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Sponsor: Affinity Designer: the perfect tool for UI and UX design(affinity.serif.com)

6 years ago from Max Lind, sometimes Maxwell

  • Rhys MerrittRhys Merritt, 6 years ago

    Just out of interest, what makes AD feel more legit than Sketch?

    I've not used AD - but am eagerly awaiting a publisher tool from Affinity.

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    • Nathan HueningNathan Huening, 6 years ago

      I can't speak for OP, but early Sketch was super buggy and lacking certain major features. In some respects, it still is... as a 1.0, AD felt much more polished and iterated more rapidly. The whole "pan and zoom 1,000,000%"business is just nuts. That sort of thing would bring Sketch to its knees and beachball for days.

      (I say this as a long-time user/fan of Sketch.)

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      • Trev MorrisTrev Morris, 6 years ago

        Honestly, I love Sketch—The Invision Craft plugin has really done some crazy stuff to extend that love. However, I'm not attached to it that I won't try something new.. just slightly hesitant after spending so much time utilising Sketch, designing shared symbol libraries for the UX and visual design teams to use, amongst other things.

        AD looks brill, in fact it looks like Photoshop.. which is something I still have nightmares about. It's great to hear they're coming out with a rival to InD, perhaps the only Adobe software I still use (and still enjoy).

        Sketch is far from buggy now, it's usually plugins that cause issues.. I do however miss the extra control on things like typography which I understand AD solves. Does it have a light UI by any chance?

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        • Alec LomasAlec Lomas, 6 years ago

          light UI is something they're bringing to the next versions of Design / Photo, iirc

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