Ever had to keep quiet about your design projects? 🤐

Issue 07

Have you had to keep quiet about your design projects?

We’ve all been there. After months of hard work on a project, you’re ready to proudly share it on social media. But what if you discovered you had an NDA keeping you from saying a word? Is it about controlling the narrative, or a client passing off your work as their own? This month, It’s Nice That looked for answers — you can read more below.

We’ve also got a behind-the-scenes peek at how we designed and developed the all-new Sketch iPhone app. We chatted to the teams involved and explored how the tech they’ve built in recent years helped them create a powerful app with big potential.

Before I go, a quick celebration — Sketch is turning 12! Yes, version 1.0 of Sketch launched on 7 September 2010, and this year we celebrate 12 years of incredible design. Thank you to everyone who’s supported us along the way! Stay tuned to our Twitter and Instagram on the 7th for a little giveaway… 😉

See you next month 👋

Stephen Ashby

Editor, Beyond the Canvas

On our radar

Header image designed by Lucia Pham, showing a number of illustrated items such as fruit, cakes and coffee cups with copyright logos on.

Blog

Designers incognito: Why are clients preventing designers from publishing their projects?

When you do great work for a client, you should be able to show it off to the world — right? Well, not always. It’s Nice That looks into the issues with NDAs in the creative industry.

Olivia Hingley

Staff Writer at It’s Nice That

Video

Glassmorphism best practices

Join Michal as he runs through some tips and best practices that will help you take your glassmorphic designs to the next level. Then scroll down this email to enter the new glassmorphism design challenge!

Michal Malewicz

Designer and content creator

Blog

Behind the scenes: How we built the new iPhone app — now powered by Workspaces

Did we mention we have a brand new iPhone app for viewing and testing your Sketch documents? This month we chatted to the teams behind it to find out how they brought it to life.

A photograph of a front picking screen. On the left are three different styles of the same font showing the end of the same sentence in three different styles. On the right are some of the individual glyphs from the font.

Blog

How to choose a font: A science-backed guide

Choosing a font for your project is a major decision. So how do you make sure you’re picking the right one? Well now you can use science!

Laura Busche, PhD

Brand strategist and author

An image with an orange background. On top of this is a frame that's divided equally into six, with a different movie title screen in each section.

Thread

Get some new design inspiration

Do you need some design inspiration outside of your Dribbble, Behance and Pinterest bubble? @EbubeRPG shares their favorite spots for you to add to your daily browsing list — including Art of the Title, where the image above comes from.

Community

An illustration of the original Macintosh computer, on a purple background

An illustrated icon of a flat robotic head with glowing turquoise circles rising from it. The image sits on an orange background.

An illustration of two realistic chrome-effect switches. The top switch is to the left and off, while the bottom switch is to the right, and on. The image sits on a teal background.

Resources

Android 13 keyboard

Creating an amazing new Android app? This keyboard set is a great addition to your kit — and when you pair it with Overlays in Sketch you get a powerful combination.

Sketch

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