User Interface Design on iPad Pro With Figma + Figurative

An interview with Figurative creator Matías Martínez

With the debut of the Apple Pencil with the iPad Pro a few years back, the world’s most popular tablet made design fabulously portable. The ability to sketch and create on iPad became as intuitive as well, drawing on paper.

The Apple Pencil 2 made the experience even better, thanks to wireless charging, custom gestures and incredibly low latency. Apps such as Procreate, Affinity Designer and Vectornator have enabled designers worldwide to create amazing digital artwork.

Yet despite this progress, one aspect of vector-based design seems to have missed out on this revolution: user interface design.

While many of the apps above are capable of user interface design, the reality is most UX and UI designers work on a laptop or desktop. The top interface design software on the market only works on Mac (Sketch) or desktop (Adobe XD), or don’t officially support iPad (Figma).

Then Came Figurative…

Being web-based, Figma has always been in a unique position to deliver an interface design workflow on iPad. Unofficially, Figma had worked to some extent—but even today, Figma faces limitations in Safari or Chrome for iPad, e.g. custom font support and zero Apple…