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Surprising to see XD in second place, I thought uptake was a bit lower than that.

I’ve actually noticed more people using Figma as a (painful) Illustrator replacement than XD in the wild anecdotally, must be outside of my bubble.

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It's very difficult to find a common metric that is reliable, unless I have user generated inputs for that. Currently, it's based on Google search volume. Mostly for the domain, but sometimes that is not possible, and for Photoshop I have to use "photoshop ui design" to get a good estimate for how popular it is among UI designers

There's a pretty reliable measure of popularity here: https://uxtools.co/tools/design

You may even notice it looks shockingly similar to OPs site.

All data is independently researched. In some cases you will inevitably have overlaps, because it makes the most sense to order content in a certain way.

The datasets are also fundamentally different, because I have drawn my own conclusions during my research.

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