FFIT Laum

About this plugin

Short introduction video: https://youtu.be/5Z3PfCLdEeA

We at FFIT like innovation and technological challenges. Together with our partners and friends, we make technology to empower human beings, allowing them to do more with less effort and leaving no one behind - especially people with disability.

This Figma plugin allows users to access FFIT’s Laum micro-frontend live component gallery and its primitive widget components. The live components are in the form of micro front-ends with high usability and accessibility. We believe that component reuse is the main way to produce high-quality and low-cost software. The discovery of which components should be used/reused must occur at the design time. This helps bridge the gap between end customers (who can actively participate in the process - through participatory design), interaction designers, and requirement engineers. Historically, this approach, widely proclaimed in universities, encounters practical difficulties due to the low interactivity of the components available in the prototyping tools and the low fidelity of the generated prototypes. They even have graphic fidelity but not interactional fidelity. The slightly higher granularity allows more meaningful components to be made available, such as login screens, software terms of use, chats, etc. Because it is based on design system, the rendering of the screens follows the design definitions indicated by the client. Finally, because they are micro front-ends, they are running code, which greatly brings together the actors involved in software production.

Accessibility is another aspect of quality that has gained relevance and deservedly so. All Laum components score top marks for accessibility based on the code check provided by Google Lighthouse. This ensures superior accessibility for people who are blind or visually impaired. For people who are deaf or hard of hearing, some components may contain videos (for sign language). Professional interpreters do all content interpretation. Artificial intelligence or avatars are not used in this process, and this is to ensure that the correct message will reach the person with hearing disability. FFIT customers who need videos with sign language content can order them free of charge via email to: [email protected]. The videos produced will be inserted into the client's design system and can be reused in prototypes and real applications.

High quality comes from a basic fact: if it is to be reused, it must be done well. In that regard, usability is strengthened through two checks with more than 200 items based on Nielsen's heuristics, one review after the prototyping phase and another after the development phase, before the micro-frontend enters the gallery.

The components from the Laum gallery can be used (reused) at prototyping time through our Figma Plugin. The plugin lets you access the library of Micro-frontends along with its set of primitive widgets. Laum plugin also generates HTML code ready for testing with your users. This code is entirely free. It is yours.

If you are interested in trying it out, contact us at: [email protected]