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Figma 1.0 – Collaborative interface design tool
- sdegutis 10y agoRealtime collaborative app for designers? Neat! Also glad to see that it does more than just mobile designs. I just feel bad for the designers who are going to try to use this with their non-designer customers. Off topic, I wish I could have scrolled through the page without it causing my anxiety to flare up with the constant scroll-stuttering. This isn't a slow computer either, 24GB RAM and 3.2 GHz quad core Mac Pro.
- ryanSrich 10y agoChrome? I'm getting the same stuttering. Works flawlessly in Safari though.
- azinman2 10y agoWas fluid on my iPad with safari
- rasmusfabbe 10y agoIs this on the "landing page" (figma.com/) or somewhere in the tool itself? We're really dedicated to performance and take this seriously.
- sdegutis 10y agoThe landing page, in Chrome.
- rasmusfabbe 10y agoThanks. We'll look into it.
- josephpmay 10y agoFigma is by far the best vector tool I've used in my life. What takes me an hour in Illustrator I can do in 20 minutes with Figma. (I'm sure if you'be been using Illustrator for 20 years and have all the keyboard shortcuts memorized you'd disagree, but I'm coming from the perspective of someone who uses this type of tool once every couple of weeks.)
- Zyst 10y agoNaming is pretty poor, a super popular Japanese figure company has that name, so SEO is spotty. The main site is at 4th ranked in search from what I see, but every single other result in Google is related to the toy company.
- knowtheory 10y agoYeah the internet is a crowded place. "figma design" works as a search query for it. Also "figma" is pretty easy to figure out how to spell and say according to the phonological rules of English, so that's all helpful.
- bijection 10y agoWhat search engine are you using? I see figma at #1 at https://www.google.com/search?q=figma https://www.google.com/search?q=figma .
- disposablename 10y agoGoogle shows me http://www.figma.jp/en/figma/ http://www.figma.jp/en/figma/
- rasmusfabbe 10y agoTry using an "incognito" browser window (without any state about your previous browsing history.) Google ranks results based on your search history etc.
- eknight15 10y ago"Figma is free through the end of 2016." Wonder if they will follow the same model as Sketch.
- JonathonW 10y agoWould be nice to know what their pricing plans are before I commit data to their product.
- ryanSrich 10y agoI have to hand it to Figma. They've managed to make this about as usable as possible. The issue though is that it's still in the browser, and aliasing is very difficult[1]. I eagerly await a macOS release. 1. http://i.imgur.com/C37gGox.png http://i.imgur.com/C37gGox.png
- citruspi 10y agohttps://www.figma.com/downloads https://www.figma.com/downloads
- ryanSrich 10y agoSo good.
- abalone 10y agoExplain? This sounds like a native wrapper on a browser. Does that solve the aliasing problem? How about performance and battery life? I recall a blog post from the Figma team bragging about how they closed the gap to only 2X slower than a native app. [1] [1] https://medium.com/figma-design/building-a-professional-design-tool-on-the-web-6332ed4f1fcc#.6sh7f5slz https://medium.com/figma-design/building-a-professional-desi...
- abalone 10y agoSo you have to store your data in their cloud? How secure is their cloud? I'm not sure that model works for some companies. Visual prototypes can be really sensitive data, and each new proprietary cloud inevitably has bugs and security holes that need to be discovered and patched. If you could plug in something vetted and thoroughly pen-tested like Dropbox that might work better. But a brand new cloud is almost guaranteed to have security holes, and I wonder how laser focused a design tool company can be on staying ahead of threats.
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- nnain 10y agoBuilt using React, Redux!
- nnain 10y agoOf course there's a lot more tech used in building it - https://medium.com/figma-design/building-a-professional-design-tool-on-the-web-6332ed4f1fcc https://medium.com/figma-design/building-a-professional-desi...
- jrcii 10y agoGreat work! This looks very sophisticated and polished. I hesitate to detract at all from their good work so I don't know why I'm even saying this, maybe just looking for commiseration, but in my career I've found that collaborating on any kind of design work is a guaranteed way to ruin it.
