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Sketch is an application that’s

well loved within the design

community. It’s simple to use and gives

you everything that you need to create

beautiful interfaces. Up until recently,

Sketch relied on third-party extensions

to prototype with InVision but it now

provides an environment all of its own.

Using predefined artboards, you can

get going with Sketch quite quickly with

very little effort; simply start loading in

graphics or type. Designing in this tool is

lovely and easy.

One of the features that works really

well within Sketch is how it handles

symbols. This is a neat way of packaging

small or even large interface objects and

reusing them over and over again. With

your symbols, you can also edit them in

a non-deconstructive way. For example,

you may have a button element packed

into a symbol that uses text, an icon and

border. You can reuse the symbol around

your design and change the textual

element if required. If you edit the

symbol at source, you can change

things like font style and

colour and it will update all

your symbols around your

design. Very neat and often

a big time saver.

As for the prototyping,

you can draw relationships

between objects on your

canvas and pages. These relationships

will provide you with links between

your pages that you can start to connect

and enable you to simulate your users’

journeys as they navigate through your

site. Within Sketch you can also share

your prototypes with a unique link and

make any updates to the project as and

when necessary.

Sketch is a favourite to

many and definitely worth a

look. It’s a very clean and

versatile design tool. There

are a number of extensions

available for it that help

make the design process

even faster or easier.

Below In Sketch, relationships provide links between your

pages, enabling you to simulate user journeys

SKETCH ($99 A Y E A R, VA R IOUS R ENEW PR ICES)

TIP

Use symbols to make

your design process

smarter. Wrapping an

icon font like Font

Awesome into a symbol

can make placing

icons faster.

Great for design

Uncluttered user interface

Very flexible in terms of

functionality

Easy to build prototypes

Build symbols and reusable

assets

Add-ons available

Mirror your design in app

Easily share your prototype

Animation options are

limiting

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