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Mourning Figma: the end of a chapter

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Fabricio Teixeira
Sep 19, 2022

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Designers will go through the five stages of grief over the coming weeks or months. And then, very little will change for the next 2–3 years. This is a pattern we see pretty consistently in acquisitions, especially Adobe ones such as Macromedia (showing my age there) or more recently, Substance Designer & Painter.

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How influencers become brainwashed by their audiences →
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