It’s a good replacement until Sketch gets its own features. Sketch also plays well with Illustrator if exported into the SVG format (PDF and EPS formats don’t work, for some reason). Either pairs well with Flinto, my go-to prototyping app. Pick your poison: faster low-fidelity wireframes in something like Omnigraffle (good if you’re in an iterative workflow) and recreation in Sketch when you need higher fidelity, or slower low-fidelity wireframes and faster translation into mockups. Sketch will handle low- to high-fidelity wireframes with ease, though Omnigraffle is hard not to reach for, thanks to some of its time-saving features. I often use pen and paper or a whiteboard first, and then move on to wireframes as necessary. It’s for those reasons that many designers haven’t switched, and it’s part of why we eagerly await Skala, a competitor from the detail-oriented Bjango, slated for beta in late 2013. But the ‘Shop, and even Illustrator, have larger libraries of extensions and collections of design assets, not to mention the control they provide over your work. Sketch’s developers are a small team, and they are working as hard as they can to make Sketch great (use the beta for a few days and see how often you get bug fixes and improved features-it’s impressive). A couple of notable exceptions are Ale Muñoz’s Orange Commands and Thomas Seng Hin Mak’s Sketch Plugin Scripts. Which brings me to another issue when it comes to using Sketch: a lack of extensions. I often use GuideGuide in Photoshop to create quick and easy guides, and I utilize many other extensions for saving files, resizing graphics and more. Why do I have to click twice to create a guide? It’s not that big a deal to some, but I’m all about shaving seconds off my workflow.
Handling layers and groups feels unintuitive in Sketch. Many of the frustrations I run into are leftovers from working with other programs. At times, a bug (like a disappearing panel or weird artifacts all over the place) will appear in the beta version, requiring you to restart or simply wait for a fix. However, there are tradeoffs to using Sketch. Sketch does all this with even less interface than Adobe Illustrator-and often does so more cleanly. You have the ability to preview on your device using Sketch Mirror, and and exporting is baked in, if you’re into that sort of thing. With Sketch, designs come out pixel perfect and in vector format, a requirement for multiple screen sizes. All this means that Sketch is pretty fast at what I use it for. It doesn’t have cruft for photographers, it doesn’t clutter the workspace with a million panels, and changing aspects of elements is clear and helpful. For another, it’s geared specifically for digital-only, app-centric projects. For one, it doesn’t run on the slow platform that Creative Suite programs do. Sketch gains a lot from being new and shiny. But how does it stack up? The Benefits of Sketch Centered around vector design and containing useful tools, Sketch is getting plenty of buzz among UI designers as an alternative to Adobe’s Creative Suite.
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