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by The5thElephant 342 days ago
Exactly this. Thank you.

We need a Blender-like design tool specifically for product design. Using HTML/CSS for rendering so it covers most web needs and that usually more than encompasses native app-layout emulation. Open source, technical, and not expected to be picked up in a day or fully understood top-to-bottom by everyone.

The reason Figma is putting us into a design box is because it doesn't have all the CSS features that actually let you create incredible experiences.
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no_wizard 342 days ago
as much as folks hate electron, I think if Figma was electron, it would at least have the entire chromium web engine to work with
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The5thElephant 341 days ago
Figma on desktop is an Electron app I believe. Figma chose to build a custom webGL rendering engine for their design canvas, so the core issue is that technical decision early on (probably allowed for some better performance and multiplayer back then). Figma is stuck with wanting to control their rendering and allow for non-product stuff like Figjam or the new Draw tools, but it will inherently hold them back from providing a really good design/dev handoff and always will hold designers back because it doesn't use CSS web rendering.
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