Foreword

Can you believe there was a time when a major part of the web design world used Photoshop to design everything? A photo editor for design? While Adobe’s application is very powerful, you will probably only employ a fraction of its features for actual design work; the rest will quickly gather dust. So why not take something easier, something geared more towards UI design — something that can better respond to the ever-changing landscape of devices? The less you need to worry about the tool, the more you can focus on your ideas. But apart from Adobe’s own Fireworks there was really no alternative until September 2010, when a small company in The Hague decided to redefine the interface design world: Sketch 1.0 was born, made by Bohemian Coding. Six years on, it has taken the world by storm and is the design software of choice for many practitioners, the most prominent being Facebook and Google. And it keeps improving, faster than ever.