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It’s interesting that there is no Figma links.


Making the company jump from sketch to figma is bit of a mission (source - I've done it before). The way figma handles frames, is much different to the way sketch handles artboards, auto-import doesn't work as well as you'd hope.

They would have massive numbers of designers, all needing visual assets. If you've got a library to provide consistency to them, moving that library over to another tool is a big mission, no matter how good it is.

I think you'd find figma gets healthy use at apple, like most of the work of UI design is trying a bunch of different solutions, collaboration and feedback, prototyping - I think figma would crop up commonly for that type of work - the 'shaping' phase.

The final step of 'ok make everything look apple' isn't that big compared to everything you've done before that point, jumping tools then isn't the end of the earth.


Probably because Sketch is a native Mac app, whereas Figma is not.


Figma is cloud based, Sketch let’s you work locally.


To further clarify: Sketch is only available on Mac, so it's clear why Apple loves it.


Please file a bug report if the Adobe XD links are not working for you


Yes, that's my question, too. I remember when Sketch was all the rage, Apple provided photoshop templates only ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


I was thinking the same. Maybe it's because Figma imports Sketch files quite well.

I've done it before with the Apple Sketch files, did not have any issue.


Believe it or not, most graphic designers are still using Adobe tools. Already hard to get them to move over to Sketch, but it's becoming the norm for digital design. Figma is popular in UI circles, but an exception outside of them.


Graphic design yes - that covers print design, print, digitla and television advertising and many other mediums - but among those designing software applications Figma seems to be kicking ass: https://uxtools.co/survey-2020/


Adobe XD I’d surprisingly useable nowadays, caught up to sketch with feature parity and is leaping ahead with their army of seasoned Adobe developers.




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