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2026 5

  1. Negative gaps, min/max sizing, and much more: What’s new in stacks?
  2. Latest Features
  3. Keep control when sharing design work with clients and teams
  4. Five ways we’ve been using our MCP server
  5. 9 reasons to choose Sketch in 2026

2025 7

  1. Everything we shipped at Sketch in 2025
  2. A guided tour of Copenhagen
  3. How Ben McCarthy is bringing Obscura’s vision to photo editing
  4. #MadeWithSketch
  5. A new chapter for the Command Bar
  6. Frames and Graphics: A not-so-short guide
  7. Rethinking layout in Sketch with Stacks

2024 17

  1. Our favorite features from 2024 — and what’s next
  2. Oh no, I need to design a tinted iOS 18 app icon
  3. Learn Design
  4. Prototyping in Sketch: Everything you need to know
  5. Sketch and AI
  6. Inside Sketch
  7. Add movement to your prototypes with Smart Animate — now in Sketch
  8. How Gentler Streak brings kindness to fitness
  9. How Darkroom is building the next-generation of mobile first photography tools
  10. How Casey Liss and Ben McCarthy built Callsheet — a better home for movie lovers
  11. Sketch 100: More than just a number
  12. Aeon Studio: using Sketch to delight clients through design
  13. How Tripsy is building the perfect travel companion
  14. Meet the Maker: Andrey Prokopenko
  15. 10 features I asked the Sketch team to build but turns out they already had
  16. Meet the Maker: Matthew Skiles
  17. Meet the Maker: Duncan Horne

2023 33

  1. Sketch in 2023: What have we been up to?
  2. Meet the Maker: Lucas Haas
  3. Meet the Maker: Volodymyr Kondriianenko
  4. New in the web app: Dark mode and better ways to share, sort and filter
  5. A beginner’s guide to icon design in Sketch
  6. How to create depth in Sketch
  7. How Forrest put a twist on fitness tracking — then did it all over again
  8. Your guide to Sketch on iPhone and iPad
  9. How ChibiStudio helps anime fans express their creativity
  10. How to organize and maintain design systems in Sketch
  11. How to build a component Library in Sketch
  12. Benefits of working with Symbols in Sketch
  13. How to incorporate Symbols into your Sketch workflow
  14. How to build a design system in Sketch
  15. How Letterboxd used Sketch to design a home for cinephiles
  16. 6 tips for creating your presentations in Sketch
  17. How to design a delicious-looking strawberry using just one layer
  18. Every blend mode explained
  19. Tiny gems: Sketch improvements you might have missed
  20. Kickstart your next Sketch project with ready-made templates
  21. The best keyboard shortcuts to get started with Sketch
  22. Intro to typography — what it is, and how to get it right
  23. Why UX research is so important — and how to do it right
  24. How Lisa Jacobs builds brands through design
  25. How to master one-layer designs
  26. Inside Sketch: A deep dive into our Canvas tech
  27. Libraries, an in-depth look
  28. How to design an album cover
  29. Your complete guide to commenting in Sketch
  30. What’s next for Sketch?
  31. New in Sketch: Commenting, Templates, Document Libraries and more
  32. Three mindsets to level up your design portfolio game
  33. How Walkbox ignites Portuguese wanderlust for tourists and locals

