Figma is built on WebGL, Skew and C++

Sketch is built in technologies and frameworks exclusive to OSX.

From a technical perspective, this assertion of Sketch purchasing Figma makes zero sense. Should Sketch buy Figma, the level of technical debt that would have to be addressed would be enormous.

From a logistical perspective, Sketch is based in the Hague, NL and Figma is based in San Francisco rendering such a deal unlikely.

Figma has noticeably been downplaying their multi-player feature (likely high-usage attrition of this feature), there are no robust case studies of multi-player in use on their site, and they have gone full Frankenstein.

As design version control is a hot item with players like Abstract entering the space, Figma has put this feature front and center. They’re trying to go for the “All In One” play.

I would bet money that the Figma pitch to the investors to raise more follow on money as that San Francisco burn clears out their coffers, I would bet the pitch to investors frames Invision as their biggest rival, given Invision’s success in raising capital and acquiring two-million customers.

If Figma hits the cliff, there’s a good chance there will be fire sale, but even then, Sketch wouldn’t buy them.

I’d put my money on Microsoft buying them. Figma’s investors, both Greylock and Index Ventures, they have relationships with Microsoft and those relationships would dovetail into a fire sale so investors could at least get some of their money back.

As others have mentioned with regards to Figma’s constraints from raising nearly $18mil in capital, this is simply not how venture backed companies behave. It’s a mathematical unreality.

Adobe has been working on XD for years now. They have failed at achieving basic feature parity with Sketch. XD is still unusable for many types of production work.

As when big money Adobe bought Macromedia and let Fireworks writhe and lay in hospice before it finally died, similarly, XD is a gnat in the scheme of Adobe’s world.

XD is a folly.

XD will chug forward, perhaps they will get feature parity and the market will continue to move forward.

They will also fail to achieve the eco-system that Sketch has gained, and XD will eventually get its Fireworks atrophy, followed by being put on hospice and dying.

Whatever is “The Next Design Tool” - will not be a Frankenstein mash of two competing tools.

It will be a merger of design tool and platform partner.

This is written by someone who doesn't understand how venture backed startups work. Figma has raised near $18MM in 2 rounds. Six investors need to achieve 10x+ outcomes for a sale to even make sense.

Sketch is owned by a private company that appears to be bootstrapped. It's unlikely that they have the cash to buy a Series A+ company (with ace founders) at 10x whatever their stratospheric post-money valuation was.

More likely, Autodesk, Salesforce, Google or Affinity will buy Figma.

There's plenty of space in the field, and way too many conflicting ideas here (sketch is the most used "design" tool, while acknowledging usage of the adobe suite later in aticle which has overlap with types of designers who aren't doing UX/UI.)

I'm actually going to take this article as my wake up call to ignore medium posts.

You clearly know nothing about Bohemian as a company.

Ugh. That's time I'll never get back. Absurd reasoning, woeful speculation, devoid of business logic, painful grammar ... I could go on.

Don't bother reading it; the comments here are far more insightful.

The problem is Bohemian Coding – not even hypothetically – doesn't have enough money for this transaction ¯_(ツ)_/¯

(You could save yourself time with writing the article).

Don't need to read it. It won't.

Speculation is my favorite kind of branded content.

This won't happen, for one simple reason.

Reality.

Bohemian are not Adobe, they don't have the firepower to merge the apps. It would take them years.

Also is having the ability to have a team work on the same file at the same time that popular of a feature? I'd genuinely be interested to see stats on daily usage at Figma for this feature.

hahaha never change medium, never change....

https://medium.com/@chopeh/the-state-of-design-ff5142fb806

for the love of god....no......

Another Medium article fail.

The article seems to depend on the fact that XD is a strong competitor to either Sketch or Figma. While I don't have any statistical evidence I can't say I believe that to be true. Sketch is a clear front runner right now and Figma has been making a lot of headway into becoming a true competitor, XD is basically barely in the standings. It's pretty obvious from the recent AMA here with the XD team that the general feeling is that XD's development on essential features has been too slow and other software fills the gaps without a pricy CC sub.

If we are going to speculate about who will buy who I think that Adobe is more likely to acquire the Figma team and combine the XD and Figma teams while rolling Figma into CC. I wouldn't really like that but I could see it happening.

It's far more likely for Invision to buy either Sketch or Figma.

There's also an interview to Sketch's co-founder Pieter Omvlee worth reading https://medium.com/habit-of-introspection/the-past-present-and-future-of-sketch-d5237879b7af

What's about Gravit?

How would plugins work if they integrated to web? I think it would have to still live in the app. I dont see this happening... Both are very different.