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If true, congratulations for Figma founders, and a bad day for designers that were looking for a way to escape from Adobe. I don’t think that in the long term

by yuchi 4y ago

If true, congratulations for Figma founders, and a bad day for designers that were looking for a way to escape from Adobe. I don’t think that in the long term this will give Figma as an ecosystem any benefit — unless Adobe will keep it separate from the main Creative Cloud. This reminds me of the Trello acquisition. As a loyal Figma user I’m pretty sceptical of the future. Hope to be wrong. UPDATE: Looks like it is indeed true… https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2022/Adobe-to-Acquire-Figma/default.aspx https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2022/Adobe-to-Acqui...

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Bilal_io 4y ago
Big win for the Figma team. Big loss for consumers who have benefitted from the competitive market. I really hope this incentives Krita, Ink, Gimp or other OSS to focus more on UI design features. I think there is a value for Adobe to add Figma to CC, Photoshop can fully focus on photo manipulation while Figma (perhaps merged with XD?) will be target UI designers.
- Tijdreiziger 4y ago
  > I really hope this incentives Krita, Ink, Gimp or other OSS to focus more on UI design features. A comment in another thread mentioned Penpot https://penpot.app/ https://penpot.app/
  - Bilal_io 4y ago
    Yeah I just saw a new post for the tool. It's currently #1 Never heard of it before, but I'll explore it.
JKCalhoun 4y ago
As others will no doubt call out, Affinity have been my main-stay graphics apps for some years now. Affinity Design, Photo, Publisher.... I refuse to pay a monthly fee for something I use on a scattershot basis.
- brainbag 4y ago
  I used Photoshop for 20 years and really tried to switch to Affinity, but holy cow it's so extremely different. I tried finding a good "Affinity for Photoshop Users" resource and wasn't ever able to before giving up on it and using photopea (which is great).
- coldcode 4y ago
  Me as well, I refuse to give Adobe any money if I can use Affinity's products.
yuchi 4y ago
UPDATE n. 2: Dylan Field (CEO of Figma) has addressed these kind of concerns on their public disclore of the fact: https://www.figma.com/blog/a-new-collaboration-with-adobe/ https://www.figma.com/blog/a-new-collaboration-with-adobe/ Citing him: > Adobe is deeply committed to keeping Figma operating autonomously and I will continue to serve as CEO, reporting to David Wadhwani. As others have said, there’s really a missing OSS version out there that can compete feature-by-feature with Sketch / Figma / XD. Layout engine capabilities are the biggest missing feature in competitors.
- aceazzameen 4y ago
  I'm just going to assume he'll leave Adobe in one year to move on to his next adventure.
- Zealotux 4y ago
  >[ACQUISITOR] is deeply committed to keeping [STARTUP] operating autonomously and I will continue to serve as CEO, reporting to [NEW OVERLORD] You won't believe what happens next.
  - _fn 4y ago
    It’s like there’s some sort of playbook on this
  - yencabulator 4y ago
    https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
    - politelemon 4y ago
      This is amazing, thanks for sharing it. Also quite disheartening.
  - strikelaserclaw 4y ago
    same thing happened to us, our ceo also sent us a similar email. He bounced 3 months later to enjoy his billions i guess.
torton 4y ago
I'm a long time user of Trello. After the acquisition, Atlassian foisted their login system on Trello users, but otherwise didn't substantially degrade the product. The integration with other Atlassian services improved. There is a variety of plug-ins now, and new ways to display the data for paid plans. Do you feel different? Any specific examples of what became worse?

by yuchi 4y ago

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Bilal_io 4y ago

Big win for the Figma team. Big loss for consumers who have benefitted from the competitive market. I really hope this incentives Krita, Ink, Gimp or other OSS to focus more on UI design features. I think there is a value for Adobe to add Figma to CC, Photoshop can fully focus on photo manipulation while Figma (perhaps merged with XD?) will be target UI designers.

Tijdreiziger 4y ago
> I really hope this incentives Krita, Ink, Gimp or other OSS to focus more on UI design features. A comment in another thread mentioned Penpot https://penpot.app/ https://penpot.app/
- Bilal_io 4y ago
  Yeah I just saw a new post for the tool. It's currently #1 Never heard of it before, but I'll explore it.

JKCalhoun 4y ago

As others will no doubt call out, Affinity have been my main-stay graphics apps for some years now. Affinity Design, Photo, Publisher.... I refuse to pay a monthly fee for something I use on a scattershot basis.

brainbag 4y ago
I used Photoshop for 20 years and really tried to switch to Affinity, but holy cow it's so extremely different. I tried finding a good "Affinity for Photoshop Users" resource and wasn't ever able to before giving up on it and using photopea (which is great).
coldcode 4y ago
Me as well, I refuse to give Adobe any money if I can use Affinity's products.

yuchi 4y ago

UPDATE n. 2: Dylan Field (CEO of Figma) has addressed these kind of concerns on their public disclore of the fact: https://www.figma.com/blog/a-new-collaboration-with-adobe/ https://www.figma.com/blog/a-new-collaboration-with-adobe/ Citing him: > Adobe is deeply committed to keeping Figma operating autonomously and I will continue to serve as CEO, reporting to David Wadhwani. As others have said, there’s really a missing OSS version out there that can compete feature-by-feature with Sketch / Figma / XD. Layout engine capabilities are the biggest missing feature in competitors.

aceazzameen 4y ago
I'm just going to assume he'll leave Adobe in one year to move on to his next adventure.
Zealotux 4y ago
>[ACQUISITOR] is deeply committed to keeping [STARTUP] operating autonomously and I will continue to serve as CEO, reporting to [NEW OVERLORD] You won't believe what happens next.
- _fn 4y ago
  It’s like there’s some sort of playbook on this
- yencabulator 4y ago
  https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
  - politelemon 4y ago
    This is amazing, thanks for sharing it. Also quite disheartening.
- strikelaserclaw 4y ago
  same thing happened to us, our ceo also sent us a similar email. He bounced 3 months later to enjoy his billions i guess.

torton 4y ago

I'm a long time user of Trello. After the acquisition, Atlassian foisted their login system on Trello users, but otherwise didn't substantially degrade the product. The integration with other Atlassian services improved. There is a variety of plug-ins now, and new ways to display the data for paid plans. Do you feel different? Any specific examples of what became worse?