As an agency, you’re constantly juggling client reviews, team feedback, and projects with lots of moving parts. Sharing design work can get messy fast — some people need the full picture, others a tight, curated view. And when most conversations happen in Slack or Notion, it’s easy to lose context.
In this post, we look at how previews in Sketch can help you stay in control when sharing design work — without oversharing or losing context.
Keep the review focused
When you share too much, feedback can drift quickly. Too often, that starts with exporting files, sending attachments, and losing track of which version is actually being reviewed. That’s why deciding what to share is often just as important as the design itself.
Previews make this easier. They let you share a specific slice of your document — a few pages, a prototype flow, or a single route — without sharing everything. It’s a cleaner way to guide the conversation — keep early explorations private and share only what’s relevant to each person.
Add a password or set an expiration date when access needs to be limited or temporary.
Pick the pages or prototypes you want to share, leave the rest private
Share work without onboarding everyone
Most clients don’t want to create an account just to review a proposal. And they shouldn’t have to. Previews let anyone open a link in their browser — no Sketch account, no onboarding, nothing to install.
Your Workspace stays limited to the people who actually work in it. Share a single link instead of zipped files or email attachments, and keep control even if it gets forwarded — so stakeholders see only what they need, and nothing more.
Go deeper when you need to
Sometimes, of course, you do need to open the door a little wider — and staying in control means deciding when to do that. Developer handoff, QA reviews, or internal discussions often require more than just looking.
Previews let you decide that too. When you set one up, you can choose whether people can inspect the design or export assets — ideal for engineers or anyone who needs the finer details. Developers also get a clear layer list, making it easier to understand structure, jump to specific layers, and pull what they need without digging around.
You can also allow commenting for anyone with a Sketch account, so feedback stays tied to a specific version — without giving access to the full document.
Navigate layers, inspect details, and pull what you need — right from the browser
And for admins, there’s now a clear overview of everything that’s been shared across a Workspace. All previews appear in a dedicated settings page, where they can be reviewed or removed in one click. It keeps things tidy — no outdated links floating around or feedback landing on the wrong version.
You can invite as many developers as you need to inspect designs in your Workspace for free.
Share designs with context, wherever the conversation happens
Most conversations around a design don’t happen in just one place. Some feedback lands directly in the document, and plenty of day-to-day discussion happens in Slack — often in quick threads between meetings. Those conversations move fast, and without context, they quickly lose clarity.
Our Slack integration helps with that. Paste a link to a page, frame, prototype, or preview, and Slack shows a snapshot and a bit of context. Everyone gets a head start before they even open it.
Drop a Sketch link in Slack and get a preview of your document.
The same idea applies outside Slack. When you paste a preview link into tools that support oEmbed — like Notion or Miro — it shows up as an interactive preview inline. Clients and teammates can explore the work directly — zooming in, switching between light and dark mode — instead of relying on static screenshots.
Setting up a preview
Setting up a preview is easy. In the web app, open the Share menu and choose Create a Preview.
From there, give it a name, add things like a password or expiration date, and choose whether people can inspect or export assets. Pick the pages or prototypes you want to include, click Create Preview, and share the link.
Setting up a preview with password protection and expiration from the Share menu.
Check out our docs on previews and integrations to get up and running. If you’ve already tried them, let us know what you think in our community forum.
