Quick take on Sketch for UI/UX Design

Keno Leon
4 min readJul 28, 2017

I keep hearing about sketch and how awesome it is for UI Design, so let’s see what the fuss is all about.

The blind test…

Open Sketch and try to build an app or webpages UI without reading the manual before my coffee gets cold…go !

And the result:

First Impressions:

  • It feels like a mix of Illustrator and Photoshop with a focus on web/app development.
  • Fairly intuitive if you have used any graphics software with layers, inserts,groupings etc it takes no time to feel at home.
  • Obviously has it’s own quirks (every software has them), I struggled with text manipulation and other small issues.

UI SPECIFC TOOLS ?

Art Boards

The first time saver are art boards, what’s an art board ? well it is a space where you lay down your design to suit a certain form factor, page or event, in this…

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