alt Hacker NewsThe closest analogy would be Sketch for macOS, which Figma simply copied at first, and then mostly replaced. I would love to see open source Sketch for open source systems.
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Valodim • today at 10:14 AM
You mean which Figma replaced in the market, because they were not limited to a native app?
This is imo a cautionary tale that being a native app primarily is a bad idea in this year.
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boriskourt • today at 10:16 AM
Figma has set an expectation for designers that their projects support multi-user editing by default and are available to clients, teammates and stakeholders without having to install anything. Its hard to go against that kind of productivity in any org.
Penpot provides the same.
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Sketch copied Fireworks, which Adobe abandoned after buying out Macromedia. I knew XD would fail, which is funny because Adobe had the best UI tool but didn’t know what to do with it.
They still are really clueless, Animate has had hardly any updates in 13yrs, yet other animation tools offer a lot of innovative features.