Hello :)

I've been working in a SaaS startup where I am the only designer doing the whole UI of the platform, being implemented by other 4 developers. The project started to grow a lot lately, where my Sketch file is huge with many artboards and symbols, consequently the file started to become very messy with duplicated text styles, 50 shades of gray, etc. I have to admit that part of that it's my fault for not organising better since the beginning . I have a style guide in another Sketch file, which after updating to newer Sketch versions it got even more messy with the new way symbols override works in Sketch.

I am quite unhappy on how Sketch overall works, specially when I need to update a symbol in the style guide, it takes me 3 long clicks to refresh the symbol in my working file. Also the need to create a new text style if I want to simply change the text color, for example.

Last week I gave Figma a try for a personal project and I was so pleased on how things work there, specially how symbols (components) are handled. This made me start to consider switching to Figma in my workplace, but I am still in doubt how good Figma it is for a large project, in terms of performance and organisation-wise. I was already planning to do a big clean up in my whole Sketch file, but maybe I could start from scratch in Figma then.

Has anyone here done this switch in a large project? Is it worth? Would Sketch still better in this case? Would like to hear your thoughts :)

Thanks upfront!