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  • sted7

    • ?NBQ00
    • (¬_¬ )nbq
    • Is this from an adobe event? (See small Figma icon in dock on far right)whatthefunk
    • @NBQ00 you will see it when you stop masturbating.
      @whatthefunk with the pornhub icon next to it
      sted
    • gtfo, for real - ha!whatthefunk
    • OH!nbq
    • Well, _that's_ awkward.Continuity
    • Corn cobs has apps now?pango
    • Figma in dock. So what?NBQ00
    • shoppedhotroddy
    • I don’t get itnb
    • Her watch.. it’s ridiculously huge infuturefood
    • Pornhub has a desktop app? I still don’t get thisnb
  • zaq7

    • lolaliastime
    • HahaGnash
    • TFW not even Adobe wants to buy younb
    • I worked with XD only three times but I was really impressed how easy and versatile it was.oey_oey
    • ouch lol_niko
    • I used XD a couple of times and it surprised me it didn’t have basic features like adding more than one page.Chimp
    • What do you mean more than one page? Of course you can_niko
    • The last time I tried it you could have multiple art boards but not pages. https://community.ad…Chimp
  • akiersky6

    Uncle Sam to block Adobe absorption of Figma over monopoly fears

    https://www.theregister.com/2023…

    • not gonna lie. this kinda makes me happy..
      i did NOT want figma to go with adobe.
      exador1
    • yep, fuck adobehans_glib
    • goodshapesalad
    • If only they had done this when Adobe bought Macromedia and killed Freehand and ruined Flash...shapesalad
    • ..then I wouldn't have so much grey hair from the stress of using Illustrator. And we'd still be having fun coding websites in AS1.shapesalad
    • Yeah, fuck Adobe and Jobs!OBBTKN
  • nb1

    Damn... all the design leaders trying to have the hottest takes on “what Figma is” blah blah blah

    Exhausting. Mental whacking off

    • Is there a debate over what it “is” exactly? I’m not really following.monospaced
    • It’s software. That is all it is.Bluejam
    • 30 yo Ivy League dropout selling for $20b. Getting kinda tired of this story. Cheers to him, but privileged from day 1. Funded by Theil is icing on the cake.formed
    • Check twitter, you’ll seenb
    • What it is? It's not your's, its Adobe's, that's what it is.shapesalad
    • Look at this: https://twitter.com/…grafician
    • That’s one of the hot takersnb
    • smhgrafician
    • Good for the beauty school drop out....at least he got over on Adobe...unlike us schmucks!utopian
    • Adobe is desperate to get those stock value.hydro74
    • This is only an issue if you only design for phones and shit no? I figure most designers are above and beyond this type of thing anyway.monospaced
  • CyBrainX0

    If you don't work in UX/UI, is there any benefit to using it instead of Adobe software?

    • Seems like a decent iconography tool?canoe
    • I'm having a hard time imagining how or why somebody not in UI/UX would use Figma.MondoMorphic
    • ...e.g., there are tools like Miro that are better for collaborative uses, Adobe tools are better for graphic design, etc.MondoMorphic
    • I was just curious because I come across job postings for Motion Design that mention Figma. I think the problem is that a lot of people looking for someone...CyBrainX
    • mocking up UX/UI designs asks for a motion designer.CyBrainX
    • Figjam is a bit like Miro but freeChimp
    • Figjam will not be free starting Jan 1nb
    • The only reason a non-UX/UI designer would consider Figma is for the collaborative aspect of it. If you want that, then great. Also much cheaper than Adob¢.nb
    • Of course it's not fair to compare price. Adobe offers a ton of apps for that money.nb
    • ^most of them useless?grafician
    • It's a visual cloud based collaboration tool. I use it for more than UX/UI work absolutely.atomholc
    • I used Adobe XD for prototyping three or four times. It was fun to use and easy to learn. At least for what i needed it to.oey_oey
    • Some prototyping like transitions in a website like hover and clicks I did in AE.oey_oey
    • But for this client's website, I'm really thinking in using Figma because the client wants something I can not agree upon...oey_oey
    • and I need to show it to her somehow and I don't feel like doing it with the website itself and have all the work done and then go back. the budget is final.oey_oey
  • nb7

    Reposting because this is so well organized for experienced designers who are new to Figma and just need the straight dope on Figma

    https://www.figma.com/best-pract…

  • grafician4

    Oh no

  • mg330

    For you Figma users who do collaborative editing, does Figma allow any file member to update live prototypes?

