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Does anyone here actually use Framer on their team? I feel like every product designer I knew was excited and curious when it came out, filling a gap between en

Does anyone here actually use Framer on their team? I feel like every product designer I knew was excited and curious when it came out, filling a gap between engineer and designer, but then it just...fizzled. Figma continues to be the standard across my org overtaking Sketch a little over a year ago.

maelito 5y ago
Framer, no but framer-motion, yes !
ryanSrich 5y ago
> Figma continues to be the standard across my org overtaking Sketch a little over a year ago Same experience here. I prefer Sketch, but Figma has won out. My only guess for why Figma has won is because they handle prototyping a lot better than Sketch. The performance (and the fact that it's a browser) makes it barely usable for me, but I don't know any team that doesn't use Figma.
- sbarre 5y ago
  Figma also wins on collaboration and extensibility. I work in a large org (50+ designers) and the ability to collaborate on work, and also engage our internal teams to build very specific plugins and extensions very quickly and easily made this an easy switch from Sketch a little over a year ago.
  - solidr53 5y ago
    Figma also wins on Auto-layout and variants. Especially helpful on UI library teams.
    - askafriend 5y ago
      Figma also just updated their mobile apps - looks like they're taking it much more seriously now. You can view any file on mobile, and I'm sure editing is coming down the line. If they can make really great mobile apps (including iPad), then it'll be a really hard sell on anything else - especially from a collaboration perspective.
- yesimahuman 5y ago
  Being a web app that runs anywhere including Windows was a pretty significant difference back when it mattered and Sketch didn’t have web support. Turns out that was more important than being a purist native Mac app
- johnnyaardvark 5y ago
  Being able to share a URL with Figma. Getting feedback from anyone in the org regardless of whether they have a program installed is a killer feature.
mithr 5y ago
I've used Framer Motion, but not Framer. The barrier to having a UX team switch to a new tool is significantly higher than an engineering team choosing an animation library.
drewrbaker 5y ago
At my agency the design team uses Adobe XD. As a web dev I’ve been handed off designs in XD, Figma and Sketch. XD is the best in my experience.

maelito 5y ago

Framer, no but framer-motion, yes !

ryanSrich 5y ago

> Figma continues to be the standard across my org overtaking Sketch a little over a year ago Same experience here. I prefer Sketch, but Figma has won out. My only guess for why Figma has won is because they handle prototyping a lot better than Sketch. The performance (and the fact that it's a browser) makes it barely usable for me, but I don't know any team that doesn't use Figma.

sbarre 5y ago
Figma also wins on collaboration and extensibility. I work in a large org (50+ designers) and the ability to collaborate on work, and also engage our internal teams to build very specific plugins and extensions very quickly and easily made this an easy switch from Sketch a little over a year ago.
- solidr53 5y ago
  Figma also wins on Auto-layout and variants. Especially helpful on UI library teams.
  - askafriend 5y ago
    Figma also just updated their mobile apps - looks like they're taking it much more seriously now. You can view any file on mobile, and I'm sure editing is coming down the line. If they can make really great mobile apps (including iPad), then it'll be a really hard sell on anything else - especially from a collaboration perspective.
yesimahuman 5y ago
Being a web app that runs anywhere including Windows was a pretty significant difference back when it mattered and Sketch didn’t have web support. Turns out that was more important than being a purist native Mac app
johnnyaardvark 5y ago
Being able to share a URL with Figma. Getting feedback from anyone in the org regardless of whether they have a program installed is a killer feature.

mithr 5y ago

I've used Framer Motion, but not Framer. The barrier to having a UX team switch to a new tool is significantly higher than an engineering team choosing an animation library.

drewrbaker 5y ago

At my agency the design team uses Adobe XD. As a web dev I’ve been handed off designs in XD, Figma and Sketch. XD is the best in my experience.