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Sketch Gives Photoshop a Run For Its Money

Kevin Whipps Last updated: April 10, 2024 · 2 min read
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If there’s one thing you learn while writing about design all day, it’s that designers all across the world work differently than you do, no matter how much you feel like you fit into a mold. Avocode is an app that allows developers and designers to work in harmony by giving them better collaboration tools while still working with files from both Photoshop and Sketch. There’s a lot to dive into their product for sure, but what I want to talk about today is their new report, How Designers Worked in 2015. Since they get to see what kind of data flows in and out of the Avocode ecosystem, they’re in a unique position to see what kind of tools and tricks their designers use on a regular basis.
One standout notion from the analysis is the Photoshop vs. Sketch ratio of 57/43, and how popular Sketch is in North America. Is this more a sign of how Avocode designers work versus the rest? Or are Photoshop and Sketch in that tight of a battle? Frankly, I want to know.
To view the full-size infographic, check out 2015.avocode.com.


Kevin Whipps is a writer and editor based in Phoenix, Arizona. When he’s not working on one of the many writing projects in his queue, he’s designing stickers with his wife at Whipps Sticker Co.

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11 Comments
  • We are big fans of Sketch. Gradually we change from Photoshop, complete the Sketch. This is definitely the way to go ;) 11 years ago
  • As long as Sketch developers insist on their silly Mac-exclusivity, their sotware is useless to me and will never give Photoshop "a run for its money". 11 years ago
  • yep me too Mehmet. 11 years ago
  • @Mehmet Reha Tugcu I don't think it's silly. It's their software, their developers. If they don't want to, then they don't want to. I wouldn't want to support Windows either, if it were me. 11 years ago
  • Haven't tried sketch yet, but I may have to pick it up. 11 years ago
  • I have given Sketch a try. And I like it. But it's really what Sketch doesn't give me. Now that I have converted over to Adobe CC subscription it's a no brainer. I pay $50 a month for the entire adobe library of software. I now have the ability to send Developers PSDs through CC and they can extract images and CSS directly from the PSD. It's an entire workflow and it's fast and simple. Sketch can save the designer some time but Adobe CC saves my entire team time. And that $50 a month subscription, that's just a billable hour to the client or for a freelancer it's a nice tax deduction item. I have already seen some small agencies convert to Sketch and when they get the designs done they then have to convert all the designs to Photoshop because that's what the dev team uses. Sketch needs to be able to save to PSD before I make a switch. 11 years ago
  • I do all my web design in sublime text with rough drawn out wireframe. 11 years ago
  • @Daniel Schwarz "I don't think it's silly because it's their choice" that sense of judgement though... "I wouldn't want to support Windows either" Why not? Do you have any idea how many designers use OSX and how many use Windows? 11 years ago
  • @Bram Zijp Regardless, I simply don't like Windows. Hate using it, hate looking at it, and maybe that's their reason for not supporting it. It's their company at the end of the day, if they want to miss out on a huge market its their choice, I'm sure they have their reasons. 11 years ago
  • We don't use Sketch. Tried it, it was so unstable and full of bugs, we asked for a refund. Photoshop is and always will be the king, and now when Adobe launches Comet, Sketch will no longer have that big audience. Agree with @Mehmet Reha Tugcu . 11 years ago
  • Regarding the side conversation Windows versus Mac. Can we just be intelligent people and stop the silly juvenile playground "mine is better than yours" arguments? Some people prefer Macs, Some prefer Windows. People are NOT cookie cutters of each other, nor should anyone, or any company demand that they be. Personally I don't like the industry politics of either company, like I said - juvenile. That said, if Sketch was on Windows I would try it. Not that I use Adobe - I am not supportive of their leasing model and feel it bodes ill for the future, but that is MY opinion - and I have the RIGHT to that opinion. Just because corporations are fat, flabby and lazy and their IT can't seem to mentally encompass several different software platforms (although it is readily possible) doesn't mean it's the correct way to be. It's simply the way that other far too large corporations count on to have it easy street. Now how about we play nice and allow others to have an opinion without playing schoolyard bully, eh? 11 years ago