Game on: How Rapha Lopes creates eye-catching, gaming-inspired icons
“I prefer to do and learn different things instead of focusing on just one area. It helps me to be the designer I want to be.”
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Women in engineering: Meet María Gil, Director of Engineering at Sketch
Learn about María’s experience in the STEM field and how she makes lives better for all engineers at Sketch
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Introducing Artboard Templates — a new way to build on your designs fast
You can now turn any Artboard — and its content — into a reusable template
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How to create custom iOS widgets in Sketch
Learn how to use Resizing constraints and Smart Layout to iterate on your widget designs
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Getting to know the Sketch Interface
The more you know your way around, the smoother your workflow will be
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New in the Mac app: Artboard Templates and Alpha Masks from every layer
Version 89 of the Mac app is out now. With our latest update to the Mac app, you can save Artboards — and their content — as Artboard Templates. These new Artboard Templates behave like any other Component, so you can share them in Libraries and reuse them across documents. You’ll find a few great examples of how you can use Artboard Templates in a new Library we’ve bundled with this update.
Also with this update, you can now use any type of layer as an Alpha Mask, including images and complex Symbols.
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A complete guide to skeuomorphic design
Everything you need to know about the art of life-like design
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Getting to know the Sketch toolbar
Learn how to customize your toolbar to work better and faster in Sketch
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Made with Sketch: How Gavin Nelson puts the “icon” in “iconic”
“There are so many little quality-of-life features and design choices in Sketch that really make designing icons a joy”
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New in the Mac app: A better prototype player, Auto Link to Artboard and more
Version 88 of the Mac app is out now, bringing with it a completely rewritten prototype player. With it, playing your prototypes should feel smoother, faster and more reliable. This new player lays the groundwork for some new Prototyping features, including one in this release — Auto Link to Artboard.
This update also includes a whole host of small but mighty, quality of life improvements — from using Shift-Command-D to duplicate a layer under the original, to the option to snap to quarter pixels in vector editing mode.
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Laurent Baumann: Design tips for non-designers
Starting out in the world of design? Turn your beginner drafts into polished masterpieces with these best practices
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Reimagining digital play: How Pok Pok inspires the next generation of creative thinkers
How one remarkable team of digital toymakers designed an Apple Design Award-winning app using Sketch
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2022: Understanding how to design with everyone in mind
Learn the basic principles of accessibility design and how to start applying them today
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What is a moodboard? And how can it help?
Every great design project starts with a little inspiration
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New in the Mac app: Blurred alpha masks and more
Version 87 of the Mac app is out now. With this release you can add a blur to alpha masks, use Inspector operators to position layers relative to Artboards, and easily spot layer visibility/lock states thanks to a new set of Layer List icons.
