Sketch News - Issue 43

Design videos, plugins, resources, and more [Sketch News] [View on the web]( [Archives]( ISSUE 43 [Beginners Guide to Sketch Basics]( [Beginners Guide to Sketch Basics]( Designer, Jesse Showalter has put together this great, little beginners guide to Sketch. In the video, Jesse walks you through everything you need to get started — from customizing the toolbar and adding Artboards, to creating Symbols and Text Styles, and exporting your designs. If you like this, Jesse’s got a bunch of [other Sketch tutorials]( on his YouTube channel that are definitely worth checking out. [youtube.com]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Designing 16px Icons in Sketch]( [Designing 16px Icons in Sketch]( If you’ve ever struggled with small-scale icon design, Matt D. Smith’s latest video is definitely for you. In this quick, five minute guide, Matt talks us through converting larger designs into 16px icons, in Sketch. The video includes top tips on using Sketch’s Pixel Preview mode and best practices when working at small sizes. If you want to learn more about icon design, Matt has put together a free course over at [introtoicons.com](. [youtube.com]( [Import from Sketch, Animate, and Export Code]( [Import from Sketch, Animate, and Export Code]( Flow is a neat, new take on the motion-design app, created to speed up hand-offs between designers and developers. With Flow you can import your Sketch designs, add animations and then export them as functioning iOS code for Xcode 9 and Swift 4.0. Developers can then customize this code to ensure it integrates nicely with whatever product you’re shipping. Pretty handy right? Bonus points for having a super great video on their website too! You can ‘pay what you want’ for Flow over on their website now. [createwithflow.com]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Chart — A Powerful Data Visualization Plugin for Sketch]( [Chart — A Powerful Data Visualization Plugin for Sketch]( As a digital designer, it’s pretty likely that at some point you’ll need to create a chart or graph for a dashboard, widget or app design. Up until now, creating these kinds of components has been hard work but with Pavel Kuligin’s Chart plugin you can add data visualisations to your Sketch designs, with just a few clicks. Chart lets you choose the kind of graph you want to create and even allows you to add real or randomly generated data to your visualisations. If you want to find out more, Pavel has put together a more in-depth summary of Chart on [Medium](. [github.com]( [Design+Code iOS 11 UI Kit]( [Design+Code iOS 11 UI Kit]( Meng To, the man behind the brilliant book, [Design+Code]( has released a beautiful iOS 11 UI Kit, designed specifically for Sketch. The kit was created with Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines in mind and contains Text Styles, resizable Nested Symbols and even a set of dark theme components. The iOS 11 UI kit is totally free and will make a great starting point for your next project or an excellent addition to your Libraries. Here at Sketch, we're big fans of Meng To’s work and we recommend checking out the latest version of Design+Code, if you haven’t already. [designcode.io]( [Design More, Sketch Less With Plugins]( [Design More, Sketch Less With Plugins]( Have you ever been working on a project in Sketch and wondered “is there a plugin for that?” Well, now you can find out with this awesome list from Infinum’s Emanuel Miličević. Emanuel says his list is for “all smart, yet lazy designers who want to focus on experience and beautiful design, not on pushing pixels,” and it includes some of our favorite plugins too. This is by no means an exhaustive list but Emanuel has curated an excellent collection of plugins that should help you with some everyday design problems. Thanks Emanuel! [infinum.co]( [Sketch Communities Around the World] Sketch Communities Around the World There are Sketch meetup communities in almost 80 cities around the world and the list keeps on growing! Discover events and communities near [you](. Here are the latest events coming up: - February 14 — Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸 [Sketch & Design #3]( - February 15 — Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪 [Sketch Meetup #2]( - February 19 — Milan, Italy 🇮🇹 [Sketch & Design]( - February 21 — Munich, Germany 🇩🇪 [Sketch Meetup #4]( - February 22 — Florence, Italy 🇮🇹 [Sketch Crash Course]( - February 22 — Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸 [Sketch & Principle for Jedis]( - February 24 — Kathmandu, Nepal 🇳🇵 [Sketch Meetup #1]( - March 3 — Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹 [Sketch & Design]( Don’t forget to follow us on [Twitter]( and join our [Facebook Group](. You received this email because you subscribed via the [Sketch News]( site. We’ll be sorry to see you go but you can [unsubscribe instantly](. Bohemian B.V. 2562JD the Hague, the Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------- ©2018 Sketch News | [Privacy Policy]( [Published with Curated](