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Just curious to know what those boxes are that Sketch checks for you. Right now, Sketch seems to be the prevailing product in the overall design community. But
by mattlean 6y ago
Just curious to know what those boxes are that Sketch checks for you.
Right now, Sketch seems to be the prevailing product in the overall design community. But in my opinion it's only because it was the first to really get such a strong hold on its niche, and a new product will take its place at the top soon.
What turns me off to it as a person who missed its initial spread is that the vanilla Sketch experience leaves a lot to be desired. It's cool that it supports plugins to extend its functionality, but I don't like how it's expected that you just have to get a bunch of plugins to reach parity with the vanilla features of its competitors. (The Mac only support is also a negative too, but it's not that big of a deal for me.)
- kitsunesoba 6y agoI don't use many plugins. I mostly just need a reasonably capable, digital-first vector canvas to work on, and Sketch does that very well. It also helps that it's pretty easy on resources — when I first picked it up, my daily driver was a Core 2 Duo MacBook with 4GB of RAM, so back then efficiency was very important. These days I have access to much more powerful machines, but it's still nice that it can sit in the background with large projects open without impacting a browser with dozens of open tabs and mammoth apps like Xcode and Android studio. So for now, there's just not enough to gain from investing time and effort into moving over to Figma.