX needs?
• Best alternatives to Figma for UI designing and prototyping
• ... and so on, do a Google search ...

 

40 minutes ago, ceocan said:

Is there some sort of interactivity in the programs?

Interactivity in what sense?

[ceocan]

1 hour ago, v_kyr said:

Interactivity in what sense?

In the sense that when you make an interface and you click a button it will show what what happens when you click it. For example a play button changes shape or a gallery image changes. It could be done by linking different artboards with each other depending on where you click or a animation function

[v_kyr]

5 minutes ago, ceocan said:

In the sense that when you make an interface and you click a button it will show what what happens when you click it.

No, ADe doesn't offer that, it's more meant for creating the static parts of UI/UX mockups etc. and doesn't deal with the dynamics. - In contrast to that Figma offers to build interactive prototype designs.