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Sketch 56 Beta is Out

almost 4 years ago from Ktrn Dsrs, Lead Designer at POTLOC

  • Mattan IngramMattan Ingram, almost 4 years ago

    Sketch and Figma are slowly recreating every feature of CSS (not perfectly) because they chose to build their own rendering engine instead of just using HTML and CSS.

    This causes so many issues with developer handoff. I see product designers switching to an HTML/CSS based tool over the next couple of years instead of sticking with Figma/Sketch.

    You will get all the other benefits that Figma/Sketch provides, while having all the benefits of a box-model right out of the box.

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    • Ktrn DsrsKtrn Dsrs, almost 4 years ago

      Have some pertinent tools to suggest in that case? I am always interested into learning new things.

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      • Mattan IngramMattan Ingram, almost 4 years ago

        Modulz, Hadron, Brook.io, Webflow (sort of but demonstrates how powerful this can be), handoff.design, and many others.

        The counter argument I hear is that people feel they will lose creativity if they can’t position items anywhere they want. But this just tells me they don’t know CSS because position: absolute and position: fixed let you do exactly that.

        My only fear is these tools will over abstract away from HTML and CSS instead of being a means to teach designers these useful skills. One of the reasons we have such a big discussion about design systems right now is because designers AND developers refuse to properly learn HTML and CSS.

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        • Ktrn DsrsKtrn Dsrs, almost 4 years ago

          • Modulz, I'm on the Alpha & Beta. This one is really promising

          • Webflow (I am tempted a lot about this one). Have you tried it as a design tool? How about multiple projects

          • Hadron & Brook, I will take a look at these

          I also totally agree with all you said

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          • Mattan IngramMattan Ingram, almost 4 years ago

            Unfortunately I missed the Modulz alpha/beta, but I’m worried it’s not exactly the tool I’m looking for. I’ve been talking to the creator on Twitter and it seems like he is against exposing the HTML and CSS to designers and instead basically just giving them a variety of pre-built components and modules and tokens they can theme.

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