5 Tips to Help You Design Faster in Sketch
I’m starting to be a huge advocate for Sketch. As I used it more, I started to find out neat little tricks to optimize my workflow. Here are some of the things that could speed up your workflow too.
1. Using text styles.
Text styles are a clear winner when you’re trying to save time and maintain consistency. A great way to manage this is to have a page within your Sketch file that contains your style guide. You can add to it as new elements are created, and they update anywhere they exist within your screens.
A great side effect of using font styles is the reduction in decision making time. It’s much easier to choose from a list you’ve already created, rather than think about the size, weight, color etc. on the spot.
Pro tip: Remember to remove them when doing rapid visual iteration. It’s common to copy+paste a text field with styles applied and not realize it. You’re going to lose track of which text style you changed.
2. Moving around between artboards.
Sketch has a long list of intuitive shortcut commands. Here are some that you should…