I've made the move from using adobe for the most part...our team here is now using Figma almost exclusively.

I think it is very hasty to switch completely to a somewhat beta-product like Invision Studio for professional work.

As a print designer, I can tell you that Affinity is not even near a proper workflow for designs that contain spot-colors and InDesign and Illustrator still outperform it in this case (which is my case most of the time). As a UI/UX designer I can tell you, that none of the available software does a good job for the UI/UX use case - they lack the ability for proper responsive design with real data and animations - therefore I started to design directly in HTML/CSS only with the little help of a http://styletil.es to get the right overall look beforehand and which can be integrated into your current workflow easily.

Honestly: HTML/CSS (not JS!) is not that hard and would give the same result with the same effort - and even support small animations and proper responsive behavior and could be shared even more easily (ask your Backend-/Frontend-Dev for a solution)! The code does not have to be perfect: It doesn't matter if your Pro-Frontend-Dev rewrites the code completely - he/she has to do it anyway if you provide a simple static design. So on that front, you're not losing nor winning anything besides the fact that you will get better over time and get a proper feeling for problems that could occur during the design process immediately. And the day will come when your Pro-Frontend-Dev says something like "Perfect work, nothing else to do here. Now we can talk about the fullscreen 3D raindrops you wanted to be generatively created on the website for the client."

So yeah: Designers should code. And it isn't their passion nor will it be ever (visual != code) - but nobody said you need JS with its (for a designer) heavy to grasp concepts and logic. But after little to no time, HTML and CSS will feel like writing a word document. Have a look at some Browser-Tools or ask your devs for help to set up an easy to use environment with hot-reloading to get direct visual feedback - it will feel like dragging rectangles around in photoshop with just a small amount of wizardry added. And then just use it. Don't tinker with its configuration or extension in the first place. That will come when you feel safe in your workflow and you will learn to love the endless possibilities!

Just pay Sketch. You can even delay paying them and just not get feature updates.

I’ve transitions to Sketch after two decades with Adobe and never looked back. Adobes engineers are masters, but their product design was too cumbersome for... product design.

Figma is also a nice option too. Give Studio a year and revisit it.

You can do pretty much everything you need with most of the offerings out there. Sure they may have small advantages and disadvantages compared to each other, but just use whatever you're comfortable with and don't worry too much about the tool itself.

Sketch + ProtoPie + Zeplin, all you need.

Otherwise, you could stick to Adobe XD and it would be: Adobe XD + ProtoPie + Zeplin

Also canceled Creative Cloud and now using mainly Sketch, just for Image retouch and print I use my old CS6. :D

I use the following:

• Sketch for UI (despite other people's experiences it works very well for me)
• Affinity Designer for illustrations/assets/print work
• Affinity photo for the very rare photo edit I cannot do in designer (open it about once every 3 months)
• Illustrator cs6 for whatever I can't do properly/easily in AD, and for legacy files.

Don't do video/motion or any heavy image editing.

I've moved on from Photoshop to Sketch for app/website mockups. If you don't think $99/year is reasonable, find a different line of work.

As for me, I have no problem handing over my money for a good product. Sketch is worth more than $99 per year.

Do not use Mac, it's made by a monopoly company!

Thanks for your answer and sharing to the community.

I know code pretty well but I’m most a right brain guy and I’m very happy to have this skill but I don’t like to code. Print is not my main activity but like everyone I want to use the right tool and improve a skill in a software with potentially no limit in this skill.

For sketch, the problem for’me was what said and the philosophy of the founder of bohemian coding 3 years ago, when he critized Adobe with the subscription plan. At this time I could install sketch with my 2 computers, after that : only 2 computer, after that only one computer , after that 99$ for a year of update and for one computer ... and sketch became very buggy, very laggy , my friend who don’t pay for the update can’t open my files, was very disappointed... it’s not for money but principle !

So decided to go back with Adobe ( Adobe Xd surprised me, not like sketch but with very very good point) .

But illustrator seam to me like a dinosaur of the design (just a quick exemple : we don’t see live the color of the element when you change the color, need to apply, to make a group with a lot of elements is so boring etc..), Lightroom is very good with the iPad app too. Pemiere and after effect are so tricky to understand and master, the UX and the UI of these software are so bad to me ! It’s a torture to use them ! Photoshop is photoshop , so good and so bad ! And the monopoly !!! Don’t like that at all !

This is the probleme : to want something different, outsider , new , do you think it’s possible without sacrificing quality of’our work or put some unnecessary obstacles ? Like someone who want to go in the filmmaking industry with iMovie ? A good tool to start with but after a moment you will need to use the right tool !

You don't like Sketch's 1-year subscription-based plan ($100)? But you came from a platform (adobe) that charged you $20-40 a month to use one of their pieces of software?

Beyond Photo & Video editing, I have migrated to Sketch across the board.

That being said, I cannot stand peoples arguments about putting design blame on the software they use. If you understand design, and how to design, you should be able to use Microsoft Paint if you needed to create a design. Find what works best for YOU and use it.

P.S. I stopped supporting Adobe when they forced me to pay a $300+ cancelation fee to end my Stock Trial.

I'm the only one at my company who doesn't use Adobe often, but I also only focus on digital design and not illustrations.

UI: Figma, Prototyping: Framer, Video editing: Final Cut Pro, Motion graphics (basic): Motion 5, graphics: Affinity Designer (not 100% compatible all the time though with AI files)

I also code when necessary.