6 UX Designers Share Why Sketch Is Their Go-To Design Tool
Web design is complicated as it is — I mean, factoring in everything from branding to graphic design to the perfect text-to-image ratio is enough to keep anyone up at night.
Luckily, there are some great tools to help UX/UI designers strike the right balance between beautiful design, usability and client needs, such as Keynote, InVision and good old faithful Adobe Creative Suites.
However, one tool seems to stand above the rest: Sketch. 6 UX/UI designers shared why Sketch is their go-to resource when designing the best user experience possible:
“Sketch is my go-to for everything. It’s such an efficient and intuitive design tool. The team behind it also does a great job keeping it updated, and the design community has been great to create so many amazing third-party plug-ins that make the tool so much more powerful. It’s much faster and more lightweight than Photoshop while being far superior for high-fidelity design than something like Omnigraffle. Sketch is really my main go-to. I’ve even found myself building presentations and other documents in Sketch.” — Jon Peterson, Senior UX Designer at Harry’s
“If I were starting fresh today, I’d go straight to Sketch for digital design. It has gotten so much better in just the past two years. It’s built solely to create digital experiences, which means you can plug real content into it, fully leverage design libraries, whip up menus that change depending on the screen, and so on. Sketch plays well with inVision for prototyping, and Zeplin when it’s time to hand things off to dev.”—Mike Mathis, Freelance UX Designer
“If you’re still stuck using Adobe Illustrator — learn Sketch now! You’ll save so much time and energy, and that’s what we all need more of, right? Sketch has a simple interface and it’s quite easy to learn. I highly recommend this tool because there’s plenty of plug-ins you can find and install that will make your workflow that much faster.” — Ki Yan Ip, Freelance UI Designer at Sotheby’s
“I like this tool as it’s pretty comfortable to use and is ideal for putting designs together quickly.”— Garik Margaryan, Senior UX Designer at Alibaba Group
“Sketch is far and away my preferred design application. Though Illustrator and Photoshop may win in terms of depth, Sketch wins handedly with intuitiveness. Its simple interface allows me to create symbols, incorporate grids, interact with multiple artboards and more. This package also integrates beautifully with Craft and InVision, two prototyping applications I use daily.” — Henry Binning, User Experience Designer at Sherpa CRM
“Simply put, Sketch is my homegirl.” — Alison Bunce, UX/UI Designer and Product Manager at SESAC Holdings
