Figma continues to skyrocket — 63% reported it was their primary UI tool

A look at the shifting design tools landscape according to UX Tools surveys

Seems like only yesterday I was writing about the decline of InVision, a tool that was once the closest thing to an industry standard for design prototyping.

That decline occurred largely due to the cannibalization of InVision’s prototyping features by UI design tools. Principal among those cannibals was Figma, and it seems to still be hungry.

A look at the last few years of UX Tool’s always excellent Design Tools Surveys shows Figma had already moved ahead of Sketch in usage by 2020, although at that point it still wasn’t hard to think things looked quite competitive. At the time Sketch had announced that its own version of collaborative design — ostensibly Figma’s killer feature — was on the horizon. Surely it would claw back some of that lost position once it came out?

Well… maybe not.

Among those surveyed, Sketch usage is down from 45% in 2020 to 29% in 2021 (as compared to Figma’s current 77%).