Figma used low-level browser capabilities such as WebGL to make a professional high-performance design application practical on the web.

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY User eXperience Is Not a Design Artifact

"Figma used low-level browser capabilities such as WebGL to make a professional high-performance design application practical on the web."

Figma's co-founder explains that advances such as WebGL made high-performance web graphics practical and that Figma built its own WebGL rendering engine rather than relying on conventional browser rendering.

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Source title Building a professional design tool on the web

Source authors Evan Wallace

Source year 2015

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