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Smart Distribute, Cloud documents and Sketch for Teams — What's New in Sketch?

The last six months have been some of the busiest and most exciting in the history of Sketch. We had our first funding round, we announced our biggest update yet, and we’ve been travelling all over the world to share sneak previews of what's next for the platform. And after a busy Summer, it's finally time to share what we've been working on with all of you—from big improvements to the Mac app, to the Sketch for Teams beta.

P.S. We're hiring — right now we're looking for engineers, developers, marketers and designers — take a look and see if there's a role for you.

Featured plugins

Lippy

Select a text layer and generate just the right amount of placeholder copy using Lippy's intuitive interface.

Context

Drop a pin right beside your designs that links to any webpage, video or animation — perfect for extra handoff info.

Envato Elements

Quickly access 50 free mobile and web UI kits, more than 2100 templates, and nearly 800,000 photos with Envato Elements.

Learn

Mastering the tool is one thing. The other one is learning about design theory. What happens when these aspects are combined together? Every successful design is the result of the ultimate usage of a designer's experience and the design software.

Sketch + Gestalt Principles

by Thalion

Videos

Sketch for Teams ???? just got released!

by Maex

Maex takes a first look at Sketch 56 and Sketch for Teams and shares his thoughts on the latest updates.

Getting started with Sketch for Teams

by Sketch

Get a full overview of Sketch for Teams and find out how to get started today in our latest walkthrough video.

Resources

Stubborn Generator

Quickly create characters and combine objects to build illustrated scenes that feel right at home in any website or app design.

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Eva Design System

With hundreds of Symbols, Layer Styles and Text Styles, Eva makes it quick and easy to set up and customise your own design system for free.

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1-hour Prototype Hackathon

Bangkok, Thailand — 29 July

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Mentions, Projects and Smart Distribute swapping sneak previews

It’s been just over two weeks since we launched Sketch for Teams and we’ve been loving the response so far. If you’ve signed your team up for a 90-day free trial, thank you! We hope you’re having a blast. We’ve put together a roundup of what’s next for Teams, including Mentions and Projects, as well as a sneak preview of a new feature coming to the mac app very soon!

Featured plugins

PinIt

Quickly apply common resizing settings to groups and Symbols, from fixed headers and footers to sidebars.

Truncat ????...

Smart and fast text truncation that you can even apply to text styles, so teams can use it without the plugin.

Learn

A design system is an evolving ruleset governing the composition of a product and brand. They build consistent, cohesive visual experiences across devices and platforms, they also centralise and consolidate design efforts.

Building a design system — where to start?

by Shane P Williams

Sketch plugins are able to do pretty much everything you’d expect, like manipulating the color, shape, size, order, style, grouping, and effects of layers, but also able to do things like make requests to internet resources, present a user interface, and much, much more!

How To Build A Sketch Plugin With JavaScript, HTML And CSS

by Matt Curtis

Videos

Design for iOS 13: UI Kit in Sketch

by Design+Code

In this video Meng To takes a look at Apple’s iOS 13 UI Kit in Sketch and how to use some of the components.

What's New in Sketch 57 Beta

by BetterPatterns

Gabe from Better Patterns takes a look at the new Smart Distribute reorder feature in the Sketch 57 beta.

Resources

Learn SwiftUI for iOS 13

This new course from Design+Code shows you how to combine Sketch and SwiftUI to quickly iterate and create powerful user interfaces with just a few lines of code. And you can get 20% off right now!

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Slice Design

Build your own design system for web and mobile with Slice's component libraries, including controls, cards, navigation, text styles and more.

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Greyhound Flowcharts

Design sitemaps, create prototype flows and map out your ideas in minutes with over 200 carefully crafted cards for web and mobile projects.

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Brutalist Web Kit

Stay on trend with a set of free brutalist web designs that cover everything from pricing pages and testimonials, to social feeds and footers.

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Book Club: "The Design of Everyday Things" by Donald Norman

Jacksonville, FL, USA — 14 Aug

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Boulder, CO, USA — 21 Aug

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Introducing projects — a better way to organize your work on Sketch Cloud

This week we launched projects on Sketch Cloud. Now you can organize and filter your work by project, client or any other grouping that makes sense to you or your team. Head over to Sketch Cloud to get started with projects today.

Meanwhile, on the Mac, we’ve rounded out the new Smart Distribute features to make it easier than ever to create and manage complex layouts. To help you make the most of it, we've put together a Smart Distribute guide that tells you everything you need to know to speed up your workflow. ????

Featured plugins

Focus

A smart way to share feedback, add notes and store ideas with annotations that appear right against their relevant layers, directly on the canvas.

Phrase

Push your designs up to Phrase and pull down translations to help localize your app or website in a snap with their official Sketch plugin.

Learn

Modern design is iterative, collaborative, and cross-functional. Design teams have grown. Powerful design tools and design systems scale designer effort and increase design velocity. Productivity bottlenecks lurk in design workflows. Employing basic Sketch usage guidelines can smooth over many of these bottlenecks.

