I found a free, open-source Figma alternative — and kept finding reasons not to go back
The article discusses the discovery of Quant-UX, a free and open-source alternative to Figma. Unlike other tools, Quant-UX integrates prototyping, user testing, and analytics in one platform. Despite some limitations in its feature set, it offers unique advantages for UX research and design.
- ▪Quant-UX is a free, open-source design tool that combines prototyping, user testing, and analytics.
- ▪It runs in the browser and offers an option for self-hosting on a personal server.
- ▪The tool includes a built-in AI assistant and allows for the import of existing Figma work, albeit with some limitations.
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| Original publisher | XDA Developers |
| Canonical URL | https://www.xda-developers.com/found-free-open-source-figma-alternative-quant-ux/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 18 May 2026 10:00:30 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-18T10:04:56.157Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-18T10:04:56.157Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | oWwSFFnab5Ii |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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