Designers are acting like Figma is falling apart.

It’s not. You’re just spoiled.

We used to design full websites in Photoshop. Not prototypes. Not mockups. Full-on, production-ready UI.

Want a dropdown menu? Cool. Slice it up manually, export it as a PNG, and pray the dev doesn’t stretch it as more of your hair fell out.

Smart objects were our “design system.” Buttons, icons, cards..all reused with duct tape and good intentions.

Want to update a component?

You’d open ten different PSDs and spend your afternoon playing “which layer controls this shadow.”

We had no auto layout. No real-time collaboration. No shared libraries. Your team shared “v_final_FINAL_rebrand_march.psd” on a shared drive that broke weekly.

Comments? You got those by emailing a screenshot and hoping someone replied before EOD.

And if you ran Photoshop on Windows?

It crashed for fun. If it didn’t crash, you assumed it was broken. You’d mash Ctrl+S like it was a reflex. Because if you didn’t, you’d lose two hours of work and possibly your will to live.

We made it work. Because we had to.

Now? Figma gives you cloud backups, version history, real-time multiplayer editing, plugin integrations, responsive constraints, reusable variables, dev mode, and even tools to ship full sites.

And somehow people are upset because a panel moved or a feature got renamed?

We survived Photoshop. We survived Sketch licensing. We survived Adobe XD pretending to compete.

You’ll survive this.

Figma isn’t broken. Your tolerance is.

The tool is better than it has ever been. And it’s only getting better.

Move on. Update your portfolio.

#figma #productdesign #uxdesign #designsystems #uxleadership #designtools #digitaldesign #growthdesign #buildinpublic #designculture #designrant
▿ Show more