There has been quite a lot of debate among the design community about what this move will mean for our industry, but very little has been said about the impact of the resulting unpredictability on design students, who are being asked to invest in their futures by learning one of these tools today. Let’s talk about what Adobe’s acquisition of Figma means for designers preparing to enter the job market in a time of uncertainty around the “tools of the trade” and what we, as design educators, should be saying about it.

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