Sketch Best Practices for Professional Design Teams

by Michael C. Albers

Videos

Designing 3 Mobile App Menus

by VAExperience

UX Manager Vy continues his Sketch: Noob to Master series by showing us how to quickly create three different mobile app menu concepts.

Sketch guides: Smart Distribute

by Sketch

In our latest video, we look at Smart Distribute in detail and show you how it can make creating and editing complex layouts a breeze.

Resources

Cabana Design System 3.0

Marc Andrew has completely rebuilt his design system starter kit for Sketch from the ground up. With hundreds of responsive components to choose from, it’ll help you design interfaces better, smarter, and faster.

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iOS Jetpack 2

Craftwork’s iOS Jetpack 2 gives you a full set of templates to quickly create engaging screenshots for your iOS app’s App Store listing.

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Hamburg, Germany — 29 Aug

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Beirut, Lebanon — 31 Aug

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Productivity Plugins / ProtoPie 4 & Torch AR

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Smart Layout, a new Welcome Window and Projects on the Mac—What’s new in Sketch?

It’s been a busy summer for the whole team here at Sketch and we’re not slowing down yet. While we’re working hard on the next big features for Teams, we’ve also been focusing on some really exciting updates to the Mac app — Smart Layout, a new Welcome Window, and Projects support.

With Smart Layout, you can say goodbye to manually resizing Symbols to fit their overrides, or building multiple Symbols within the same design, just to accommodate different sizes of the same component. Now you can create reusable Symbols that automatically resize to fit their content.

And, with the recent launch of Sketch for Teams, Cloud documents and Projects on the web, it was only a matter of time before we brought full support for all of these features to the Mac. In our latest release, we’ve updated the Welcome Window to accommodate them all.

Featured plugins

Color System Plugin

Set up light and dark color schemes for your design and switch between them while you work. It even integrates with your Document Colors in Sketch!

Data Populator

Populate your design mockups and prototypes with meaningful, grouped data using JSON keys and say goodbye to Lorem Ipsum for good.

Learn

What happens a lot when designing a Navigation Menu is that you want to override the content of a label, in the old Sketch we needed to resize each item and reposition them. Thanks to Smart Layout we can easily override the label and it will update the layout accordingly.

Smart Layout in Sketch 58 — Navigation & Dropdown Menu Tutorial

by Silvia Bormüller

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Sketch guides: Smart Layout

by Sketch

Get an overview of how Smart Layout can supercharge your Symbols and turn them into reusable, responsive components that resize to fit their content.

Up and Running with Sketch

by Envato Tuts+

Envato has put together this free course with over two hours of content that should have your ready to start you next design project with confidence.

Resources

Root Wireframe and
design starter kit

This wireframe kit from Bunin UX includes 180 components and 120 website blocks to help you quickly create wireframes, user flows and more. And it's been built with Smart Layout. ????

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SocialSizes

A comprehensive collection of image and video templates for Social Media, including Instagram, Facebook and Apple's App Store.

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Method Wireframe kit

Build prototypes in seconds with this wireframe kit containing 120 ready-to-use blocks from the folks at Craftwork.

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Moving Forward // From Design to Development

Valencia, Spain — 19 Sep

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Tampa Bay, FL, USA — 19 Sep

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Accessibility Matters: Designing & Building Accessible Web Interfaces

Jacksonville, FL, USA — 25 Sep

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Kano, Nigeria — 28 Sep

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Bengaluru, India — 29 Sep

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Variable fonts, improved OpenType support, and a new Data plugin?—?What’s new in Sketch?

With Sketch 59, we’re launching a couple of features that should make a big difference to typography in your designs — better support for OpenType features and new variable fonts controls. On top of this, we’re introducing a new data plugin in partnership with Pexels, and a new API for plugin developers.

Featured plugins

Pexels

The new Pexels plugin gives you access to over one million free stock photos and lets you add them to any layer in Sketch.

Sketch Styler

Scan your documents for unstyled layers and quickly match them up with the closest styles in the file or a linked library.

Learn

With Smart Layout, Sketch is making Symbols more powerful and supercharging your workflow when it comes to using them in your designs. In this tutorial I’d like to show you how to use Smart Layout in order to create cards.

Smart Layout in Sketch 58 Tutorial—Cards

by Silvia Bormueller

Videos

Sketch for Teams: From setup to working Libraries

by Christopher Deane

Christopher Deane takes us through creating a new Team, uploading designs and creating Cloud Libraries.

Advanced Sketch Smart Layout Designs! (XXL TUTORIAL)

by Maex

Maex takes a detailed and deep dive into how Smart Layout works within a more complex dashboard app mockup.

Resources

Buttons | Smart Layout Ready

A free and flexible collection of buttons, set up with Smart Layout and ready to resize to fit their overrides.

