Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning

Re:Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning by mc32 on Friday April 09, 2021 @11:17AM (#26751590)

If the moderately paid person is inefficient or unproductive because they don’t have a $600 piece of software, management is egregiously misguided about where to spend money. I mean if an add’l $600 spent on a position or role is the balance between being profitable and bankruptcy then something is seriously wrong in that company.

Sure they can have the user use a $0 piece of SW, but if it’s costing more than $50 a month in productivity via frustration, unfamiliarity or shortcoming (90% of the value at $0), Thats misuse of that person’s talent and detrimental to the success of the company.

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Re:Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning by ipaddr on Friday April 09, 2021 @11:26AM (#26751720)

If $600.00 a year is peanuts to your company I would invite them to send me $600 dollars a year.

It is not like $600 dollars is going to bankrupt your company. Their would be something seriously wrong if your company couldn't send me the money.

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Re:Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning by cglace on Friday April 09, 2021 @11:32AM (#26751815)

I have a hard time seeing how sending you $600 has anything to do with the productivity of a tool. Most people design PCBs using Altium which is $10,000 per license. Are you saying companies should send you 10k because they could use Eagle instead?

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Re:Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning by sokoloff on Friday April 09, 2021 @04:56PM (#26756053)

I wonder the number of PCBs designed with Altium ($$$$), Eagle ($$), and KiCAD ($0).

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Re:Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning by ipaddr on Friday April 09, 2021 @05:23PM (#26756351)

$600 is a budget item that will be available next year to spend. If you never expense me you will never create the budget room for when you really need it.

If the size of your company allows for $10,000 software purchases I would expense me for 2 copies. Next year you can use that budget for post covid grow.

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Re:Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning by mc32 on Friday April 09, 2021 @11:34AM (#26751847)

It depends on that $600’s ROI. Are you going to make it worth it, the user productive or contribute to the goals of the company?

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Re:Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning by ipaddr on Friday April 09, 2021 @05:28PM (#26756425)

The idea is to pay me today to create budget room for you in the future for when you need that budget. By paying me $600 you create a budget increase that carries forward annually. Simply pay me yearly until you are ready to spend your free $600 budget.

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Re:Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning by Nkuna on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:42PM (#26754364)

The idea is you're spending $600 to use software that directly or indirectly contributes to the co's revenue. If you do it right, you make that $600 back and then some.

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