How to Convert Figma to Webflow Step by Step?

Figma has gone from a rather standard graphics editing tool to a revolutionary design application that has taken the design industry by storm. Many developers and designers have been blown away by how well it works and the significant number of impressive features it offers. Figma has undeniably become one of the best user interface design and graphics editing apps designers use nowadays to create all sorts of graphic design works. Whether it is for developing mobile application interfaces, making attractive social media posts, wireframing websites, design prototyping, or any other graphics editing projects, Figma will never fail you.

Webflow, on the other hand, is a visual web design tool that designers use to create professional websites, digital portfolios, custom eCommerce stores, and blogs. Webflow is not just a traditional website builder but also a hosting platform and content management system. With Webflow, designers can build custom web pages from scratch more quickly and flexibly without risking quality.

If you have designed a website or a user interface(UI) and want to bring it to life on the Webflow platform, you can convert your Figma design to Webflow to create a fully functional website. The process of converting Figma to Webflow involves exporting the necessary assets from Figma and importing it into Webflow. 

Figma and Webflow have become popular choices for designing and developing websites. Webflow developers use Figma to make the design and add animations/interactions before building the website in Webflow.  In today’s blog post, we will outline a detailed step-by-step guide or tutorial on seamlessly exporting Figma to Webflow i.e., giving life to your Figma design and turning it into a fully functional, professional-looking live website with Webflow. So, Stay tuned! 

Get Started: Before Converting Figma to Webflow

You will need two essential things before converting your Figma design to Webflow. To get started, you must first have these two:

• An account in Webflow where you will import your Figma asset.
• Access to the Figma design asset files you wish to move to Webflow.

Now that you already have these two essential things, let’s keep the ball rolling and proceed with the step-by-step guide on how to convert Figma to Webflow.

Step-By-Step Guide to Convert Figma to Webflow

If you have a Figma design that you need or want to build or convert in Webflow but converting is something new to you, this step-by-step guide will significantly help make things easier for you.

Without further ado, let’s start this journey of converting Figma to Webflow. 

Step 1: Creating a New Webflow Project

Building a Webflow website starts with creating a new project. To do it, simply click the blue “+ New Project” button on the upper right side of your Webflow dashboard. Build the website from scratch.

✰PRO-TIP: Create a separate directory or folder for this specific project to keep things organized in one place. You can also choose to make a main folder and a subfolder for each project you work on. You will find this beneficial later, especially if you plan to build another website in Webflow soon. Also, this structure categorization follows how Figma organizes projects. This is also the structure you will use when exporting design assets from Figma.

However, if your Figma project already has a defined style guide, you may opt not to create folders and subfolders. Today, let us assume you don’t have any style guide illustrated for your Figma project.

Step 2: Defining Your Style Guide / Global Styles

After starting a new site, it is time to define your style guide or global styles. These are the default elements like headings, spacing, link appearances, colors, font styles, and paragraph styles that your website needs. Defining a global style will eliminate the need for you to edit individual pages or blocks repeatedly. It will also ensure that style consistency is maintained across all pages of your website.

To create a global style, follow these steps:

• Copy or clone the base style guide or HTML tags template that Webflow provides.
• Then, paste the copied template into the newly created website on a separate page under the main project folder.
• Define the global style by picking the element you want to define on the canvas.
• Then, hover the mouse towards the class selector field. You can see this field in your screen’s top right corner.
• You will know if the element can be globally defined if the option displays the word “All” in the tag name and if it turns purple/pinkish (as shown in the image below).

✰PRO-TIP: The good thing about Webflow is that it allows you to run two sessions simultaneously. To make copying and pasting the tags template easier and quicker, we suggest you open each project in another tab. You may try to skip this step. However, we strongly recommend you define your global style at this moment, especially the font style, so you can save much time and simplify the process later on.

Step 3: Exporting Your Figma Design Assets to Webflow

The next step is to export the assets from Figma. Here’s how you will do it:

• Mark all the icons, images, and other assets you want to export from the Figma file. However, if you have already marked the assets or frames for export while still working on the design, simply follow the next step without selecting/marking any frame.
• Hit the shortcut command “Ctrl+Shift+E” (for Windows) or “Command+Shift+E” (for Mac). This will open and display the Export dialog.
• Click the “Export” button again.
• Figma will then ask you where you want to save the design assets.
• Once exporting is complete, find and drag the correct file folder into Webflow. Another way to add the file is by clicking the “Upload” button in Webflow’s “assets” panel.

Please note: New subfolders will be created automatically in Webflow if the Figma layers contain any forward slashes.

✰PRO-TIP: Consider compressing the images (both JPGs or PNGs) to make them less bulky and heavy.

Step 4: Div-framing your Webflow Website

The next step is div-frame your Webflow website. Here’s how you do it:

• Check all larger frames or groups in your Figma file.
• Replicate such frames/groups with the divs in Webflow.
• Assign a unique name for each div once they are already on the canvas.

And that’s it. You may decide to go without this step, but we suggest you do it anyway. This will help make things well-organized in the future, especially if you plan to add anchor links to your Webflow website.

Step 5: Styling Your Webflow Content

The website you design in Figma and build in Webflow will never be the same. You will find differences here and there. Moreover, the behavior of elements in design tools may be different in code and on the web. So, you can expect to make some changes to some parts when converting your Figma design to Webflow. You may need to style your classes and tweak your layout.

Step 6: Defining Interactions

Webflow is known as one of the best design tools available on the market that is used for designing and implementing interactions. You don’t need to define interactions using other prototyping and animation tools since you can do this in Webflow. You can choose to create complex interactions that include multiple classes or elements or perhaps define one on a per-class basis.

Interaction and animation are pretty broad topics to discuss, so we decided to create a separate blog for this in the future.

Step 7: Going Mobile

The way sites behave on the desktop can be different than on mobile. Unfortunately, Webflow is more on a desktop-first approach than mobile-first. This means that Webflow prioritizes design for desktop displays rather than mobile displays. So, we suggest you refrain from designing the mobile breakpoints unless you have already gone to the desktop.

Step 8: Publish, Test, and make Necessary Changes

At this point, your Webflow site is already almost 100% complete, and its appearance inside the Webflow Designer is closely similar to how it will look when it goes live.
If you think you are already satisfied with your newly built website’s current state, it is about time to finally publish it and bring your design to life.

However, you still need to test it in different environments to ensure everything is working perfectly. You may test your website on different browsers, devices, and mobile operating systems. You can then make necessary changes or fix the errors you find during the test.

Final Words: After Converting Figma to Webflow

So, that’s the step-by-step guide to converting Figma to Webflow. The process may seem simple but translating Figma to Webflow can be tricky and should be done correctly.

If you want to use both of these fantastic tools but do not have the technical know-how to implement the steps outlined in this article, take a peep at APPWRK IT Solutions.

Hire Webflow Developers from APPWRK as they are experts in doing this and with their experience gained from converting 200+ Figma designs to highly responsive, pixel-perfect, and bug-free Webflow websites, they will make sure that Your Figma to Webflow Conversion is done perfectly without a single piece of error.

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