Jump Start Sketch by Daniel Schwartz

Sketch is a vector-based design app that has become a well-established tool for interface designers, mainly due to its ability to export assets in a variety of resolutions.

It takes web and app design to a new level, thanks to its minimalist approach to software design and intuitive features such as Smart Guides, Shared Styles and the ability to export layers on a whim.

Sketch offers features that are particularly important to user interface designers:
an improved method of aligning layers or even entire components;
the ability to export layers in a variety of resolutions;
the functionality to save styles that can be reused time and time again;
and, perhaps most importantly, ways to accomplish these things without having to dig through menus or to use complex keyboard shortcuts.

Not only has Photoshop started to adopt some of Sketch’s most useful concepts, but Sketch has begun to return the favor. An intense rivalry is forcing a huge shift in the way we design for screens—at a rate so accelerated that it’s a particularly
exciting time to be a user interface designer.

For the number crunchers out there, the Subtraction Design Tools Survey explains that 34% of designers use Sketch for interface design, in comparison to the 29% that use Adobe Photoshop. It could be argued that Photoshop is only just
behind Sketch because Photoshop (along with the other Adobe apps) is available for both Windows and Mac, while Sketch is only available to Mac OS X users.



This book has links to code examples in the text file