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USER PROTECTION & PRODUCTIVITY

User Experience Group

John Flynn

Why Photoshop SucksP.S. Better Change That Adobe Password, Huh

A Rant By John, Age 8

P.P.S. Excuse Me, You Want How Much For This Software?

Sketch: An Alternative to the Adobe Hegemony*

*for interface design

“The number of its features that are truly helpful for UX and UI designers comprise maybe twenty percent of the whole app. So to use Photoshop for this purpose is to shoulder that outstanding, largely useless eighty per cent of features.”

—Khoi Vinh, Design Director, NYTimes.com

• You need it? Photoshop does it

• PSD is the de facto industry standard

• Allows for an obsessive level of pixel-level artistic detail

• Finally has editable corner radius and area type convert

• Bloated

• Save for Web should be a misdemeanor crime

• Not ready for the mobile era and workflow

• Took a decade to get corner radius/area type convert

• The most precise and advanced vector drawing tool

• Excellent for wireframing, also creates precise assets

• Master pages, artboards

• Object-oriented rather than layer-based philosophy

• The most awful workflow ever devised by man

• Seriously, I just want a basic inner shadow

• Buggy, unreliable pixel measurements

• Exploitative pricing — only Cloud from now on

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Sketch

Sketch is a simple, yet powerful vector art tool built expressly to produce

pixel-perfect user interface design.

All elements are numerically editable, nudgeable, hintable

Linked styles — add once, change everywhere

Native slice export to PNG, PDF, @2x

Built-in grid layout system

Sketch Mirror: for mobile preview

• Intelligent “smart” guides

• Cleaner, faster interface with more useful defaults

• Designed by interface designers, for us

• Inexpensive

• No PSD, AI interopability

• Vectors must export to SVG

• Unproven technology, still working out bugs

• Mac OS only

http://sketchmine.co

http://blog.mengto.com

http://medium.com/design-ux/25545f6cb161

http://sketchtips.tumblr.com

Resources

Thanks!