    We use XD (I'm also not switching to Figma) and one annoyance is that only the file owner (even when it's in the cloud and set to collab editing) can push prototype updates to the live link. I've got a coworker working from South Korea right now, and it's gotten frustrating for the project managers to rely on her having ownership of certain work that needs updates pushed, and she can't do it during most of our American work hours.

    • As long as they can edit, I don't see why not.kaiyohtee
    • Yes, Figma eliminates this sharing issue, that's really the primary differentiator, why Figjam is a popular collab tool as wellwhatthefunk
    • ^What they said. If frames are setup as a prototype, any edit by anyone with edit access is automatically reflected in the prototype.duckseason
    • Yep, and people can request edit access and you can grant anyone permissions to edit or add people. Figma is great.nb
    • Adobe has announced "Creative Cloud Spaces" in beta right now but it is (I think) intended to allow this in XD.nb
    • https://blog.adobe.c…nb
    • Plus you can just publish & share presentation pages while keeping the in-progress pages private. We do this, a bit more work, but keeps work hidden from otherswhatthefunk
    • The way XD does it was intentional, just to give you an idea of how far behind Adobe is! lulznb
    • Figma even allows branching! But only on the Organization tier which can get expensive.nb
    • The new branching feature is ace! Finally we're as organized as the coders LOL.zarkonite
    • Thanks for all the info! Hopefully Adobe solves this problem soon.mg33
  • maquito5

    Ok, so after 14 years of Adobe, I’ve had one month using Figma as the one and only tool onboarding my new position (Sr. Product Designer).

    During this process, I felt just a bit nostalgic with photography as a key component of my design thinking. However, I must admit Figma is one of the tightest design tools I’ve ever used. Sssso intuitive, like, damn! Also, the features re: components, variables, etc., is insane.

    I think they could really enhance their product with some pixel-editing features; but I’ve been checking on their plug-ins daily, and they are absolutely insane.

    Never thought I would be able to make such a big trip re: my MAIN workspace at my age. Stoked.

  • grafician0

    • The largest tech acquisition in history, if I’m not mistaken.nb
    • By value? Don't think so.
      Microsoft getting Activision Blizzard was larger for sure.
      grafician
    • Looks like is rather small acquisition: https://en.wikipedia…grafician
    • But will Adobe buy Canva next? :))grafician
    • Adobe are shite, everything they buy gets fucked with bloatwarePhanLo
    • It was only a matter of time ¯\_(ツ)_/¯OBBTKN
    • I stand corrected.nb
    • this needs a new panel now.refunktion
  • mg331

    I've got to nitpick a few of the claims Figma makes on the page that grafician shared.

    1. But isn’t Adobe XD also in the cloud?

    With Adobe XD, local files must be synced to Creative Cloud in order to share. Any further updates made to the local file must then be re-synced and re-shared.

    (This is true, but ONLY if you work on files locally. If you work on files in the cloud from the get-go, this is a moot point. All the files my team and I use are stored in the cloud. This is pretty much a false "gotcha" from Figma. Local files aren't the only way to work...)

    2. I heard Adobe XD is also building collaboration features...

    Collaborating in Adobe XD is different than collaborating in Figma. In Adobe XD, you design in one place but share in another. Comments are in a separate experience, and changes from different co-editors need to be merged manually.

    (Not sure what they're really trying to claim here. Yes, with XD you publish prototypes to a different file or page and you send that link to people. Sure, it would be nice for comments to appear inside the XD working environment. But the "changes from different co-editors need to be merged manually" part is confusing in the context of comments. Co-editors can all be in the in the file together and make their edits no different than how they created their work in the first place. Nothing is "merged manually."

