Designers underwhelmed by Adobe-Figma deal • TechCrunch

When Adobe introduced it was shopping for Figma for $20 billion earlier this month, the information was a bombshell. However what surprised lots of people wasn’t simply the truckload of cash — it was that an organization whose entire raison d’être gave the impression to be going after Adobe was all of a sudden going to be a part of Adobe.

Was this about Adobe and Figma constructing one thing higher collectively, or was it a case of an enormous firm taking a key competitor off the market? It depends upon whom you requested.

Actually, the consensus on HackerNews was disappointment {that a} promising startup was being absorbed by an enormous company but once more. And a number of other designers we spoke to had comparable emotions.

Andrew Drach and Monika Jociunaite of Callentis, a analysis, improvement and design consultancy, mentioned they had been shocked by the information and felt it represented a step backward for the business.

“All of us noticed the advertising battles between Adobe and Figma, and it’s odd to see Figma, an ‘anti-Adobe’ platform, really becoming a member of the Adobe household,” they mentioned in an e-mail. “Figma has all the time been very clear with its worth proposition, differentiating itself far-off from legacy Adobe merchandise and design processes. On the finish of the day, Figma was created as a result of Adobe couldn’t meet the market wants.”