Nested Symbols in Sketch - Wunderlist Todo App - Let's Make That In Sketch

This series is all about learning Interface design by doing. Sketch for Mac is an amazing design tool that has greatly improved a lot of designers workflow. The goal of this series is to help people learn to use Sketch through bite-sized recreations of already established popular designs.

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Sketch introduced nested symbols in 2016 and it changed the interface design workflow, in my opinion, Learning this new workflow will greatly improve your design consistency and speed. Nested symbols allow you to create a master version of a component and then make as many instances of it as you want

To create a nested Symbol, just drag an existing instance into another Symbol’s master. It’s that simple! Any updates you make to the Symbol’s master will see the changes propagate throughout your design no matter if they’re inside another Symbol or not. As well as dragging an existing instance into a master, and inserting via the toolbar item, you can also select multiple instances of different Symbols and press Create Symbol in the toolbar.

There’s no limit to how deep you can nest Symbols, but please note a Symbol cannot contain an instance of itself.

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[larsl]

Your good mood is contagious, finally, a tutorial type that you can listen to well! Thanks for the helpful video!

[thetrailhunter]

Man, this app is literally mindblowing. I can't believe I've been stuck in Photoshop for so long. Thanks for the awesome videos mate.

[flakeycakey]

Thanks for covering the canvas issue. I was stuck on that. This is more than a nested objects tutorial!

[alvarothin]

Thank you so much for your videos. I am studying UX/UI Design and all of them are really useful!

[adilbadshahmughal]

It's really awesome and easy to understand how to create symbols in sketch. Thanks.

[JasonRuston]

Exactly what I was looking for. Great tutorial!

[jbquigley]

Hey Jesse, awesome video! I'm using version 55.2, and I wanted to point out a small difference that might be helpful for other viewers. At the 22:50 mark, I needed to select each symbol, and then pick "Pin to Edge" (for the appropriate edge). Then click both lines of "Fix Size" under the Resizing menu. Hope this helps! :)

[mautopsy]

Jess, thanks for the video, I've started exploring Sketch, and I like your examples and style of explanation very much! Keep going

[sezaykaragoz]

Cheers Bro, that has changed my mind about Sketch!

[TheGeterdon]

I really like your tutorials, they are helpful and you are super cute!!

[GaryTube]

Hey Jesse, liked the tutorial. Keep it up!

[alinaborowska]

love this tutorial ;) you helped me a lot!

[isabellebamber]

Loved it!! Really great job, enthusiastic too! thanks :)

[DanAnnis]

Great Video!!! Learned a ton.. Thanks!

[conchigil]

Amazing tutorial!!! You've literally saved my life today ;D

[refdesign]

I had to rush into using Sketch from an Adobe background, and I've found it incredibly frustrating that I didn't know that the overrides selected by size, not by Folder/Name. Thank you for the review and pointing that out. After playing with that, I noticed that the current version of Sketch lets you have symbols bleed off their artboards (checkmark and flag bleeding off the box and star artboards). I don't yet know if that would work out to best practices, but it allowed me to use the measurements of the only the checkbox for alignment instead of the whitespace to accommodate the larger optional elements.

[candicesterling]

Great tutorial, thanks! New Sub here! 🙋🏽‍♀️

Nice, and is it possible to make it also functional in preview of the prototype??? - for example, on click change the element checkob form "checkbox-unchecked" to the "checkbox-checked" ???

[kristenstabile]

Great video!! Thanks for sharing! What shortcut did you use to resize the text at 3:25?

[tahnaiyarussell]

In the new version of Sketch, the resizing feature has gone, it's been replaced with "resize to fit". There is no "pin to corner" or has it been moved elsewhere?