What’s New

Smart Animate

Smart Animate looks for layers with the same name across different Artboards and animates their changes. If you’ve used Magic Move in Keynote, you’ll pick this up fast! You can control movement and timing with easing and duration options — for Smart Animate and all other transitions. There’s also another new transition type — dissolve — which adds a smooth fade between Artboards or Overlays.

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Easy Library swaps

You can now easily replace Libraries in your documents, replacing Components with the same names and locations. It makes designing for dark and light modes or adapting a site for different sub-brands faster and easier. You can choose whether replacing a Library will affect all Components, a specific type or just a selection.

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Color Variables in gradients

It’s been a long time coming, but you can now use Color Variables in gradients. Now, when you update a Color Variable, it will update any gradients that use it too. There’s not much more to say with this one except that we’re glad it’s here, and we hope you are too!

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Di ‘hola’ a diseñar en español

You can now use the Mac app in Spanish and interact with the UI in a more familiar and intuitive way. To use Sketch in Spanish, make sure you’ve set Spanish as your Mac’s primary language — or set a custom language for Sketch in System Settings.

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Better PDF exports

You can now choose which Artboards to export and whether you want to display their title or render them as bitmaps. For Workspace documents, you can also export all comments — either as part of the PDF or as a CSV file.

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Scroll areas in prototypes

Make your prototypes scroll in any direction — from a simple row of cards, to a full size map. Set up scroll areas in seconds and adjust them right on the Canvas.

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Hover, press and toggle triggers

We’ve added new hover and press interactions, alongside the classic tap/click. Use these to trigger overlays, or even hide or show specific layers (that’s also new with this update). There’s also a new toggle option to show and hide a layer or overlay with each click or tap.

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Command Bar

Press ⌘K in any document to open the Command Bar and quickly access tools, actions, and plugins. Over time, it will learn your preferences and bring your most-used actions to the top of the search results.

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Minimap

Find your way around fast on an infinite Canvas. The Minimap will appear whenever you have layers outside your view, and show you exactly where you are in the current document. Simply click and drag on it to pan around.

Pin documents and projects

Pin important documents and projects to the top of the sidebar in the web app and Workspace window in the Mac app. Pinned items are personal to you, so you can use them in whatever way suits your workflow best.

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Discover in the Mac app

You can now access Discover via the Mac app too. You’ll find it at the top of the Workspace Window’s sidebar — the latest updates, learning resources and helpful links right at hand.

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Permissions groups

For Business plan customers, it’s now easier to manage who can access documents and projects by assigning pre-made groups of Workspace Members to them.

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Archive projects

For Business plan customers, we’re introducing the option to archive projects, giving you a handy space to file away inactive projects, and stay focused on what’s in flight.

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We’ve made it easier to hide hints and hotspots when sharing prototypes. There’s also a new sharing option that removes toolbars and navigation for a more focused, client-friendly experience.

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We automatically and regularly save your Workspace documents as you design — this means you don’t need to manually save at all unless you want to create a version. If you want to mark a specific milestone or moment of progress, you can quickly create a new version — and add a description or a star — by using ^⌘S.

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We’ve rolled out a brand new prototype player that works across the Mac, web and iOS apps. With our new prototype player, playing your prototypes should feel smoother, faster, and more reliable. We also now support advanced display effects like background blurs on scrolling Artboards.

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Foresight now works with the Tidy button in the Inspector — you’ll now see a preview when you hover over it, giving you a better idea of how your changes will look. Tidy now also works on both the horizontal and vertical axis, making it even easier to align layers.

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