Figma to Webflow: How to Transfer Designs to Live Website and Save Time

So, you’re planning to launch a new project and need a website. You’ve got Figma, where you will create your interface designs

What is Figma?

Figma is a powerful design tool that helps you to create anything: websites, applications, logos, and much more.

By learning to use Figma, you'll take your first steps into User Interface Design and User Experience Design. These skills are essential for building a great portfolio for yourself.

Why Webflow?

Though the Webflow interface may seem a bit scary at first, it’s a great choice of a website platform and builder if you’re looking for no-code solutions. With all its design functions, Webflow is considered one of the best on the market. Plus, the high levels of responsiveness and accessibility make this builder a go-to option when you want a complex professional website.

And here we come to a problem: complex websites require a complex builder, which Webflow is. The complexity of Webflow is its key advantage. Of course, Webflow creators didn’t plan to make your life harder. They did the exact opposite because the diverse toolkit allows you to build a full-fledged website without cutting features off your initial plans. But yes, it does come at the cost of ease of use, especially if you’re not familiar with web development.

Figma + Webflow

Both Figma and Webflow are extremely popular in the UX/UI design community. Many professional web designers use both because they know: if it’s in a Figma file, it can be in a Webflow project. And that’s a huge pro of using them together.

We’ve been using both tools for a while now, and we can recommend this cute tool couple as secure, reliable, and nearly omnipotent. But we must admit: though both Figma and Webflow are no-code, transferring the designs from Figma to Webflow is not too beginner-friendly.

Let’s see what you can do to implement your Figma designs on Webflow.

Figma to Webflow: 3 + 1/2 Ways to Transfer Designs

1. I can do it!

We respect such an attitude! If you designed your website in Figma on your own, you might have some advantages over the novices in web design. However, the interface will still be completely new for you. The builder is not drag-and-drop, which means you need to understand the structure of websites deeper—almost at the coding level.

So, this will be your approximate study plan:

1. HTML

2. CSS

3. The Principles of web design

4. Webflow Academy courses

Option 1: Bottom line

This idea is only great if you plan to make a career out of it. Webflow design & development will be helpful for more websites in the future. But, as you see, it won’t be a “boom, done!” situation.

The 1/2 of an option

You can consider another platform, easier to use. Understandable! However, other builders won’t be considerably beginner-friendlier.

Another platform we love is WordPress.

2. Use automated transfer/conversion solutions

Automation—now we’re talking! Isn’t that a perfect hack to save time and get things done?

Technically, that’s exactly what automated Figma-to-Webflow transfer tools are supposed to do. But sadly, things are not as sweet as we would like to believe.

“All-inclusive” transition tools

Searching online for how to transfer designs to Webflow, you can come across the “do-it-all” tools. As advertised, you upload your file and get the ready-to-launch website. But at a closer look, you see that the uploading puts you in the waiting line for beta testing or signs you up for a newsletter (meaning that they’ll notify you when they launch).

Don’t get me wrong: I am not trying to call them out for lying. You just need to understand that:

• Beta-testing = No guaranteed results

• Waiting lists = Wasting the time you could’ve spent on winning your market niche

Bit-by-bit solutions

These usually come in the form of some software to install or plugins for Figma or Webflow (or both). If you want to try such tools, you have to be extremely careful: every Download & Install is a huge risk of getting malware on your PC.

Trying to save time, you put the quality factor at serious risk.

Depending on what you find, these options will offer you a higher or lower level of automation. As of now, there is a direct correlation: the more such tools convert in one go, the lower the quality of the outcome. You can choose the step-by-step strategy and try to transfer your designs from Figma to Webflow element by element. But by doing so, you will likely end up doing even more work than with Option 1.

Option 2: Bottom line

As of now, automated Figma-to-Webflow solutions sum up to playing Russian Roulette with high chances of permanently damaging your sensitive data or hardware and having no website either.

We do not recommend installing the software of debatable quality and security!

Best-case scenario, you will go bit by bit, doing so much extra work that the whole thing becomes inefficient. Your work will loop back on itself, and you’re building the website as if completely anew. Time lost.

3. Figma2WF

And here we come to the tried-and-true solution.

If you want pixel-perfect results without wasting months on development (whether self-made or outsourced), this would be your top option. Figma2WF (Figma to Webflow) is a balance between automated conversion and manual control performed by professionals.

This service outperforms all other ways of converting designs from Figma to Webflow:

• Much quicker: where development would take months, it will take a few days

• Pixel-perfect: every bit of your design will appear exactly where you planned

• No coding: you won’t touch a line of code—not even during future maintenance

• Professional support: you get a comprehensive guide for managing your site

What Figma2WF does

In short: it does all the work for you. You just hand everything over to the team of professional developers and get the results neat, faster than any other solution.

1. You share the link to your Figma file

— That’s it on your part: you can return to other tasks you have. Your soon-to-be website is in good hands.

1. Conversion algorithms and web developers work together

Knowing both tools inside out, we’ve worked out the most efficient methods of the Figma-to-Webflow conversion.

1. You get the website + the admin guide

To make sure you know the best tricks and techniques, we send you instructions on how to perform the edits if needed.

And that’s it: no need to learn any new tools, no time wasted, and your website is just as gorgeous as you planned. Professional and pixel-perfect.

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Thanks for reading. Hope you find it beneficial.✌️🤗

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