Sketch
Smart Layout: The biggest thing to happen to Sketch since Symbols!
And why it’s going to improve your workflow massively
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5 min readSep 25, 2019
Well colour me impressed folks.
Smart Layout for Sketch recently arrived in Version 58, and yes, it’s a pretty big deal, as big as when Symbols arrived to save the UI Design world (or at least that’s what a wise man once told me).
Let me share my thoughts on this massively awesome update to our favourite UI Design Tool…
Basically Smart Layout allows you to maintain the padding and spacing between layers in a Symbol when editing its Overrides, enabling all of your Symbol instances that have Smart Layout properties applied to it to automatically resize when its Overrides are changed. Oh yes please!
You can apply Smart Layout properties when you create a new Symbol, or you can edit…
