Figma's Design Tools Are Now Free on Chromebooks For All US School Students (theverge.com) 17
Figma is expanding its partnership with Google for Education in a bid to introduce more school-age students to its product design and collaboration platforms. From a report: Announced during the Config event on Wednesday, June 21st, all K-12 students across the US can now access Figma for free on education Chromebooks. Figma is also expanding its educational partnership with Chromebooks outside of the US, starting with Google schools in Japan. Today's announcement effectively opens up the beta program that Figma released last year, which was initially limited to select US high schools. As with the beta, students will have access to both Figma (the company's flagship product design platform) and FigJam, Figma's collaborative whiteboarding app. Figma's Google program is only available on Chromebooks, though the company said that schools using non-Google systems can apply for access on an individual class basis.
In before! (Score:2)
OMG They are buying our kids and locking them in!
In reality unless we can get kids to program their own tools you'll always need to use some software created by someone else.
Re:In before! (Score:5, Insightful)
OMG They are buying our kids and locking them in!
In reality unless we can get kids to program their own tools you'll always need to use some software created by someone else.
The correct way to do this would be for the government to require all software used in schools and in the public sector to be open source. Then instead of paying for software they could just use the money instead to fund these projects and everyone would benefit.
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We don't need every student to be that self-sufficient. I doubt anyone here builds all of their own tools for their work, let alone other hobbies. Never mind trying to do this for every aspect of lif
Pretty Dissapointing (Score:1)
Immediately tries selling you stuff, doesn't appear to offer anything that say... draw.io doesn't have.
I'm genuinely confused as to why no one has actually dethroned Adobe's overpriced editing suite.
Not even sure what this is. Maybe you can make diagrams? Or is this for UI's only?
Is this supposed to be an Illustrator clone?
Seems really, really dumb but because the marketing is good we'll probably have to hear abou
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Well, Adobe is trying to purchase Figma but is running into regulatory concerns. Their entire reason for making this free to students is to hopefully drown out the negative attention from it being . [reuters.com]
That said, Figma is not intended to be an Adobe replacement. Adobe is attempting to buy it to bring it into the fold so that they have a more robust collaborative UI design toolkit.
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I think its closest equivalent in the Adobe suite is Adobe XD, which I never managed to work out the purpose of anyway.
This doesn't feel altruistic to me... (Score:2)
Figma? (Score:2)
More like Ligma.
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You know what's free as in speech?
https://penpot.app/ [penpot.app]
They got a big peak in popularity when Adobe bought their only large commercial competition, and they've only been improving since then.
Their CSS-based flex auto-layout [penpot.app] generates code more reliable than Figma's, and their about to release a grid-based layout mode as well.
And did I mention it is open source?
Adobe (Score:2)
What Is It? (Score:2)
I have no idea what Figma is, but someone must have paid a lot of money for the adverts/articles Slashdot have been publishing over the last few days.