Not all features are equal comparing Figma to Sketch

We're a small design team specialising in product design at IoT.nxt . Over the last two and a half years, we have grown our team compliment to 6 designers. 2 junior, 3 intermediate and me, leader of the pack.?

Since we don't have the luxury of being either UX or UI exclusively, we heavily rely on component libraries and existing design patterns to build our screens. We spend most of our time sampling existing design patterns that we can apply, to our rather unique, environment.?

Most of the team members joining, were all familiar with Figma, however, we mainly spent our time on Sketch and publishing to Zeplin for dev inspection. Zeplin of course, then pulled a fast one with their change in licensing, where every inspect user accounts for a paid license. We had abandon Zeplin for good. RIP Zeplin .?

Fortunately, that was around about the same time Sketch introduced their cloud based inspection. Leading up to the renewal of our Sketch licenses, I proposed to the team to review our entire suite of apps we use.?

• Miro for brainstorming
• Sketch for design
• InVision for prototyping
• Sketch cloud for inspect

Obviously Figma was the main candidate to do feature comparisons against. It was difficult to consider anything else when you realise how encompassing their offering have become.?

Once we pinned all our hopes and dreams on Figma, I had to start the hell'ish journey of procuring a new vendor. A mere 2 months and a 100 emails back and forth later, we finally have Figma up and running.?

The one thing I did not anticipate, was the seamlessness Figma creates around your workflow. Onboarding someone, making comments, cataloging and search for design files. All this is no different when measuring them as features, but it's in the execution that Figma have made a thousand times more seamless.?

My main takeaway is to not to measure just what you are looking for, but also the experience you create for your team. I am not going to lie, the Adobe takeover of Figma left winded and I cried silently for a minute or two. Here is to hoping that Adobe bought Figma for what they have achieved, and not to ruin an existential threat.?