What’s missing: Google Photos for Documents

Designers and developers are willing to collaborate but are facing key challenges:

• Their tools are not connected (Figma for designers | Microsoft Visual Studio and Github for developers)


• They don’t speak the same language


• Design tools produce images that developers have to translate into code


• It’s impossible to preserve a brand identity across all its

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Create a new document in any other digital writing tool and you see an infinite canvas; in Docs you see a picture of an 8.5” x 11” sheet of paper, since Google assumes that any document you create is going to be printed eventually. On paper. To me, the skeuomorphism of Docs has long been a sign that Google has fallen behind the times.