yeah, but the point stands. that’s how Adobe took over the world, as well as Apple products like the iPad, the iPhone, etc. “by Mac users for Mac users” is historically a very strong opening position.

I think things evolve in a spiral, where old ideas are recycled with a twist that makes them more appealing.

The tools before the mobile era, the canceled Adobe Thermo (aka Flash Catalyst), Microsoft Expression Blend, and recently Framer (which now is a website creation tool like Webflow), tried to fill the gap between design, prototyping, and implementation. But, they failed because web frameworks move fast, and nobody wants a vendor lock-in of unmaintainable code.

Maybe the Figma killer finally finds a way to solve it in a way that makes designers and developers happy.

I think (or hope) it's some combination between using real code (such as Storybook) in combination with a GUI. This has the following benefits: - There is only source of truth and it's the code - People who can't code (most designers) can still build prototypes with available components - No (manual) synchronization between code a drawing tool (Figma, Penpot) needed

At the moment it looks like UXPin is going in this direction.

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