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What will the design industry look like in 2022?

Envato
10 min readSep 7, 2017

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MS Paint image from WikiHow

The design industry has progressed at a remarkable rate over the last 15 years.

The design scene in 2002

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From Flash and MS Paint to Framer and Figma

1. MS Paint’s significance in design software evolution

Image: Imgur
Image: Medium

2. The demise of Flash, Fireworks, and expensive software suites

3. The rise of Framer, Sketch, Figma, and monthly subscriptions

Image: Framer
Image: Sketch

4. How the evolution has affected complementary industries

wrote an article on the company closing down ActiveDen to shift their efforts towards other aspects of the Envato Market. Once generating sales of $300,000 per month, ActiveDen saw a steady decline from 2009 following the shift towards HTML5.

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Predicting how the design industry will look in 2022

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