Mastering Sketch: A Beginner's Guide 1st edition edited by Sufyan bin Uzayr from CRC Press details the Sketch app that lets you collaborate on the entire design process in real time and allows you to see everyone's best ideas in one place. It helps you make playable prototypes, preview, and share designs. Launched in 2010, the app won the Apple Design Award and now has more than one million customers. Sketch is trusted by companies worldwide, including Facebook, Google, Xbox, and Stripe. It has an intuitive interface, thoughtful features, and all powers of the native macOS app. Designers across the world find this app powerful and enjoyable. Moreover, with its powerful ecosystem of plugins, assistants, and extensions, Sketch can be extended and integrated with a wide variety of use cases. Mastering Sketch teaches you everything you need to know about the Sketch app in a simple and lucid manner.
Mastering Sketch is written for the absolute beginner who has no prior expertise with the Sketch app. This book teaches the concepts from scratch and takes you from zero to advanced level in no time. It builds upon the fundamentals and core expertise which will make your career as a UI/UX designer successful.
More importantly, Mastering Sketch starts from the absolute basics, talking about the installation process and system requirements, and then moves on to the interface. This ensures that even newbie designers can follow the process with ease and at their own pace. Subsequent chapters are dedicated to topics such as vector editing, image and prototype management as well as UX design.
Mastering Sketch also talks about the concept of real-time collaborative editing in Sketch and offers detailed guides to inviting others to work with you on your workspace. Lastly, this book also covers at length the diverse Sketch extensions' ecosystem, with special attention to both official and community plugins, assistants, and integrations. It offers a brief overview of every single plugin or integration to Sketch released to date. We are confident Mastering Sketch is a worthy companion for any aspiring UI/UX designer looking to add Sketch to their arsenal.
Chapter 2 ◾ The Sketch Interface
Chapter 3 ◾ Layers Basics and How to Work with Them
Chapter 4 ◾ Vector Editing in Sketch
Chapter 5 ◾ Understanding the Sketch App
Chapter 6 ◾ Prototyping
Chapter 7 ◾ Real-Time Collaboration
Chapter 8 ◾ Sketch Extensions
Sufyan is the Director of Parakozm, a multinational IT company specializing in EdTech solutions. He also runs Zeba Academy, an online learning and teaching vertical with a focus on STEM fields.
Sufyan specializes in a wide variety of technologies, such as JavaScript, Dart, WordPress, Drupal, Linux, and Python. He holds multiple degrees, including ones in Management, IT, Literature and Political Science.
Sufyan is a digital nomad, dividing his time between four countries. He has lived and taught in universities and educational institutions around the globe. Sufyan takes a keen interest in technology, politics, literature, history and sports, and in his spare time, he enjoys teaching coding and English to young students.