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QuickFrames

A lightweight set of symbols to help you create wireframes, user flows and sitemaps in the simplest way possible.

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Spark

A comprehensive, color agnostic library built especially for UX designers — covering Android, iOS, form fields, charts and more.

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Building a Design System with Sketch

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Book Club: "Hooked - How to Build Habit-Forming Products" by Nir Eyal

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What's New in Sketch 58

Florence, Italy — 24 Oct

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Easy UI Animation Handoff with Sketch and Flow

Vancouver, Canada — 25 Oct

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Sketch for Teams (with the Sketch Team!)

New York, NY, USA — 28 Oct

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Meet the Sketch team!

Toronto, ON, Canada — 29 Oct

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Sketch Bolivia - Meetup: Smart Layout and more...

Cochabamba, Bolivia — 30 Oct

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Tokyo, Japan — 30 Oct

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Workshop: Data Visualization Design in Sketch

Washington, DC, USA — 07 Nov

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Sketch 60 — your design system starts here

Sketch 60 is out now! It introduces some important new features — the new Components Panel and better Cloud Libraries support. They not only make it easier to work together, but also speed up the process of creating, sharing, using and maintaining design systems.

Check out our latest blog post to see what's new and find out how we’re using your feedback to keep making it better.

Featured plugins

Suitcase Fusion

Now you can bring all the power of Extensis' Suitcase Fusion font manager into Sketch to quickly find, preview and activate missing fonts while you work.

Image2Palette

Quickly generate a color palette from any image layer, so you can bring its key colours into your designs without any of the guesswork.

Learn

Sketch is an awesomely powerful tool for design, and there are tons more features and elements to learn how to use within it. We hope this article serves as a good introductory tutorial for beginners.

Intro to UI Design in Sketch

by Julie Branson

It is amazing what Sketch is capable of doing already with this feature. And I can only imagine how many hours it will save us in the future while we continue designing digital products.

Sketch Smart Layout: Building a System Alert Component

by Egor Gorev

Is the new Components panel going to improve your workflow? When it comes to actual Symbols, it’s a resounding yes from me! Having the ability to Search and Filter through your Symbols is a real game-changer.

Sketch 60 — Let’s talk about the awesome, new Components panel

by Marc Andrew

Videos

Sketch 60 is here! New Components Panel

by Maex

In his latest video Maex takes a look at the new Components Panel in Sketch 60 and shows off some of the ways it can speed up your workflow.

Smart Layouts in Sketch | Sketch: Noob to Master, ep12

by VAEXPERIENCE

Join Vy as he walks through a detailed tutorial on how to make the most of Smart Layout in your designs and work with a responsive card layout.

Resources

Prime Design System Kit

One of the most comprehensive UI kits now comes with Smart Layout right out of the box, so you can spend less time setting up Symbols and more time doing what you do best.

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Frames for Sketch

The Frames web design toolkit has also been updated to give its components the Smart Layout treatment — a great place to start for any web design project.

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Awesome Design Plugins

Our friends at Flawless have put together a fantastic directory of some of the best Sketch plugins around. It's a great way to get started and an even better place to discover something new.

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Sketch & Design Vol. 05

Lima, Peru — 14 November

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Design at Scale - From Inspiration to Implementation

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — 15 November

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Design Thinking Workshop

Abuja, Nigeria — 16 November

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Come Creare un Design System e velocizzare il proprio workflow

Turin, Italy — 19 November

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Smart Layout & Sketch for Teams

Boulder, CO, USA — 20 November

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UX Research (Part I) — The Evolution of User Experience Research

Jacksonville, FL, USA — 20 November

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Freelance Designers & Friends Edition

München, Germany — 25 November

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Kick-off Meetup with founder Pieter Omvlee and the Sketch Team

Amsterdam, Netherlands — 26 November

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Sketch Stuttgart on Tour – 2nd stop: UDG | Design System Special

Stuttgart, Germany — 26, November

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Sketch & Design El Salvador Vol. 4

San Salvador, El Salvador — 30 November

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Book Club: “UX for Lean Startups” by Laura Klein

Jacksonville, FL, USA — 04 December

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Sketch + Fajitas!

Miami, FL, USA — 05 December

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Design Hackathon in DC

Washington, DC, USA — 07 December

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Meetup @Google - What's new in Sketch 60 & The Power of Creativity

München, Germany — 10 December

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Sketch App + SVG Crash Course

Barcelona, Spain — 11 December

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What’s next for Sketch in 2020?

There’s no doubt that 2019 has been one of the biggest years in Sketch’s history — from announcing our first funding round, to launching the Sketch for Teams public beta, it’s been an exciting 12 months. But we’re even more excited for what lies ahead. Check out our latest blog post for this year’s highlights and to hear more about what’s planned for 2020.

And, from all of us at Sketch, we hope you have a happy holiday season and a peaceful new year.

Featured plugins

Crowdin

With the new Sketch plugin from Crowdin you can now preview and customize localized copy in your designs before handing them off to developers.

