7 Sketch Plugins For Productivity

Victoria Erstenyuk
COAX Blog: Insights and Innovations
2 min readAug 23, 2017

Sketch- professional digital design tool for Mac is quickly becoming the UI design tool of choice. Here’s our short list of the most helpful Sketch plugins we us on everyday basis. This one’s about quality, not quantity, folks!

Before you grab all these cool plugins, you need something to manage and update them. In this case Sketch Toolbox or Sketchpacks come in handy. It’ll do the heavy lifting of installing and updating each plugin for you.

1. Perfecter

Plugin that allows you to find a perfect Line Height and an awesome Font Size for your typography.
Here you can see such famous ratio like:

— Golden ratio ;
— Silver ratio ;
— Pi ;
— and more.

2. Select Parent Artboards

This Sketch plugin selects the parent artboards of the current selection when you press ⌃⌘A.
This is definitely the most useful plugin I have, especially if you’re working on a product with multiple pages, symbols, and artboards in general.

3. Stark

Easily check your designs against the 8 different types of colorblindness. In addition, run a pair of colors against WCAG 2.0 standards.

4. Craft by InVision

The singular must-have in every UI/UX designer’s tool belt, Craft is a suite of plugins for Photoshop and Sketch that help streamline your design workflow by automating tedious actions and pulling in more realistic sample data.

5. Confetti

Generate gorgeous confetti patterns in 1 click. Define your grid in vertical columns and horizontal rows and get the perfect layout of shapes. Keep generating to find the perfect composition of your shapes.

6. Symbol Organiser

Get your symbols together! Symbol Organiser is a Sketch plugin to organize your symbols page alphabetically (including layer list) and into groups determined by your symbol names.

7. SVGO Compressor

Automatically compress your SVG assets using SVGO at export time. Selecting menu items or hitting keys is out of fashion, so SVGO Compressor will compress your SVG assets whenever you export them, without you having to do anything.

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