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Re:Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger by PeterCorless on Monday December 18, 2023 @09:29PM (#38691081)
+1 this. Website design has become an increasingly iterative, collaborative process inside companies. You can't just launch a new website and surprise your team. People need to annotate comments, and constant iteration is the name of the game. Design, solicit feedback, integrate, iterate, repeat.

There's also a lot of work needed up-front on responsive design (as opposed to it being an also-ran or afterthought), and a move away from older typical WordPress-oriented static designs to modern dynamic JAMstack-oriented development methodologies.

Re:Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger by exodust on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @01:55AM (#38692672)
> Design, solicit feedback, integrate, iterate, repeat.

Except people in a typical company who might provide quality feedback on the new website, do not want to "browse Figma". They want an actual website to view - dev site or the actual new live site.

> "You can't just launch a new website and surprise your team."

Yes you can. Nothing beats launching a new site to motivate quality feedback. If you expect feedback to arrive soon after launch, you can use this to your advantage.

If you like the sound of crickets, share a link to Figma and ask people for feedback. Designers and developers will respond, others like sales and non-technical staff often won't. Why? Because people prefer the security of their web browser's familiar reference point when assessing a website. As opposed to browsing an app that gives them a special window to a slippery canvas where an impression of the website is found.

Re:Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger by wryanzimmerman on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @07:24AM (#38694701)
That’s why you send them the link to the prototype, which opens in their browser, not the figma link.

That’s like half the point of prototyping software vs graphic design / illustration software!

Non-designers want to see “the site” open in their browser and be able to click through the pages, instead of use some design app—that’s like half the point of figma.