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Sketch 3.7 released
- littleweep 10y agoCan anyone recommend any solid resources for learning to use Sketch?
- makenova 10y agoI'm currently trying to learn sketch and I'm starting with this youtube playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLnpHn493BHE6UIsdKYlS5zu-ZYvx22CS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLnpHn493BHE6UIsdKYlS...
- littleweep 10y agoThanks, will check this out.
- asadlionpk 10y agoThis playlist is what I used to learn Sketch too, quite good.
- jjcm 10y agoAre you coming from another product, or learning design from scratch?
- Scarbutt 10y agoI'm interested in the "design from scratch" answer if you don't mind ;)
- littleweep 10y agoI'm most comfortable in Photoshop and each time I fire up Sketch I find myself moving back to Photoshop. I know this is bad and want to get better at Sketch as I understand it's a more suitable tool for the job (vector-based, etc.).
- wmeredith 10y agoI do the same thing. It usually takes me about an hour or before I hit a bug or, more rarely, a crash. Then it's back to Photoshop. I've repeated this cycle about once a quarter for a couple years now.
- vladdanilov 10y agoWhat do you miss the most in Photoshop?
- anthonyko 10y agoA few people have recommended these to me, but I haven't gotten around to checking them out myself: https://designcode.io https://designcode.io https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCayG894faBz8UIKFH6uOMvA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCayG894faBz8UIKFH6uOMvA
- akcreek 10y agoI started by reading the documentation: https://www.sketchapp.com/learn/documentation/ https://www.sketchapp.com/learn/documentation/ After that I dove into a design project and learned further by doing and researching when I needed something I couldn't figure out. There are additional resources here as well: https://www.sketchapp.com/learn/ https://www.sketchapp.com/learn/
- kawera 10y agoThere are some good articles and tutorials at http://www.sketchappsources.com http://www.sketchappsources.com. And a collection on Medium: https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources
- howlingfantods 10y agoIt's a joy to see so many newer, lighter weight but fully featured OSX apps replace the bloated Adobe software suite (eg. sketch, affinity photo, etc.) Now will someone please, please make a fully featured spreadsheet alternative to Excel on Mac? All I want is to be able to use the alt key ribbon shortcuts...
- johns 10y agoIsn't that what Numbers is? And it's terrible if you know Excel. Plus Office is only like $10 a month now. Edit: Meant Numbers, said Sheets.
- howlingfantods 10y agoSheets is definitely usable but it's a bit light on functionality. I'm using the new Excel for Mac right now and it's just very slow and buggy. Also, the aforementioned alt-key shortcut is absent in the Mac version. Not having these shortcuts literally adds hours to my workday. I'd probably pay 300-400 dollars for an Excel alternative with full keyboard shortcuts.
- nodesocket 10y agoAnd you've tried Mac Numbers (http://www.apple.com/mac/numbers/ http://www.apple.com/mac/numbers/) right?
- howlingfantods 10y agoI tried it many years ago and it was lacking features like pivot tables and scripting. Overall, I got the impression that numbers was more consumer than professional oriented. Haven't used it recently though.
- coldtea 10y ago>and it's just very slow and buggy. I've been using it for months with large-ish sheets (e.g. 10-20MB) but have neither seen it to be slow nor buggy.
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoA simple prototype system via symbols. Nice, but still not as simple as they claim. I wonder how long until these tool companies actually consider more programming power; e.g. as in Bret Victor's Drawing Dynamic Visualizations (http://worrydream.com/DrawingDynamicVisualizationsTalkAddendum/ http://worrydream.com/DrawingDynamicVisualizationsTalkAddend...).
- Tloewald 10y agoHave you seen PaintCode?
- stray 10y agoOr the paintcode plugin for sketch?
- archagon 10y agoIt would be amazing to have a vector graphics editor that has an underlying editable code representation. One of the major pain points of graphics software today is the assumption that your work is destructive; Illustrator (and probably others) allow you to make non-destructive edits using Pathfinder and such, but it quickly becomes a massive pain once you're more than a few layers deep. I'd love to be able to define complex relationships between shapes and attributes in code and then jump back to WYSIWYG mode to work out the details. It's quite a complex problem to put both modes on equal footing, however.
- kyriakos 10y agoNo signs of a windows version yet :(
- ryan-allen 10y agoAdobe are moving in to the space with a new product, I have a feeling it might be a hit.
- kyriakos 10y agothe fact that its a new product and doesn't come with the legacy of their heavyweights might be refreshing from Adobe. The main issue i have with Photoshop and Illustrator is how bloated they became over the years trying to cater for every possible niche.
- rimantas 10y agoFireworks (originaly from Macromedia) was this kind of product.