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- vladdanilov 10y agoI want to like Figma but they've chosen a rather limiting way for a professional design tool, cloud-first and based on web technologies. Surely, Figma beats Sketch for modern interface design by using retained mode rendering (although sacrificed some quality [1]) and being superior at science and engineering. But it's such an inefficient use of resources that it will die quickly on complex projects or illustrations. Raster graphics and any processing on CPU is also a huge pain [2]. Yet it's in their power to make a proper offline app [3]. I hope they'll eventually choose this route. I also hope they won't be as greedy as Adobe. [1] http://i.imgur.com/xWLoTWg.png http://i.imgur.com/xWLoTWg.png [2] https://twitter.com/evanwallace/status/673978171180474370 https://twitter.com/evanwallace/status/673978171180474370 [3] https://twitter.com/evanwallace/status/673959396104273921 https://twitter.com/evanwallace/status/673959396104273921
- ricardobeat 10y agoThis is what "correct" rendering looks like on my screen: http://m.imgur.com/q2BtHnc http://m.imgur.com/q2BtHnc
- vladdanilov 10y agoNeeds to be zoomed out to 50% on retina screens. Better?
- webwielder2 10y agoAs a designer, I find it genuinely perplexing and distressing that UI design apps continue to get created that don't support automatic layouts. Dragging and nudging things around is horrendously inefficient. The one app that does this – Antetype – has been almost entirely ignored by the design community. Here's an example: http://bendansby.com/antetype.gif http://bendansby.com/antetype.gif
- gavinpc 10y agoAbsolutely. I can't stand precision mousing (or "pointing"). Just watching that demo makes me tense. There will always be a place for people who want pixel perfection. I think that place is called print. Eventually, we're going to let go of the idea that we control layouts at the concrete level (as opposed to a more semantic level, i.e. describing relationships and constraints), but that future is harder to see.
- barryhoodlum 10y agoI've thought about this - the existing method of designers coming up with a couple of static designs ("small" and "large" - "medium" if you're lucky) means the developer is burdened with interpreting these static designs and deriving a set of relationships and constraints between them. It seems obvious that the designer should be considering how the design responsively "breaths" at all sizes, rather than putting this on the developer. It's still design, just an added dimension that isn't present in print. But how do you give the designer the opportunity to "sketch" but also describe relationships and constraints? You could use code, but then the designer is then also a de-facto developer. And having to consider relationships and constraints too much can lead to those considerations dictating the design, rather than the other way around.
- pvorb 10y agoNew CSS technologies like formulas (calc) and variables (or Sass, PostCSS) will allow designers to do this without programming.
- sandGorgon 10y agoI really hope this gains traction. Linux users are horribly crippled because Photoshop and Sketch dont work on it.
- dharma1 10y agoI wish there was an open standard for layered vector/bitmap files, so it wouldn't matter what tool you use, and you could pass design source files around to people using whatever software they like. Not an end delivery format, but a source file format.
- foxylad 10y agoDoes SVG not provide that open standard? I'm not a graphics guru, so please put me right gently...
- bobwaycott 10y agoI believe the parent was sarcastically referring to SVG.
- sandGorgon 10y agothe problem is not the format but the tool. Sketch or Photoshop are the dominant tools today. If I'm trying to get started in design.. the first thing I have to do is get rid of Linux. SVG notwithstanding.
- djfm 10y agoLinux users design faster in HTML.
- mmanfrin 10y agoThat is a fantastic landing page. Immediately shows what it is and how it's used without being an over-the-top display of CSS like half of all the app/service landing pages out there.
- mlvljr 10y agoSlow as hell on my 2012 i3! No buy! :)
- slantview 10y agoHistorically, collaborative design is the best kind of design. Designers love when others go into their files and "fix" their work. /s
- ComteDeLaFere 10y agoYes, the demo on their site just made me tense. Do other designers enjoy working together in real time like that? I haven't seen that one before.
- intoverflow2 10y agoThis doesn't seem as bad as a lot of tools touting that as a benefit. Always have to cringe when I see collaborative design tools pitched where you upload your work for the whole team to start sticking their oars in as if that is ever a good workflow.
- CommanderData 10y agoI wonder how long it took to develop this tool, how many devs working on it and man hours. Any info from the developers?