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Also worked a lot with both Sketch and Figma and what eventually won me over (together with the company I worked with at the time) was the ability to run Figma no matter what platform, as long as there was a browser available.

It helps everyone in the company since we had marketing usually being on windows, developers usually being on linux and designers usually being on mac. With Figma anyone could browse the designs and before that (when using Sketch), we had to export designs from Sketch to something like Zeplin just in order for others to view the updated designs. Then designers need to remember to update the exports every time they changed anything.

With the introduction of Figma, we didn't just get the ability for everyone to browse the designs directly, but also make smaller fixes directly in the design together with the designers, remotely or not.



> the ability to run Figma no matter what platform, as long as there was a browser available.

I'm pretty sure that this was the killer feature.

This is a combination of no OS dependence, no installation required, and no license key software. The software being any good is just gravy on top.

Anybody who has ever dealt with IT understands just how much pain this saves them.


Indeed, in Figma people who don't have a MacBook can also access the design.


Hits the nail on the head so perfectly. It's why we're using Figma at work after a mix of Indesign/Sketch/Zeplin/Dropbox PDFs.




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