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> If you need a free form design tool to sketch, use one. There are hundreds of them.

Before Figma, the norm of design tool was Photoshop, not the other "hundreds of them."

So go back in time, if you had been Figma founder developing a tool that appeals to most designers, it should've looked more like Photoshop than like CSS/HTML.

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Fireworks also existed the whole time which had a lot of Figma's features but bizarrely was completely ignored by 95% of designers.

I used Fireworks a lot, and what amazed me at Sketch when I found it, is that they figured out every single thing that bothered me in Fireworks and did it right. At that period, Figma was mostly copying all the tiny clever innovations done by Sketch.

There is the sketch app , which is older and more of a direct competitor to Figma. Figma won because of being web based/ multi platform among other advantages.

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