Guides · November 29, 2022
Best Figma UI Kit for Grocery & Food Delivery Apps
The best Figma UI kit for grocery and food delivery apps needs to handle a large, fast-moving catalog, quick reordering, and live delivery status without feeling cluttered. Our Groxery UI kit — part of our 5-in-1 e-commerce Figma bundle — is built around exactly those screens.
By Polo Themes
The best Figma UI kit for a grocery or food delivery app is one designed around a large SKU catalog, fast repeat-purchase flows, and live order tracking — not a generic e-commerce kit with a produce photo dropped in. Our Groxery UI kit, included in our 5-in-1 e-commerce Figma bundle, is purpose-built for this category: dense category navigation, quick-add and reorder patterns, substitution handling, and delivery-tracking screens are all part of the base kit rather than something you have to design from scratch.
Grocery and food delivery design is a different problem from most e-commerce categories. A fashion or electronics shopper might browse a handful of products before deciding. A grocery shopper is often filling a cart with forty or fifty items across a dozen categories, repeating a lot of that list from last week, and expecting the whole thing to feel fast rather than considered. If your UI kit was designed around big hero images and a slow, deliberate browsing flow, it will fight the actual behavior of a grocery app user at nearly every screen. This guide covers what a grocery-ready Figma kit actually needs, then walks through how Groxery is built to answer that brief.
Why Grocery & Delivery Apps Need a Different Kind of UI Kit
Before comparing kits, it's worth being specific about what makes this category different. Three things drive almost every design decision: catalog size, repeat-purchase behavior, and the need to communicate delivery state clearly after checkout.
A catalog that's wide, not just deep
A mid-size grocery app can easily list thousands of SKUs across produce, dairy, pantry, frozen, household, and more. That means category navigation has to do real work — nested categories, aisle-style groupings, and filters for things like dietary tags or brand — without turning into an overwhelming wall of options. A UI kit built for a boutique catalog of a few dozen products won't have screens for this kind of depth, and retrofitting a deep category tree onto a shallow navigation pattern usually shows.
Reordering and lists matter more than browsing
Grocery shopping is repetitive by nature — most orders overlap heavily with the last one. A grocery-appropriate kit needs strong patterns for "buy again," saved lists, and quick re-add from order history, plus a cart and quick-add experience that lets a shopper move fast without opening a full product page for every single item. Search also carries more weight here than in most categories, since shoppers frequently know exactly what they want and just need to find it and add it in one or two taps.
Substitutions and out-of-stock handling
Grocery is one of the few categories where a merchant routinely can't fulfill the exact cart as ordered — an item sells out between order and picking. A well-designed kit accounts for this with clear substitution preferences, out-of-stock states in the cart, and confirmation screens that let a shopper approve or decline swaps. Skipping this in the design leaves a real operational gap that engineering usually has to patch late, without much design guidance.
Delivery and order tracking as first-class screens
Unlike a lot of e-commerce, grocery and food delivery orders are watched closely after checkout — shoppers want to know if the order is being picked, packed, out for delivery, or delayed. A kit built for this category needs real tracking screens, delivery-slot selection, and driver or courier status states designed with the same care as the product pages, rather than treating post-purchase as an afterthought.
Speed and density without feeling cramped
Because shoppers move through many items quickly, grocery UI leans denser than most categories — smaller product cards, compact quantity steppers, and tighter grid spacing. Getting this right without the screen feeling cluttered is a real design skill, and it's one area where a generic kit built around large lifestyle imagery and roomy spacing will need substantial rework before it fits a grocery catalog.
What to Check When Comparing Grocery Figma Kits
When you're evaluating a specific kit — ours or anyone else's — it helps to check for concrete screens rather than judging from the cover image alone.
- Category depth: does the kit include nested category and aisle-style navigation, or just a flat product grid?
- Quick-add patterns: can a shopper add an item to cart directly from a list or grid, without opening the full product page every time?
- Reorder and saved-list screens: is there a dedicated "buy again" or order-history-based reorder flow, not just a generic order history list?
- Substitution and out-of-stock states: does the cart and checkout flow have designed states for items that might not be available at fulfillment?