    3. But I use Photoshop and Illustrator...

    Don’t stop! We believe you should use the best tool for the job. If you’re photo-editing, choose Adobe Photoshop. If you’re doing detailed illustrations, Adobe Illustrator is a no-brainer. But if you’re looking for the best tool for UX design, Figma is here for you. Plus you can easily import images and SVG code into Figma and have your cake and eat it (too).

    (Great, that's fine and I get it. But for me and my team members, the beauty of XD and CC is that people can create assets in PS or Illustrator, add them to a library, edit them as needed, and they never need to go into XD for anything. None of us XD users have to import anything. Those assets are just right there in our libraries when we need them - AND updates made in PS or Illustrator sync with XD with no effort.)

    • OK but that page is really old. And Adobe bought Figma. So there’s no more need to make your pointnb
    • Adobe XD hasn’t been worked on in many many months because Adobe had their sights set on buying Figma. Source: friend at Adobenb
    • @mg33 You save all the files in Adobe cloud?! Ballsy.grafician
    • I can’t stand Adobe’s cloud environment. I don’t trust itGnash
    • Nobody should trust Adobe, ever!grafician
    • My bet is that Microsoft will buy CanvaShenanigansTV
  • mg331

    At my agency, we exclusively use XD for all digital web projects, which I've enjoyed for it's simplicity, collaboration capabilities, and ability to mentor and teach junior designers a new tool.

    I've only used Figma when clients have invited me to their files. For those of you who use Figma, what are the "OMG this feature is awesome" features?

    Because I'm really curious about any specific advantages Figma has, features XD doesn't have, etc. that could make their way into XD.

    I love XD, despite it's downsides, all of which I have listed in an email to our rep to see what future updates will change those.

    For example:
    - Only the file owner (when using CC / cloud) can create and publish prototypes. That ends up being me because all UX projects start with me. If I'm not around (was on vacation recently and had to take my work laptop with because I knew I'd have to publish updates once the team was done) nobody else can publish updates.
    - When using character styles, I want to see that character style highlighted in the left toolbar when I have selected text in an artboard. I am a stickler for my designers using character styles and never one-off styling text. So, it sucks when you can't see what style is in use. It's such a no-brainer feature.
    - I would KILL for scroll triggers and deeper Lottie animation integration. It's great they have Lottie and video integration now, but to show clients how scrolling would trigger animations, it sucks to only be able to do that in voice-over during presentations.

    Any thoughts? What could you not live without in Figma that XD doesn't have at the moment?

    • More like and axe vs. scalpel situation...grafician
    • Simple overrides. If you bring in a button from an XD library, you have to change the text in all states. You don't in Figma.aliastime
    • Also, through a plugin, we're getting more design token exports like border styles, radius, padding, etc.aliastime
    • In Figma, character styles are displayed. For scrolling, we're using the Mouse enter trigger. Not perfect, but demos ok. And we Auto layout almost everything.aliastime
    • I recently started using XD's stacks feature, and I'm kicking myself for not using it sooner.mg33
    • XD is easy to use, but FFS why haven't they added such basic things like text editing keyboard shortcuts like all other Adobe programs?Luda
    • ^ And Dark Modemg33
  • grafician0

    • Plugins I use...grafician
    • You might also enjoy Automator
      https://automator.de…
      grafician
    • plugins = nightmare when osx updates, software updates, hardware updates.shapesalad
    • because while the main software gets regular updates - plugins may or may not get updates. If you rely on one and it doesn't get updated = headache.shapesalad
    • Figma and its plugins run in the browser...grafician
    • only issue I got was re-installing all the plugins on new accounts (when needed)grafician
    • How many do you use?Chimp
    • Faker is pretty good.Chimp
    • Spelll is a good one too for spell-checking a file.capn_ron
    • I neeed that!Chimp
    • How come you don’t use Traceit?maquito
  • duckseason1

    @boca

    We're using it more and more as our tool for all things digital – web, product, social, decks, and even white boarding. Illustrations are still mostly done in AI and dropped in; however, Figma is capable of handling it should you wanna put it the time to adjust your workflow. It's got a free "starter" version if you're ever interested inn kicking the tires.


