Hi @KwesiArter ! First of all, thanks for your kind words and your support for Penpot!
Your request for an import tool to bring Adobe XD/Figma/Sketch is a well known one. Actually, you can see them as user stories in our Taiga project
We know that investing so much time in another tool prevents people from migrating unless they have a very powerful reason (pricing is one, but it’s not the ideal one for us, TBH). We do allow for SVG imports so there’s a way already although we need to improve text managing.
Long story short, this is important to us but it’s tricky to give it top priority when we need important features in Penpot. So I think the order would be:
- Exit BETA thanks to a great onboarding experience
- Add Layout and Enhanced components features
- Work on migration tools
This way, people migrating will enjoy an even better Penpot experience. That “influx of designers” won’t have many complaints. And we will keep adding features to make sure developers and designer can work together on Penpot.
On a side note, for what is worth, I can share our past experience with our other open source product, the agile project management tool Taiga. We did create those importer tools (Trello, Jira, Asana, Github) and we discovered that not that many people used them. It looked as if people were OK starting anew with Taiga whenever a new project provided them the excuse while leaving the old projects archived at their original locations. Now, projects and designs are not the same but it’s important for us that we are careful with when we address this.
Also, do you keep close contact with the design community in Ghana?