2022 117

  1. How to create a realistic peeling sticker effect in Sketch
  2. How to make the most of Color Variables
  3. Glow-up: 10 new Sketch features you might’ve missed in 2022
  4. 8 graphic design tips to start applying today
  5. Here are the best Sketch designs of 2022
  6. Inside Sketch: An introduction to semantic design
  7. How 8-year-old Daikichi designs his own pictograms in Sketch
  8. How to create an alpha mask in Sketch
  9. A close look at award-winning designer Dmitry Novikov’s career
  10. How to design a credit card mockup in Sketch
  11. How to build a landing page in Sketch
  12. How Basic Apple Guy turned a hobby into a thriving social media community
  13. Symbols revolution: Sweeping improvements to overrides and layer selection
  14. Your guide to designing the perfect Twitter header
  15. New in the Mac app: Improved Symbol overrides and a better way to resize layers
  16. How to set up your UX copy ecosystem
  17. 8 of the best Sketch plugins that every designer needs
  18. Top 5 best Android app design practices
  19. 5 tips and ideas for designing Instagram posts
  20. How to create Instagram carousel post templates using Sketch
  21. How to create a glassmorphic design in Sketch
  22. The ultimate color combination guide
  23. The benefits of working with Overlays in Sketch
  24. Ramsés Cabello: A designer’s journey to collaboration beyond the canvas
  25. Get started with your Sketch Workspace
  26. Everything you need to know about the Sketch Mac app
  27. Everything you need to know about the Sketch web app
  28. Introducing: Sketch for Education
  29. Long time no see? Discover the new Sketch
  30. How to make a Twitch Emote in Sketch
  31. A look at Glòria Langreo’s life as a product manager at Sketch
  32. New in the Mac app: Create document thumbnails from Artboards and more quality of life improvements.
  33. What is game UI? A complete beginner’s guide to game interface design
  34. How to build a remote workforce: An interview with Sketch’s People Ops team
  35. How to create iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets in Sketch
  36. What is kerning? The ultimate guide for beginners
  37. 7 tips to start your career in design
  38. New in the Mac app: Some neat improvements to Smart Distribute
  39. ICYMI: 38 recent Sketch improvements you might have missed
  40. How to illustrate in Sketch
  41. Best practices for nailing the collaborative design process
  42. 3 moodboard examples and templates to get you started
  43. Behind the scenes: How we built the new iPhone app — now powered by Workspaces
  44. What is collaborative design?
  45. How Giulia Virtus Azzoni uses design as a force for good (food)
  46. How to create a moodboard in 5 steps
  47. New in the Mac app: Align layers to a reference object, duplicate documents and more
  48. Searching for silences in UX copy
  49. How our remote team spent a week in Porto together
  50. An introduction to color theory
  51. What is a parallax effect? The definitive guide
  52. New in Sketch: Duplicate documents to My Drafts in a click
  53. Kawaii: How Viviane Valenta creates adorable illustrations in Sketch
  54. Your guide to Overlays — a powerful way to make interactive prototypes
  55. Create your own amazing emojis in Sketch
  56. New in the Mac app: Overlays in prototypes, auto-download Libraries and more
  57. Five tips to improve your design portfolio
  58. Introducing our new and improved iPhone app
  59. How Oskar Groth bridges the gap between development and design
  60. Behind the scenes: How we built Discover — a knowledge hub right in your Workspace
  61. What are color profiles? And why do they matter?
  62. Game on: How Rapha Lopes creates eye-catching, gaming-inspired icons
  63. Women in engineering: Meet María Gil, Director of Engineering at Sketch
  64. How to create custom iOS widgets in Sketch
  65. Getting to know the Sketch Interface
  66. New in the Mac app: Artboard Templates and Alpha Masks from every layer
  67. A complete guide to skeuomorphic design
  68. Getting to know the Sketch toolbar
  69. Made with Sketch: How Gavin Nelson puts the “icon” in “iconic”
  70. New in the Mac app: A better prototype player, Auto Link to Artboard and more
  71. Laurent Baumann: Design tips for non-designers
  72. Reimagining digital play: How Pok Pok inspires the next generation of creative thinkers
  73. Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2022: Understanding how to design with everyone in mind
  74. What is a moodboard? And how can it help?
  75. New in the Mac app: Blurred alpha masks and more
  76. Can data and ethics live together? How to design with privacy in mind
  77. A new dimension: How Tiago Alexandrino makes epic 3D illustrations in Sketch
  78. How to create responsive iOS widgets with reusable elements
  79. What is a design system? And why you need one
  80. Introducing Appibilities: How Marianka Cilliers of Glucode is helping make apps more accessible
  81. New in the Mac app: Quality of life improvements and bug fixes
  82. How to design eye-catching widget backgrounds
  83. Website design best practices: from A to Z
  84. Wireframe vs mockup vs prototype: What’s the difference?
  85. New in Sketch: Discover articles, inspiration and more in the web app
  86. Space to play: How Ramsés Cabello uses Sketch to relax and unwind
  87. Top 4 ways to create a mockup for your design
  88. Take more control over sharing your work in Sketch
  89. Design Brainstorming: From ideation to creation
  90. How to create a wireframe: The ultimate guide
  91. New in Sketch: Mac app support for restricted projects and more
  92. What is a design prototype? The complete guide
  93. Introducing Color Tokens — bringing Color Variables to your development projects
  94. New in Sketch: Add descriptions to document updates
  95. Introducing: Color Tokens
  96. What is a design mockup? The definitive guide
  97. How to write user-friendly error messages
  98. We stand with Ukraine
  99. New in Sketch: Restrict access to projects
  100. What is the difference between UI and UX design?
  101. Version 84 of the Mac app is out now!
  102. What is UI design? And why is it important?
  103. How to work with complex Symbols
  104. 10 Wireframe examples for mobile apps and websites
  105. How to organize your Symbols and manage overrides
  106. Behind the scenes: How we updated Corners for the Mac app
  107. New in Sketch: Introducing Corners, improving segmented controls in the Inspector and more control over prefix placement when exporting
  108. How to edit Symbols and set resizing options
  109. What is UX design? The complete guide
  110. Open format: using GitHub Actions to work with Sketch documents
  111. How to create Symbols with Sketch
  112. What is a wireframe? The definitive guide
  113. New in Sketch: A better way to view Components in the web app, faster font embedding and more
  114. Open format: how to automate the creation of an icon Library
  115. Open format: how to modify Sketch files programmatically
  116. Open format: how to read Sketch files and convert to JSON
  117. Open format: how Sketch’s open file format can supercharge your workflows

