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Miro and Canva are really similar to Figma, no ?

by thehappypm 4y ago

killerdhmo 4y ago
Not... really. Sketch is what is most analogous.
- orangepurple 4y ago
  Sketch is locked to MacOS which limits its applicability
  - azinman2 4y ago
    They have a pure web version.
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    - skilled 4y ago
      They don't. The web version is a viewer not an editor.
      - azinman2 4y ago
        Interesting. I always thought it was an editor. Given it can preview I’m guessing they’re working towards a web editor too.
- hn_throwaway_99 4y ago
  Sketch is perhaps most analogous, but I remember a couple years ago where designers left Sketch in droves to move to the better features of Figma. If Adobe thought Sketch was a competitive risk, they'd be buying them instead.
samsolomon 4y ago
Not at all close to the design tool—features like autolayout and performance are significantly better than anyone else on the market. Both of those are pretty close to FigJam, Figma's. whiteboarding tool. It's a nice tool, but that's not why anyone uses Figma.
solardev 4y ago
Not really, no. Miro is a giant whiteboard/brainstorming tool. Canva is a presentation tool, like Powerpoint. To say they can be used for design is saying that MS Paint or Photoshop can be used to design mockups... sure, but that's not really what they're made for, and it would be a painful experience (even Adobe learned that, eventually, and tried to copy Figma by making the separate Adobe XD tool) You can try to coerce those other apps to make wireframes & mockups, but Figma is much better for both designers (the layout tools are phenomenal and CSS-like) and devs (the exports are good, there's CSS code to copy, a bunch of plugins, etc.). I've had various product people try to make mockups in Miro because they didn't want to learn Figma, and it usually ends up being a bunch of screenshots clobbered together. That's a lot harder to work with than being able to click on a particular component in Figma and see its exact color, border radiuses, flexbox layouts, etc., and then to have entire widgets, dashboards, screens, and apps composed out of these components and built into a functional interactive prototype that stakeholders can review and comment on and devs can inspect for technical details. Figma is really really good at that. If someone tried to send me one in Canva, well, I think I'd just quit right then and there lol. (Don't get me wrong, Canva is a great tool for presentations, but not for sharing designs)

Miro and Canva are really similar to Figma, no ?

killerdhmo 4y ago

Not... really. Sketch is what is most analogous.

orangepurple 4y ago
Sketch is locked to MacOS which limits its applicability
- azinman2 4y ago
  They have a pure web version.
  - deleted 4y ago
    [deleted]
  - skilled 4y ago
    They don't. The web version is a viewer not an editor.
    - azinman2 4y ago
      Interesting. I always thought it was an editor. Given it can preview I’m guessing they’re working towards a web editor too.
hn_throwaway_99 4y ago
Sketch is perhaps most analogous, but I remember a couple years ago where designers left Sketch in droves to move to the better features of Figma. If Adobe thought Sketch was a competitive risk, they'd be buying them instead.

samsolomon 4y ago

Not at all close to the design tool—features like autolayout and performance are significantly better than anyone else on the market. Both of those are pretty close to FigJam, Figma's. whiteboarding tool. It's a nice tool, but that's not why anyone uses Figma.

solardev 4y ago

Not really, no. Miro is a giant whiteboard/brainstorming tool. Canva is a presentation tool, like Powerpoint. To say they can be used for design is saying that MS Paint or Photoshop can be used to design mockups... sure, but that's not really what they're made for, and it would be a painful experience (even Adobe learned that, eventually, and tried to copy Figma by making the separate Adobe XD tool) You can try to coerce those other apps to make wireframes & mockups, but Figma is much better for both designers (the layout tools are phenomenal and CSS-like) and devs (the exports are good, there's CSS code to copy, a bunch of plugins, etc.). I've had various product people try to make mockups in Miro because they didn't want to learn Figma, and it usually ends up being a bunch of screenshots clobbered together. That's a lot harder to work with than being able to click on a particular component in Figma and see its exact color, border radiuses, flexbox layouts, etc., and then to have entire widgets, dashboards, screens, and apps composed out of these components and built into a functional interactive prototype that stakeholders can review and comment on and devs can inspect for technical details. Figma is really really good at that. If someone tried to send me one in Canva, well, I think I'd just quit right then and there lol. (Don't get me wrong, Canva is a great tool for presentations, but not for sharing designs)