How one feature improved all of Sketch 🧠

We explore how researching real-time collaboration made our whole platform better [View this email in your browser]( [Sketch News]( Newsletter — Issue 88 [Behind the scenes: How we researched and tested collaborative editing]( This month, we explore the research process behind real-time collaboration, and explain how it made Sketch better as a whole. Spoiler: it sparked at least three other projects. [Read more]( Featured Extensions [Beatflyer Lite]( Animate your designs and sync them to a beat. Now your next album artwork, app or homepage can get the party started! [Transifex]( Start localizing at the design phase. Transifex picks up your copy and delivers it right back into Sketch when it’s ready. Learn [One of the most important goals in product design is to reduce cognitive load. By removing clutter or non-essential information from an interface, you make the user’s job easier.]( [UI cheat sheet: Accordions](#)[★]( by Tess Gadd [With powerful handoff features in your Sketch Workspace, developers can grab text and color attributes with a click and even inspect layers, Symbols, and Styles in context or in detail. All for free.]( [Get started with your Sketch Workspace]( by Sketch --------------------------------------------------------------- Videos [5 tips to work even faster in Sketch]( by Joseph from Learn Sketch This month, Joseph tests some of the Mac app’s recent navigation and selection improvements to help you work faster. [Why user research is so important]( by Sketch X Tech Circus Discover how we conduct user research at Sketch — and why it’s an essential part of our development process. --------------------------------------------------------------- Resources [New Apple Design Resources]( Apple recently updated their official Sketch Libraries and templates for iOS 15 and iPadOS, including new colors, keyboards, icons and more. [Download]( [404 illustrations]( Listen, we all break stuff sometimes. But it’s better to see a friendly face when it happens — so these illustrations could come in handy. [Download]( [User persona template]( Need to create some customer profiles for your user research? This template will help you create simple but professional personas in no time. [Download]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Events and community [Discover the latest events and communities near you]( [Canvas 2021]( Birmingham, UK — 18 November [Join]( You received this email because you subscribed via the Sketch website. [Choose which emails you receive]( or [unsubscribe from all our emails](. Sketch B.V., Flight Forum 40 Ground floor, 5657 DB, Eindhoven, the Netherlands [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Sketch Blog]( [Dribbble]( [Instagram]( [Forward this email to a friend]( [Privacy Statement](