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Figma has become an incredibly popular tool for UI/UX design, beating both Photoshop and sketch (for that use case), and it runs in a browser.

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And it has a far larger learning curve to get productive in it because it doesn't work like other browser apps. Its UX behaviors are mimicking Photoshop on the Mac. There are so many special keyboard shortcuts that it needs to put a guide on-screen to tell you what they are, and then gamify it to color-code which ones you have used.

Sure, it is a good app, and it is popular, but it doesn't feel like a good example of a complex app that should be in the browser.

These are strange criticisms. You are complaining that a professional tool has lots of keyboard shortcuts, that they based their keyboard shortcuts on a familiar existing tool, and that they have a panel to help you learn what the shortcuts are. And this all means it has a larger learning curve than ‘other browser apps’? I can’t figure out your point.

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