What are the caveats to using Sketch for an asset library? This video discusses "gotchas" for importing as well as creating your own assets within Sketch.
- In the previous videos, we imported some assets…by simply dragging and dropping them…onto an art board in Sketch.…I have that same file open and you can find it…in the 02 02 exercise files.…Now, you can do this manual exercise…to import items one by one.…And this method gives you a great amount of control…over where you place each asset…but it can be time consuming.…As well as importing existing assets,…it's a best practice to use Sketch as your design tool,…if you're not already.…
This lets you create designs in Sketch…instead of Photoshop or Illustrator…and by doing this, you'll be…adding to your asset library or creating a new one…with your original work.…So a good place to start if you don't have any assets…is with a UI kit.…And I have one in the Exercise Files folder…as an example, under 02 02, UI Kit.…And it's a Sketch file.…Now, go ahead and just open it.…A lot of times you get warnings that fonts don't exist…because these fonts are in the Sketch file.…
You can go find them on the Internet,…but for now, for this example,…
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10/3/2016- Building an asset library
- Auto-generating a style guide
- Importing assets
- Naming assets
- Sharing your asset library
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