Minimap

This nifty little plugin from Aby Nimbalkar and Kevin Gutowski lets you quickly navigate large Sketch documents with a birds eye view of all your Artboards.

Learn

I use Sketch for everything! From using Artboards to map entire user journeys with multiple streams, to polished interfaces for digital prototypes in my client work, to designing physical exhibition spaces and graphic design posters in my own projects.

Diabetes by design — How Alex Durussel-Baker turned her diagnosis into an opportunity to raise awareness

by Sketch

Videos

Reacting on the new Sketch Roadmap Trailer! + Feature Analysis

by Maex

In his latest video Maex takes a good look at what’s coming next in Sketch and shares his thoughts on the 2020 roadmap.

Create a Design System in Sketch tutorial series

by VAEXPERIENCE

Vy’s mini tutorial series is a great place to get started with understanding and building your own design system in Sketch.

Resources

Angle 3

The latest update to Meng To's fantastic Angle collection features over 1000 vector, 3D device mockups for Sketch, and you’ll get 40% off if you click on the link from this newsletter. How's that for an early Christmas present?

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Tetrisly

Start wireframing faster or use this Starter Kit to create your Design System.

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_Wired

_wired is a versatile, and lightweight wireframe kit that helps you realise your initial ideas fast. To celebrate the launch you can get 25% off using the code WIRED25.

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Design Systems

Tampa, Florida, USA — 12 Dec

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Sketch Cairo Meetup - UX Design

Cairo, Egypt— 13 Dec

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Sketchella

Lima, Peru — 13 Dec

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Sketch Workshop for Planners

Seoul, South Korea — 17 Dec

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Sketch Health Clinic

Dallas, Texas, USA — 18 Dec

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Design: What's Next in 2020

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — 20 Dec

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Workshop: Getting started with Sketch App

München, Germany — 15 Jan

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CLT Sketch Meetup

Charlotte, NC, USA — 15 Jan

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Introducing Cloud Inspector?—?free developer handoff in the browser

Yesterday, we launched Cloud Inspector in beta and we couldn't be more excited for you to check it out. We've put together a blog post that details everything you can expect in this first beta version, as well as what's coming next on the developer handoff roadmap.

Featured plugins

Cluse

Check for WCAG 2.0 accessibility and adjust the color contrast of your designs right inside Sketch with this free plugin.

Data from Clipboard

Quickly copy a list of text to your Clipboard and use it as Data for text layers or Symbol overrides.

Learn

Although deceptively simple, Sketch has many tricks up its sleeves. To this day, I still learn new things that I initially overlooked. The techniques I’ll be talking about are more hidden. They’re not the ones you’re likely to use daily, but they can completely transform your workflow.

11 advanced Sketch techniques you may not know about

by Pranav Ambwani

Videos

Intro to Sketch for Beginners | Sketch Tutorial (2019)

by Joseph from LearnSketch.com

In just half an hour, Joseph walks through the basics of Sketch for beginners, covering everything from the interface to Symbols and beyond.

Sketch 61: Design with the Components Panel

by Christopher Deane

Christopher Deane takes us through the process of creating a responsive landing page with a little help from the new Components Panel.

Resources

Learn SwiftUI for iOS 13

Meng To's Design+Code SwiftUI course is back with a whole new set of lessons to help you take your first steps from designing in Sketch to coding custom UIs and animations in Xcode 11.

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Smash Illustrations

Craftwork are back with a set of illustrated characters and scenes for you to mix, match and use in your designs.

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Fabrx Design System

A Library with over 250 Smart Layout-ready components and stackable layouts to get you started on your next big project.

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Mockup Makeover: Lets Get Our Source Files Organized

Philadelphia, PA, USA — 03 Feb

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Sketch & Design Lyon Talk • Design inclusif avec Marie-Cécile Godwin Paccard

Lyon, France — 04 Feb

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Co-Event: UX Research and Strategy & Sketch Dallas

Dallas, TX, USA — 11 Feb

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Designing The Experience For Data with Brighton of Nutanix

Sunnyvale, CA, USA — 11 Feb

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Exclusive: Sketch co-founder is coming to town!

Barcelona, Spain — 18 Feb

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Pair Programming & Pair Designing: Cross-Functional Workshop Night!

Jacksonville, FL, USA — 19 Feb

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Sketch en 2020, con la participación de Valentina de Sketch

Barcelona, Spain — 25 Feb

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Version Control in Design: Do's, Don'ts, & How to Make the Most of It.

Philadelphia, PA, USA — 02 Mar

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München, Germany — 18 Mar

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New in Sketch: Color Variables, Components View and a new Insert Window

With our latest update to the Mac app, we’ve introduced three new features that we think you’re going to love: Color Variables, a new Components View, and a new Insert Window. Take a look at our blog post to find out how they’ll improve your workflow.