    • Seeing this...I kinda miss Freehand :/grafician
    • Interesting, just trying to figure out why it might make sense (as a freelancer) to fit it into my workflow. I've recently abandoned Adobe for Affinitybocadeets
    • And do most stuff in Affinity Publisher and Designer right now. Mostly layouts for print and social media stuff.bocadeets
    • nice.utopian
    • @boca actually Designer is very very good for this kind of illustrations with tons of layers and effects
      and being optimised for Mac, runs very smoothly too
      grafician
    • but I guess ppl do this kind of illustrations in Figma cuz it's free and cuz they can :)grafician
  • duckseason1

    My company does something sorta similar to streamline creation of our more generic social/banner ads.

    We set up our base assets each quarter and are able to quickly swap out messaging by entering it into the Main Component and having it populate a couple dozen sizes automatically. From there just export and reset.


    • itsn't all this component stuff the same as symbols in Flash back in the day? I'd make empty text symbols, that then read data to be populated.shapesalad
    • If Figma had AS1, or some ability to code and export to web... would be nice, a step back perhaps to flash days, but nice.shapesalad
    • < Thanks, this is very similar to what we want to do. Ideally my team wants to NOT have to reset, but that may be the option. to make this work.jaylarson
    • Yeah, components are essentially the same idea as Symbols. There is an API that some folks have done some interesting stuff with.duckseason
    • eg. Uber used it to create an internal web repo for assets that folks can access that uses the Figma file as its source.duckseason
  • kaiyohtee1

    So nice of Adobe to buy Figma. Looking forward to the next app that only will be bought by Adobe.

    • I wonder if they’ll just shuffle it into cs so I don’t have to pay for both. New adobe boss plan only $85 a month!kaiyohtee
    • I hope it bring it into CS and dump XDGnash
    • Just please don’t use CC libraries !Gnash
  • OBBTKN1

    It's just like in the good old days: Illustrator vs Freehand vsCorel Draw

    Now: XD vs Sketch vs Figma

    Cough and spit!!

    • Freehand was the better tool but Illustrator was more popular.

      Figma is both the better tool and the most popular
      grafician
    • I’ve worked with all 3 of them. Figma is my preferred choice. Sketch has become a mess.Chimp
  • bocadeets0

    Is it better to use the web version or the app? or does it not matter at all?

    • There are a couple minor features in the desktop app that don’t show up in the browser. But mostly it doesn’t matter.nb
    • The desktop app is basically a browser they made to wrap itnb
    • desktop version is bettergrafician
    • I prefer the desktop. I use the track pad to move around and on the browser some gestures are the same as the back button.Chimp
  • bocadeets0

    Old-school designer here....Do you guys use Figma only for website and app designs and prototyping? Or do you use it for everything (social media graphics, layouts, pitch decks, etc) nowadays?

    • For me, just web/app products mostly.nb
    • A jr designer did a huge digital book in Figma & then gave it to me: “How do we make this a physical book?” Kids these days.nb
    • Only digital projects.grafician
    • and yes, decks and social media, ads, all includedgrafician
    • Thanks! lol @ nb.bocadeets
  • jaylarson0

    Yep, that's exactly how I have it set up and it works. (and thank you for your effort!, srsly, i had a laugh a yr copy!)

    My problem is I want to have this on a on another frame to function as a template so designers can just create a new file, pull in this as one large component, and save it out without having to place any fields—they're already on a page—and just enter copy.

    When I try and put these on a separate frame or separate out, The functionality breaks and I need to manually reconnect the components and instances.

    I'm still wrapping my head around in Figma... I really appreciate all the comments, thanks guys!

    • sauce:
      https://www.figma.co…
      jaylarson
    • Try using a design library? Be sure to drag instances from the assets panelnb
    • And if you’re trying to move a master component you need to CUT+paste. Copy breaks the connectionnb
    • Yeah, if you wanna use across files, publish the components to your team libraryduckseason