Affinity Designer Replacement Icon

I needed an excuse to spend some time with Affinity Designer, so I whipped together an icon that better fits the Yosemite look. This is not refined enough to be used though (.icns attached for those interested though).

What I liked:
- Speed: Panning & zooming is buttery-smooth
- Stability: Probably hard to gauge with something as simple as this, but I had no issues in this run.
- The color picker: One of the best I've used on a graphic editor.
- Text: Sketch set the bar too low on this one.

What I did not like:
- Glitches: Almost all the controls (buttons, text fields, slider) are glitchy. This could very well be related to the fact that their launch coincided with the Yosemite release.
- Non-retina optimized assets: Some cursors are at 1x. They fixed a bunch but that's not enough
- Information hierarchy & inspector layout: I was scratching my head more often than I had initially thought.

I will try to spend more time with it before writing a more thorough review.

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