Featured Extensions

Frontify

Frontify’s Sketch integration gives your team the brand materials and guidelines they need, and helps designers work with key stakeholders for feedback and approval.

A Lion

Quickly align your layers with A Lion. Select the layers you want to align, choose a key — or mane — layer (we’re sorry) and watch everything jump into place automatically.

Component8

With Component8, you can browse through more than 1,000 Components, then simply drag and drop them into your design when you need them.

Learn

Every time I add a major new feature to the app, I still take a step back and look at it from the perspective of a new user. Is there too much going on in the app? Is there too much to explain on first launch? How easy is it for the user to just get started without being overwhelmed?

Speaking our language: How Vidit Bhargava designed LookUp in Sketch

by Sketch

To be able to ask good questions, you need to know the feature or topic you are researching inside-out, but it’s also important to be empathetic and curious. When you really try to understand your users’ needs and behaviors, that’s when you start asking better questions.

The Ultimate Guide to UX Research

by Maze

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Color Variables, Components View & Insert Window ??

by Christopher Deane

Watch as Christopher takes you through the biggest changes in Sketch 69, and shows how useful the new features are.

UI/UX Animations with Principle & Sketch

by Maex

Follow Max as he creates a neat animation his UI — and shares tips on how to perfect your own animations.

Resources

SQUID 2.0 User Flow Kit

With 500+ customizable Smart Layout elements, 180 Styles, and much more, you can create user flows fast, then tweak them to match your brand.

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COVID-19 Illustrations

Looking for some friendly illustrations for a COVID-19 environment? This set includes masked and socially-distanced characters.

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Developer Life icon set

If you’re designing developer tools — or just want to give you app a more technical feel — this set of regular and light icons are the perfect choice.

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Online: Accessibility: Transforming your Organization through Empathy

Washington, DC, USA — 08 October

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Our plans for Cloud in 2020

Over the past few years, we’ve been hard at work making our Cloud platform the best place for collaboration, whether you’re a solo designer or a growing team. And there's still plenty more to do! Here’s what we've got planned for 2020 and beyond.

Featured plugins

Vectary 3D for Sketch

Place your designs on pre-defined 3D mockups and adjust their angle on the fly with this great integration from Vectary.

Sleuth

Create an open source dashboard that shows you how and where your team use your Sketch Library components.

Learn

Colors, Typography, and Icons are the backbone of any great System, and every other Component or Symbol that you subsequently create is going to feature these elements in some shape or form, so it pays to get these into place first, before you create anything else.

How to build a Design System in Sketch (Part One)

by Marc Andrew

Videos

Sketch 62: Smart Layout Updates

by Christopher Deane

Christopher Deane dives deep into some Smart Layout examples that make use of the new minimum dimensions feature. Be sure to download his tutorial file!

Design Handoff in Sketch Cloud!

by Maex

Max takes a first look at the Cloud Inspector beta and runs through the basics of what it can do, as well as what he hopes to see in the future.

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Frames 2.0

Get your next project started with web design system and UI Kit featuring templates, charts, graphics, symbols, styles and more.

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Control

Craftwork's latest illustration pack includes eighteen characters, each with two styles and three separate scenes to choose from.

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Flowkit 3.0

Flowkit 3.0 gives you a full Library to build user flows and annotate designs with beautifully made components.

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Design Networking

Ahmedabad, India — 01 Mar

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Version Control in Design: Do's, Don'ts, & How to Make the Most of It

Philadelphia, PA, USA — 02 Mar

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Design to Developer - tips and tricks

Boston, MA, USA — 04 Mar

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Dream Visualization Workshop

Washington DC, USA — 18 Mar

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What's new in Sketch and developer handoff

Johannesburg, South Africa — 19 Mar

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Sketch Munich Meetup - Design Systems Edition

Munich, Germany — 09 Mar

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Making us Blush: we talk inclusive illustrations with Pablo Stanley

“I’ve been a massive fan of Sketch plugins since day one — they amplify the things you can do as a designer, and you get to choose the superpowers that you want in your arsenal. The community has done a fantastic job, so we wanted to contribute with our own plugin.”

P.S. We turned 10 this week! We've got all kinds of celebrations planned for the next few weeks and months, and we'd love to hear about your early memories of Sketch.

Featured Extensions

Spacer

Spacer helps you automate your workflow with simple baseline spacing. With nifty keyboard shortcuts, you'll be able to perfect your layout in seconds.

Deck

Forget boring slides and dull templates. With Deck, you can turn your Artboards into an editable Powerpoint document. It’s pretty magic, if you ask us.

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When we launched Assistants in version 68 with our community in mind, we knew you would support our vision for better design. We weren’t disappointed. Here, we’ve pulled together five of our favorite Assistants from the Sketch community.

5 powerful Assistants to help you improve your projects

by Sketch

Today, we’ll be pushing Sketch to its limits — step by step. You will learn how to create a very realistic and detailed vector illustration of a vintage Porsche 911 using basic shapes, layer styles and Sketch features. No bitmap images will be used, which means the final illustration could be scaled up to any size with no loss of detail.

