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Home designer suite 20164/19/2023 And then Figma came alongįigma was originally released in 2015 as a web-first alternative for design, and introduced real-time multiplayer in 2016. To share with them, we’d have to create PDF exports, or Powerpoints, or literally just print things out (are we out of toner?).Ī whole cottage industry of accessory apps, like Abstract, Wake, and InVision sprung up to try and bridge this gap, but the end-to-end workflow still felt fragmented, clunky, and high friction. Who last touched Table Design v3 Final new.psd? It was a slippery slope into versioning nihilism.Įven worse? Working with stakeholders on other teams who didn’t have licenses for design tools. Files were often out of date, and it wasn’t uncommon for you and a colleague to make simultaneous edits resulting in un-mergeable differences. To work with someone else on a design, you’d email files back and forth, or set up shared FTP directories, or use Dropbox folders. While extremely capable for individual work, these local-file-based tools infamously broke down when it came to collaboration and sharing. ![]() It only worked in black and white back then! Adobe’s creative suite - including Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, InDesign, and others - had a big role in driving the personal computing revolution, and has been used by generations of designers to do their work.įun fact: Adobe Photoshop was originally created more than 30 years ago, back in 1988. Let’s dig into it, starting with some history: The Stone Age of design workflowsĭesigners have long had powerful software at their disposal. It’s humbling to hear that Hex is part of a parallel transformation that’s happening with Data teams. Figma transformed the way Design teams work. Because of this, we often hear our product described as “Figma for data.” First of all, congratulations to our friends at Figma for reaching “X for Y” status □.Īs a Designer, I found myself initially mulling over this comparison. ![]() If you’re new to Hex, it’s a platform that brings together fragmented analytics workflows, makes them collaborative, and easy to share with stakeholders.
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