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It's very quiet at the studio I freelance for 3 days a week, so I've decided I need to give Sketch (along with the craft and invision integration) a real look. I played with sketch on a few projects a couple of years ago and really liked it overall, but it was buggy and none of the developers I was working with were interested so I inevitably went back to creative suite. A few years on it look like most of the major bugs have been ironed out and developers I work with are now interested.
I spoke with the directors a while back and they wanted me, on downtime, to do a complete redesign of Yahoo from wireframes to completion, including all invision prototyping and style guidelines along the way. To have as a baseline for how all projects should be done and for junior designers to use and work from. Fucking perfect project for me... A complete redesign of a content rich site with absolutely no client input at all. Heaven!
Anyway, now I'm learning sketch again I thought this would be a good time to do that project, but after a while mulling over what I'm going to do I decided I'd rather do a Google homepage redesign, more so a dashboard, with all your google services and relevant items brought in as cards on a google homepage. Another fucking perfect project, that I'd genuinely be happy to do for fun in my own free time.
Spoke with the directors again and they like the idea but also want to see a redesign of Yahoo. I think they want to put these out once they're done and hope they go viral. I'm not so sure about that side of things but I basically now have the next couple of months getting paid to work on literally two of the most perfect projects I could think of, without any external input on design or UI, while figuring out new software that I've been meaning to for a while now.
Happy days!
- Sounds fun! Enjoy the downtime!mugwart
- You'll love sketch set. Also look into Zeplin for seamless transitions to developers.kona
- Yea it's great, have spent the last 3 hours in it and feel fairly comfortable already, though it's not changed too much from when I first learnt it. Less buggy!set
- Will check out Zeplin, thanks!set
- It's taking shape -
http://i.imgur.com/N…set - Just finished two side project sites with sketch. Starting to prefer over photoshop. The symbols functionality is killer.wagshaft
- I prefer it already. It's been a joy not opening photoshop or illustrator today.set
- Looking good set. Love the layout and cardskona
- agreed, looks great.Gnash
- Cool set! Happy for you manBennn
- Just I case, Online PSD to Sketch file converter http://avocode.com/c…zaq