2021 45

  1. Inside Sketch: remote working from day one
  2. Tech Talk: How we made the Mac app faster with improved rendering
  3. New in Sketch: Introducing Foresight, improving Prototyping and better document management
  4. Deep Dive: Update your designs using Linked Data
  5. How to conquer Blank Page Syndrome
  6. New in Sketch: Speed up your workflow with new layer navigation and selection improvements
  7. Introducing Canvas view in the web app
  8. All you need is Sketch: Simplify your design process and save money
  9. How to get started with developer handoff in Sketch
  10. How to give constructive design feedback
  11. How to get started with UX prototyping
  12. Behind the scenes: How we researched and tested collaborative editing
  13. How to set up your Sketch Workspace for teams — the definitive guide
  14. Sketch and macOS Monterey
  15. Improving your workflow with updates to the Workspace window
  16. Inside Sketch: how we redesigned our toolbar icons for Big Sur and Monterey
  17. New in Sketch: Better Workspace access, faster navigation and some new shortcuts
  18. How to use math operations in the Sketch Inspector
  19. Universal language: how Yannick Lung uses Sketch for his intricate icon designs
  20. New in Sketch: Faster group navigation, new Apple device presets and more
  21. How to set up your design process for smooth developer handoff in Sketch
  22. Behind the scenes: How we added real-time collaboration to a native Mac app
  23. UXpect me to talk? How to improve your product by involving your UX writer from day one
  24. Tech Talk: Speeding up the Inspector in our web app
  25. Improving designer-developer collaboration with big Developer Handoff updates
  26. New in Sketch: Documents window improvements, simpler prototype sharing and more
  27. Deep Dive: Take control of Library distribution in your team
  28. Framework Design: using Sketch to meet client briefs, from ideation to handoff
  29. Welcome to Workspaces: Making developer handoff work for everyone
  30. Behind the scenes: How we made the Sketch 2021 video
  31. Welcome to Workspaces: Getting feedback and testing your designs
  32. Welcome to Workspaces: Sharing your work
  33. Deep Dive: Create organized data sets and apply them to your designs fast with Linked Data
  34. Welcome to Workspaces: Managing roles and permissions
  35. New in Sketch: Improvements and bug fixes
  36. Welcome to Workspaces: Staying in sync
  37. Welcome to Workspaces: Organizing your Sketch documents
  38. Reflecting on the WWDC 2021 keynote
  39. New in Sketch: Share your documents in My Drafts
  40. Chip in: Improving our render farm with M1 Macs
  41. New in Sketch: My Drafts and more powerful permission controls
  42. New in Sketch: real-time collaboration, performance improvements, new Data controls and more
  43. Sketch: in 2021 and beyond
  44. How to get started with real-time collaboration
  45. New in Sketch: Linked Data and Starred updates

2020 14

  1. A Big Sur UI refresh, new ways to manage Data and improved grids — what’s new in Sketch?
  2. Comment threads, Color Variables support, and a safety net for deleted documents — What’s new in Cloud?
  3. Color Variables, Components View and a new Insert Window — what’s new in Sketch?
  4. Sketch 68 is out now
  5. Introducing Assistants — a helping hand for your designs
  6. Big performance boosts and new font embedding options — what’s new in Sketch?
  7. 4 things that got us excited at WWDC 2020
  8. New: Export individual assets from Cloud
  9. Sketch 66 is here!
  10. Prototyping improvements and a new way to export assets directly from Cloud — what’s new in Sketch?
  11. Tints, a new Components Menu and more — what’s new in Sketch?
  12. Faster Cloud uploads, improvements, fixes, and ending support for macOS 10.13 — New in Sketch 63
  13. Introducing Cloud Inspector — free developer handoff in the browser
  14. A new Smart Layout control, a better way to save and more — what’s new in Sketch?

