Firework Alternative
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- grafician0
@dpi use Affinity Designer/Photo for vector/raster stuff then use Figma for UI stuff...
No more Sketch for me - true story: got a new UI project, we agreed with the client to use Figma, created an account, booted the app in under 10 mins...after 20 hours had a full app done, small changes and final delivery in a few days, no glitches, on THE FIRST USE OF THIS TOOL!
Figma has great simple easy to use UI + libraries + symbols/components (you can customize a component without changing the master!!) + Prototyping + very good export - also fastest design tool I've used since ever (you know, that "snappy" feeling you get from using a tool with 32GB of RAM but WITHOUT actually having a machine like that) - runs in the cloud at 60fps while using it in the browser (also has a desktop client) + teams collaboration (any number of team members can design at the same time in the same file - no need for versions support tools like Abstract) + comments in app for clients + cheap af tool...
They also have great support, reply on twitter pretty fast, can give them feedback and they respond (gave them an idea for a new feature on twitter a few days ago and they replied today that will add it to the list of features to implement next - first time someone from a design tool dev team replied directly and acknowledged they'll do my bidding buhahhaa!)
Anyway, no other design tool will come close to Fireworks, but my workflow today is Affinity + Figma and I can't recommend these f tools enough!