About Sketch
Sketch is a product design platform, which helps businesses create, test, and collaborate on ideas with team members using color variables, layouts, shared libraries, vector editing tools, plugins, and more. Designers can zoom into designs for precise editing at the pixel level, export, or share assets on a drag-and-drop interface, and set up resizing rules based on screen sizes according to requirements.
Using Sketch, organizations can create icons, customize designs' topography or font, and use shortcuts, mathematical operators, and the shorthand method to toggle grids or layout views and adjust or resize a column's width and color. Designers can build product design prototypes by linking various parts and maintain a library of symbols or text and layer styles to share them with relevant collaborators. The software allows businesses to store designs in a cloud-based workspace and preview prototypes for user research and testing purposes. Contributors can also edit, inspect, and comment on designs or assets and browse documents and projects on a centralized platform.
Sketch facilitates integration with various third-party applications such as Zeplin, Lokalise, Overlay, Flinto, Avocode, Abstract, and more. Organizations can also add or remove contributors, manage finances, view finances, and download assets for production via a web browser.
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- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Great Tool for Viewing Designs + Constantly Improving!
Reviewed on 15/11/2022
My experience is this is an excellent tool for UI design and viewing UI designs. We realized a big...
My experience is this is an excellent tool for UI design and viewing UI designs. We realized a big benefit with their cloud tool is that now all users on the team can view designs easily. This has helped dramatically to align our teams on the requirements. Now that they are accessible for everyone, we are all much better for it and working as a better team.
Pros
I am writing this review from the perspective of a Product Manager who uses Sketch to view designs for myself and my team. In that capacity it has been a great tool! The UI is very intuitive and easy to navigate around. I find myself making small updates to designs frequently, and Sketch makes this easy even for a novice such as myself. Their Sketch cloud tool is constantly improving. Every time I login I find a new feature that wasn't there before. The cloud functionality makes it a breeze to share designs to some team members who do not have a Sketch license. We have been using Sketch for 3 years at my company and I don't foresee that changing any time soon.
Cons
It can be a bit expensive getting each team member a Sketch license. This used to be a big problem at my company, but since Sketch improved upon their Sketch cloud tool we found the need for developers to have Sketch licenses to have dropped dramatically. So if your team can use the free cloud tool to view designs, it could save you a lot of money on licenses for non designers.
- Industry: Management Consulting
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Best Vector Graphics UX/UI Design Tool For Creating iOS & Other Apps
Reviewed on 19/12/2019
Using Sketch has been a great experience for me. I've crafted some excellent and quite complex...
Using Sketch has been a great experience for me. I've crafted some excellent and quite complex designs for new apps. I will continue to use Sketch going forward.
Pros
I love Sketch and use it as my main app design tool. While there is a bit of a learning curve, I think it's worth investing the time to learn Sketch, particularly if you're designing user experiences and interfaces for mobile apps. The ability to create and use templates and components makes it extremely versatile. Also, the design tools, symbol libraries, and editing features make Sketch the best UX/UI design app I've ever used. Further, you can add plugins to add capabilities to Sketch. I use several. One of these allows me to export a design as code directly into Xcode! This saves time when coding a new UI.
Cons
There's little I don't like about Sketch. The only thing I could think of needing improvement is in creating gradients in the Appearance section of the Inspector. While this is extremely powerful, I find it a bit confusing at times.
Alternatives Considered
Adobe XDReasons for Choosing Sketch
Balsamiq is great for basic wireframing. However, it doesn't have the capabilities of Sketch for crafting completely rendered UX/UI interfaces.Switched From
BalsamiqReasons for Switching to Sketch
Adobe XD is a good product but is not yet as good as Sketch at this time. It is not as feature-rich, nor as easy-to-use.
- Used for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Interface very friendly for graphic designers
Reviewed on 05/05/2018
The software allows me to do my graphic designer work, very dynamic and friendly way.
The software allows me to do my graphic designer work, very dynamic and friendly way.
Pros
The advantages is that it is one of the best programs for web design, the interface is very friendly and it's very intuitive to learn and use. The license is the cheapest of the design programs when I made a comparison. This software is an excellent tool for designing templates of web portals, for me it's actually the best for web design, it is quite complete, it is easily managed with CCS and it has fast compatibility with frontpage
Cons
The software has not a very good image editor, so you have to use another program to improve the image edition in order to complement it. It also is only available for Mac and it's a under license program, there is no free version of it
- Industry: Design
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Great, lightweight tool for UI design
Reviewed on 19/08/2019
Whenever I need a UI project Mobile or Web I just think of Sketch, it is intuitive to work on those...
Whenever I need a UI project Mobile or Web I just think of Sketch, it is intuitive to work on those kind of projects and the size of the outputs are really small compared to other softwares.
Pros
I liked the focus they put on UI design, with lots of templates available in the community, with specific toolsets that were think with UI and somehow also UX in mind (prototyping). I really liked the versioning new feature that came out for Sketch cloud, although I would like to have it for free for personal uses without collaborators.
Cons
It's hard to make illustrations when coming from other softwares that I used to use from Adobe, and for project that are not related to Mobile or Web doesn't look that easy for me to use or achieve my design projects.
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FigmaReasons for Choosing Sketch
The file size as output were totally worth the switch for most of the projects, although for some illustrations or vectorial work I still keep using AI (Illustrator)Switched From
Adobe IllustratorReasons for Switching to Sketch
I am still trying both and testing Sketch especially comparing prices and overall feature availability that are for free in the two different platforms.- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Robust and reliable
Reviewed on 15/01/2021
Moving from Photoshop is a bit of a philosophy change, but one you get used to it, the whole design...
Moving from Photoshop is a bit of a philosophy change, but one you get used to it, the whole design process starts getting much (MUCH) faster. After all Sketch is a design tool and not a photo editor. Functions are being added all the time or fixed or improved and mostly it saves clicks and valuable time.
The only issue are shared libraries and collaboration, which the product clearly was not inteded to have included at the time it has been layed out. But hopefully, this will change in future releases.
Pros
You can feel the robustness of the software. It is quick, but at the same time you can feel how it was built with intent. The UI sets the standard of similar design tools and gets constant updates which lead to more productivity and ease of use.
Cons
The ability to collaborate on a project is limited. There is a Sketch Cloud, but generally it is no match for other on-line design tools.
Reasons for Choosing Sketch
Photoshop was slow and bulky to use and making global changes was difficult. With Sketch the introduction of symbols (and symbol overides) was a nobrainer to switch.Reasons for Switching to Sketch
Is was the most mature product and was de-facto industry standard.Sketch FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Sketch.Q. What type of pricing plans does Sketch offer?
Sketch offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$9.00/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Sketch is available to users for $9 per editor seat per monthly or $99 billed yearly
Q. Who are the typical users of Sketch?
Sketch has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Sketch support?
Sketch supports the following languages:
English, French, Portuguese
Q. Does Sketch support mobile devices?
Sketch supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Sketch integrate with?
Sketch integrates with the following applications:
Droplr, Frontify, InVision App, Lokalise, Marvel, Origami, Proto.io, Zeplin
Q. What level of support does Sketch offer?
Sketch offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
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