Has anyone used Sketch
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- TBO
http://bohemiancoding.com/sketch…
Is it time to say good by to Photoshop?
- georgesIII1
it's awesome, I recommend it for anyone starting, especially devellopers,
sketch all the way!
(coming from a photoshop whore)
- docpoz0
I have used it and it is bollocks.
Im joking. I just wanted to type the word bollocks.
Bollocks.
I have not tried it yet, really.
- bort0
It's quite good. For me, it's the closest a design application has come to recreating the feeling of designing in the browser – very native.
There's a small learning curve but if you're comfortable in Illustrator you'll catch on quick. I recommend this series of tutorials:
Photoshop is a really poor option when it comes to designing for the web. You'll see a massive jump in productivity with Sketch.
- bklyndroobeki0
It's great. But looking at your website & your work, you may not want to throw away PS yet. Get familiar w/ it!
- bklyndroobeki-1
Lil trick to set your clock back if you're not done with the trial just yet. But it's a great investment and it's less than 100 bucks to own.
- Cheeky. Only 99 bucks. Think how much hard work went into building it. Charge it on to your next project and don't be a tight wad!set
- Did you read my last sentence?bklyndroobeki
- Nope.set
- colin_s0
people who are not designers tell me it is essential for designers
- ShenanigansTV-2
Adobe Reflow?
- fourth0
I used it for about 6 months. Since then I rarely open up photoshop or illustrator, or any other CS product. And when I do I laugh at how barbaric it is.
I KEEP REPEATING THIS: IF YOU ARE USING ADOBE CS PRODUCTS FOR DESIGN YOU'RE WASTING HOURS OF WORK. I mean if you want to edit a photo sure then use PS. create a complex vector then sure use AI. Use the CS tools for what they were made for.
I found sketch to be too slow, and too buggy. It has a huge cult following though.
I found antetype to be a lot better. Responsive design by using margin, padding, stretching, shrinking, word wrapping. Also different states. Very powerful UI design tool. Think designing with the accuracy of code.
- dat logoset
- what's up w/ these companies making Mac only software?!formed
- Get a Mac.ArmandoEstrada
- nocomply0
@Fourth - Yeah I was working in PS the other day thinking, "man, my development process has changed like crazy over the years, but this design stuff with PS hasn't changed in over a decade."
I haven't tried Sketch, but I've heard good things. I'm definitely very interested.
For those who have worked with it, or similar products, what's the learning curve like? Did your process slow down for a while before it got faster?
Just want to make sure that I dive into it at the right time.
- try it man, I have more than a decade of photoshoping bs under my belt and sket reduce my designing time by a lot (web)georgesIII
- really fast learning curve. just demo it. I highly suggest checking out antetypefourth
- I picked it up pretty quick. As someone else said the shortcut thing is annoying at first but stick with it.set
- karj1
I dropped Photoshop (for web design) around 4 years ago and moved the creation of comps to Illustrator. It wasn't a perfect fit, but it was a lot more practical—particularly as we needed to visualize layouts at varying break points.
We used Illustrator for wireframes for many years—which required us to bring those wires into Photoshop for styling, later. So, applying the visual treatments right in Illustrator was handy (and much faster). That said, Illustrator just isn't meant as a web tool. Type styles are wonky, linked elements aren't great, and it's sluggish for a lot of this sort of work.
I didn't like Sketch at first. Mostly, I hated how the shortcut keys I knew so well didn't work. (I do almost everything by keyboard, so it initially felt broken to me.)
Eventually I decided to give it a proper try. Within a week, I was convinced that even with its shortcomings, it was the right tool for the job.
If you want to give it a go, I'd recommend watching these tutorials first:
They're a little plodding, but getting through them only takes a couple of hours. With that done, just pick any project and commit to using Sketch for the entire thing. By the end, it'll feel fine—and by the next one, you'll never want to go back to Photoshop.
One note, though: I'm convinced that Sketch is primarily a UX design tool. I still think Illustrator is a much better application for actual illustrations, logo design work, layout of printed items, et cetera.
- yes, illy is still good for vector work. sketch is rudimental for vectors.fourth
- CyBrainX0
It's a Photoshop world. How are you going to pass of sketch files to anyone else?
- Chimp0
Its about time people stopped using Photoshop, its not suited to web design.
As set mentioned the only problem is once you've done your design most dev teams will just ask you for the PSD file and refuse to work with anything else.
- TBO0
Is Sketch dead after the new CC update?
- nb0
Just started using Sketch today. It's pretty great. It's annoying to lose my shortcuts and workflow that I'm accustomed to, but I can see this being a nice new way to work.
One question, although probably plenty more to come: Can anyone explain how Sketch exports a folder and somehow gets the OS to allow more than one folder with the same name?
It's not that important to know, but I didn't know it was possible so now I'm curious.