Layoff at Sketch (Over 80 People)

I’m sorry to hear this, but as an active user, here is what they delivered in the past 3 years:

1. Not much that I’d use or remember

2. No AutoLayout - which is a definite must have for anyone designing interfaces

Wintamute · 3 years ago

Doesn't Sketch have smart layout in symbols? And they released multiplayer coediting last year.

tomaskafka · 3 years ago

That’s a very limited thing, at this point almost every frame in my UIs is autolayout, it’s that indispensable.

AlanEDodds · 3 years ago

They need to radically change their approach to every piece of the software

willio58 · 3 years ago

I loved Sketch. It was refreshing to use coming from illustrator and eventually adobe XD which was a poor-man's Figma (lol). Figma really just got everything right though, not platform-specific, and just much easier to share and work together.

MarcelOlsz · 3 years ago

Sketch for me died the moment they locked workspaces behind a subscription.

josephd79 · 3 years ago

Curious to see how Figma turns out after Adobe runs it.

marban · 3 years ago

User (subscriber) since the first release — To this day I prefer the native feeling over the clunkiness of Figma — Hope they keep on shipping. Mind-boggling though why a product like this needs more than a couple dozen capable makers.

ArcMex · 3 years ago

Sad news. Wishing them the very best.