Designers are worried that Adobe will kill Figma. That might not be a bad thing.

Dave Vronay
UX Collective
Published in
10 min readOct 4, 2022

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An empty plastic water bottle embedded in the sand in the desert
Water is good, but what you really need to do is to get out of the desert…

With the announcement a few weeks back of Adobe’s intention to purchase Figma, shockwaves went through the design community. For every post of congratulations to the Figma team for having their years of hard work pay off, there were a dozen more lamenting what Adobe will do to their favorite tool.

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I am a technologist interested in user experience and the human condition. I’ve worked in a number of start-ups and most of the big tech companies.