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Aaron O'Leary

NEWS: Adobe has announced it's buying Figma 👀

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According to multiple reports including Bloomberg, Adobe and Figma are set to finalise a deal for the purchase of Figma for a whopping $20 billion! What do you think of this deal, does it make sense, do you wish Figma would stay independent? 🧐 Update: Since writing this, Adobe have confirmed that they are in fact buying Figma, Figma will remain independent and Dylan Field will remain as CEO.

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Justin Mitchell
Great for them, bad for us. I pay such insane prices for Adobe, paying 90% for tools I don't even use. Figma was a bright spot in design tools that I thought could eventually lead Adobe to changing up their pricing in order to compete
Aaron O'Leary
@jmitch Thing I don't like is trying to cancel with Adobe, end up paying a small fortune in order to stop paying...
Justin Mitchell
@aaronoleary oh 100%. Adobe one time wouldn't let me cancel a license when an employee of mine DIED. True story.
Chris Günther
@jmitch Feel free to check out Antetype – all designing & prototyping is free (plain plan only covers hosting and advanced collaboration features)
Sveta Bay
Okay, guys what are Figma alternatives? 😄
Lee Fuhr
@basv We're looking into moving forward to @framerapp Framer Sites but lots of people are talking about moving back to Sketch.
Daniel Butler
@basv gonna give https://penpot.app/ a try but perhaps more likely to return to dear Sketch since they now have collab tools. If we only knew they would never sell to Adobe …
Yucel F. Sahan
Wow, that is a surprise and not a surprise at the same time :) Figma defeated them all!!
Aaron O'Leary
@yucelfaruksahan If you can't beat em, buy em 🤷‍♂️
Emmett Naughton
I'd also probably sell for 20 Billion.
Aaron O'Leary
@emmettnaughton same, no hesitation whatsoever
Emmett Naughton
20B in this economy?!
Nico Spijker
Fearful of what this will mean regarding pricing plans and accessibility for smaller teams moving forward.
Aaron O'Leary
I think the deal makes sense personally but I do personally hope to see Figma independent, it's amazing having such a strong competitor to the previous monopoly on design tools from Adobe!
Patrick Loonstra
@aaronoleary Why personally? Isn't that the only opinion you have. I also have the same feeling. Great tool, to bag it is attached to a big slow moving one.
Puneet Acharya
Nooooooooooooooooooooo @mufassir_kazi :(
Corey Stone
Definitely not a fan of this since I generally like what Figma has been doing, and generally not impressed with Adobe (and I started at Photoshop 2 (?) in the 90's!). Seems like Adobe could face some monopoly legal risks, as well.
Rene
@coreywstone I've also watched Adobe morph and grow over the last 30 years. My first vector drawing program was Aldus Freehand! I remember Altsys/Aldus merged with Adobe, but the FTC nixed the deal in 1994 over market monopoly concerns. Of course Altsys was later bought by Macromedia, which was then bought by Adobe. 🙄 I would love it if Adobe would fold Figma in with the full CC Suite for the same subscription price. But Adobe's history makes me less than optimistic.
Alex Rani
I have moved from Figma to Siter.io. Now I convert all my Figma design files to a live websites based on this tutorial https://designmodo.com/export-fi... That's sad, I'd prefer they remained independent. I am not a fan of what Adobe has become in my life as far as subscriptions
Desert Man
We already pay full subscription for Adobe and Figma separately. After the merge, I assume, Adobe will ditch XD and replace with Figma. As a result, we'll likely to pay less invoice :) But today Adobe Inc: 318.57 USD −$52.17 (14.07%)today
Volodymyr
Will see what happens in nearest future. I guess it's a great chance for Sketch as an independent designer tool also. But, probably they buy the whole team and will not change the major direction of the product.
Ayush Soni
Wow! I just hope they don't make it completely paid like other Adobe products.
Miguel Colaco
Long due tbh
flo merian
Launching soon!
Welcome back, Sketch
Olena Skaist
Just hope it won’t be a disaster for Figma users 😅
Sarah A.
I hope is not the end for for the open source and great sense of community of Figma.
Karen Sánchez
I expected to see Figma independent, it sure was a big competitor on the rise. Now even if they say it will be independent, I'm sure that as time goes by Adobe's hands will be seen, the time will come when they offer only subscription. It's a monopoly!! 😭 Similar to Disney when it bought Fox.
Quentin Mak
totally agree with arron o leary "I do personally hope to see Figma independent, it's amazing having such a strong competitor to the previous monopoly on design tools from Adobe!" adobe is charging me a lot for useless apps
Deyson Ortiz
I like how Figma does not have feature bloat and no subscription. I Hope Adobe leaves it as is.