Figma could be the greatest design tool
Figma is good, but it could be great.
Love this new collaborative tool that everybody is talking about, but i can’t miss the fact that it lacks some important features like:
- Independence — for the moment you can’t work offline, the desktop app works only as a web wrapper (can’t save local file with it offline)
- Flexibility — with the source file that it supports and exports. Is great that it can import sketch files (as far as I know it could be the only good way to work with sketch files on windows), but the design and development “world” is not limited to sketch and the need to import/export other file type like .PSD, .AI, .EPS is very present.
Don’t get me wrong, I understand the humongous work involved in developing all the great features that Figma has and you can read it in the below linked articles:
For me to make the transition to Figma is not possible until all the above functionalities are included because as an agency or a freelancer I will need the independence to work offline and local and to export the files to other than .fig if my partners don’t use Figma or the developers are to attached to their workflow in other design tools.
But when all this will be possible, Figma will be an important player in this domain, if not the most important.
