Sketch 63 — What’s new?
Sketch is much more than UI Design Tool. I create not only all my UI Designs there but also images for blogs, banners, ebooks, Instagram posts, Dribbble shots, Images for Twitter, and Facebook. I suppose that you also use Sketch for multiple other digital design things. Sketch Team noticed that and with this update they prepared stuff to help us work faster with social media images!
Sketch 63
What’s new for Sketch 63? Here is the quick summary of the improvements:
- Cloud uploads become much faster — Sketch Team works a lot on a server’s performance. You will surely notice that when you will work with your next cloud document.
- Social Media Image Presets — searching for every Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or LinkedIn image size was a pain in the neck. Now all social media sizes are included in Sketch Artboard Presets!
- Components Popover improvements — To expand Library, you can now click a whole name, not just an arrow. Much more convenient!
- Layer & Components long name tooltip— if your layer or component has a long name that is truncated, now Sketch will show you a tooltip with their full name when you hover over the element in the Layer/Component List or Popover.
There are also lots of minor improvements and fixes included!
Sketch for Teams also got a great update recently and introduced Cloud Inspector — Design Handoff. Now you can share your specs with Developers directly from the Cloud.
To share your design specs with developers all you have to do is to mark the checkbox “Inspect” in Cloud Document Settings.
Social Media Image Templates in Sketch 63
There are 29 Artboard Templates prepared for multiple Social Platforms. If you would like to use them, just open a dropdown with Artboard presets and change it to “Social Media.”
If you are not yet familiar with those sizes here is the full list of social media images available in Sketch 63:
- Profile Photo — 400x400
- Header Photo — 1500x500
- Post — 1024x512
- Profile Picture — 720x720
- Cover Photo — 820x312
- Event Photo — 1920x1080
- Group Photo — 640x334
- News Feed Post — 1200x630
- Story — 1080x1920
- Profile Picture — 180x180
- Post — 1080x1080
- Story — 1080x1920
- Profile Picture — 400x400
- Cover Image — 1536x396
- Company Profile Picture — 300x300
- Company Cover Image — 1536x768
- Hero Image — 1128x376
- Post 1104x736
YouTube
- Profile Picture — 800x800
- Cover Photo — 2560x1440
- Video Thumbnail — 1280x720
- Profile Picture — 200x200
- Article Preview Header — 900x500
- Article Image — 400x400
- Profile Picture — 200x200
- Cover Image — 960x300
- Banner — 2560x1440
Dribble Shot — 1600x1200
Eventbrite Event — 2160x1080
I have to admit that this is quite impressive list!
Social Media — Let’s get in touch!
This social media update is a great occasion to say hello on social platforms. I am also available on the following social platforms. Let’s connect!
To sum up
Sketch 63 is a set of noticeable improvements that makes our daily work easier and faster. We also see that lots of work are now done in Cloud Services connected with Sketch. It’s clear that the cloud is the future of designers’ workflow.
By the way…
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You can also Create User Flows faster in Sketch — With SQUID you can create User Flows directly in Sketch the sketch file with your artboards. Everything may be done within a couple of clicks. See how it works.
Thanks for reading!