- Delivery-slot and tracking screens: are there real screens for choosing a delivery window and tracking an order after checkout, with distinct status states?
- Search prominence: is search treated as a primary navigation tool with quick filters, given how often grocery shoppers search by name rather than browse?
- Component density options: does the kit offer compact list/grid variants suited to large item counts, alongside the standard card layouts?
Our Recommendation: The Groxery UI Kit
We built Groxery around exactly this checklist, because it started from the same observation: most e-commerce UI kits are designed around considered, occasional purchases, and grocery is the opposite of that. The navigation includes nested categories and aisle-style groupings so a large catalog stays browsable, with compact card and list variants tuned for the density grocery apps actually need. Quick-add controls sit directly on product cards and search results, so a shopper building a large cart isn't forced into a full product page for every item.
Reordering is treated as a core flow rather than an extra screen — saved lists and buy-again patterns are built from order history, matching how most real grocery demand actually works. The cart and checkout flow includes substitution preference and out-of-stock handling, so the design doesn't leave a gap for the (very common) case of an item not being available at pick time. Delivery is covered end to end: slot selection at checkout, then order-tracking screens with clear status states from placed through delivered, designed with the same attention as the product and cart screens rather than as an afterthought.
Groxery ships as part of our 5-in-1 e-commerce Figma bundle, alongside UI kits for other categories including Optics (eyewear), Medical (healthcare), Wosa (fashion), and Electronix (electronics). If you're designing primarily grocery or food delivery, Groxery on its own covers the category thoroughly; the bundle is worth considering if you also run, or plan to run, a store in one of the other verticals, since the underlying component library and design tokens are shared across all five kits — which keeps a multi-brand design system consistent instead of stitching together unrelated kits.
To be fair to other approaches: a strong general-purpose e-commerce kit, adapted by an experienced product designer, can absolutely be turned into a workable grocery app. If you already have in-house design capacity and time to spend on that adaptation, that's a reasonable path. Groxery exists for the more common case — a team that wants the grocery-specific decisions (density, reordering, substitutions, delivery tracking) already made well, so design time goes into branding and merchandising rather than re-solving problems that are the same for every grocery app.
Design Guidance Beyond the Kit Choice
A UI kit sets the structure, but a few product decisions matter just as much for grocery and delivery apps specifically. Keep quantity and unit information (per item, per weight, per pack) visually consistent across every card and list, since inconsistent units are a common source of shopper confusion in this category. Make delivery-slot and fee information visible early — ideally before checkout — rather than surfacing it as a surprise at the final step, since unexpected delivery costs are one of the most common reasons carts get abandoned in grocery specifically. And design your empty and low-stock states deliberately; an app that handles substitutions and out-of-stock items gracefully builds far more trust over repeat orders than one that only shows its best-case path.
If you're still comparing kits, it's worth browsing our Figma UI kits catalog broadly rather than settling on the first grocery-labeled option you find — the right fit depends on your catalog size, how central reordering is to your business, and whether you're likely to need a second vertical's design system down the line.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need a grocery-specific Figma kit, or will a general e-commerce kit work?
A general e-commerce kit can be adapted with enough design time, but grocery's specific needs — dense navigation, reordering, substitutions, delivery tracking — are easy to underestimate until you're deep into the build. A kit designed around those needs from the start will save significant rework.
Does Groxery include screens for delivery tracking and order status?
Yes. Groxery includes delivery-slot selection at checkout and order-tracking screens with distinct status states, designed as core screens rather than an afterthought.
Should I buy the Groxery kit alone or the 5-in-1 bundle?
If grocery or food delivery is your only vertical, the standalone Groxery kit covers it fully. Choose the 5-in-1 bundle if you also operate, or plan to operate, a store in another category like fashion, electronics, or healthcare, since the bundle's kits share a consistent underlying component library.
Is Groxery suitable for a food delivery app, or only grocery?
The same underlying needs — large catalog navigation, quick reordering, live order tracking — apply to restaurant and food delivery apps as well as grocery, which is why Groxery's screens are built to cover both rather than assuming grocery-only use.