- tillinghast 10y agoThey explicitly answer this question in the FAQ (sketchapp.com/support/faq): Is Sketch available for Windows or Linux? Due to the technologies and frameworks exclusive to OS X that Sketch has been built upon, regrettably we are not considering supporting Sketch on either of these platforms.
- kyriakos 10y agoI may still be sad about it though
- sboak 10y agoI've been using Sketch for over a year now, and though it's been a valuable tool (and the integration with Framer is wonderful) it continues to be plagued by bugs and crashes in even mundane daily use. They proudly announce new features while ignoring the toll these issues take on the designers who depend on their software. I'm posting this in the hope that they'll acknowledge and address some of these issues quickly. Here are screen grabs of just a few of the most obvious bugs I've encountered recently: https://twitter.com/sboak/status/651518759690108928 https://twitter.com/sboak/status/651518759690108928 https://twitter.com/sboak/status/704447216191078400 https://twitter.com/sboak/status/704447216191078400 https://twitter.com/sboak/status/676568026020372481 https://twitter.com/sboak/status/676568026020372481 https://twitter.com/sboak/status/664540876606017536 https://twitter.com/sboak/status/664540876606017536 https://twitter.com/sboak/status/651897512538693632 https://twitter.com/sboak/status/651897512538693632
- usaphp 10y ago> "it continues to be plagued by bugs and crashes in even mundane daily use" Me and 5 of my friends who are also web/mobile designers moved to Sketch two years ago, during this two years I maybe had 2 or 3 crashes, and none of them affected my workflow because of the autosave feature of Sketch.
- Tloewald 10y agoThe videos he shows are examples of sketch's many micro usability problems (not so much crashes as frustrating glitches). I love Sketch, but it does have a lot of little issues.
- mortenjorck 10y agoI've been using Sketch on and off for about that long as well, and have probably only had that many crashes too. Non-crashing bugs, however, still abound: Even after installing the update just this evening, I ran into a new undo bug where an undo would jump back about ten or so actions, while redo would step through them one by one. And this is to say nothing of the perennial issues with object alignment, the inexplicable inability to move an object along an axis with the shift key, something I slogged through again this evening. That said, most of these things can be worked around, and the benefits of Sketch are enough that a lot of designers can overlook them. Personally, though, I'm probably going to switch full-time to Affinity Designer once symbol support is released.
- iamcreasy 10y agoCan anyone suggest an equivalent tool for Android that you've used in production?
- fractallyte 10y agoAndroid is a mobile operating system. Even if an equivalent graphics app exists (unlikely), it will rarely (if ever) be used in serious production...
- iamcreasy 10y agoBut in the Sketch's product video they connect the desktop app with an iPhone and show live update. Here is the Sketch's video https://youtu.be/YdIeiCyKwpI?t=33s https://youtu.be/YdIeiCyKwpI?t=33s Why there won't be anything like that for Android devices? Update : I misunderstood the purpose of the software. I was only asking Sketch's iOS mirroring feature.
- pixard 10y agoI really dislike how fonts render in Sketch. There used to be a option to sub-pixel anti-alias fonts but they removed it for "performance reasons, and improved consistency with mobile platforms".
- rjkaplan 10y agoOut of curiosity, what platform do you design for? I often make designs for web and mobile web, and I want my text to look the same in my design tool as it does on the platform I'm designing for. Since mobile devices don't support sub-pixel antialiasing, I don't want it enabled in my design tool either.
- pixard 10y agoI do design for websites and web applications. Mobile is a consideration of course but mostly desktop oriented. I understand not everyone wants it but that was the beauty of having it as an option. Now it's just gone and those of us who do want it can't use it. Personally I never had a performance problem with it (plus it was off by default) so I was (and still am) very annoyed at it being removed.
- markbao 10y agoHaving overrides for text and images in the inspector is amazing. And what they're doing with automatically shifting nearby elements to text is an awesome touch (https://cdn-images-2.medium.com/max/1600/1*nXORHhDfi1ZiscIUiU9M4A.gif https://cdn-images-2.medium.com/max/1600/1*nXORHhDfi1ZiscIUi...) I wonder if future versions will have auto-sizing for symbols so that buttons can expand in size dynamically.
- webwielder2 10y agoFeeble reminder that Sketch is yet another graphics/drawing app pressed into UI design service rather than being specially built for that purpose. I use Antetype for high fidelity mockups: http://antetype.com/ http://antetype.com/
- fnordsensei 10y agoGood to meet a fellow Antetype user! All my colleagues use Sketch (I work at a service design agency and we do a lot of UX as well) so I've used it occasionally for compatibility. What I primarily miss in Antetype is artboards. The auto layout feature in Antetype is more or less unique in design tools as far as I know, apart from the ones that produce actual html, and they suffer from their own problems. The symbol handling has so far been superior in Antetype as well. It'll be interesting to try out the stuff that they've introduced in Sketch.
