Yes, a Figma design can become a Framer website, but not by pasting it in. Framer will import a Figma frame, and the result is a picture of your design rather than a website: layers arrive absolutely positioned, auto-layout becomes approximate, and nothing is responsive. Converting Figma to Framer properly means rebuilding it as real layout with real components, which is the job whether you paste it in first or not.
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If the design is not finished yet, Framer development covers building in Framer from the start, which is usually cheaper than designing twice. If the site is already live and the problem is leads not reaching your CRM, see connecting Framer forms to your CRM.
Pasting gives you the visual and none of the structure. Type, colour, spacing and images land close enough that it looks like it worked. What does not come across is layout: elements arrive positioned rather than laid out, so nothing reflows; auto-layout translates loosely and breaks at sizes you did not test; text styles arrive as one-off values rather than as a type scale. The import is a starting point, not a conversion.
How rigorously the Figma file uses auto-layout decides the price more than the number of frames. A file built on auto-layout, with proper constraints and consistent spacing, converts fast because the intent is already expressed in a way Framer can mirror. A file where things were nudged into place looks identical on the artboard and has to be rebuilt from scratch, because there is nothing to translate: the layout only exists in the designer's head. The first thing we do on any quote is open the file and check which one it is.
Not automatically, because the two tools mean different things by the word. A Figma component is a design instance with variants. A Framer component is a live element with properties, states and behaviour. Mapping one to the other is a decision per component: some become Framer components, some become CMS-driven, and some were only ever a design convenience and should not survive the move at all. Doing this deliberately is what makes the finished site editable.
Someone has to decide, and on our builds that someone is us, in writing, before we build. Most Figma files carry a desktop frame and a mobile frame. The website has to work at every width in between, and at the sizes real Australian traffic arrives on: a lot of it a mid-size Android in portrait. We decide what stacks, what scales, what gets dropped and where the type scale steps down. If those decisions are not made by someone they get made by default, and the default is usually cramped.
Only the ones worth their cost in page weight, which is rarely all of them. Figma prototypes describe intent: this opens, this slides, this reveals on scroll. Some of that was a way of explaining an idea in a design review rather than something a visitor should meet on every page load, and the rest needs a reduced-motion fallback. We go through the prototype with you rather than reproducing all of it and billing for the difference.
The Figma file with view or edit access, and ideally the final copy rather than lorem ipsum. Beyond that: licences for any paid fonts, images at full resolution rather than the compressed versions pasted into Figma, a list of the content that repeats (team members, case studies, posts) so it can go into CMS collections, and access to the domain's DNS for launch day. Missing pieces are normal: we list what is missing with the quote so nothing stalls halfway through the build.
We check every breakpoint against the design before handing over, along with keyboard navigation and focus order, colour contrast on the combinations that actually got used, image weight and formats, and Core Web Vitals on a throttled connection. The CMS is filled with real content rather than the placeholder that made the design look good. Designs tend to hold up until someone enters a product name that is four words longer than the mockup.
A single page from a clean, auto-layout Figma file is fixed-quoted from $300 AUD. A full marketing site typically lands between $2,500 and $5,500 AUD, and large builds with extensive CMS work run to $12,000 AUD. We look at the file before quoting, so the number reflects how the design was actually built rather than how many frames it has.
We can paste it in, and we usually do as a reference layer. But the imported result is not a working responsive site: it is absolutely positioned artwork. Handing that over would look finished and break the first time someone opened it on a phone, so the rebuild is the job either way.
It helps enormously. Auto-layout throughout, real components rather than copies, a defined type scale and colour styles, and named layers. A file built that way converts faster and costs less. If yours is not, that is common and fine: it just means more of the quote is rebuild rather than translation, and we would rather say that up front.
At the widths you designed, yes. In between, it will look like the design would have looked if it had been designed at that width, which involves judgement calls, and we walk you through the ones that matter rather than making them silently. Where something genuinely cannot work as drawn, we will say so before building it.
It depends more on the state of the file than on its size. A clean single page converts in days; a multi-page site with CMS collections takes weeks, and a file without auto-layout adds rebuild time on top. You get a dated timeline alongside the fixed quote, after we have opened the file.
Yes. Most Figma files arrive covering the pages that were exciting to design and missing the ones that were not: the 404, the empty states, the long-form legal page, the blog post template. We can design those to match rather than improvising them during the build.
Small changes during a build are normal and we absorb them. A change of direction is a change of scope and we requote that part rather than quietly running over. Either way you hear about it when it happens, not at the invoice.
Yes. If the site needs things Framer is not built for (a store, memberships, forms writing to your own systems) the same Figma file can become a WordPress site instead. We will say which platform suits the design and the business before quoting either.
Turn your Figma design into a real Framer website, rebuilt with proper layout, components and breakpoints. Fixed quote after we see the file.
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