A new wave of SaaS software for product design

Roger Zhu
2 min readMay 13, 2019

In the past month, I tried three new tools for product and design, and I love them: Whimsical, Airtable and Figma. I’ve noticed a few trends in this new wave of SaaS products.

The new wave of Saas Tools

They are all cloud-native apps.

Unlike the tools they are replacing (Excel, Mindnode and Sketch), there is no local version of the files. I don’t need to worry…

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Roger Zhu

Product Designer @Facebook. @RISD alumni. Always reading and wondering.