Figma is a vector drawing app that was originally for UX design (an Adobe XD competitor), but they just added a bunch of graphic design tools that compete with Adobe Illustrator.
Canva does a lot of raster and vector image editing that originally targeted people that were not design pros, but they’ve been adding a lot of features that allow people to make some professional quality stuff stuff with ease.
All in all, both companies are growing into the spaces Adobe dominated. If you were a UX designer who needed to occasionally use Illustrator for a more detailed illustration, maybe you no longer need that Adobe CS license.
What’s good about it, is that it is really easy to export the desings to be used by a mobile developer - you drop the part where you build an interface out of pictures, it is the interface from the start.
How long before Adobe buys them… they did it macromedia and all their other competitors. Anti-trust laws, if they were working, would have shut down Abobe decades ago.
IIRC it was the British regulator that blocked it. The EU and eventually US ones issued similar statements following the UK block and then the deal was abandoned
They tried to buy Figma, but getting past the regulators was too hard. It was clearly a play to monopolize UX design just like the did with graphic design.
Idk, i work at a print shop and half of my work day is spent fixing dog shit files people send me from Canva. It’s the scourge of pretty much every printer out there.
Nothing is vectored, everything is outlines and masks on masks on masks. So when someone sends me a letter sized document without the bleed (becase it never has bleed), i have 2 dozen groups i have to sift through to try and add bleed as best i can. Nothing is print ready, even from “professionals” sending me their ad copy. Canva is designed aroind web, so when amateurs use it for printing, it compounds all the problems, and Canvas instructions for designing for print are next to useless, even if the customer somehow managed to read them.
About a million years ago I worked for a company that used a product. About 2 or 3 hours of every day was dealt with inefficiencies and issues with the product.
One day I got kind of fed up with it I wrote them a long detailed support ticket of the worst grievances. I mentioned that I was using their product in a professional capacity and that if they made these changes it would go a long way towards making their product more marketable to everyone else that was using it in a professional capacity.
I didn’t hear anything else about it for a good three or four months. One day I got a message back thanking me for my request. They sent me a $50 gift certificate and a T-shirt, and claimed the update later that month would be a significant improvement to everything I listed.
They absolutely nailed it and I now only spent 15 minutes a day dealing with the product.
As much as I would hate the idea of helping a multi-billion dollar company for free, It might be worth mentioning their shortcomings as a professional printer, If they send you a request up to the project management and devs it might make your life better.
do people not use the templates with safe zones that i’ve seen every single printing service provide? even if they can’t figure out how to put a pdf in Cava, they could at least draw their own lines where they kinda should be
My guess is that Canva and Figma are 90% of the reason why people are no longer confident in Adobe as a company.
Figma-balls xD gottem
(I have no idea what these are plz explain)
Figma is a vector drawing app that was originally for UX design (an Adobe XD competitor), but they just added a bunch of graphic design tools that compete with Adobe Illustrator.
Canva does a lot of raster and vector image editing that originally targeted people that were not design pros, but they’ve been adding a lot of features that allow people to make some professional quality stuff stuff with ease.
All in all, both companies are growing into the spaces Adobe dominated. If you were a UX designer who needed to occasionally use Illustrator for a more detailed illustration, maybe you no longer need that Adobe CS license.
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Canva also owns Affinity, which is a direct competitor to some of adobe’s main offering.
This had better not leave to further enshitification of the PDF format, I will snap if signing government forms gets any worse.
now we need a photoshop equivelent, and i mean all of photoshop’s features in one piece of software, not 3 combined
Affinity, Photopea, etc. There are a few.
Figma is a prototyping app to make semi interactive demos of user interfaces.
What’s good about it, is that it is really easy to export the desings to be used by a mobile developer - you drop the part where you build an interface out of pictures, it is the interface from the start.
How long before Adobe buys them… they did it macromedia and all their other competitors. Anti-trust laws, if they were working, would have shut down Abobe decades ago.
They tried to buy Figma and failed due to anti monopoly legislation
Holy shit I can’t believe that kind of consumer protection still exists in the US
IIRC it was the British regulator that blocked it. The EU and eventually US ones issued similar statements following the UK block and then the deal was abandoned
They tried to buy Figma, but getting past the regulators was too hard. It was clearly a play to monopolize UX design just like the did with graphic design.
Idk, i work at a print shop and half of my work day is spent fixing dog shit files people send me from Canva. It’s the scourge of pretty much every printer out there.
Just because people have the tools to do graphic design, does not make them good at graphic design.
That used to be my trade. What’s wrong with Canva files?
Nothing is vectored, everything is outlines and masks on masks on masks. So when someone sends me a letter sized document without the bleed (becase it never has bleed), i have 2 dozen groups i have to sift through to try and add bleed as best i can. Nothing is print ready, even from “professionals” sending me their ad copy. Canva is designed aroind web, so when amateurs use it for printing, it compounds all the problems, and Canvas instructions for designing for print are next to useless, even if the customer somehow managed to read them.
About a million years ago I worked for a company that used a product. About 2 or 3 hours of every day was dealt with inefficiencies and issues with the product.
One day I got kind of fed up with it I wrote them a long detailed support ticket of the worst grievances. I mentioned that I was using their product in a professional capacity and that if they made these changes it would go a long way towards making their product more marketable to everyone else that was using it in a professional capacity.
I didn’t hear anything else about it for a good three or four months. One day I got a message back thanking me for my request. They sent me a $50 gift certificate and a T-shirt, and claimed the update later that month would be a significant improvement to everything I listed.
They absolutely nailed it and I now only spent 15 minutes a day dealing with the product.
As much as I would hate the idea of helping a multi-billion dollar company for free, It might be worth mentioning their shortcomings as a professional printer, If they send you a request up to the project management and devs it might make your life better.
do people not use the templates with safe zones that i’ve seen every single printing service provide? even if they can’t figure out how to put a pdf in Cava, they could at least draw their own lines where they kinda should be
But there are just so many good reasons!