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This is somewhat orthogonal, but I don’t understand the draw of real-time collaboration. As a designer, I’d much rather collaborate via the Git-like system of
by mortenjorck 6y ago
This is somewhat orthogonal, but I don’t understand the draw of real-time collaboration.
As a designer, I’d much rather collaborate via the Git-like system of Abstract, committing changes and merging pull requests than have things happening elsewhere in the file I’m working on with no versioning or notification.
Real-time collaboration has never been in demand among developers, has it?
- danielrd 6y agoCollaboration doesn’t necessarily mean designing at the same time, it’s not really how any designers I know use it. It’s being able to walk through a design, leave comments, use it for quickly showing off an idea within a file, having another designer point you to a shared component/asset/prototype. We even use it for retrospectives and hangouts.
- Griffinsauce 6y agoReal time collaboration is hard to get right so it not being in demand might be a chicken and egg problem. VSCode's liveshare feature is getting very close though and it does feel great to attack a challenge together from time to time.
- s17n 6y agoI think the reason that people want real-time collaboration has been that merging diffs, which is already a hassle for code, has historically not really been possible for designers. With realtime collaboration, you can have people working in parallel without having to solve the merging problem.