In an interview with Bloomberg, Adobe Chief Product Officer Scott Belsky admitted that “XD has become a pretty immaterial product for us” and that its support will be re-evaluated if the Figma acquisition goes through. Belsky thankfully also doubled down on keeping Figma a free-to-use service, even if it does spiritually replace Adobe XD: “We don’t want to fix something that’s working really well.”
Open-source design software Penpot has been gaining users ever since Adobe agreed to buy Figma for $20 billion. The company said sign-ups also jumped by 5,600 percent in a single day following the acquisition.
“Adobe is a toxic brand for designers, and now Figma is tainted,” said Penpot co-founder Ruiz-Múzquiz to CNBC.
Penpot just announced $8 million in new funding to help fuel that growth.
The movie lost its most recent director Matt Shakman last month to Marvel’s Fantastic Four reboot following his success with WandaVision, leaving the project once again without anyone at the helm. The currently unnamed Star Trek sequel was expected to hit theaters on December 22, 2023.
This news doesn’t mean the project is canceled, but it now feels like we’re just waiting for the Kelvin reboot’s demise to be made official after over three years of production hot potato.
