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Chris W. Griffith
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January 31, 2024
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Official Word on the Future of XD

  • January 31, 2024
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via Bloomberg

Adobe Inc. will end its effort to create a web design product to rival Figma Inc. after the collapse of its proposed $20 billion acquisition of the startup.

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"We have no plans to further invest in it," a spokesperson said Tuesday of XD.

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"We are focused on the opportunity we have across imaging, photography, design, web, animation and 3D, as well as Express and Firefly the spokesperson said.

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Participating Frequently
January 31, 2024

Mentioned in the same article:

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With billions of dollars that would have gone toward Figma freed up, some Wall Street analysts wondered whether Adobe would attempt to build another competing product design app. The spokesperson said the company is open to exploring partnerships with other companies in the space.

 

This confirms XD is truly dead. The fact that Adobe's spokeperson admitted to being open to "partnerships with other companies in the space" is the final nail in XD's coffin.

 

It's over for XD. And I would not be surprised if Adobe waits it out for a while, and then buys Protopie, or a similar up-and-coming prototyping tool, and maintain the original company's infrastructure and team(s). That's exactly what they've done with Substance Designer/Painter, and this approach is far more flexible and future-proof. Besides, too many mistakes were made with XD and as far as I can tell XD isn't salvagable for Adobe (neither in the market nor in its current development state).

 

But no matter how all of this pans out: XD's time is done and over with. RIP XD.

Participant
June 6, 2024

😞 I loved XD so much more than Figma

Participant
October 16, 2024

Really? XD had always been a buggy mess! 

Participating Frequently
January 31, 2024

keeping xd will the best way to start, after they should try to be different of figma (tech-design) vs (create-design)

Participant
January 31, 2024

I DONT NEED MORE AI FUNC.

BRING MY XD SERVICE BACK.