How we’re powering up for real-time collaboration ☁️

See how we built our render farm, and opened the door to native real-time collaboration in our Mac app [View this email in your browser]( [Sketch News]( Newsletter — Issue 80 [Inside Sketch: What happens when you save a document to Cloud]( Last year, we set out to make uploading your Sketch document to Cloud faster and smarter. Get an inside look at how we built our render farm — and how it’s helping us take Sketch to new heights. [Read more]( Featured Extensions [Frontitude]( With Frontitude, you can manage all your UX copy in one place, complete with search, tagging, and syncing to keep your Sketch documents up to date. [Swap Color Libraries]( Need to switch to a new Color Library without relinking your Components? Just rename your Color Variables to match the new Library and this plugin does the rest. Learn [The influence of Objective-C can hardly be understated. The language and the frameworks were beautiful, and a joy to work with — and they’re still going strong more than 30 years on. That’s one hell of a legacy to leave behind, and we at Sketch are eternally grateful for it.]( [Objective-C: How Brad Cox’s programming language has shaped Sketch since day one]( by Pieter Omvlee [Accessibility on its own leaves out large sections of the population who don’t have a defined disability, but may have issues interacting with interfaces in certain circumstances. Inclusive design actively seeks out those diverse situations and aims to address them.]( [Accessible Design vs Inclusive Design]( by Cameron Chapman --------------------------------------------------------------- Videos [Curated ‘Sketch for Beginners’ playlist]( by Various Creators Get to grips with the basics of Sketch with this playlist, packed with resources to help you develop your skills. [Sketch 71 Beta: Real-time Collaboration]( by Christopher Deane Tom Wells joins Chris to test out real-time collaboration with a real-world design example (and a few rounds of tic tac toe). --------------------------------------------------------------- Resources [Apple’s official UI Sketch Libraries]( Apple has updated its official resources page with new Sketch Libraries and UI kits for its latest OS releases. Get ’em while they’re hot! [Download]( [Editorial Templates]( Want to present your work to clients, or just get more love on Dribbble? These customizable templates will help you show it off in style. [Download]( [Contrast]( Want a fast, simple way to check your WCAG color contrast ratios? This Mac app sits in your menu bar, so it’s always just a click away. [Download]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Events and community [Discover the latest events and communities near you]( [Online: Sketch & Design • Paris #10: Axure & Sketch]( Paris, France — 18 February [Join]( [Online: Structuring User Research]( Washington, DC, USA — 24 February [Join]( [Online: Real-time collaboration]( Johannesburg, South Africa — 25 February [Join]( You received this email because you subscribed via the Sketch website. [Choose which emails you receive]( or [unsubscribe from all our emails](. Sketch B.V., Flight Forum 40 Ground floor, 5657 DB, Eindhoven, the Netherlands [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Sketch Blog]( [Dribbble]( [Instagram]( [Forward this email to a friend]( [Privacy Statement](