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by GenerWork 933 days ago
>I hate the non-native UI

As in, the fact that it's not built using native Mac OS elements unlike Sketch? If so, is this because it's slow even when opening one file, or just because it's not native code?

>I hate that copying from Figma creates something in the pasteboard that most apps won't allow to paste

That's probably because it's a vector and ensuring cross-app compatibility frankly isn't something that Figma (or any other program like Sketch) will place high on their todo list because designers generally stay in 1 tool.

For your last point, the only time I've had Figma open in the browser and then not open the tab in the desktop app was when I got a new work computer and I hadn't set the auto open in the app functionality yet.

Also, I'm really, really curious as to why people on your dev team go Figma --> Affinity Designer --> Sketch just to get assets. Are you looking for elements like spacing and color hex codes, or are you looking to export those assets into something like Jira so you have screenshots? Figma should be able to do all of those things in app, however I will say that if you only have view access and want to export something, someone with edit access will have to set something to be exported.
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drcongo 932 days ago
UI - as in it refuses to behave as a native app in any way and they obviously don't care. For instance, it ignores system zoom levels etc. - very high DPI screen + old man eyes means I have everything slightly zoomed so that I can read it, the UI text in Figma is so small I have to physically move to actually read it.

> That's probably because it's a vector and ensuring cross-app compatibility frankly isn't something that Figma (or any other program like Sketch) will place high on their todo list because designers generally stay in 1 tool.

This is just wrong. As I mentioned further down, a complex UI element with vector shapes and text on it can be perfectly copied and pasted between Sketch, Affinity Designer / Publisher / Photo, or even Pixelmator - I'm fairly sure it's just postscript in the paste buffer. Lord knows what is actually getting stored in the pasteboard when you copy from Figma, but whatever it is there's a 1/100 chance of you being able to paste it anywhere. If you copy as SVG it produces an abomination with all the text as paths.

The Figma -> Affinity Designer -> Sketch flow is just to get stuff into an app that doesn't behave in a completely alien way to every other app.

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