A survey of 5,000 emoji users in the US finds 91% think emoji makes communication easier, 68% like emoji at work, is the most popular, and more (Adobe Blog)

September 14, 2022

Adobe Blog:
A survey of 5,000 emoji users in the US finds 91% think emoji makes communication easier, 68% like emoji at work, is the most popular, and more — With Unicode’s upcoming 15. release and a slew of new emoji on the way, we think it’s the perfect time to share the results of Adobe’s Future …

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Adobe’s $20B Figma deal is worth it because Figma’s $400M ARR, independent of margin, was continuing to double and creating pricing pressure on Adobe (Hunter Walk)

Hunter Walk:
Adobe’s $20B Figma deal is worth it because Figma’s $400M ARR, independent of margin, was continuing to double and creating pricing pressure on Adobe — Hint: The Answer Doesn’t Involve a Spreadsheet — I’m not an investor in Figma. I don’t know Figma CEO Dylan Field. And I’m not a designer.

September 17, 2022

Adobe’s Scott Belsky says the company plans to integrate Figma without changing its pricing or UI, add support for other Adobe tools, and more (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Adobe’s Scott Belsky says the company plans to integrate Figma without changing its pricing or UI, add support for other Adobe tools, and more — Adobe Inc. plans to add technology from its creative software portfolio to Figma without tweaking pricing or simplicity after its acquisition …

September 28, 2022

Adobe argues Figma will help it rethink design tools for the cloud era; Adobe’s competing product, XD, generated just $15M in annual revenue after seven years (Ina Fried/Axios)

Ina Fried / Axios:
Adobe argues Figma will help it rethink design tools for the cloud era; Adobe’s competing product, XD, generated just $15M in annual revenue after seven years — Adobe executives think there’s a lot that critics of its $20 billion purchase of Figma are missing.

September 23, 2022

Adobe apps will no longer support Pantone-owned colors for free due to a licensing change; users would need an Adobe plug-in costing $15/month to access colors (John Walker/Kotaku)

John Walker / Kotaku:
Adobe apps will no longer support Pantone-owned colors for free due to a licensing change; users would need an Adobe plug-in costing $15/month to access colors — Due to a change in how Adobe licenses Pantone colors, old PSD files could start being filled in black

October 29, 2022

Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 2.0, which can now generate images with default resolution of 512×512 and 768×768, and can upscale images to 2048×2048 (Bill Cusick/Stability.Ai)

Bill Cusick / Stability.Ai:
Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 2.0, which can now generate images with default resolution of 512×512 and 768×768, and can upscale images to 2048×2048 — It is our pleasure to announce the open-source release of Stable Diffusion Version 2. — The original Stable Diffusion V1 led …

November 24, 2022

Adobe plans to acquire UI design and prototyping tool Figma for around $20B in cash and stock; Figma CEO Dylan Field will continue in the role (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Adobe plans to acquire UI design and prototyping tool Figma for around $20B in cash and stock; Figma CEO Dylan Field will continue in the role — Adobe Inc. is nearing a deal to acquire Figma, a startup that makes online design collaboration tools, people with knowledge of the matter said.

September 15, 2022

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