How To Create A Porsche 911 With Sketch

by Nikola Lazarevic

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Hard and Soft 8 Point Grids

by Christopher Deane

Find out the benefits of using an 8-point grid in your design, and see how the different versions work in practice.

Wireframing in Sketch!

by Maex

Max walks us through his process for creating app wireframes by customizing a wireframe kit to match his brief.

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Coolicons

Search through over 300 icons — with SVG and webfont support. Plus, because they use nested Symbols and styles, they're Sketch-ready.

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Overlay

Overlay transforms your design components into clean React, Vue and HTML components, making developer handoff faster and easier than ever.

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King Rabbit Character Creator template

Are you following RareSloth's example and designing a video game in Sketch? This character creator template shows how you could work.

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Events and community

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Online: Un taller para niñas que los niños deben escuchar

San Jose, Costa Rica — 09 September

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Online: Sketch Assistants: Automatic Control for Design Systems!

Jacksonville, FL, USA — 09 September

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Online: Introduzione a Sketch Assistants

Venice, Italy — 11 September

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Tints, a new Components Menu and more — what’s new in Sketch?

This month, we introduced Tints, a redesigned Components menu, and some big improvements to search in the Mac app. We also made layer selection more powerful in Cloud Inspector. Check out our latest blog post where we’ve rounded up everything that’s new in Sketch in March.

P.S. Don’t forget, Sketch cofounders Pieter Omvlee and Emanuel Sá will be live on YouTube at 4PM CET on Wednesday 25 March to answer your questions about remote working.

Featured plugins

Snap to 8pt Grid

Save a little time and automatically snap your layers to an 8pt grid with this handy plugin from Misha Heesakkers.

Sketch Dark Mode Plugin

Generate a dark mode variation of any design you’re working on and update your color palette on the fly.

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My process usually begins with loose concept exploration, which is all about getting ideas out of my sketchbook and onto a digital canvas. Sketch is a perfect tool for this because it allows me to quickly explore all the edges of an idea and iterate quickly without getting bogged down.

#madewithsketch: Documenting the humane design movement

by Sketch

Videos

UI Design Tutorial: Surf web page in Sketch

by dsgnr_today

Get to grips with layer and text styles, image fills, data, nested Symbols and more with this great UI design tutorial from dsgnr_today.

UI/UX Design Timelapse - Fitness App #2 in Sketch

by Maex

After a bit of inspiration for your next project? Kick back, relax and watch Max work on a UI design for a fitness app in his latest time-lapse video.

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Unitload Design System

With a 60+ icons, Smart Layout support and plenty of components, the Unitload Design System is a great place to start your next project.

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Devices | Facebook Design

Put your work into context with a handy set of device frames, recreated beautifully in Sketch, from the design team at Facebook.

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Bright Kit

Kickstart your design with a UI kit full of ready-to-use, Smart Layout-friendly, web layouts from the team at Fabrx.

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Events and community

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Sketch Munich - Design Systems Edition

(Remote/Online) — 25 Mar

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Getting started in Sketch

(Remote/Online) — 26 Mar

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Sketch + Fajitas

(Remote/Online) — 02 Apr

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Sciences cognitives et design d'expérience • Jean-Christophe Paris

(Remote/Online) — 02 Apr

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Recherche Utilisateur • Matthieu Lerat, Lead UX Designer

(Remote/Online) — 07 Apr

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Prototyping improvements and asset exports from Cloud — what’s new in Sketch?

This month, we’ve introduced the option to export assets directly from Cloud and brought a new Prototyping feature to the Mac app. Check out our latest blog post where we’ve rounded up everything that’s new in Sketch in April.

Featured plugins

Sympli Versions

Take full control of your team’s design systems and make collaboration easy with version control, merging and more.

Protrace

Who says turning a bitmap image into a vector graphic has to be hard? This handy plugin takes care of things in a few clicks.

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Creating beautiful, usable, and efficient UIs takes time, with many design revisions along the way. […] I know. I’ve been there many times before myself. But what I’ve discovered over the years is that by making some simple tweaks you can quickly improve the visuals you’re trying to create.

9 tips to quickly improve your UI designs

by Marc Andrew

As designers, we always keep our users’ needs in mind. But the end user will never interact with our designs; they will interact with the final product, built by developers. This means the real users of what we are delivering at that stage of the project are the developers.

5 principles for better designer/developer collaboration

by Fabricio Teixeira

Videos

The perfect radial bar trick

by Joseph from LearnSketch.com

Joseph is back with another tutorial — this time showing you how to create a radial percentage bar with simple math.

Top 5 Plugins for productivity

by Christopher Deane

Part recommendation and part tutorial, Christopher Deane shows you how to work faster by streamlining your workflow.

Resources

Sketch App Data

With everything from lower-body exercises to coffee hashtags, this free repository is packed with data sources and images to populate your designs.

