“If your primary objective is to design and prototype desktop, tablet, and mobile interfaces inside one organized design file, I would start with Figma.”
“Best for UI/UX design: Figma Design. Great for maintaining multiple screen layouts, reusable components, and interactive prototypes in one file.”
“Figma Design supports Auto Layout, constraints, and responsive component behavior.”
“You can create desktop, tablet, and mobile frames in one design file.”
“Figma Sites offers explicit breakpoints, including custom widths, with changes cascading from a primary breakpoint to secondary ones.”
“One important distinction: Figma Design and Figma Sites aren't the same workflow. If native breakpoint management is essential, evaluate Figma Sites separately.”
“Best for native breakpoint-based website design: Framer. Particularly useful when you want to work with desktop, tablet, and mobile breakpoints directly.”
“Lets you create and customize separate breakpoints.”
“Supports different layout grids at each breakpoint.”
“Particularly useful for interactive website prototypes and responsive web publishing.”
“Best open-source alternative: Penpot. Its Flexbox and Grid capabilities make it attractive for responsive design workflows.”
“Uses CSS-inspired Flexbox and Grid.”
“Supports flexible resizing, wrapping, and adaptable layouts.”
“Particularly interesting if you want your design approach to align closely with frontend development.”
“Best for building actual responsive websites: Webflow.”
“Offers multiple responsive breakpoints.”
“Supports cascading styles and breakpoint-specific overrides.”
“Allows you to inspect multiple breakpoint layouts side by side.”