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by pentagrama·5y ago·view on hn ↗
The web was a big "feature" to allow Figma succeed over Adobe.

In Figma you design and changes instantly for everyone, just sent a link and anyone (designers and non-designers) can see/collaborate the latest version because is web based.

Adobe sleep many years bloating Photoshop with features that try to cover UI design needs and fail, finally releases Adobe XD but is miles away of Figma, in Adobe XD today, you make changes in a file and have to go to Share > Update link everytime, and then the web based version of the file is updated. Is crazy. Sketch sleep on that too.

Also Figma was clever to make prototyping and developer handoff a core features pretty quickly, now they have a polished "trifecta" with UI desgin + Prototying + Developer handoff.

Here a good resource to compare UI design tools (and more) https://uxtools.co/tools/design

I'm wondering whats the next step to smooth even more the gap between visual design and development.

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Figma's dev handoff is still pretty bad though, especially around images.
True, it's pretty hidden and frustrating

But even then, being able to do it at all exactly when you're ready, is just night and day better compared to having to ask the designer for the file they forgot for the nth time