The best thing about Free Affinity Studio for professional designers…
Canva making Affinity Studio free makes collaboration and co-design sooo much easier now. At the end of last year I did my first proper project using Affinity Studio and provided my client with the full design files at regular intervals. When a small copy change was needed, a few hours before a social media post went live, it was easily done by my client. They was no waiting for hours or even days for me to have the time to make the change, they could do it themselves, because we both had access to the same software.
Yes there is of course potential for things to go badly wrong when clients are given access to design files, I know from first hand experience! but if there is trust in a relationship then problems can be managed. There are also issues with font and image licences but nothing a quick Zoom meeting and a signature can’t cover. For me, sharing design files with clients is a game changer.
This isn’t going to be desirable on every project or help every client and but for many it will be super useful. Now that my clients can, for free, download Affinity Studio I will be giving more of them the option for collaborating in this way. Some will take it and some will not but the option is now there.
Affinity is very intuitive and Ritson the integrated AI agent is better than anything I have used before, so this will flatten the learning curve for many. I am now hoping Affinity Studio will make the .AF file type into a more open standard like .PDF and there can be even more collaboration as it becomes a useful open standard other companies can build on. And of course we need a proper Linux version too with no sign-in required 🙂
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