Sketch 101: Create your first designs

What you’ll learn

• How Sketch can help you in each stage of the design process

  Use the Mac app and web app in an end-to-end design workflow, from ideation to handoff

• How to make the most of your Workspace

  Tailor your Workspace to suit your workflow and collaboration needs

• Everything you need to create your first designs

  You’ll understand basic design concepts and how to make the most of the Mac app

Course lessons

Let's get you set up in Sketch first. We’ll then create your Sketch Workspace and learn about its possibilities. Then, we’ll deep-dive into the Mac app and get your first designs off the ground. We'll wrap it up by sharing your designs and inviting other people to work along with you.

• Chapter 1: Getting started with Sketch

  3 videos
  • 1.1
    Welcome to Sketch 101
    1:51
  • 1.2
    What is Sketch?
    1:51
  • 1.3
    Getting set up
    4:12
• Chapter 2: Designing in the Mac app

  10 videos
  • 2.1
    The Interface
    2:05
  • 2.2
    Creating, saving, and managing documents
    3:33
  • 2.3
    Layer basics
    12:08
  • 2.4
    Vector Editing
    6:35
  • 2.5
    Making icons with Boolean operations
    1:08
  • 2.6
    Masking layers
    4:10
  • 2.7
    Working with text
    10:31
  • 2.8
    Styling layers
    10:07
  • 2.9
    Give the wireframe some style
    0:39
  • 2.10
    Exporting in the Mac app
    3:16
• Chapter 3: Sharing and Collaborating

  3 videos
  • 3.1
    Sharing and real-time collaboration
    7:20
  • 3.2
    Viewing documents in the web app
    3:27
  • 3.3
    Organizing your Workspace
    5:09

Requirements

To successfully complete this course, you’ll need:

• A Sketch Account — don’t worry, we’ll set this up together in our first few lessons.

• macOS Monterey (12.0.0) or newer to run the Mac app.

Mentor

Joseph Todaro

Head of Video at Sketch

Joseph is our Head of Video at Sketch. He brings over a decade of product, design, and education experience. Before joining Sketch, he was a Senior Product Designer at InVision and was also responsible for the design education courses for InVision Studio and DSM.

While designing in-flight entertainment software at Fuse IFX, he migrated his team to Sketch – a tool that would go on to change the way he works. Eventually, he founded LearnSketch.com as a side project to share his knowledge and passion for the tool.

Joseph currently teaches UI and UX design at the Laguna College of Art and Design. He continues to share resources with the design community through projects like LearnSketch.com, Shapefest.com, LUTHOUSE.com and RandomUI.com.