#Sketch 3 for mac review mac os#

It allowed apps to access the internal time machine capabilities of the computer and its hard drive to allow users to go back in time to any point and see past edits and revert to older formats.

Apple introduced versioning in the last version of OS X.

Here is an example of how down to the pixel it goes. In Sketch 3 everything is vector, its beautiful and it maintains is crystal clear look when view on all screens.

If you have ever zoomed in on a Photoshop file, you will notice that pixels are blurred.

Vector Vector Vector (Everything is Vector) Sketch makes exporting easy by automatically exporting slices and layers.Ĥ. For a current project of mine I am responsible for getting assets to the developer so he can be efficient with his time. Or at the very least the upper echelon of these roles must have a basic understanding and a desire to help at all stages of the process. Now-a-days developers and designers and projects managers may be one in the same. At the point in which exporting is necessary the design hands the file off to the developer for the arduous task of cutting it up. The reason exporting was never a primary concern for designs, is because it wasn’t their responsibility.

Sketch 3 claims to have thought about exporting as a primary function rather than an after thought.

The most important aspects of a symbol are being able to add new iterations quickly and detach symbols to edit. However Fireworks will not be around for long according to Adobe and when I tried to learn Fireworks I gave up pretty quick. I have heard that Fireworks has something symbol oriented interface that was pulled from Macromedia/Flash when Adobe bought them out. I do not think Photoshop, inDesign or even Illustrator have this capacity. Symbols are consistent, so changing one means changing them all.

Just as with text style entire groups of objects can become symbols.

Right of the bat the drop down for share styles and shared text styles is one of the most featured items in an objects attributes (right column) Still, in inDesign is seems almost like an after thought and ultimately it took me several years with the program before I really started to use it. inDesign makes this much simpler are allows you to save and assign text styles as well. However this creates issues when you want to change them, and you end up having to change them all one by one. In the old days (Photoshop) this just mean copy and pasting the items down the page or design as you needed them to ensure they match the original. When designing a mobile app or website any design benefits from consistent typography and headings that follow an easily code-able H1, H2, H3 format.

Text styles are very similar to shared styles.

Share styles allow you to quickly pull an option from a drop-down menu to match the currently selected object to a style you have already created and want to be consistent with.

The next three items in this list all essentially revolve around the shared styles or share object attribute.

In its short 3 version life, Sketch has done a solid job cultivating a user resource community that provides everything from training tips (which most will find unnecessary), to pre-made examples, symbol libraries and importable color palettes.

This does come at the cost of some vector creation capacity.

Simple Interface (Not as complex as adobe programs) So what is different (in order of ascending value)?ġ0. I have boiled down my Sketch 3 review to the core functionality that the app claims to harness. inDesign was created for print, and still hasn’t been widely adopted by digital, with the exception of UX designers who I have seen utilizing the auto-layout functions to help them equally space things on mock-ups.

Only being slightly adopted as a digital creation tool in the last few years as a complement to the vector capacities of illustrator. Photoshop was designed for images, and photography. To be fair, it resembles an adobe program so all that training was not a complete waste.Īfter the initial shock wore off, I started to realize that it wasn’t all that surprising. At first I was shocked at how easy it was to use after taking several years to become proficient in both of the aforementioned adobe suite programs. First the app has a lofty initial claim that it can compete with the inDesign and Photoshop in both the ease of use and functionality.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that is has thus far lived up to all of one (yet to be tested) points. I bought sketch 3 a while ago now with the hopes that it would solve at least one of the problems it claims to.

#Sketch 3 for mac review mac os#

It is Sketch, a Mac OS driven design tool that hopes to bring simplicity and efficiency to an adobe powered design world. There is a new application logo and item on my resume for technologies I am versed in.