If you’re thinking about getting started with the Sketch app or finally making the shift from Adobe Illustrator to Sketch, we have a few amazing resources to help ease your transition.
Sketch app is widely known as a great alternative to Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. However, what most designers don’t know is that the app is also a great tool you can use for prototyping and designing user interfaces.
Many designers and brands, including Google, Facebook, Apple, and NASA use Sketch for designing gorgeous mobile UIs and build websites with better user experience. Adobe recently came up with its own version of a UI designer called Adobe XD, but it doesn’t quite come close to the brilliance and the versatility of the Sketch app.
In this post, we’re covering some of the most useful tools, UI kits, and other resources you can use to make the most of Sketch app and craft designs like a pro. Go ahead and start downloading.
01. Grade UI Kit For Sketch App
Grade is a massive bundle of UI elements you can use to design various types of user interfaces and layouts with Sketch. The pack comes with over 1000 unique UI elements in 10 different categories, including dashboards, navigation, eCommerce, modal windows, and more.
Each element in the pack is also fully customizable. You can change the colors, fonts, and sizes to your preference. It also includes all the elements in PSD versions to be used in Photoshop as well. You can download all of it and more when you subscribe to Envato Elements.
02. Portal UI Kit For Sketch App
This is another big bundle full of Sketch goodies. It includes more than 200 iOS screens in 8 different content categories, including social media, eCommerce, blogs, navigation, and much more.
If you’re in the process of developing or prototyping a mobile app or a mobile-first website, you can use the screens in this bundle to design effective mobile app layouts using Sketch.
This bundle is also included in the Envato Elements subscription.
03. SketchappTV
SketchappTV is a great resource for both beginners and advanced users of Sketch. This site includes tons of valuable resources, freebies, video tutorials, and more related to Sketch.
In addition to a series of valuable Sketch tutorial videos, you’ll also find useful Sketch UI kits for Android and iOS, free icons, device mockups, dashboard kits, and more Sketch elements, which you can download for free. The platform includes more than 600 freebies and lots of premium items as well.
04. Planguru – Free Mobile UI Kit
This gorgeous mobile UI kit for Sketch comes to you for free of charge. You can use it to find inspiration for a mobile app or a web app or even design a beautiful layout using the same template in Sketch.
The UI kit comes complete with all the necessary screens for building a mobile app, including the signup page, profile pages, dashboard designs, a calendar for scheduling, and much more.
05. Sketch Repo
Sketch Repo is a site that acts as a portal for all-things Sketch. This site features a massive collection of high-quality freebies related to the Sketch app. It includes UI kits for both desktop and mobile layouts, device mockups, icon packs, Sketch plugins, and a lot more.
You can explore this site to easily find any mobile screen, icons, wireframing kits, character sets, app UIs, and much more using the search function. And you can download them all for free.
06. Sketch App Sources
Sketch App Sources is another resources website that features a large collection of free and premium user-uploaded Sketch resources. The site includes over 3000 Sketch elements, including wearable designs, iOS screens, UI kits, wireframe kits, and much more.
The site also has a blog that shares useful tutorials on advanced Sketch tips and tricks along with a collection of video guides and tutorials as well. If you’re a fan of plugins, Sketch App Sources also has a handpicked collection of Sketch plugins as well.
07. Flame UI Kit
Flame is a beautifully designed Sketch UI kit made specifically for web designers. This kit aims to help you design professional and user-friendly web interfaces with its pre-designed collection of UI elements.
The UI kit includes every little detail you need to craft the perfect website, whether for a landing page, an online store, or an agency website. It comes with form designs, buttons, headers, footers, product pages, portfolios, and much more, making a total of over 80 unique elements.
08. Looper Sketch Plugin
Looper is an intelligent and free Sketch plugin you can use to design unique and stunning patterns and illustrations. The plugin helps you to easily duplicate, rotate, and scale your drawings and illustrations on Sketch.
Using Looper, you’ll be able to create unique patterns for your app designs, website backgrounds, and more. It also makes things easier for you to scale layers or groups by percentage or pixels. You can also create a beautiful fading effect when duplicating layers as well.
09. eCommerce UI Kit
UXD (user experience design) plays an important role when designing online stores and eCommerce websites. It’s crucial that you design each button, image placement, and each field in the product pages to help the buyers make decisions more efficiently.
This is a Sketch-based UI kit designed to help you achieve that goal. This kit is designed just for building eCommerce apps and websites. It comes with a collection of UI elements designed by a professional to help you create layouts with effective user interactions.
10. Liquid Sketch UI Kit
Liquid is another gorgeous Sketch UI kit crafted by a professional design agency and released free of charge for everyone to use. It comes in both Sketch and Photoshop versions so that you can edit and customize them using your favorite app.
This UI kit mainly focuses on mobile screens and layouts, giving you access to a number of stylish UI elements and showing you how to create the perfect app or website user experience.
Working on the wearable app design for Apple Watch? Then use this Sketch GUI kit to get a headstart in your design workflow. The kit includes all the elements you need to design a beautiful wearable app or a user interface for Apple Watch.
You can use it as a resource to study the elements, such as the buttons and layouts, used in Apple Watch apps to incorporate them into your own designs. You can download the Sketch file free of charge.
In addition, keep practicing to master your craft. And, hopefully, we’ll be able to include one of your own Sketch designs as a resource in a future roundup.