Sketch App Sources

Once again, a tool recommendation site that doesn't do anything different or unique than what's been done or what's out there now. This is just like BestVendor.com (site was sold a few years ago, but more of an acquihire).

There are tons of these types of review sites.
http://www.stacklist.com/
https://startupresources.io/
https://stackshare.io/

And they're all pretty much the same. They're mostly just a list of tools, sorted by popularity or recommendations.

I'm sorry, but this is just not that useful for me. It still requires a ton of time to look through and research the tools. Sure, it's useful just to help start your research, but it ends there.

I've researched this space in-depth and have a solution that's different, but way more useful. I'm just too busy working on other stuff to tackle it right now.

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To give you guys an idea of what I'm thinking, here is a tool comparison that is much more useful to me.

https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/five-app-prototyping-tools-compared-form-framer-origami-pixate-proto-io-c2acc9062c61

It's ONE guy that researched 5 competing prototyping tools with a specific task in mind. He lists the pros and cons of each, and goes into some detail on each one and how they performed with his particular task.

I wouldn't be copying this exact format, but the takeaway here is that it's ONE person that has researched ALL or most of the tools within a particular category, and had an actual task to accomplish, so…

You definitely have a point.

This type of solution has obvious upside. The truth is that it has been tried many times before (Flash, Frontpage, Adobe Muse). The hard thing here is to being adopted both by the designers who start the process and at the same time generate code that developers will agree to work with.

The way we tackle this is by giving designers tools to express what they want in ways that were not available before, and then use the output to generate code. For example, one popular feature is Stacks[1] which is basically CSS Flexbox for Sketch. When designers use Stacks, we can then use that data and generate an actual CSS Flexbox from it.

Designers are adopting this approach but in terms of code generation, we still have a lot of room for improvement. The code works great, but it's not always optimal in the way that a good human developer would write it.

We have an internal goal, which is to pass the "Turing Test", where a developer will not be able to recognize whether our algorithms or by a fellow human developer.

[1] https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/auto-layout-introducing-stacks-flexbox-for-sketch-c8a11422c7b5

I'm not a Python guy so never worked with Sphinx and never really heard of anyone using it for something like a book. It looks like it suffers from the same problems that MD suffers from.

Building a markup language is really easy. That's why we have so many and multiple independent implementations of markdown. The problem is that last mile to get production and mostly printing right. That's super hard and even asciidoctor doesn't get it perfectly.

These Manning does use asciidoc for writing, it's great for that. But when you need to create a book they move it to docbook and then typeset using the traditional typesetting programs. Despite all the work it's 95% of the way for the sublime book experience. I'd say every other alternative is 90% of the way at best.

To get a sense of what you need to do to create a professional book without that typesetting work check out this post https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/using-sketch-and-asciidoc-to-generate-a-professional-tech-book-ef5b5d8dd410

> the typographic scale for desktops will be major-third, while for the smaller mobile phones, it will have to be minor-third

I tried to google major-third and minor-third with various keywords but couldn't find anything relevant. Could you expand on this and explain what it means?

Edit: Never mind, I found some. Here:

- https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/exploring-responsive-type-scales-cf1da541be54

- https://spec.fm/specifics/type-scale

- https://designcode.io/typographic-scales

- https://type-scale.com/