Well, you have to hire a maintenance department that makes sure all new things in Figma are recreated pixel perfectly in Sketch.Ĭonsidering your organization has a couple of hundreds if not thousands of designers, this can be quite challenging. If team A uses Figma, team B prefers Sketch & Abstract, and team C works with Adobe XD… how can you have a single source of truth for your design system? The connectivity, integration, and compatibility between the major file formats (Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Photoshop, Illustrator) is still a big pain.
(Unless you have to work with agencies and fields from various departments of a larger company.)īut if you work in a large company with several design teams, you know what I mean. Or Avocode, as a matter of fact.ĭesign file formats are almost never compatible when you pull its content outside the parent graphics editor.Īs a single freelance designer using Sketch, this is probably not an issue for you. No wonder new tools that work with design file content are springing up like mushrooms after the rain, and there is plenty of space for them. New positions are being created all the time - things like Microcopy Specialist, or Delightful Design UX Expert.Īll these people need to access the design content, but it doesn’t mean they need the whole file (with all of the exploration artboards) inside a designer-first interface.
Suddenly people who are not really pushing pixels need to work with the contents of a design file. As design operations grow, teams look for one place for all their assets. Sketch is about to do the same as XD in early 2020.Īnd as Framer says, it’s coming to the web too.Ĭollaboration. The tech stack is ready.įigma has changed the game with a browser-first design tool.Īdobe XD is saving all your files as cloud documents first - by default. If something can be on the web, it will be. How can you ship new digital experiences faster? Same story as with smart constraints or components in general. Something that has been known in CSS for a decade is now celebrated in design because designers can finally do things the way they work in code. Finally, you don’t have to copy whole design states, but you can tell the design tool to show only a different instance. Why? Because design tools are still trying to catch up on what has been known in development for ages. While the UI changes slightly based on fresh new features, the designer workflow remains pretty similar. But for the end-user, not much has changed… since Sketch came out.įirst, everyone copied Sketch - Adobe, InVision, Figma… There is lots of money to be made in the design tools space.ĭesign tools are innovating - no doubt about that. If we consider the UX Tools 2019 survey, Figma has about 60% of what Sketch has in terms of market share and Adobe XD 35%. To put the importance of UI design into perspective, Sketch just hit 1M paying users milestone. Nowadays, new digital experiences are done mainly in Sketch, Figma, and Adobe products. This high demand for new, different, better, and more advanced UX has completely changed the world - and the importance of design departments in the past decade.įrom our research and calls with hundreds of companies, we found out that engineering is no longer n.1 focus for digital businesses. You surely know that to impress and win attention, you need to ship new digital experiences faster than Zara ships new fashion collections. Watson, the former CEO of IBM said: "good design must primarily serve people.” Well, since he said that people have become really picky. Or, more importantly, how fast can you redesign them?Īs Thomas J. So you have a website, mobile app, or a newsletter, correct?Īnd how did you make them? How long did it take you to design and develop them?
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