A great "new" creative software to use without a lot of fuss or confusion.
November 13, 2019

A great "new" creative software to use without a lot of fuss or confusion.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Sketch

We use Sketch across a couple of different departments. At first, our design team was the only team using it. However, as a member of the marketing team, I started using it to maintain consistency between projects that our teams collaborated on. After using it for just a few minutes, I knew that it was a game-changer. It is a very easy to use program that allows a user to make designs very simple, without the same technicality of some other Adobe products. Very straightforward and user-friendly while also retaining a robust design feature set.

Pros

  • Assets within a project "snap" to proportion and match with other assets, maintaining alignment and space in projects to help create well-designed projects, no matter what you are working on.
  • All the tools are laid out very nicely and clearly. There are minimal questions as to how to do very basic and sometimes more complicated functions.
  • Automatic saving and cloud saving is a plus.
  • The design of the software is visually very intuitive. The layers panel is well organized and easy to manage.

Cons

  • You have to have a canvas set up to export certain file types accurately; this isn't clear at first.
  • The export process is a little strange. It takes getting used to. It seems you have to convert the file type BEFORE selecting export...I found that to be odd.
  • It may be less robust than Adobe Illustrator, but I haven't used both enough to say what Sketch might be missing.
  • It greatly reduced my time in learning new tasks.
  • Has significantly reduced my time in creating products based on a template that was created by one of our designers.
  • It was an additional software to purchase (as opposed to continuing use of Adobe Illustrator--which I already had), but the purchase has ultimately been worth it.
Again, I would say that Sketch stacks up very well against similar Adobe products in the field. I get the sense, just from the little bit I've used it, that It may not be as robust as some of the Adobe products. However, for my needs (fundamental to the middle of the road use), it has been more than adequate in its feature set.
Putting this one at a nine only because I haven't interfaced directly with their support BUT I do find it to be a familiar enough product within the creative community that I can check on YouTube or do basic web searches in order to learn new skills in the software which I may not know or which might be challenging to figure out.

Do you think Sketch delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Sketch's feature set?

Yes

Did Sketch live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Sketch go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Sketch again?

Yes

I have used Sketch to design adverts for events, YouTube still, and to modified an email template that one of our designers had initially created. It's straightforward to pick up new skills and doesn't have the intimidating friction to enter in as a user, as some Adobe products do.

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