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Quickly turn static mockups into a responsive prototype for a potential investor

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The community member is a new user trying to quickly turn their static mockups from Canva into a responsive mobile app prototype in Figma for a potential investor. They are unsure if they should use the AI feature or the Figma library directly. The comments suggest that the Untitled UI Kit for Figma may be a good resource, as it has many components for mobile app design. The community members also discuss a free Figma course by MDS and the challenges of finding tools/plugins to quickly build out basic mobile app features without extensive UI/UX or development skills. In the end, the community member decides to purchase the Untitled UI Kit to save time, as they have good developers working on the long-term development but need to "put lipstick on something" to get cash in the door quickly.

Hi guys! I'm new. I'm trying to quickly take my flat, static mockups from canva and turn them around in figma to a responsive prototype (mobile app, MVP) in a couple of days for a potential investor.
The AI feature isn't what I need based on a quick trial error, i'm assuming using the library directly in figma is the way to go? any feedback would be helpful

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is it a mobile app or web app?

mobile! Technically both but more limited ftr set on web.

ah okay, unfortunately we have pretty limited components for a mobile app - we have a few for a web app that was intended to be used with something like Wized.

I would check out the Untitled UI Kit - it has quite a bit to offer for mobile app design and with a few hours under your belt getting familiar with Figma, you'll be able to have a pretty solid prototype. Its worth every penny.

I would also check out this FREE course on Figma by MDS - legendary UI designer and creator of the Shift Nudge course - highly recommended.

Thanks! Do you have any recommended tools / plugins that i can drag and drop and then customize really basic templates like registration, customizable onboarding (dropdowns), etc?
I am using relume for my websites but this mobile app is the asap prioritiy

Is that the untitled UI one?

yeah this is tough....I would have to think there is something out there for sure, I am just not 100%. You are asking the million dollar question - something that anyone can pick up and run with and design/build out a mobile app with out a lot of UI/UX or development skills....that's a really really tall order but you can definitely get things bootstrapped with a few key resources. Untitled UI may not be exactly what you need in that case.

im caving and getting the untitle ui one. watched a couple vids and i think it'll save me hours. I have the good developers but they are doing the long haul work, i have to put lipstick on something to get cash in the door LOL

Yeah for sure. Untitled UI is amazing!

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