I’ve been guilty of calling Sketch ”dead”, I believe specifically after Figma’s Config 2023 conference when they launched Dev Mode.
I bought a single Sketch license for my first MacBook in 2017, and used that one happily for a few years. I can stil use it today to open my old Sketch files (how cool is that?! local-first software). I worked with Invision prototypes in a startup in 2017, too, and they were great. During my design studies in 18-20; we were already using Figma for some projects, because of its collaboration capabilities (and student benefits). Since then the tool has been polished, and Sketch seemed to lag hopelessly behind, or so I thought.
I am changing my mind on this, and this post helped. Sketch has a different model in several ways, and might be a sustainable market for that. Similarly, the model of Penpot, a newer open-source competitor, may also appeal to another part of the market.
Product isn’t always everything.
It would be very interesting to see both Figma’s and Sketch’ relative market share, absolute sales, and profit figures over the last years.
I’ve been guilty of calling Sketch ”dead”, I believe specifically after Figma’s Config 2023 conference when they launched Dev Mode.
I bought a single Sketch license for my first MacBook in 2017, and used that one happily for a few years. I can stil use it today to open my old Sketch files (how cool is that?! local-first software). I worked with Invision prototypes in a startup in 2017, too, and they were great. During my design studies in 18-20; we were already using Figma for some projects, because of its collaboration capabilities (and student benefits). Since then the tool has been polished, and Sketch seemed to lag hopelessly behind, or so I thought.
I am changing my mind on this, and this post helped. Sketch has a different model in several ways, and might be a sustainable market for that. Similarly, the model of Penpot, a newer open-source competitor, may also appeal to another part of the market.
Product isn’t always everything.
It would be very interesting to see both Figma’s and Sketch’ relative market share, absolute sales, and profit figures over the last years.