Adobe acquires Figma

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32850178, which is on the front page, appears to have been the first submission, and isn't a corporate press release (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

I assume bloomberg.com will update that article now that the news is confirmed.

I guess this means a big boost for Penpot? It might not have a full feature overlap, but I can imagine it beeing more than good enough for teams collaborating on mockups and web related graphics. Plus it is open source and can be self-hosted, so it can't really be bought up and "taken hostage" like Figma has been.

So disappointing to see this happen to a beloved product, but congrats to the team for getting this outcome.

This is probably good for Figma competitors, because Adobe will crapify it just like they did a long time ago with their own products.

Well deserved lesson for those that decided to support a cloud product instead of an offline tool.

> Like many of you, I grew up using Adobe software and it was a critical part of my personal creative journey. It is an incredible opportunity and honor to help Adobe build the next generation of creative tools. Especially in a time when AI-generated models make us question the role of human creativity, this opportunity is also a huge responsibility.

Is AI generated design really much of a thing?

That’s a very strange little comment about AI models tacked on the end. I suppose stable diffusion has been very visible lately, but for a heavily manicured corporate blog, it’s an odd touch.