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I really don't understand how this product can be called Sketch in good conscience. Sketch is already a disruptive gorgeous product that has changed ux and digi
by chrisallick 10y ago
I really don't understand how this product can be called Sketch in good conscience. Sketch is already a disruptive gorgeous product that has changed ux and digital design. It should be respected and given room to breathe. Change the name of your product.
- nailer 10y agoPersonally, I didn't understand how a chat app for software developers could in good conscience be called 'Slack'.
- bastijn 10y agoThat's a different discussion and type of argument than the author of the reply means to introduce here. It is not a naming conflict because of another product that is too well known to use its name (for both legal and other reasons). On your slack comment: I do understand it. Chatting is traditionally seen as not working. I'm thinking IRC times when I was young(er). Mostly social, not so much project related. It is more seen as the coffee break but online. The fact that both are often used to discuss business matter does not alter this. For me, Slack is well chosen, even though I use it mainly for work related communication nowadays.
- arctangent 10y agoTo answer this I suspect you need to know a bit about Stewart Butterfield, who founded Slack. A very very long time ago, SB created a social game called GNE (Game Neverending). The game (and it's participants, of whom I was one) were somewhat whimsical. Based on this, I believe the reference to "slack" is a reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius ("Slack" is "the ability to effortlessly achieve your goals") But I could be wrong! "Slack" (also known as float) is also something you build into a project to help minimise the risk of failure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Float_(project_management) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Float_(project_management) Maybe we will never know. Judge for yourself, having read his resignation letter from Yahoo: http://www.businessinsider.com/stewart-butterfield-epic-resignation-letter-2014-8?IR=T http://www.businessinsider.com/stewart-butterfield-epic-resi...
- nailer 10y agoI'm aware of the Church of the Subgenius, but I think anyone who was aware of Bob's teachings would probably already be aware of Slackware, the Linux distro commonly referred to as Slack, which popularised the same.
- MichaelGG 10y ago... Or pick a product name that can be trademarked?
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- steveeq1 10y agoWhat is the URL of the original product? Curious to see it.
- mikeryan 10y agohttps://www.sketchapp.com/ https://www.sketchapp.com/
- vogt 10y agoAgree 100%. All the names out there, and you chose the one of the industry standard for UI/UX design. For the uninformed, this would be like naming Expo Sketch "Photoshop" (at least in spirit) 5 years ago.
- dikaiosune 10y agohttps://www.adobe.com/products/sketch.html https://www.adobe.com/products/sketch.html
- vogt 10y agoIn fairness to Sketch (Bohemian Coding), they existed first before Photoshop Sketch was released.
- dikaiosune 10y agoAbsolutely. Naming is hard.
- Kiro 10y agoThis is Expo Sketch though. You can't use it without Expo. It's like complaining about the "Native" part in React Native.
- hitekker 10y agoI see "Native" as a kind of catch-all shorthand for the very large field of mobile apps and architectures. If Expo had called Sketch, "Expo Designer" then people would indeed call it "Expo Designer". "Designer" is too generic. "Sketch" isn't though. in mainstream tech parlance, it's associated with one very popular app and company.
- notatoad 10y agoThat argument might make sense if the announcement were titled "Expo Sketch: a Playground for React Native". The name they're going with here is clearly "Sketch" not "Expo Sketch"
- DanCarvajal 10y agoOne of the "Expo Sketch" devs is in this thread referring to their app as just plain "Sketch".
- harryf 10y agoTime to start a company called Lin that makes a design product called UX
- italophil 10y agoThat doesn't make it much better. I thought about white board makers.
- ccheever 10y agoWe think the products are so different that people won't get confused but if it turns out to be a problem, we'll figure something out. Sketch the design tool is great. We use it.
- welder 10y agoMy advice, change it sooner rather than later.
- evolve2k 10y agoI came here to say this also. As a dev & designer, sketch is a technical term like all the other technologies you refer to. I'm having global name space conflict issues as I attempt to pass your sales copy. I'd suggest you quickly change this, as currently a poor naming choice is overriding your others good work. Might give you a chance to hit the front page again too.
- lyime 10y agoWhy not just call it React Native Playground? or Expo Playground.
- reneherse 10y ago"React Playground" would be a good possibility, too.
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- hitekker 10y agoI don't want to have to say "Expo Sketch" to distinct it from "Sketch" when talking with designers and managers. This is a fairly terrible choice of name. Please change it.
- PStamatiou 10y agoDesigner here as well. +1 to changing the name sooner rather than later.
- dgut 10y agoAbsolutely. I'm so happy with Sketch some mental gymnastics are necessary to comfortably use any product trying to snatch the name.
- melvinmt 10y agoYeah it took me a while to figure out that this wasn't a plugin in Sketch.