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Ladybird, Servo and Orion can't come soon enough.
The reasoning behind the product seems incredibly similar to Twist[0]. What would be the key differences besides “new is always better”?
[0]: https://twist.com
Location: Berlin, Germany
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Maybe
Technologies: CSS, HTML, TypeScript, Figma, Photoshop, After Effects
Résumé/CV: https://vaitenko.com/cv.pdf
Email: [email protected]
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I’m a digital product designer with decades of experience focused on UI, UX, and scalable design systems. For the past decade, I’ve been a principal maintainer and contributor to design systems, owning Figma libraries, documentation, and collaborating closely with engineering (including contributing frontend code)
I’ve led and mentored small, distributed teams and work comfortably in remote, cross-functional environments. I value clarity, consistency, and practical systems that help teams move faster and ship with confidence.
Frankly, it's insane how laughably bad under scrutiny their own examples are. It both distorted the data and made the chart less readable (labels placement, segments separation, missing labels, worse contrast). And it combined them into one, so you you'll have harder time comparing them compared to the original image! Isn't it amazing that it added a toggle? Post author seems to think it deserves an exclamation point even.
> design tools market stays competitive
Adobe killed their Figma competitor (XD), so the reality of the UI design tools niche in the design tools market is that Figma actually has a near monopoly. Sketch still chugs along, but its market share is negligible. Penpot is a neat idealistic community effort that is lightyears behind.
This is one of the reasons why Figma continues to tighten the screws on their userbase, who doesn't like it one bit, but continues to pay.
Now, this is all not to say, that it would've been any better with Adobe's involvement, more like lamenting the fact that Figma lived long enough to become a villain.
> It wasn’t lost on us that Sketch is/was much much smoother with its usage of Mac OS’s native shape rendering.
Writing this from the perspective of someone who used to spend all day every day in Photoshop/Sketch/Figma for decades. This markedly contradicts my recollection of the state of Sketch at the time Figma was in its first public beta. Sketch's performance was abhorrent and it was constantly crashing while working with libraries. I was very skeptical about web-technology based tool in terms of performance, but Figma blew me away. It was FAST.
Looks pretty broken in FF 136.0.2 (missing backgrounds/boxes, the popoup menus are visible).
Is the Electron version supposed to be available on Linux? I see only mentions of Windows on the website.
For me the huge part of Grammarly's magic is that it's not just in the browser, but in any text input on desktop with their desktop app (with some exceptions). Having it only in only in one application just doesn't cut it, especially since it's not my browser of choice.
Are there any plans regarding desktop integration. Linux is woefully underserved in this space with all major offerings (Grammarly, Languagetool) having only macOS/Windows versions.
OTOH (writing from 20-year working experience with two thirds of it in early stage startups) more often than not founders are not actually competent technically or otherwise.
And “letting people do their job” at best means a permission to speak up and endlessly argue with conflicting opinions from colleagues, but not a permission to execute if that means commanding others to do something, because the delegation of power to do that is not being given due to the aforementioned lack of expertise and inability to judge if an idea is good or bad.
This is an advice not just for VSCode, but for any editor essentially. If you use a file explorer side panel and you tend to toggle it on and off, set it to appear on the right side. This way it doesn't cause your main code view to jump around when you do it.
One more advice is installing vim mode extension and sticking with it for a few weeks. It takes some getting used to, but it is worth it.
> The war in Ukraine is based on lies
> Proceeds with a bunch of opinions and outright lies.
Bit ironic, since the war is undoubtedly based on lies indeed (including not even calling it a war by the aggressor).
Indeed that's what comes to mind: it would make you life a bit easier if you're trying to do web scraping with content analysis. And that's what search engines are, I suppose.
Surprising self awareness.
(2021) should be added to the title, many commenters seem to be oblivious to that fact.
Hi, thank you for this wonderful thing.
Please consider adding an RSS feed.
There is tab search (and history, and bookmarks for that matter) from the address bar (i.e. typing `% foo` will search all tabs for `foo`). I don't know if it's turned on by default, but you can set it up from “Search shortcuts” settings section.
On macOS Safari prompts me to set it as a default browser every time I launch it.
FWIW maybe Sketch fixed their stuff, but in 2018–2019 Figma's performance was just so much better that I switched and never looked back.
So you're comparing enterprise license of Figma with individual license for Photoshop? That's a tad unfair seeing as individual Figma license is free.
On first point: for the functionality that the app provides that's a pretty sweet deal. Many comparable tools will cost you more, some much more (looking at Framer/Adobe here).
On second point: arguably you can do a lot of exporting and processing with their API. Yes, their file export format (*.fig) is not supported by anything else, but you can also fall back to SVG export for example.
Not necessarily, the power of habit can be very strong.
The users who only watch a couple of things are the ones who are more likely to “get bored”, because in any given month there is a higher chance that there won't be any single thing they'd want to watch. Whereas someone who just does it regularly (say every day after work while eating dinner or w/e) is more likely to keep that habit.
UI that's incomprehensible even to the people of closely related professions is more or less the norm for 3D-modelling software. Blender is not even the worst, there are lots of pretty expensive commercial editors out there that are worse (take a look at ZBrush for example).
> “business people” most often do understand what makes the money flow through their company
My anecdata for the last 15+ years doesn't support this claim.
That is true, although compatibility issues will quickly catch up with you (both with file format and plugins).