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I never understood the appeal of Figma, or even it's use case. Can someone explain it to me?



If you're a UI designer and you work on a remote team, Figma makes it incredibly easy to both build and share your designs with your teammates. It runs entirely in a browser and was built from the start for sharing, so you can jump into a design file and see and share the latest work in real time.

It is to design as Google Docs or Sheets was to Word or Excel. No more passing around files - everything just works in the browser.


And it's fast and doesn't come with 30 000 features you don't need, like support for print design.


Yes, Figma’s appeal is that it was not owned by Adobe.




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