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Yep. Our company switched to Figma and it's been leaps and bounds better for productivity. Having multiple people working on the same design file at the same ti

Yep. Our company switched to Figma and it's been leaps and bounds better for productivity. Having multiple people working on the same design file at the same time has been huge.

chrstphrknwtn 6y ago
This sounds like hell to me as a designer.
- danielrd 6y ago
  It’s really not because multiplayer is there for walking through designs, leaving comments, or working with another designer. I work on a team of 10 and I don’t see anyone else in my designs unless I’m handing off to a dev or doing a review. At that point it’s amazing, as I can link anyone in our org a design and they can open it.
josephg 6y ago
This isn't a property of native apps or web apps. As someone who's worked on a lot of collaborative technology, I find it weird how most of the interest in collaborative editing is confined to the web. As I understand it, Figma's internal collaborative engine is written in C++ anyway.
- wavesplash 6y ago
  If I recall correctly, Figma's entire UI is C++ compiled down to webassembly.
  - christopherwxyz 6y ago
    And Rust
  - jmnicolas 6y ago
    If they went to the trouble to write it in C++ why use the browser instead of QT?
    - tomduncalf 6y ago
      I’d imagine zero-install was a big thing
    - hn_throwaway_99 6y ago
      Exactly for the sharing features people have been discussing. It may be OK for the design team to download the app, but product managers, devs, marketers and other stakeholders don't want to also have to go through the trouble of downloading the app. A primary thing Figma understood better than pretty much anyone else is how collaboration among different teams (not just design) works in product development.
- nikitaga 6y ago
  Collaboration all but requires being online (good offline collab is much harder to implement as you surely know), so that eliminates one of the main advantages of native apps. Collaboration is also much more useful when you're not limited to only working with people using the same OS. Multi-platform distribution is built into web apps, but it takes a lot more effort to create good native apps on several platforms. Also, of course, no need to install anything on the web, which is important for frictionless collaboration. --- It's no surprise that both desktop and mobile OS-s are very much not optimized for cross platform development. It's a feature (for owners of those OS-s), not a bug.
- vijaybritto 6y ago
  Yes they run it in web assembly
jnymck 6y ago
Why?
valuearb 6y ago
But it’s been a worse experience for your mobile developers.
sizzle 6y ago
Check out Adobe XD, it supports simultaneously editing by a team right out of the box.

Yep. Our company switched to Figma and it's been leaps and bounds better for productivity. Having multiple people working on the same design file at the same time has been huge.

chrstphrknwtn 6y ago

This sounds like hell to me as a designer.

danielrd 6y ago
It’s really not because multiplayer is there for walking through designs, leaving comments, or working with another designer. I work on a team of 10 and I don’t see anyone else in my designs unless I’m handing off to a dev or doing a review. At that point it’s amazing, as I can link anyone in our org a design and they can open it.

josephg 6y ago

This isn't a property of native apps or web apps. As someone who's worked on a lot of collaborative technology, I find it weird how most of the interest in collaborative editing is confined to the web. As I understand it, Figma's internal collaborative engine is written in C++ anyway.

wavesplash 6y ago
If I recall correctly, Figma's entire UI is C++ compiled down to webassembly.
- christopherwxyz 6y ago
  And Rust
- jmnicolas 6y ago
  If they went to the trouble to write it in C++ why use the browser instead of QT?
  - tomduncalf 6y ago
    I’d imagine zero-install was a big thing
  - hn_throwaway_99 6y ago
    Exactly for the sharing features people have been discussing. It may be OK for the design team to download the app, but product managers, devs, marketers and other stakeholders don't want to also have to go through the trouble of downloading the app. A primary thing Figma understood better than pretty much anyone else is how collaboration among different teams (not just design) works in product development.
nikitaga 6y ago
Collaboration all but requires being online (good offline collab is much harder to implement as you surely know), so that eliminates one of the main advantages of native apps. Collaboration is also much more useful when you're not limited to only working with people using the same OS. Multi-platform distribution is built into web apps, but it takes a lot more effort to create good native apps on several platforms. Also, of course, no need to install anything on the web, which is important for frictionless collaboration. --- It's no surprise that both desktop and mobile OS-s are very much not optimized for cross platform development. It's a feature (for owners of those OS-s), not a bug.
vijaybritto 6y ago
Yes they run it in web assembly

jnymck 6y ago

Why?

valuearb 6y ago

But it’s been a worse experience for your mobile developers.

sizzle 6y ago

Check out Adobe XD, it supports simultaneously editing by a team right out of the box.