It's Figma all the way for our entire team. Easy developer handover, cloud storage with version history, prototyping tools, works great in the browser. The list goes on and on. We see no reason in moving anywhere else for the foreseeable future.

I've been impressed with Adobe XD this year. They're moving really fast in terms of improving the app, and really listening to users (I've spoken with the XD team).

Figma felt like an amazing step forward to being cross-platform, but for my team which is all Mac, something like multiplayer wasn't luring us away from Sketch. Adobe XD is bringing new stuff to the table like voice prototyping and auto-animate. They have the resources to move fast too. The app itself integrates with other Adobe tools, and is free too.

We're still mostly Sketch at my team, but keeping our eyes on Adobe XD.

I'm not hitching my wagon to Adobe again, btw—doesn't matter how good XD is. The XD team is chugging along well, but Adobe felt like an absentee parent in the UX and product design industry for far too long. I assume if they owned the market and they'd stop innovating.

When I open up InVision Studio, Framer, etc. I come in on a wind of hype and all I see is Sketch + some design trendy. Sketch + libraries, Sketch + animation, Sketch + react native, etc. But so far it's not been enough to make me invest in a switch.

I honestly just enjoy making stuff in Sketch more.

I don't think Sketch is going anywhere. I do think the market will become increasingly more competitive with the amount of tools that are surfacing. I'm not a huge fan of Adobe XD, but Figma is awesome. My opinion: don't assume that Sketch is going to fall off the map simply because they're losing some of the market.

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.

As long as OSX is the main environment for designers, I don't see Sketch going anywhere. Especially if they release some huge updates like better animation/prototyping and enhanced vector editing/vector import.

I go back and forth between Sketch and XD. I actually switched fully to an XD environment from Photoshop for work and it has been fantastic. With XD's newest feature upgrades, it's just been improving at a solid, solid clip.

Sketch is still great, but the UI bugs really get to me, a strange zoom lag here, some weird masking issues, etc. I don't think Sketch is going away any time soon though. It's the contender still bringing a better user interface and more flexible plugin options.

As for Figma, the SAAS model throws me off. It's similar to Framer. It's easier to do a corporate buy of Adobe, since we already use all their other apps. How do we convince a company to also buy in to Figma or Framer for workflows and get licenses for dozens of designers + auxiliary workers?

I jump over to Figma from Sketch recently and I don't want to go back. The performance is better (at least in the projects that I have recreated in Figma) and their components system seems to work better than Sketch's. Sketch is very unreliable, all the major releases are always buggy, the performance is bad, the rendering is so-so and the damn mirror app never works. Figma is by no means perfect but it does a lot of little thing better than Sketch and that is enough for me to switch. Also, I can cut out Invision and Abstract from my toolkit and save $35/month, which is nice :)

Our team uses Sketch > Zeplin. We also use many a prototyping tools from Invision, principle, Flinto and after effects. For the love there needs to be more prototyping tools for android that aren't horrible.

I am convincing the product team to change it too. Today we use Sketch + Invision + Zeplin. We will move to Figma only

We use Sketch combined with some other products.

Sketch + Invision for prototyping Sketch + Abstract for versioning Sketch + Zeplin for engineers

With much time and effort invested in our design ecosystem, including various libraries, I can't see our team shifting away from Sketch for quite some time. The use of all these tools sometimes feels excessive, but I quite like have dedicated products for specific functions.

For Figma, there's something stopping me from feeling comfortable about using it, I'm not sure what or why. As for XD. Absolutely no chance. Cut the ties with Adobe years ago, will not go back to their crazy subscriptions and feature-creep-susceptible products.

Side note: Invision Studio - used once or twice, felt unbelievably laggy and buggy, attempting to do far too many things - wondered how on earth some of these designers are able to release videos of themselves building prototypes, but then realise they've been paid for doing so and have spent hours laboriously working through it. Too slow in the real world. And Framer X? Put off by code, don't have the spare time to learn how to effectively use it (I know, flogging a dead horse).

Sketch landed on my doorstep in beta form when I was at Uni back in 2011. The ease and speed of learning how it works has enabled me to grow as a designer quicker than illustrator or photoshop ever could. The community, plugins and support has been a massive bonus.

