Sketch Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Sketch as a digital product design tool for designing and wireframing UI interfaces from low fidelity through to high fidelity. We have used it to present prototypes to stakeholders for approval as well as giving our development teams detailed visuals, exported assets and specifications fro delivery. Whilst the basics can be picked up quite easily there it a steep learning curve for more complex tasks.

Likelihood to Recommend

Not everyone in our organisation can use Sketch because it is designed to be an Apple Macintosh operating system only tool. This can be restrictive when some colleague want to collaborate on copy edits or light design amendments. It does balance some of the hi-fidelity vector editing really well though providing what Adobe Illustrator can but in a development context.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Sketch as our primary tool for 3–4 years, supporting interactive and visual designers through all design stages. Sketch initially replaced Adobe Illustrator but was later replaced by Figma when the team transitioned to fully remote work. I still use Sketch for my projects, including sketching, prototyping, and refining visual details.

Likelihood to Recommend

Here’s the proofread version: Sketch is a simple and lightweight tool for vector graphics, ideal for individuals. I would recommend it to anyone working alone on design tasks such as UI or website design. I have started and completed many projects in Sketch, ranging from simple websites to complex automotive UIs with extensive libraries.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We no longer use Sketch. Sketch has a learning curve that is too big. It is much slower than Adobe XD (which is dead) and Figma. Figma is the new industry standard. Figma attracted designers with real-time collaboration, cross-platform support, cloud access, intuitive developer handoff, and strong community-driven innovation tools.

Likelihood to Recommend

Sketch may still be a solid tool, especially for Mac-based designers focused on high-precision design and creating static design systems. However, Figma excels in real-time collaboration, cross-platform support, and interactive prototyping. If you need features beyond simple vector design—like collaborative prototyping or working across different operating systems—Figma is a more comprehensive solution.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sketch allows us to create mockups of email builds before they begin. Before Sketch, we used Photoshop or Illustrator to lay out emails, but it wasn't as quick or accurate until we started using Sketch. We use Sketch weekly to create email mockups and it has become a staple tool in our design arsenal.

Likelihood to Recommend

Sketch is useful when creating UX/UI mockups and wireframes. It's a very detailed and technical tool, which is helpful for designers that like pinpoint accuracy in their work. That being said, it can be difficult to collaborate with Sketch. Unlike competitors like Figma, it doesn't allow live collaboration. Instead we have to send our files back and forth to one another.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I put together wireframes that I then hand off to my UX counterparts. They then take those and turn them into high fidelity designs that we use to test with customers. Sketch works great for this.

Likelihood to Recommend

It works great for simple UX prototyping. It doesn't do as well at more complex prototyping that includes animation.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company offers a full suite of digital marketing and web design, so our prototyping needs to run the gamut from quick mockups to full-scale, team-wide redesigns. Sketch allows us to manage both ends of the spectrum and everything in between, ensuring consistency and collaboration between team members. Its build-in tools are extremely powerful but it is a lightweight program that is extremely customizable, which makes it an easy transition for onboarding periods.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is very simple to master and has a variety of built-in tools that allows one to begin prototyping quickly, and can be powered using a variety of plugins for presentations. However, Sketch struggles with more complex designs, particularly those where animations or transitions are desired. It also isn't a good fit for agencies that use a variety of prototyping tools, as results from importing are not predictable.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Sketch on a daily basis to mock up workflows, screens, iconography, and manage our design system. In the past and present, I have used Sketch to mockup web pages, mobile app screens (both iOS and Android), and even marketing materials such as YouTube thumbnails, email banners, social media graphics, and various other pieces of collateral.

Likelihood to Recommend

I love Sketch, but I know it has it's downfalls. It's a very robust tool, but I would not recommend it for teams that have windows users, since it's a native Mac app, as well as for users that may pass it off to a Windows user in the future.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am using Sketch for all designing and prototyping-related work for my company (Octrax Systems). We are Web and App development company, so for all clients from starting to show user flow till real screens of Apps/Web, everything we are here designing in Sketch.

Likelihood to Recommend

Sketch is very well suitable for all design requirements. I feel the learning curve is very quick for Sketch as compared to peers Adobe Illustrator, Figma, etc. For highly special graphic designing needs it can not compete with Photoshop. For normal requirements, it is better than Photoshop.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sketch is a powerful design tool focus[ed] on the design user interface. Sketch is a primary design tool to create a mobile app in my organization, especially in [the] design department. Also with Sketch + 3rd party app such as Zeplin and Overflow. It's the best combination to speed up our process design and development phase. Sketch can solve the traditional problems when handing over design to Development Team, with latest Sketch feature[s], inspect feature on web version, it's really useful for our team, plus combine with Zeplin. There is no gap anymore. simple case flows our process using Sketch is.

Start Design > Design flow mapping ( 3rd party Overflow plugin ) > Zeplin handover design to dev or Sketch inspect feature = Productive

Likelihood to Recommend

Sketch is a revolutionary design app focus on UI and simple illustration, it helps me a lot on client and personal projects. Easy to use and support[s] many plugins, unfortunately Sketch is only supported [by] MAC platforms. It doesn't have a web version or even windows version. Sketch is suitable for solo designer, work with the team in your organization, it [will] need a 3rd party to help do it, such as plant app to handle version design changes, and you need to pay an extra cost if you need [a] version design change such as GitLab but for design. If you have a complex design and more than 100 artboards, you need to prepare for the worst-case, which means your memory RAM on your computer will drain a lot.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We design mocks using Sketch and also use it as internal design system within the team. We also used its prototyping features in many cases. Main task is to create mocks to be shared with the development team. We used adobe products before sketch and it has helped us save a lot of time in design.

Likelihood to Recommend

Sketch is best suited for UI design. Also works well with larger teams. Not appropriate for visual design or image editing.