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Design & Bravo Tags September 16, 2022 · 9 replies

Devastating news!

Archived from the Bravo community forum (2021–2026). Some answers may refer to older versions of Bravo.

I got to know Adobe aquired Figma, 
Now expect to know Figma becoming a sole buisness rather than most loved design tool,
The only reason I chose Figma was due to it's freedom which Adobe XD does not provides.

What do you guys think?

9 replies

Rajiv September 16, 2022

Adobe is a boring old company. They should kill Adobe XD and keep figma as is and make it their main design product else they will lose users to other products like sketch. However, Good outcome for figma founders. 
Love to hear what bravo product team thinks ?

Divyansh September 16, 2022

True that , not only that, now I am predicting that Adobe will soon shift Figma into their Creative Suite and make some same old business changes like restricting free usage of Figma, they have done this on majority of their tool and this is what I fear the most, 
Apart from this I also fear they will constraint Figma more and more, I hope they never restrict the free API usage of Figma, this is what Bravo uses as well to extract details of our design, I hope they never make this as some paid thing.
Who knows all I knew was if Figma founders was really that desperate why they never went public, we all would have had shown support, it has a string dedicated user base, still they sold out their company,
the biggest competitor of Adobe is now under Adobe, what a news!!!

app.monster September 16, 2022

I agree with you, I'm disappointed too. We'll have to wait for the actual changes though. I expect changes to the pricing structure as well as the whole plugin cosmos which would be unfortunate.

Divyansh September 16, 2022

true, and adobe shares also took a fall of 17%, biggest in all its time, looks like some guys are not happy ✌️

Fred September 16, 2022

Indeed is unbelievable, but that's how tech capitalism work, they needed to turn down a 20B offer 🥺

Greg September 16, 2022

Personally I feel XD is actually better, it's more intuative and more powerful. The only reason Figma has a massive market share is because most of it's functionality is free. the only reaon Im using figma over XD is because everyon else was using figma becasue they didnt have to pay for it.

Jaron September 16, 2022

Yeah exactly that. Pricing structure will likely change very soon. I don't like the suite pricing structure as it's actually very unfriendly and you end up with tools you don't need.

Mary September 18, 2022

OK, here is my 2 cents ....  Nearly every potential client that asks me to build something in Bravo Studio presents me with an overdesigned Figma design that is suitable for a presentation to a advertiser or client.  It is not an app design tool -- it is not an IT technical tool.  I have to redesign their  apps in my own Figma instance in order to create something that will work with Bravo Studio, remove all the layers of artist design and only has elements that have Bravo Tags,  I have often recommended that the client use paper and pencil to draw up a sketch of what they want and put some explanatory text about the flow of the app and what they expect elements to do.   Then I walk through it with them and get them to present scenarios of how the user interacts with their app.  

What is unfortunate is that Figma and XD are the only front ends to Bravo Studio -- currently.  It is too bad that Bravo Studio has a dependency on these tools and no control over what happens to them.  I hope XD and Bravo Studio work out a  compromise to allow users to have a simplified front end designer that only allows elements that are supported by the Bravo Master Tag list.  

As @app.monster says, let's wait and see.  Probably some new pricing.  I agree that is very likely and I am actually surprised the free Figma tool has been free for so long. 

Keeping my fingers crossed for a good outcome for Bravo Studio.   

Mary

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