It’s surprising how fast you can design real interfaces with Pencil.dev already. The workflow feels closer to writing code than pushing pixels, quick iterations, clear diffs, and no heavy UI getting in the way.
What really stands out is that everything lives in Git. Designs sit next to the code they relate to, with versioning, history, and collaboration handled by tools developers already use. This avoids a lot of the friction Figma had for years, where design history, branching, and reviews were either missing or awkwardly bolted on later.
If Sketch -> Figma was about moving design to the browser, Pencil feels like the next step: treating design as a first-class, versioned artifact in the developer workflow.
Curious how designers and engineers here think about Git-based design workflows, and where this approach might fall short compared to Figma.
Pencil.dev will replace Figma, just as Figma did with Sketch · HackerTrans
What really stands out is that everything lives in Git. Designs sit next to the code they relate to, with versioning, history, and collaboration handled by tools developers already use. This avoids a lot of the friction Figma had for years, where design history, branching, and reviews were either missing or awkwardly bolted on later.
If Sketch -> Figma was about moving design to the browser, Pencil feels like the next step: treating design as a first-class, versioned artifact in the developer workflow.
Curious how designers and engineers here think about Git-based design workflows, and where this approach might fall short compared to Figma.