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I'd say Figma and Sketch for many digital designers. Complemented with photo editing tools like Pixelmator and image gen like Midjourney. Also tools like Spline for 3D and Rive for motion. They could take fresh, focused approaches and don't have to deal with the weight of their legacy. Print still seems to be mostly with the Adobe toolbox.

What do you use or see used a lot?
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No Good Kid 5mo ago 💬 1

I’m very looking forward to AI design tools, where the interface will be replaced by just a voice commands. I hope for 3-5 years from now.

As a designer, I hate to switch between platforms and searching for tools inside them. It seriously kills my mojo...

btw I switched from Adobe to Affinity 5 years ago (after 10 years of using adobe almost daily) and I’m very happy with that decision. Works great for all raster, vector and print stuff.

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Christoph Ono 5mo ago

I've seen two hype waves around chat/voice interfaces before, making me a bit skeptical about whether those can ever work. First one was when Intercom and co were a big deal (2012 or so), and every website just had to have a chatbox. Then Alexa and co launched a few years later. Tons of experimentation with voice that didn't go far. Sure, we have AI now, but I am still skeptical. Voice/chat are so imprecise and slow compared to a keyboard and a mouse (or even fingers on a touch screen).

But I am always happy to be proven wrong. AI has already given us lots of superpowers, maybe there are more to come.