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If true, congratulations for Figma founders, and a bad day for designers that were looking for a way to escape from Adobe. I don’t think that in the long term this will give Figma as an ecosystem any benefit — unless Adobe will keep it separate from the main Creative Cloud. This reminds me of the Trello acquisition. As a loyal Figma user I’m pretty sceptical of the future. Hope to be wrong. UPDATE: Looks like it is i…
Adobe's statement: https://www.adobe.com/about-adobe/intent-to-acquire-20220915...
smart objects and cloud libraries, just kill me now
Well that’s the end of Figma then. It was fantastic while it lasted.
Is there a blender of tools like this?
No antitrust case yet?
Now being part of the same owner, just makes it feel like any aggressive progress will just stall out.
Oh hell no. Adobe is where software goes to die. Which is big shame because Figma has been great, and had serious potential to turn into the first WYSIWYG tool that would actually generate code you'd want to use. But Macromedia software was also great, and now it's mostly non-existent. I'd love for this to turn out different, but I have very low expectations.
After EA acquiring Westwood, Macromedia is the second biggest let-down of a sale in the software industry in my book. Perhaps Skype comes close.