![]() In Sketch, master symbols are treated like their own individual pieces of artwork, anything you add to their workspace is added to every instance easily and automatically. Adding elements to a component is tedious you have to visit the layers panel, open a flyout, make sure you’ve selected an asset inside the component, and then paste in the asset you want to add. It’s very easy to override a component, which then breaks any edits you later update via the master. Unlike Sketch, it’s not always clear which version of your component is the master- thanks to a lack of an independent component area like Sketch’s Symbol Board. Components aren’t really much more than groups you’d find in any other Adobe product. XD had the opportunity to improve on Sketch’s revolutionary idea and proceeded to take a step backwards. Nesting symbols within symbols, while often puzzlingly complicated, became an even more powerful, yet necessary tool for streamlining design workflow. A design asset that could be managed, cloned, and then universally edited across an entire document. WINNER: XD THE BUILDING BLOCKSĮasily, one of the most innovative tools Sketch introduced to UX/UI software was the symbol. XD also has the Adobe cloud and more team integration, which isn’t something I personally use (and can’t speak to) but I can imagine it’s a life-line for more complex projects with larger scope. A fair amount of our Developers prefer to work on non-OSX based systems and if there’s a tool we can all share harmoniously, I’m happy to give it a shot. Sketch continues to be an Apple exclusive, which feels like a step backwards for the software world. But my evangelism has been chipping away over the last decade. ![]() ![]() OPERATING SYSTEMįirst off, Macs are great, I love Macs. Instead, here are some bright spots and glaring issues I’ve discovered as a veteran Sketch user getting acclimated to XD. Sketch and XD do a lot of the same things well, so I won’t nitpick their basic similarities. While I haven’t finished my latest project, I feel like I have enough of a grasp on the software to make some strong distinctions. So for my last web project I decided to dust off my Udemy account and fire up some YouTube videos and learn more about XD. I’ve been designing websites in Sketch for the last 5 years, and I’ll admit that removing the process from Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator felt like the most powerful software revolution in the design ecosystem since we abandoned Quarkxpress.īut recently it has come to my attention that Adobe XD may be making enough headway to usurp Sketch from atop the UI/UX throne.
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