So many toolzzz :)

As long as they're not on Photoshop! lol I think we all know folks still on Photoshop and it's just like "but why though??". I think Sketch is going to stick around for a while longer and it's still the industry preferred tool. I love Figma but I haven't made a complete switch from Sketch due to pricing and support but once they have that ironed out, I'm confident Sketch is going to be a thing of the past.

I personally don't think Sketch is going away anytime soon. Figma and XD are both great tools, but they just don't have the same community as Sketch - which still remains its biggest competitive edge over the other two. The 3rd-party plugins built by designer and developers around the world, but make the tool leaps and bounds better the other two for UI design. In term of prototyping, I personally feel that none of them really can compete with Framer, so I left it out of the equation.

I've been thinking of switch to Figma, but not just yet... for the time being I will stick with Sketch!

Here's the thing....

Programs like XD, Figma, Affinity Designer/Photo and Webflow are making design more accessible because they are cross-platform. Not only are they going to make dents in Sketch, they are going to make dents in Mac usage for designers.

I switched over to PC about a year ago for freelance work and haven't looked back. I'm still just as effective and efficient a UI/Product designer/Photographer as I ever was.

With Figma and Webflow, specifically, it might even be possible to be a full-fledged UI/Product designer with just a Chromebook.

Nope. Right now there's nothing compelling enough in either of them for it to make sense to switch from a Sketch/Principle/Zeplin setup. An all-in-one tool isn't enough. This combo is already so well integrated that it almost feels like one experience.

I'm hesitant to go back to Adobe for my UI design needs. They strung us along for years, forcing us to use a bloated Photoshop. They only got into the UI game because of Sketch. If it weren't for Sketch, we'd all still be using Photoshop.

Also, designing in a browser is just crazy talk. There's no real reason for it.

Interesting that Framer and Invision Studio are almost not mentioned here (sure the headline was related to this tools but ...). Seems as they are already dead before even entereing the market :S?

If I were to give advice to students, I would say look at which is the most popular UI tool and learn to use it and use it well.

Then, look at other new and upcoming tools to have an idea of different approaches out there.

I might be wrong with this - but for some reason I feel you do not like Sketch at all or just would like it to disappear?

I do not want to list the benefits of Figma as there are too many. Note that its a tool that a kid learning about UI design can use for Free and on any OS. Many people can't afford a macbook which is a requirement for Sketch. XD is multi-platform but I still think its not as universal as the browser and it will never be. I know web devs who are running Linux and are using Figma.

Sketch is here to stay, at least for a while. The plugin and integration ecosystems are so good, and the latest data plugins are a gamechanger.

We've no interest in XD our company is transitioning away from Adobe products. For example Affinity Photo, which covers most of Photoshop's use cases, costs £17.50 a year, rather than £25 a month for a single app CC licence.

I really like Figma, and use it instead of Sketch for my personal projects, but it has a few major issues which stop me considering it as a serious Sketch replacement at work. Firstly, there's no offline mode. Being able to design with no internet connection is vital. Secondly, the Figma Mirror app is appalling (though the Sketch app is pretty bad too).

It's only possible to preview the current design, and prototyping and interactions are not supported. As cloud based software, I'd expect all my designs to be available through the app, and to be able to interact with the prototypes – this is not currently possible.

Figma is my preferred tool and it seems to be very popular around here but hasn't quite caught on in "mainstream" interaction design. It's been hard to convince other designers to make the jump, though our front end devs love it and they have started using it in some side projects they do.

Yes you should. I think teaching the Adobe Pack provides a better multi skills creative person. Learning an isolated software is not a good approach in my opinion. Also in a company with mix OS software like ours, we can't agreed with Skecth with an only MAC approach.

And XD will get where we need to get. And Apple may buy Sketch and sunset it like it did with fireworks and freehand.

Figma is an isolated product 2, a good do, but isolated.

InvisionStudio didn't allow me to have early access so I just gave up on them

Adobe in the other hand has been fantastic allowing us to have early access and beta version.

We are in the process of launching 3 new extensions. Easy decision for me, really easy.

For newbies is easier to learn a simpler software, and right now XD is simple but we know where is it heading with plugins and AI. Like I grew up with phosothop since 6.0 I will grow with XD since Beta.

Just my opinion :)