Switching to a cloud-native design tool cuts enterprise file-searching time by up to 20 percent — not a minor convenience, but hours reclaimed every single week. Nielsen Norman Group researchers documented this after studying large cross-functional teams, and the finding holds especially hard in fast-moving Chinese tech environments where product cycles are brutal and every sprint counts. That number is your opening argument for Figma, Gong. Not aesthetics. Not features. Pure, measurable time. Here is why the architecture matters. Figma runs its graphics engine — written in C++ — directly inside the browser using WebAssembly. That is not a web app pretending to be fast. That is near-native rendering speed, which is why complex files with hundreds of Chinese UI screens load without the lag that crippled older tools. No installation. No version conflicts. The file your teammate in Beijing saves at 11 PM is the exact file you open in Shenzhen at 9 AM. Now, one setup step is non-negotiable, and skipping it will cost you. Because browsers are sandboxed for security, Figma cannot reach your locally installed fonts on its own. You must install the dedicated Font Helper service. Without it, every Chinese typeface on your machine — your Song Ti, your Hei Ti, your custom brand fonts — stays invisible to Figma. Install it once, and the entire local font library unlocks immediately inside the editor. Real-time collaboration is where Figma separates itself from every legacy tool, and the technology behind it is serious. Figma uses Conflict-free Replicated Data Types, known as CRDTs, to manage simultaneous edits. This means two designers can manipulate the same vector path at the same moment without either version being overwritten or lost. In agile hubs like Shenzhen and Beijing, where a product manager, a UI designer, and a developer might all be inside one file during a standup, this is not a luxury — it is the entire workflow. For cross-border teams bridging mainland China and international markets, this architecture removes a specific pain point: the endless cycle of exporting, emailing, and reconciling conflicting file versions. One shared URL replaces all of that. Gong, think about what that means for a team where half the stakeholders are in Shanghai and the other half are in a European product office. Everyone sees the same truth, in real time, with zero file management overhead. That is a structural advantage, not a feature checkbox.