2019 8

  1. Sketch 60 — your design system starts here
  2. Variable Fonts, improved OpenType support, and a new Data plugin — What’s new in Sketch?
  3. Smart Layout, a new Welcome Window and Projects on the Mac and Cloud — What’s new in Sketch?
  4. Mentions, Projects and Smart Distribute swapping sneak previews — What’s new in Sketch?
  5. Smart Distribute, Cloud documents and Sketch for Teams — What’s New in Sketch?
  6. Sketch for Teams, Smart Layout and more announcements from Layers
  7. Improved snapping and a Dark Mode toggle in Sketch 54
  8. Better overrides, a brand new Fill Popover and faster prototyping in Sketch 53

2018 6

  1. A look back at Sketch in 2018
  2. Dark Mode, Data, a brand new look and more in Sketch 52
  3. Styles in Libraries and fixed elements in Prototyping in Sketch 51
  4. macOS Mojave brings dark mode to Sketch
  5. Making Sketch better in version 50
  6. Prototyping, Libraries on Sketch Cloud and an official iOS UI kit in Sketch 49

2017 8

  1. 2017: Another year of innovation
  2. Color Management, Sketch Cloud updates and Symbol Scaling in Sketch 48
  3. Introducing Libraries and Smooth Corners in Sketch 47
  4. Private Sharing in Sketch Cloud, Sync Shared Styles shortcuts and more in Sketch 46
  5. A redesigned color popover, better plugin management and more in Sketch 45
  6. A new Artboard picker, better vectors and more in Sketch 44
  7. Improved Shape Editing and More in Sketch 43
  8. Export Presets, Touch Bar, and More in Sketch 42

2016 8

  1. An Iconic New Look and More
  2. Improved Vector Editing and More
  3. Sketch 39 Brings Symbol Resizing and Cloud Beta
  4. Versioning, Licensing, and Sketch 4.0
  5. Sketch 3.8 Brings New Mirror and More
  6. Sketch 3.7 and New Symbols
  7. Sketch 3.6
  8. Sketch 3.5

2015 3

  1. Sketch 3.4.2
  2. Sketch 3.4
  3. Sketch 3.3

2014 3

  1. Sketch 3.2
  2. Sketch 3.1
  3. Sketch 3 is now available!

2013 4

  1. Sketch 2.4
  2. Sketch 2.3.1
  3. Sketch 2.3
  4. Sketch 2.3 and Mirror

Undated 39

  1. I, Robot: How Mark Jardine of Tapbots designs award-winning apps with Sketch
  2. Still connected: How the Sketch Community hosted 100 events in 12 months — during a pandemic
  3. In the fast lane: What are design sprints, and why should you run them?
  4. Inside Sketch: What happens when you save a document to your Cloud Workspace
  5. Objective-C: How Brad Cox’s programming language has shaped Sketch since day one
  6. Keeping it real: How Nikola Lazarevic creates photorealistic objects in Sketch
  7. Building better: How Sketch helps Salesforce maintain its industry-leading design system
  8. The new Sketch icon: how we redesigned a classic for Big Sur
  9. Switching Silicon: How Sketch performs on Apple’s new hardware
  10. Yes Sur: Behind the scenes of Sketch’s macOS makeover
  11. Part of your world: Why we’re proud to build a truly native Mac app
  12. From one to one million: how we grew Sketch around our incredible community
  13. Speaking our language: How Vidit Bhargava designed LookUp in Sketch
  14. A decade in design — in conversation with Emanuel Sá
  15. Making us Blush: we talk inclusive illustrations with Pablo Stanley
  16. Designing a video game in Sketch: we talk to the team behind King Rabbit
  17. 9 things you (probably) didn’t know you could do in Sketch
  18. Diverse illustrations and avatars for your Sketch projects
  19. Speeding up Symbols: how we improved performance in Sketch 67
  20. Welcome to the new Sketch blog
  21. How to make the most of Data in your designs
  22. Eating our own dogfood: how research and testing works at Sketch
  23. 6 Sketch plugins to boost your productivity
  24. Accessible design: in conversation with the developer of Cluse
  25. Documenting the humane design movement
  26. Our plans for Cloud in 2020
  27. What’s next for Sketch in 2020?
  28. Diabetes by design
  29. From Sketch to Screen — how Blake Stevenson created our Ambassador art print
  30. Speed up your workflow with Smart Distribute
  31. COO Matt Langdon on joining Sketch and why design is the heart of every business
  32. Designer insights from Creative South 2019
  33. Sketch raises $20m in Series A funding from Benchmark
  34. Do more with Data: Building a Data Supplier plugin for Sketch
  35. Sketch Meetup The Hague — September 2018
  36. Not a hotdog — how to build an AI powered plugin for Sketch 🌭
  37. Create and customize your Google Material Design theme exclusively in Sketch
  38. Leaving the Mac App Store
  39. A Week with the Sketch Team in Madrid