Figma

I am hesitantly optimistic about Figma, a new collaborative design tool coming out in 2016. The intro video looks quite promising - allowing for team members from all over to work on designs in real time, online. Boldly, it seems that they're going for the Sketch + Zeplin crowd.

On the whole, I think I'd rather see this as an integration with Sketch rather than a whole new toolset. There's already a thriving Sketch community and this may just serve to bifurcate it. I'm also a little bearish on any online tool being able to handle bitmap assets in a streamlined way.

But those are judgements being cast before I've ever even used the tool. So I'll withhold them and wait for the release. I'm definitely intrigued.