Intro to Sketch

Workshop by @nicolesaidy

design your landing page

Today's mission

Intro

  • Powerful lightweight professional design application

  • Compatible with Mac only

  • Perfect alternative for Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator

  • Made for digital design

  • Download the free trial for 30 days

getting started

  • Toolbar (top)

  • Inspector (right)

  • Shapes

  • Layers

  • Vector

  • Hand tool

  • Group layers

  • Zoom in/out with cmd +/-

  • Double click to edit shape

  • Export assets

getting around

  • Infinite canva

  • Multiple artboards: a way to organize content

  • Create artboard with artboard tool

  • Predefined artboards

  • Export artboard

artboards

styling

  • Shape types

  • Duplicate shape with Alt+drag

  • Editing shapes with vector tool

  • Alignment tools

  • Shared styles

  • Mask

styling shapes

  • Text inspector

  • Text styles

styling text

Symbols

Symbols allows you to reuse elements easily across Artboards and Pages

  • Creating Symbols

  • Editing Symbols

  • Organizing Symbols

  • Resizing Symbols

plugins

  • Icon font

  • Unsplash.it

  • Content generator

  • Download this folder & open it
  • Copy the 3 plugin folders
  • Go to Sketch > Help > Reveal Plugins in Finder
  • Open the Plugin folder
  • Paste the folders here

how to install the plugins

To use the Icon Font plugin, you have to install the icon fonts on your mac:

  1. Go to Font Bundle > Download and extract the zip file

  2. Open the "ttf-files" folder and double-click on each font file to install it

  3. Open Sketch and go to Plugins > Icon Font > Install Font Bundle > Select the font-bundles-master folder

  4. Confused? Watch this

how to install the icon fonts on your mac

  1. Go to the plugin's Github repository

  2. Click on "Clone or Download" > Download Zip

  3. Unzip the folder

  4. Open Sketch and go to Help > Search for "Reveal Plugins Folder"

  5. Move the downloaded folder to the Plugins folder

(for the future) how to install a plugin

tips & tricks

  • Export multiple resolutions

  • Swipe layer to export

  • Measure distances: Alt

  • Color picker: Ctrl+C

  • Make grid

Step #1

build the layout

(10 minutes)

Step #2

create style guide

(15 minutes)

Step #3

style your landing page

(20 minutes)

For inspiration:

awwwards.com

productpages.xyz

awesome design resources

github.com/nicolesaidy/awesome-web-design

nicolesaidy.com

@nicolesaidy

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