Pretty much in line with my feelings. The author starts on bugs for good reason, but finally using an app that is custom tailored to UI design outweighs any of the quirks.

While the Adobe team is working on features that Sketch already has, the Sketch community is working on an amazing plug-ins to combine real live data and integrate code into Sketch.

Always thought Photoshop a weird app to do UI. I greatly prefer Illustrator. Sketch is doing some really nice things and I use both Illustrator and Sketch, but Sketch has not swayed me completely. It's hard to break 20 years of workflows. Also, I'm old.

At some point the author says:

Today we look at a design as elements with a state to each element. Design tools should see it like this and make the app let us design a set of elements with different states, that can be later brought into our pages design.

well, let me introduce you to the best design tool no-one ever heard of:

http://antetype.com/

It will change your life. I'm even willing to teach you for free, I don't make any money out of it, just want it to be successful.

I share the sentiment. And: It’s the same situation like with Fireworks back in the days. Clearly the way superior tool for screen design, but so bug-ridden that I never really could move my team to use it – sometimes, when I insisted, really only with a lot of gnashing teeth. And most of the time they went back to PS. Understandably. I developed like a sixth (and seventh) sense for how to circle around the bugs, but because I really really wanted to – and I sucked up every new shit Adobe introduced with their half-arsed never really tested to the core updates (I don’t blame the team, they really tried – the culprit was likely more the disconnect between corporate management/marketing and the dev guys trying to get all in on a tight budget and schedule, I guess – I don’t have any insights). But try to explain that to a junior designer. Anyway, if you knew your way it still made the design-stage so much more agile (I’m looking at you, states – the one feature that is so sorely missing from Sketch for me) and intuitive that I was willing to put up with the pitfalls – until they killed it. In that respect: Sketch is already so much more stable than Fireworks ever was – and way ahead of Photoshop, with it’s core concept anyway and it’s features, too. Add the active (sometimes a bit too religious, but well, nice when you’ve got something you think’s worth fighting for) community and small, but focussed development team and it’s the clear winner to me.

So Bohemian, I know you read most of this: if you’re not already working on it, I’d appreciate if you grab an old Fireworks Copy and have a look at the way States (and Pages) worked – it was bug-ridden (mainly the pages; states where quite solid), but a really helpful and cool feature. But well, no pressure, you do what you do. Just saying (and wishing).

Another great article Sagi! As a Sketch user I totally agree that at this point for UI design Sketch does a better job even with all its flaws, but the days when i can stop paying for the Adobe suite too still seem very far away.

But seeing how so much has changed and how Sketch in such a short time pushed Adobe to build so many new features i can only guess what another year will bring.

Waiting to hear your 2 year review ;)

Indesign is IMO Adobe’s most impressive app. It’s built so well for layout purposes that it would be super hard to bring on it any competition.

If Adobe were to somehow retrofit InDesign to stick to the pixel grid and export assets as well as Sketch does they would have a killer web design app. I used to do all my website designs in InDesign before I got Sketch. Because I'm both designer and developer and I was able to take my designs and code them up fairly quickly and faithfully. Photoshop has never made sense to me for website layout. Adobe is sitting on something great and they don't even know it.

A very well-balanced view on this topic. I agree with what you've written.

An interesting player in the game, one much more connected to code than Sketch, is Paintcode.

I agree with most of it, but using most plug-ins for Sketch is a horrible experience, so I wouldn't say that's it's strong point. Too inconsistent and quirky.

The initial cap-A has some issues in Firefox... http://cl.ly/image/3h031V471e3G

Great, balanced article though.

Wonderful article. Exactly how I feel about it. Wish they'd fix all the crazy glitches with combining shapes.

Hopefully the sketch plugin community will continue to improve and drive sketch to be a much better product for web design than any of the alternatives. They did something really smart by making it so easy to extend. All plugins are written in JavaScript and the documentation is great. Writing even a simple plugin for Photoshop is miserable and half of the documentation is flat out wrong.

Anyway, a few major bug fixes by the sketch team and another year or so of the community developing more plugins will make this product a real force to compete with Adobe

I forced myself to use Sketch for some small gigs to test it out and can't really see any substantial benefits of using it.

It may be sensible for newbies that are starting out because it is much easier than PS or AI.

But. Let be honest for a second. It is the biggest fad in the industry ever. It can't even stand next to Illustrator in terms of capability and more complicated path control. Period.

Sketch doesn't compete with Photoshop - it can't. It's cool as long as trendy websites or apps could be done with few rectangle shapes and type tool.

In the end I'm really happy that it exist - it questions Adobe status quo and I really hope it force it to change rape-like pricing.