↵

Are Figma and XD finally getting Sketch out of the picture in UI design?

over 4 years ago from JE LS, Trainer

  • Nikola DurkanNikola Durkan, over 4 years ago

    I jump over to Figma from Sketch recently and I don't want to go back. The performance is better (at least in the projects that I have recreated in Figma) and their components system seems to work better than Sketch's. Sketch is very unreliable, all the major releases are always buggy, the performance is bad, the rendering is so-so and the damn mirror app never works. Figma is by no means perfect but it does a lot of little thing better than Sketch and that is enough for me to switch. Also, I can cut out Invision and Abstract from my toolkit and save $35/month, which is nice :)

    4 points
    • Mike StevensonMike Stevenson, over 4 years ago

      Even v52? I always thought Sketch was laggy compared to competitors, but the latest release is super snappy, even on my 4k display which always had issues before.

      2 points
      • Nikola DurkanNikola Durkan, over 4 years ago

        Yeah, even the lates version. It got really bad in my current project with a lot of high res images (though I tried to optimize each image to get the sizes down) and a lot of connected libraries with a bunch of nested symbols, etc. It worked fine on my colleagues 15" (2016 or 2017) MacBook Pro but my 13"(2016) just can't keep up. In sketch it got so bad that it took close to a second between me clicking on something and it becoming highlighted. Re-did the whole project from scratch in Figma with full res images instead of scaled down images and it's sooo much more responsive and fast, I was genuinely amazed by how well it worked.

        0 points
        • David Woolf, over 4 years ago

          There’s an auto compress feature in sketch for lots of images. Was working with another designer on a huge file that was awful to get around. We had sketch auto compress images and it was about a 1/3 of the file size (800mb to ~300mb) and way easier to get around artboards and pages, etc.

          0 points
          • Nikola DurkanNikola Durkan, over 4 years ago

            That's what I used. The current library is now ~200MB (was around 400MB before compression). Still too much for my poor little MBP :(

            0 points