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Sections Wireframe Kit

With more than 300 layouts, light and dark designs and an included icon set, Sections is a great place to start your next project.

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Pixel True Illustrations and Animations

Give your designs even more personality with this large library of free animations and illustrations from Pixel True.

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Online: Sketch + Fajitas!

Miami, FL, USA — 07 May

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The new Sketch icon: how we redesigned a classic for Big Sur

Reimagining an icon that’s so well-known across the industry is no easy challenge. This week, we sat down with the project’s Design Lead, Prekesh, to talk about his goals and discuss the new icons (yes, plural) that he created for the refreshed Mac app on Big Sur.

P.S. We’re almost ready to launch real-time collaboration, so we’re holding a live event to show it off — and you’re invited! Join us on 07 December at 16:00 CET to see the new feature in action and ask your burning questions. Sign up and reserve your spot here.

Featured Extensions

Sketch Baseline Offsetter

Take control of your baseline with this handy plugin. It makes it easy to shift an offset up or down, or apply a single offset to all your text layers. Handy.

Sketch Table Builder

This is data made simple. Take lines of CSV data and quickly turn them into a table in Sketch. All you need is a Symbol for a single cell.

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The best news is that, as a Sketch user, you don’t have to buy a new Mac to feel the benefits of Apple’s M1 chip. We can deliver those improvements by upgrading our servers. And if you do have an M1 machine, we’ve made sure our Mac app can take advantage of these big performance boosts.

Switching Silicon: How Sketch performs on Apple’s new hardware

by Sketch

I use Sketch to design and maintain design systems for complex enterprise applications, and I use it for quick prototypes. Organizing your designs has never been more intuitive. It gives us, the designers, agility that back in the days we never had.

Memoroji — How we designed a side project that brings a smile

by Tomi

Because the book is illustrated with a lot of UI design examples, we were able to do them “inside the pages” instead of using external images. That way we were also able to keep all those visuals consistent, and we can easily modify and update them in the future.

How we used Sketch to put together a UI design book ?

by Michal Malewicz

Videos

Color Variables Basics

by Joseph from LearnSketch.com

Joseph is back with an in-depth look at Color Variables. It’s packed with useful tips, from organization to application.

Sketch Update 70 Review!

by Maex

Max shares his excitement about our refreshed user interface, and explores the finer details of the new Mac app design.

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UXToolset

With kits for workflows, wireframes and handoff, this collection is packed with useful content for you to use in your next project.

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Mega Doodles Pack

These off-the-wall vector illustrations are sure to add some character to your designs. We think the WTF speech bubble is especially fitting for 2020.

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macOS Big Sur icons

With 2,500+ icons for all your favorite apps, you can replace any that aren’t yet updated for Big Sur. Or, y’know, create your own with Sketch.

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Online: Sketch 70 — What's around the corner

Beirut, Lebanon — 04 December

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Online: UXW for better products with Yvonne Gando of Google

Santa Clara, CA, USA — 08 December

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Online: From agency to startup with Kevin Cannon Designer at Pitch.com

München, Germany — 09 December

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Online: Introduction to Design Systems

Venice, Italy — 10 December

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Online: Sketch Seoul & Tokyo 2020

Seoul, South Korea & Tokyo, Japan — 10 December

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Speeding up Symbols: how we improved performance in Sketch 67

With Sketch 67, we spent a lot of time working to make the Mac app faster. Now we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at how we built Symbols in Sketch — and how we've improved their performance.

Featured plugins

Wireframr

Turn your high-spec concepts into simple wireframes. So clients focus on the solution — not the specific shade of blue.

Perfect Type

Perfect Type makes controlling line and character spacing easier, with slick shortcuts to speed up your workflow.

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Whether you’re new to Sketch or a seasoned pro, taking the time to learn the keyboard shortcuts for common actions will seriously speed up your workflow. So to make things easier, we’ve put together a list of the best Sketch keyboard shortcuts that you’ll use every day.

The best keyboard shortcuts to get started with Sketch

by Sketch

UX designers are really into designing “mobile-first” these days. And that sort of constraint is great. It clarifies thinking. Well here’s another similar constraint: design black and white first. Start with the harder problem of making the app beautiful and usable, but without the aid of color.

7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Part 1)

by Erik D. Kennedy

Videos

Sketch Basics: A good document structure

by Maex

Maex explains why organizing your documents is important, and shows you how he sets up every new project.

Sketch 67 Embed Fonts in Documents

by Christopher Downer

Christopher is back with his guide to our latest feature release — the ability to embed fonts in a document.

Resources

MemojiUI

Everyone loves Memoji, right? Now you can add a diverse set straight into your UI as Symbols, with control over the background color and shape.

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Design Goods

This bundle brings together six wireframing kits, layouts and components — plus free access to any more they create for the next 12 months.

