Design

Anyone have a good theory for why Figma won over Sketch? Felt like there was a time where Sketch was ahead?

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i lived the transition at google and was very early to switch to Figma from Sketch, even visiting @zoink in SF offices with my team in ...2017ish?

anyway – they won bc multiplayer. once it got good enough, there was no going back to shared drive versioning sketch files with various plugins on/off

it was 10x better

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also it being web based meant i no longer had to export PDF redlines lol but could share a link w inspect to my devs :) that was amazing

on the design side, alignment around 1 tool vs juggling sketch/photoshop/fireworks(!) files

this made design systems like Material sooo much easier to coordinate and create