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> If you need a free form design tool to sketch, use one. There are hundreds of them. Before Figma, the norm of design tool was Photoshop, not the other "hundr
by raincole 1y ago
> If you need a free form design tool to sketch, use one. There are hundreds of them.
Before Figma, the norm of design tool was Photoshop, not the other "hundreds of them."
So go back in time, if you had been Figma founder developing a tool that appeals to most designers, it should've looked more like Photoshop than like CSS/HTML.
- whywhywhywhy 1y agoFireworks also existed the whole time which had a lot of Figma's features but bizarrely was completely ignored by 95% of designers.
- Andrew_nenakhov 1y agoI used Fireworks a lot, and what amazed me at Sketch when I found it, is that they figured out every single thing that bothered me in Fireworks and did it right. At that period, Figma was mostly copying all the tiny clever innovations done by Sketch.
- silvershell 1y agoThere is the sketch app , which is older and more of a direct competitor to Figma. Figma won because of being web based/ multi platform among other advantages.