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Salesforce Lightning Design System

Quickly create great Salesforce concepts using this handy plugin. It includes a full icon library, pattern descriptions, and design guidelines.

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Online: Transición entre el diseño y el desarrollo

Rosario, Argentina — 17 July

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Mendoza, Argentina — 24 July

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Miami, FL, USA — 06 August

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We’re holding a live Q&A on remote working

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been watching the situation around COVID-19 (Coronavirus) unfold and the changes it brings to our day-to-day lives. As a fully distributed company, we’re used to this new reality of remote working, but we know that’s not the case for everyone.

Whether it’s due to local curfews or self-isolation, many people are working remotely for the first time. Entire organizations are also adopting a remote working policy to prioritize the health and safety of their employees.

We’ve been a fully distributed company for over eight years, so we thought it might be helpful to hold a live Q&A session where we can answer your questions and provide some advice around remote working.

We’ll be live on Wednesday 25 March at 4PM CET (Central European Time). You can can tune in and watch the session on YouTube (be sure to subscribe to our channel to get a reminder right before we start).

You can use the link below to submit questions for us to answer.

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We hope that this live Q&A will be helpful to some of you who are experiencing the world of remote work for the first time.

Stay safe,

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Accessible design: a conversation with Cluse developer Yana Gevorgyan

To celebrate this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we spoke to the developer behind Cluse — a plugin that aims to make accessible design easier for everyone.

Featured plugins

List Helper

Save time by quickly creating vertical and horizontal lists from a Symbol. Partner it with Data to really speed things up.

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Battleship for Sketch

Video call with a friend and battle it out on the high seas, which isn’t something we ever expected to say about Sketch.

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Keyboard shortcuts can play a major role in boosting your productivity in Sketch. Since you save a couple of seconds for each action, it soon starts to add up, saving you precious time you might otherwise waste on mundane tasks.

Sketch tricks and keyboard shortcuts you might not know about

by Pranav Ambwani

For design system users, knowing what to apply under what circumstances is crucial — and should be straightforward. Every extra symbol, style and pattern is a point that introduces doubt down the chain, and may lead to different decisions that break consistency.

Merge Duplicates: Easily get rid of duplicate and inconsistent symbols and styles

by Oscar Oto

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Rasterize Layers Fast in Sketch

by Joseph from LearnSketch.com

This month Joseph has a quick tip to speed up your workflow when you’re rasterizing and exporting layers.

Sketch 65 Prototyping Updates

by Christopher Deane

Follow along with Christopher’s tutorial to take a closer look at our latest updates to prototyping in Sketch 65.

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WSAG AAA Accessible color palette

Make your designs more accessible with this handy palette, designed specifically to WSAG AAA guidelines.

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Iconly Essential Icons

Start your design system in style with these pixel-perfect vector icons, featuring 120+ icons in five different designs.

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Interfaces Illustrations

Give your business and analytics pages a bit more personality with these charming illustrations designed for customization.

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Online: Sketch & Design Paris #8: Design to Code, réalité?

Courbevoie, France — 28 May

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München, Germany — 02 Jun

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Newsletter — Issue 60

Smart Distribute, Cloud documents and Sketch for Teams — What's New in Sketch?

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Sketch + Gestalt Principles

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Sketch for Teams ???? just got released!

Getting started with Sketch for Teams

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Stubborn Generator

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Brand Yourself

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ProTalks: Sketch Meetup

A Career In Design

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1-hour Prototype Hackathon

The Art of the Override: Symbols and Styles

Sketch App Crash Course

Sketch Print Design

Design Systems Edition #2

Mission Critical Design: UX for Extreme Environments with the UEGroup Team

Newsletter — Issue 61

Mentions, Projects and Smart Distribute swapping sneak previews

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Building a design system — where to start?

How To Build A Sketch Plugin With JavaScript, HTML And CSS

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Design for iOS 13: UI Kit in Sketch

What's New in Sketch 57 Beta

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Learn SwiftUI for iOS 13

Slice Design

Greyhound Flowcharts

Brutalist Web Kit

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Mission Critical Design: UX for Extreme Environments with the UEGroup Team

Book Club: "The Design of Everyday Things" by Donald Norman

Validating Ideas by Prototyping

Accessibility Matters: Designing & Building Accessible Web Interfaces

Newsletter — Issue 62

Introducing projects — a better way to organize your work on Sketch Cloud

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Focus

Phrase

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Sketch Best Practices for Professional Design Teams

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Designing 3 Mobile App Menus

Sketch guides: Smart Distribute

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Cabana Design System 3.0

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Validating Ideas by Prototyping

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SketcHH #8 – Sketch for Teams

Sketch Meetup #7 UIUX????

The Art of Overrides & Atomic Design

Productivity Plugins / ProtoPie 4 & Torch AR

Accessibility Matters: Designing & Building Accessible Web Interfaces

UX Maturity and Collaboration in Sketch

Sketch & Design Talk

Keep Design and Content on the Same Page + Sketch 57 Review

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