A Type of Experiment: Our Insights
What is Affinity now? To answer that, we at A Type Of Amigo made a little 1-week experiment to get first impressions of two distinct profiles: your friend Ariana Irady, a full-time designer, and me, a content writer that is an editorial design aficionado.
From my own corner of the creative table, Affinity stands out as a solid pick for design fans and budding creatives wanting to branch out into new . That said, there’s a little learning curve that might feel steep for total newbies.
For Ariana, overall Affinity at first glance also seems a little more complicated than Adobe in its menu and tool bars. “When you first start using a by Adobe, the menu feels very clean and organized. In Affinity, I feel like I need to simplify the menu because it’…
A Type of Experiment: Our Insights
What is Affinity now? To answer that, we at A Type Of Amigo made a little 1-week experiment to get first impressions of two distinct profiles: your friend Ariana Irady, a full-time designer, and me, a content writer that is an editorial design aficionado.
From my own corner of the creative table, Affinity stands out as a solid pick for design fans and budding creatives wanting to branch out into new . That said, there’s a little learning curve that might feel steep for total newbies.
For Ariana, overall Affinity at first glance also seems a little more complicated than Adobe in its menu and tool bars. “When you first start using a by Adobe, the menu feels very clean and organized. In Affinity, I feel like I need to simplify the menu because it’s too crowded. The icons for each tool also feel a bit confusing (The shape tool is a black square, and I always confuse it with the color menu).”
Having said this, there are bright spots to mention on Affinity for her. “I really like the artistic text tool. As a designer, I tend to work with a lot of point type text in illustrator, and it always feels like a complicated quest to align it correctly. In Affinity, the artistic text tool treats the text as a vector even before we expand it, so it’s very useful for precise alignment.” She commented.
I share her opinion in that matter, as the layout space especially shines for editorial design lovers like me, as its intuitive tools encourage bending graphic rules and unleashing fresh storytelling. And, for those starting from zip, juggling between what is Affinity and something simple like Canva could be the winning combo to get comfy while learning more about a specialized .
But fair warning: the interface’s busyness means if you don’t know where to jump in, it can feel a bit like a maze at first. Still, once you find your way, the creative possibilities are well worth the climb.
As Ariana mentioned, “The idea of having a vector, pixel and layout spaces in the same app is truly revolutionary, I can jump from space to space in seconds and the app doesn’t crash. I still don’t know how to differentiate the layers from each space, but I’m sure that once I figure it out it will be a game changer in my work”.