"By turning early directions into interactive, high-fidelity prototypes, you can more easily explore multiple concepts and take ideas further. Instead of spending time writing documentation that may not capture the nuances of a product, prototypes enable you to show, rather than tell-creating working examples that illustrate intent and spark discussion. Here's how PM teams at Figma are creating prototypes using Figma Make in every stage of their workflows, and why prototypes have started to replace Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) altogether."
"When there are too many unknowns or ill-defined constraints, you can use Figma Make to drive more clarity. "I use Figma Make when I don't feel like I understand a problem space very well," says Figma Product Manager Tara Nadella. When her team began exploring potential features in Check designs -a design system linter that surfaces raw values and recommends the right variables-her engineering counterpart shared a feature prototype and tech spec, excited to bring their early thinking to life."
Product managers are shifting from sharing static documents to prompting and prototyping with teams using interactive, high-fidelity prototypes. Prototypes allow exploration of multiple concepts, surface real behavior, and communicate intent more clearly than documentation. Teams can react to working examples to accelerate alignment and reduce ambiguity. Figma Make can clarify ill-defined problem spaces by enabling rapid feature experiments. In one scenario, an engineering prototype and tech spec met early design ideas, but the PM still lacked alignment and used prototyping to form an opinion. Prototyping practices have begun to replace Product Requirements Documents for many workflows.
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