Adobe XD put on life support ahead of Figma acquisition. Adobe’s UX / UI design platform has vanished from the Creative Cloud launcher and can no longer be purchased as a standalone app.

Before acquiring Figma, Adobe had a similar product, Adobe XD, that failed to take off. Chief product officer Scott Belsky said they got it wrong by building it as a desktop-native product.

Adobe has announced that it is begun what it calls a "definitive merger agreement to acquire Figma," for approximately $20 billion in stock and cash. The creators of the 10-year-old Figma will ...

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While its paid subscription tiers start at $12 a month, compared to Adobe XD’s $9.99 a month, Figma has a huge advantage over Adobe Creative Cloud by including a free-to-use membership that ...

But if Figma is worth $20 billion to Adobe today, we struggle to not see how it won’t be worth $40 billion to itself in time. And more valuable for its users along the way.

Now Adobe "only" has to worry about Sketch for the next couple of years, the other viable alternative to Figma and Adobe XD. Sketch was founded in 2010 with a similar goal than that of Figma: ...

It’s all over for Adobe XD. After losing out in its $20bn bid for Figma, the firm is conceding defeat in the UI design arena - for now, at least. It might look like Adobe taking back its ball ...

Adobe plans to wind down their small XD team and transition all of those customers to Figma. The company is assuring the public that the Figma team will retain autonomy.