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Sketch is great as a design system manager. It's not all that great as a sketching tool (in spite of the name) and is a terrible photo editor. It shines when yo
by bitmanic 8y ago
Sketch is great as a design system manager. It's not all that great as a sketching tool (in spite of the name) and is a terrible photo editor. It shines when you embrace Sketch symbols, which allow you to build DRY, component-based designs, and Sketch libraries, which allow you to reference other Sketch files (local or remote) as dependencies.
- Wowfunhappy 8y ago> It's not all that great as a sketching tool (in spite of the name) and is a terrible photo editor. The app’s name notwithstanding—it was likely a poor choice—I don’t think Sketch was ever designed to do these things.
- bitmanic 8y agoI agree on both points.
- mortenjorck 8y agoThis is the critical distinction. I think a lot of people see Sketch and think "so, a cheaper Adobe Illustrator?" But it's how Sketch utilizes nested symbols and libraries that makes it a qualitatively different kind of application from other vector apps. I love that you used the term DRY to describe the design process Sketch enables - it never occurred to me, but it's exactly the same principle. Going back to Illustrator or Photoshop after Sketch is the UI design equivalent of copying and pasting the same code block over and over instead of writing a function or a class.