Sketch is still in beta: Proceed with caution

These are notes for now. This article may mature over time.

Perspective and terminology is representative of an Illustrator (latest) to a Sketch/InVision stack.

• the name sketch search results
• paste from illustrator crash
• sub symbols? — context dialog still has option, tools does not
• no way to share assets
• invision mismatch
• dropbox says unsupported and is shown?
• Most tools, even core, are not available as key commands
• Broken undo history — create a shares text style, duplicate it, then change it in one of them, now try to undo the change, impossible
• Had odd disappearing elements when in bad undo path
• No support for unicode characters as symbol, etc. names — Ionicon
• Confusing feature release — Says motion is available, then says its not?
• Fidelity in Sketch Mirror is retina resolution, while InvisionApp is 1990’s blur city.
• Cannot move a specific mathematic amount, like 22px that way
• Cannot set an anchor when aligning
• Cannot set a specific with between distribution when aligning
• No way to understand what the smart guides are calibrating to. Unpredictable results.
• In general — easy to get into odd states in the app, feels flimsy
• This odd state, z-space alignment was reversed? http://cl.ly/fFuw
• Not clear what effects line-height
• Can’t outline stroke
• InVision Sync — Exporting artboards and pages — requires unique names for pages AND artboards
• Not advanced selection like same of type or style
• Won’t smart guide snap to a new artboard, requires the object to exist on the board prior to move
• No equivalent to cmd-f or cmd-b
• Cannot select an artboard by clicking the background
• Cant have different fonts, sizes, etc. in the same text field — If you change the bold or italic in a shared style it will stay with only the one specific one, HOWEVER if you make a change to the shared style the bold/italic change will revert to no changes.
• No anchor when scaling — Always top-left