- mortenjorck 10y agoWow, surprised I've never heard of Antetype. The auto-layout looks intriguing: is it based around the box model?
- luckydata 10y agoI'm an Antetype user from day one, it came out before flexbox (I assume that's what you mean) but behaves in a very similar way except for a couple small minor details.
- luckydata 10y agoI'm so happy to hear from other Antetype users, I've been using it from day one (I'm even featured on their homepage!). Are you in the bay area?
- jaysonelliot 10y agoThanks for the suggestion. I've never heard of Antetype before, and I spend a lot of time trying out tools for UI design. The reason I've been a Sketch user for all this time is that it was the closest thing to a UI design rather than photo manipulation / drawing app I could find. Looking forward to seeing how Antetype holds up.
- asadlionpk 10y agoI finally gave up on Flash 5[1] and started using Sketch. I am a front-end developer and needed a lightweight tool for occasional design tweaks or side-projects. [1] Yes I know it's not the primary use-case of Flash, but it was a great tool and had almost all the features Sketch has.
- mortenjorck 10y agoOf all the weird usability quirks Sketch has held onto over the past few years, the automatic propagation of changes from one instance of an applied text or object style to all other instances was probably the most maddening. So it's great to see that finally resolved in 3.7 with manual style sync. Next on my Sketch usability wish list: the ability to set the fill or stroke on a group instead of having to go in and manually select each of its objects.
- waffl 10y agoYes, this issue alone was a complete blocker in my opinion, thank goodness it's been resolved. 100+ page documents could be destroyed in one simple action of pasting a styled text into a box with a pre-existing style assigned. (It was irreversible via an undo).
- DrRobinson 10y agoSketch is really nice from what I've seen from it. Does anyone know if there is anything like it which is Linux compatible?
- fractallyte 10y agoInkscape is the premier Linux vector application (https://inkscape.org/en/ https://inkscape.org/en/). I prefer Creature House Expression running in WINE on Linux/Mac. It's old, but awesome; at the time, it was a serious competitor to Illustrator. Brilliant interface, innovative drawing features, great manual. Free download: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=31249 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=312...
- kriro 10y agoI recently bought a Wacom Bamboo Spark (basically lets you take notes on regular paper and digitizes that). I only used it for note taking so far. Does anyone use a similar device for prototyping apps (with Sketch but I'll take other suggestions). Should work fine in theory as it can export to image formats, right? Usecase I'm dreaming of: Have a piece of paper with the exact dimensions of my target device, scribble down a layout, have it digitized via the Spark and then get it on the device and make stuff clickable and link pages. Very basic setup for a click prototype. Looking for a decent setup for this...I've played around with "upload page=image, make areas clickable and link pages" before and it was rather painful. All suggestions welcome. I can scribble down stuff on paper acceptably well. Actually showing it to people on device and have simple clickflow interactions would be pretty valuable. Especially if it's quick and can be done onsite :)
- greatjones 10y agoHave you tried Invision?
- easytiger 10y agoDoes anyone have any idea of how many customers sketch has? Or even similar products like balsamiq?
- wiradikusuma 10y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong: Sketch to mobile app is just what Photoshop did (does?) to Web design right? I mean, last time we used to draw websites in Photoshop, "slice" it and slap into HTML. We stop doing that because (I think) people just prefer to code html directly. What is the utility of Sketch then? Can't you just use UI designer from XCode/Android Studio? (Note: I'm talking from Android dev perspective)
- st3v3r 10y agoIt's a dedicated tool for designing layout. You're not going to do the same thing you used to do with photoshop and websites. Not to mention that, at least on the Android side, their UI designer is absolutely atrocious. Like, to the point where a company like Google should be utterly mortified that they let something out that was that bad, and the developers of it probably should commit seppuku in order to preserve the honor of their families.
- bovermyer 10y agoIs it just me, or are more and more companies starting to use Medium via a subdomain on their site as their official blog? There's nothing inherently wrong with Sketch's (and others') approach, I just think it's a little odd to choose something unbrandable for a company blog...
- Mtinie 10y agoIn many cases it probably is a better business decision than standing up and maintaining a branded blog that only gets updated once or twice a month, tops. Medium's content editor is nice and simple to use, too. If it's a busines priority to generate a lot of quality content, I agree with you, a branded offering is probably better, if only for the ability to keep control of the content.
- j_s 10y agoIs there any way to link any of that top stuff back to the company's main site? They start linking at the end of the article ... I wonder how many page visitor decided TL;DR!
- lisodeic 10y ago3.7 release has definitely slowed everything to a crawl for me. Organizing Icons is totally impractical and my workflow is all messed up.