{"id":47913,"date":"2025-06-02T18:46:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T22:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=47913"},"modified":"2025-06-03T14:39:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T18:39:37","slug":"sketch-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/02\/sketch-athens\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketch Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@pieteromvlee\/114581153517514148\">Pieter Omvlee<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@pieteromvlee\/114581153517514148\"><p>In the latest Sketch we&rsquo;re taking an idea from Apple: Naming our releases.<\/p><p>At Sketch, we&rsquo;re a proudly European company and we&rsquo;re naming our releases after European cities from now on.<\/p><p>And we&rsquo;re starting with <em>Athens<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sketch.com\/changelog\/athens\/\">Sketch<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sketch\/status\/1927358069345767921\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.sketch.com\/changelog\/athens\/\"><p>Our first update of 2025 is the largest we&rsquo;ve ever shipped. It introduces an all-new layout tool &mdash; Stacks &mdash; and some big foundational changes in the form of Frames. It also brings major improvements to the Command Bar, and so much more.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>If you know auto layout in Figma, or stacks in Framer, this is our take on it.<\/p>\n<p>With Stacks, you can create anything from buttons that grow or shrink to fit their labels, to entire interfaces with nested layouts that adapt to container size or content.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;re also introducing Frames &mdash; a new container that replaces artboards, made for UI design, that works hand-in-hand with stacks.<\/p>\n<p>You can nest Frames, style them with multiple properties (no more background layers!), set resizing constraints for their contents, or give them a stack layout.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>They have blog posts with more information about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sketch.com\/blog\/stacks\/\">stacks<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sketch.com\/blog\/frames\/\">frames<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sketch.com\/blog\/command-bar-athens\/\">command bar<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/29\/apple-operating-system-version-years\/\">Apple Operating System Version Years<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/03\/sketch-returns-to-the-mac-app-store\/\">Sketch Returns to the Mac App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/13\/indispensable-developer-tools\/\">Indispensable Developer Tools<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/16\/command-bars\/\">Command Bars<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/12\/sketch-layoffs\/\">Sketch Layoffs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"sketch-athens-update-2025-06-03\">Update (<a href=\"#sketch-athens-update-2025-06-03\">2025-06-03<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@marioguzman\/114614718416560682\">Mario Guzm&aacute;n<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@marioguzman\/114614718416560682\"><p>\nSketch is one of those few companies  that still understands how to make Mac apps with the soul of Macintosh.<\/p><p>Even Apple&rsquo;s apps don&rsquo;t feel like that anymore. Looking at you Shortcuts.app. It&rsquo;s sad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/03\/the-automation-gap\/\">The Automation Gap<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pieter Omvlee: In the latest Sketch we&rsquo;re taking an idea from Apple: Naming our releases.At Sketch, we&rsquo;re a proudly European company and we&rsquo;re naming our releases after European cities from now on.And we&rsquo;re starting with Athens. Sketch (tweet): Our first update of 2025 is the largest we&rsquo;ve ever shipped. 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