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Are Figma and XD finally getting Sketch out of the picture in UI design?
over 4 years ago from JE LS, Trainer
Mike Stevenson, over 4 years ago
Word. But plugins are starting to hit the market for XD which is cool: https://www.adobe.com/products/xd/resources.html
Jonathan Shariat, over 4 years ago
They actually have decent offline support: https://help.figma.com/faqs/offline-mode
Kirsten Felbert, over 4 years ago It's still not full offline support, its a bit of a hack, you have to have files open in Figma BEFORE you go offline. As someone who combines work & travel often its just not good enough. Its 100% great though for people who always work where they have constant reliable internet access.
Selv Grimm, over 4 years ago
there is a desktop app, and it's good.
Two things keep me in Sketch. The main one is its extensibility: I rely on a number of great plug-ins (most notably Runner, but others as well including one or two that I wrote myself). Those don’t exist for Figma and can’t exist until they implement more of an API.
Secondarily, last I checked Figma lacks full offline support. I don’t usually need to work offline, right up until the point when I really really do.
I haven’t played with XD yet and keep meaning to...but I have trouble gathering the enthusiasm to do so given the trajectory Illustrator, Photoshop, and Lightroom have taken the last few years.