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I used Marvel & InVision for prototyping during that time as well. It felt liberating and got me hooked on product design. It was the first time I felt freedom with a tool to kind of do whatever I wanted. I was in a technology, arts & media class and we created our very first portfolios with the tools!Īfter that, I didn’t do any design for a couple of years and then was introduced to Sketch in my UX bootcamp.

I started in design using Photoshop & HTML/CSS in college. And finally, I moved from Sketch to Figma for better collaboration amongst my design, content strategy, and research peers. I moved from Framer to Origami Studio because the majority of folks use it on my team and this lets me leverage their work to create more holistic flows and build on top of things that exist rather than recreating them in another tool. Prototyping tools like Framer helped me demonstrate my ideas in the highest fidelity possible giving people the best sense of what was possible while keeping the build time minimal for me.

I moved from text editors to prototyping tools when I started working for companies where engineers built the experience and my role focused solely on design. Unlike Photoshop, Sketch was a tool specifically built for designers enabling it to run much faster and anticipate my needs with built-in features like being vector based, exporting to multiple sizes, and being able to quickly make variations all in one file. My transition from Photoshop to Sketch was to gain speed and efficiency.

#FIGMA VS ADOBE XD WINDOWS#

I changed text editors early on when I moved from Windows to MacOS. I recently switched from Sketch to Figma. With the rise of mobile application development and starting to work for companies where I wasn’t the person doing all the designing and coding I started using Framer and later Origami Studio for prototyping.

#FIGMA VS ADOBE XD CODE#

Alongside Photoshop, I used various text editors such as Notepad++ for Windows and TextMate for MacOS to code the websites I was developing. I continued to use Photoshop for all my design needs for the next ~13 years until Sketch arrived on the scene. Things got more serious and focused from art to design when I was in high school and discovered Adobe Photoshop 4 when I wanted to spruce up a web site I was making. I remember using Kid Pix 2, a bitmap drawing program for children, in elementary school and was blown away but what was possible on the computer.

Long version: I began using design tools from a very early age. Short version: Photoshop + Notepad++ > Photoshop + TextMate > Sketch + Framer > Sketch + Origami > Figma + Origami

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