Retrospective: Sketch by BohemianCoding

by iduuck • 13 years ago

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Best UI design tool so far; HOWEVER, I am missing a lot of features from Photoshop and the Sketch itself is IMO in an early beta stage and is really buggy and sluggish.

I am currently working on a bigger project and have got multiple pages and art boards and the performance is just terrible. Could be that I am on MBPwRD, but I really doubt that. Gonna get a thunderbolt display and see.

Also there are many glitches with exporting that have not been yet fixed and I have even got an email from the Sketch developers saying that they did not notice the bugs I reported repetitively.

That said, I kind of regret getting rid of Photoshop and working in Sketch and Pixelmator full-time. I may be putting Photoshop back on as it so far renders everything as it is - that means perfectly and can export it that way as well; but I am going to put PS back on only when the CC version gets "a better trial" - I am not willing to pay around 70 bucks a month and not fully own the app for as long as I want. That's way too much for a subscription like that. Also my be cause I hate subscription system, don't believe cloud and I want to own the product. Not having problem like this with Sketch - I even purchased a copy for my fiancée - 50 bucks is a steal, I would not hesitate to drop 300 bucks, if they would fix bugs, performance issues and added all the features I need.

Can't wait what bjango is going to come up with, Marc is an awesome designer, the Skala is gonna be a blast.

iduuck2• 13 years ago

Sure, it's not perfect. Sketch was build by an, as far as I know, 2 people team. And how many people work on Photoshop? It's just a nice handy tool for managing some little projects. To manage big projects it's to laggy on my MBA. But as long as you have an MBP (> 15'') or MBPwRD (> 15'') you are fine with it. Or just use an iMac.

I never checked out Pixelmator. But the subscription-system is also a terrible thing. Beside this _many_ students or pupil didn't have a credit card (at least in Germany). And that is also a really huge waste of money on Adobe's side. But if you are a student it just costs 29,99€ in Germany, that's a little discount for us pupils. But anyway the problem with the credit card is still there.

adregan• 13 years ago

Zooming is really buggy for me in Sketch. Sometimes I just fly around the canvas, and I haven't figured out a good way to recenter like double clicking the hand tool in illustrator.

iduuck2• 13 years ago

I figured it out myself that this is buggy, but if you work with it everyday I am confident with it now. I also figuread out that the scrolling over the canvas is (a bit) buggy, too. But I didn't care about it anymore, because I use SPACE+DRAG.

Retrospective: Sketch by BohemianCoding

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