Symbols are essential to building a design system formed by elements and components that will be used across all of your project. What are symbols? In a nutshell, symbols enable you to use and reuse an element across a project, keeping a master symbol that automatically updates other instances of the symbol when changes are made to it. Among those few features, symbols were the thing that I used very frequently, and still do, practically every day (yes, even on Sundays… you know, a freelancer’s life). The apparent lack of features in Sketch, compared to the alternatives full of menus and stacked panels that I was used to, was in fact one of its major advantages and helped me to design faster. I had, once again, found an application focused on user interface (and icon) design - and nothing else. Since my first days of using Sketch, I was very surprised by how easy and straightforward it is to use. I started using Sketch a few years ago, as a replacement for my favourite design software back then, Fireworks, which had been discontinued by Adobe - leaving a whole generation of designers broken-hearted. In this article, I’ll share with you a few best practices and tricks to help you unleash symbols’ full potential.īut first, a bit of a backstory. No matter whether you are designing a whole design system or just a couple of screens, symbols in Sketch will help you keep your file organised and will save you a lot of time in the long run.
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