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> By bringing powerful capabilities from Adobe’s imaging, photography, illustration, video, 3D and font technologies into the Figma platform, we can benefit all customers involved in the product design process, from designers to product managers to developers. Figma’s community will ultimately have a continuous user experience across ideation, screen layout, interaction design and content editing, allowing product designers and their stakeholders to operate at a whole new level.

Adobe's clueless middle managers are already adding "push my useless pet feature to keep my chair busy" into their OKRs.

Basically, they are an orc army to be unleashed to destroy one of Adobe's few viable competitors. Like mafia thugs with a baseball bat.

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swyx3y ago· 6 in thread

for what its worth @zoink says they'll still be autonomous https://twitter.com/zoink/status/1570385560312909826 and he doesnt seem like the kinda guy to lie about it (even if this might change 1-3 years down the road)

cmrdporcupine3y ago

That's the promise almost all acquisitions get.

Even if it holds for a couple years, there's still the corrosive effect it has on morale and productivity as the surrounding company's broken culture seeps in and most of the high quality employees just either rest & vest or flee the vacating ship.

The founders will stick around and play middle mgmt until their agreements run out, then leave ASAP. You know it's really bad if they leave before those agreements are done.

gaws3y ago

> for what its worth @zoink says they'll still be autonomous ... and he doesnt seem like the kinda guy to lie about it (even if this might change 1-3 years down the road)

Dylan's tweet is bullshit. You know it. We know it. $20 billion (with a B) is a very good chunk of money, and Dylan has a golden parachute prepared when Adobe, "1-3 to years down the road," cannibalizes, rebuilds, and rebrands Figma into an overpriced and bloated monstrosity.

enumjorge3y ago

Everyone always says this. They should ask the Instagram founders [1]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-04-07/zuckerber...

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aliqot3y ago

Every founder says that, then suddenly you're saying Aaron Swartz wasn't a cofounder and that you're not to be considered the "bastion of free speech".

capableweb3y ago

Well, lets see what happens. But it doesn't bode well when Adobe is saying they'll add features for photography (wtf?) into Figma, when that's not what the tool is about at all.

esskay3y ago

I dare say they will be autonomous for a year. Then Adobe will want some ROI and start slapping creative cloud crap into it.

I'd imaging it'll be added to the CCX launcher pretty quickly and made the only way to download it. Thankfully because it's electron it shouldn't be too hard for a 3rd party client to be made.

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