Design & Creative Suppliers

Adobe

Creative Cloud, Document Cloud and Experience Cloud

Adobe is the market leader in creative software and document management. Most organizations use Adobe through a Creative Cloud subscription—a flexible but expensive model that renews automatically every year. Adobe has implemented significant price increases in recent years, often without active communication to existing customers. For enterprise organizations, named user licenses and shared device licenses are the two main contract types. The distinction is crucial: a named user license is tied to a person, while a shared device license is linked to a device. In practice, these are often used interchangeably, leading to compliance risks and unnecessary costs.

Figma

Collaborative design platform for product and UX teams

Figma is the dominant design and prototyping platform for product and UX teams. After the takeover by Adobe (which ultimately did not proceed), Figma remained independent and has significantly increased its enterprise pricing. The tool is popular due to its browser-based collaboration, but the license structure is complex and prices scale quickly as teams grow. Figma works with editor seats (paid) and viewer seats (free or paid depending on the plan). In practice, viewer seats are often converted to editor seats without central control, leading to unexpected invoices.