Sketch VS Figma 2021 - UI Design Livestream

Sketch just added collaboration and made a big move into subscription. Let’s see how it compares to Figma.

- Adaptive layout: auto layout, constraints
- Plugins
- Design resources vs community
- Cloud, team library
- Real time collaboration
- Windows vs Mac
- Browser vs offline
- FigJam, version control
- Free + Subscription vs trial + license

- Apple UI Kit
- Real-time collaboration
- Data
- Sketch App Sources

Resources

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[wmblemania]

I'm renewing my Sketch license. For me, being able to work offline, and as fast as possible, is paramount. There's just no way a Javascript-based Electron app is going to be as fast or memory-wise as a a native Mac app. I get that Figma has many cool features, an I hope some of them come to Sketch, but I prefer to support a fast, native Mac app over a cross-platform app.

[joeromersa]

Figma is good at some features Sketch lacks but damn, it requires sooo much handwork on big projects:
1) recoloring icons inside of components — breaks every time you change an icon; sometimes it doesn't break tho🤷‍♂️;
2) setting up and updating auto-layout — child layers never keep their setting when you change grouping or drag them out; that's not how css works in real-world web;
3) no inter-page prototyping, also the prototyping itself is not much better from what Sketch has — if your project is larger than a fancy dribbble concept, prepare for big spaghetti mess; smart animate is laggy at 90%;
4) tiny 3-level submenus and panels for tweaking text/color styles;
5) F is not able to run more than 1 plugin at a time.

[sukantchhetri]

Anyhow, Figma is a big threat to all available tools.
I can imagine google chrome's initial days when it was launched as the lightest and fastest browser and we can see where it's now.

[greenpulp.]

My experience with Figma is that it always wants you to reauthenticate each morning when you start working which is really annoying and stops me from using it.

[RobertPetras]

The last time when I tried to use Figma, my computer gave me a shocking warning about that this particular web application consumed too much memory... The whole browser window was slow down and tried to refresh itself every second, so I literally could not work at all. I have never experienced before such a thing in Adobe XD, Sketch, Xcode or even Blender 3D. Should I upgrade my incredible powerful iMac from 64GB memory to 128GB memory to run a web application in a browser? I’m so disappointed that many YouTubers don’t talk about this serious issue at all. You can not go wrong with Sketch, which is a native Mac application, in my opinion. Beside that, Figma costs $12/month, Adobe XD $10/month and Sketch $8.25/month (yearly payment).

[afrenchydesigner]

Great and honest comparison! I am a Figma lover but I am looking forward to see how sketch will improve its software :)

[liubovhryhorenko]

Thank you for the informative video!! For me, as a designer, it's very interesting 👍

[sebastianyepes]

Sketch is just so buggy now, Slower and slower looks like they are following Adobe steps!

[wmblemania]

The Apple Sketch library is very useful, but it annoys the hell out of me that they don't provide iPhone 7/8/SE2 sizes. It's like they don't want anyone to design for a phone without a notch, but the sad reality is that if you ship an app for iOS 14, you _must_ design for the tiny SE 1 and iPhone 7/8 sizes. (No choice about it.) But Apple don't provide the resources... grr.