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Schools should teach their students relevant skills. If the industry wants Figma, schools would be doing a disservice to students by not teaching it to them.
by rcme 3y ago
Schools should teach their students relevant skills. If the industry wants Figma, schools would be doing a disservice to students by not teaching it to them.
- kevincox 3y agoI think there is some balance. In most cases the skills are quite transferable. If there is any industry standard tool and you are in a specialized program than it may well make sense to teach using that tool. They will be "ready to work" in the most common program and can transfer their skills when necessary. However if the program isn't as specialized it may make more sense to teach tools that the user can take full advantage of such as open source programs. Then they can use those skills for the rest of their life. Or if they want to do it professionally they can still transfer the knowledge to a specific tool used by a company that they are interested in. For example if you are teaching some middle-schoolers how to edit photos GIMP may be a really good choice. But if you are running a UI designer bootcamp Figma may make more sense than a less commonly used open-source tool.