Designers hated Figma at first, but grew to love it
It took guts to build such a complex app in the browser at the time
Back in 2012 when Dylan Field was a student at Brown University, he came up with the idea of building a browser-based design tool. At the time, design tools were all on the desktop, which meant that designers worked alone, sending files for review to the various stakeholders involved, then making changes based on feedback in a rather inefficient non-digital loop.
Field and co-founder Evan Wallace launched Figma to…