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Building a Figma converter plugin
After months (of 10 hour days) in development, our new Figma plugin converts designs from Figma to Sketch in one click.
Figma vs Adobe XD: Which should you use?
Figma vs Adobe XD: compare maintenance status, developer handoff and team costs, plus a practical workflow for moving XD files into Figma.
The best Figma plugins for high-performing design teams
Choose the right Figma plugins for production, content, handoff, feedback, QA, presentations, and campaign workflows without adding unnecessary tools.
Nobody knows what DesignOps is
How the term “DesignOps” got corrupted and lost its way, and why it eventually won't matter anyway.
Agile is for losers
My decade long frustrations with seeing the destructive cult of Agile™ infiltrate digital agency environments
The need for “state driven design”
The narrow focus on “creating” design systems has largely distracted us from studying the endgame.
Password protection for Figma designs under NDA
Introducing an InVision alternative for securely sharing confidential designs with stakeholders in Figma.
Building a startup (in a pandemic)
Short summary of the lead up to starting my own company and the last 3 months since I founded Figmatic.
Crossing the design “handoff” chasm
The design “handoff” process to developers is a widely accepted practice, but I think it's fundamentally broken.
Figma vs Sketch (2020)
My personal comparisons as someone who used both Sketch and Figma for mutliple years.
The great stagnation of design and development workflows
The propaganda of "rapid progress" of design/development workflows inside companies.
How and why our team switched from Sketch to Figma
The blueprint I've successfully used to change things inside of a company.
It’s time to get back to the future
Why I quit my full time job as a lead developer to start Figmatic and build a new future for design and development.
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