Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger

Re:Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger by maroonblazer on Monday December 18, 2023 @08:30PM (#38690697)

I dunno. I work with a lot of designers and there's so much substantive back and forth in terms of clarifying goals, objectives, understanding design choices, and business priorities. I.e., there's a ton of nuance that is uncovered and deconstructed in those conversations. I'm skeptical that AI, at least in its current and foreseeable form, can fill those shoes in any meaningful way.

I liken it to engineers who respond to the threat of AI making them obsolete with "Half my job is clarifying requirements and/or changes in priorities...can Copilot do that?" I think it's the same for UX/UI/Design.

I say that as a very vocal supporter of this latest generation of AI. Both personally and professionally it's upped my game significantly.

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Re:Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger by quitit on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @05:01AM (#38693776)

Oh don’t get me wrong. You’re 100% right - but this provides a level of disruption that would make the Figma buy out not as competitive as originally imagined. Neither are, of course, in the on-demand UX space, but both will need to be. Until then AI concept building is coming, this being the idea of freeing the designers from repetition and ground work, while speeding up concept development. (I.e pretty much what copilot is for coding.)

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