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Sketch for Teams — Take design collaboration to the next level in the cloud
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Take collaboration to the next level. Share designs and prototypes, provide feedback and collaborate with your whole team in a single workspace.
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Jesse Wallace
I love the idea of this, but I don't agree with everyone saying this eats into Abstract - at least not until they offer merging files. @emanuelsa Is comparison, merge/diff and resolving on the roadmap? I for one would love to leave Abstract.
Matthew Rosenberg
@emanuelsa @jesse_wallace I am with you. I would love to leave Abstract for an integrated solution with Sketch. Ideally would include task management as well.
Brad Bitler
Very cool!
Corey Stone
Axure RP is my advanced prototyping tool of choice, and I'm pretty happy with it, especially the version 9 additions (an Inspect tool, better commenting functionality). Why doesn't Sketch let you easily put a border on only some sides of a shape? (or am I missing it?) Seems so simple to implement. grrr
Eduardo Santos
@coreywstone you can do it, type the 0;0;0;0 in the input, where 0 is the corner value for (TOP, RIGHT, BOTTOM, LEFT)
Pablo Stanley
@coreywstone @edumicro I think Corey meant a border outline, not a border radius?
Eduardo Santos
@coreywstone @pablostanley good catch! I misread Corey comment :) Having a 1 side only border would be valuable. For now I usually hack those one-sided borders with shadows.
Pablo Stanley
@coreywstone @edumicro Lol, me too!!! haha
Corey Stone
@edumicro Ooh good idea on the shadow. I emailed Sketch to request that their Border Width field accept 4 values. :)
Nick Levitan
sketch is losing audience because of its pricing, I don’t understand why I need to pay $99 when I can use a more stable and more functional tools like Figma FOR FREE, as i see sketch team must DO MORE than just "team" mode, lol sketch... lol
Josef Richter
@mpavlukevich dude, $99 is nothing for a tool that you use to make a living...
Josh Peters
@mpavlukevich Not even Product Hunt is free from trolling. Sketch is a totally stable product. Sketch is also cash flow positive, whereas Figma is all VC funded, with growing revenue. There are definite trade-offs and preferences amongst people, but the problems aren't easy to solve, especially when talking native apps.
Dwayne Charrington
@mpavlukevich I think people are willing to pay money for a tool if it's worth the cost. Sketch has been invaluable for years, but competitors are catching up. Adobe XD is free and can not only compete with Sketch on features, it's less buggy and is growing exponentially. I think their biggest mistake was not expanding to Windows, but also not fixing all of the bugs that have plagued Sketch for years now.
Hunter Becton
If anything I think this will hurt Abstract's business more than Figma's. I still think Sketch is a better product, but the fact that Figma is browser based, free, and has real-time collaboration still has it standing out from Sketch. Plus, when plugins come to Figma it'll get much more interesting...
Josef Richter
@hunterbecton how do you use "real time collaboration" in ux/ui design?
Hunter Becton
@josefrichter1 You just design together in a single file and have no worries about overriding or working on something old. It just works without any effort.
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Hunter
@hunterbecton I agree. Feels like in the (not so distant) future you're either going to own the whole design workflow or own none of it. Which is the reason Invision invested so much into Studio. Tools like Zeplin, Abstract, Avocode, etc. will have less and less of a place.
Rob Tapella
@josefrichter1 @hunterbecton real time collaboration is also great when commenting on things... often it will trigger 2-4 ppl making small modifications while using Comments or slack to discuss. Basically an impromptu design review on in-progress work in small chunks of time. It’s not really for large scale collaborations, but being able to do real time collaboration completely changes how you use the tool and the team dynamic. Hard to really get it until you experience it. (Aside from avoiding the nightmare of managing multiple versions of files, which is an obvious pain).
Brandon Pimentel UX
@hunterbecton @josefrichter1 while it fell to the wayside, axure handled that very well. you could "check out" specific screens or masters from a file, allowing others to work on other parts of the same the file.
Csaba Kissi
Tried Figma , didn't like it. Sketch just better suits my needs. Lot of people say Figma is faster. Not for me. I use Sketch for several years already and this team feature just made it even better.
Jason Festa
Amazing. Not sure this digs into Figma as much as it eats Abstract. I wonder when/if they will break the ability to version outside of Sketch Teams. Also... "cloud inspect" is probably going to eat any handoff solution.
Josef Richter
these shared cloud files - what happens when two people start editing the same doc and try to save?
Hrishikesh Pardeshi
Really cool idea! Would be really helpful to the community at https://remote.tools
Hazel Song
What?.. do I have to pay againnnnnnnnnn?
Lee Fuhr
@hazelsong2 More like _instead_. A paid Teams seat comes with a Sketch license, for basically the same price. It's really poorly communicated, but basically it's switching from a person owning the license to the _team_ owning the license.
Ahmet Bektes
Anyone using abstract?
Stas Kulesh
@ahmet_bektes Abstract is probably the best version control tool for designers atm.
Jonno Riekwel
@ahmet_bektes Yep. Love it :)
Ahmet Bektes
we are also using Abstract but I think that in the long run this movement of Sketch can hurt Abstract..
Dexter Wang
@ahmet_bektes Sketch Teams is a generic implementation, I don’t think it will hurt Abstract for people using it in the way it’s meant to be used. But for teams that find Abstract confusing (or bogged down by slow commits) it could.
Benn Raistrick
@ahmet_bektes We have been using for about 2 years and sadly have to say its progressively getting worse, our product has slowed heavily due to the resources required, and sync speed. also the cost for small teams is excessive.
Shumaila
Any one using abstract?
Vlad Korobov
Oh yeah
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Hunter
Which design platform are you currently using?
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Hunter
Looks like this is Sketch's answer to all of the Figma functionality. I'm excited to try it out!
Ohad Ron
@ridderingand_ I would've expected that, but it seems that there's no real-time collaboration and no annotations (comments which are tied to a certain element in the file).
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Hunter
@ohadisohad Their mini roadmap graphic shows that it's coming soon. How soon "soon" is? No idea lol.
Benn Raistrick
The lack of identifier of cloud and library syncing being saved is frustrating to say the least, I never know if the cloud is uploading my saved document or not (and no the cloud icon doesn't update). Also libraries don't update documents I can not longer open symbols it constantly asks me to unlink the symbol.