Design & Creative Suppliers

Adobe

Creative Cloud, Document Cloud and Experience Cloud

Adobe is the market leader in creative software and document management. Most organisations use Adobe via a Creative Cloud subscription — a flexible but costly model that renews automatically each year. Adobe has implemented significant price increases in recent years, often without proactive communication to existing customers. For enterprise organisations, named user licences and shared device licences are the two main contract types. The distinction is crucial: a named user licence is tied to an individual, whereas a shared device licence is linked to a device. In practice, these are often confused, leading to compliance risks and unnecessary costs.

Figma

Collaborative design platform for product and UX teams

Figma is the leading design and prototyping platform for product and UX teams. Following the attempted acquisition by Adobe (which ultimately did not proceed), Figma has remained independent and has significantly increased its enterprise pricing. The tool is popular due to its browser-based collaboration, but the licensing structure is complex and costs escalate rapidly as teams grow. Figma operates 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 oversight, leading to unexpected invoices.