Introduction to Sketch
Course 5: Scaling Your Project: Symbols
By Samuel Hermoso (Elastic Heads) , UX-UI Designer
Joined August 2014
About the video: Symbols
Overview
“We start with an introduction to symbols. We create a button and modify aspects of the symbol so that it affects copies equally. We are also going to draw a switch from an iOS preferences screen and also create its off version of the symbol. Finally, we will organize the symbols in folders to bring a certain order and make them easier to find later.”
In this video lesson Samuel Hermoso (Elastic Heads) addresses the topic: Symbols, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 5: Scaling Your Project. Learn how to work in a scalable way with symbols, styles, and data.
Partial transcription of the video
“INTRODUCTION TO SKETCH COURSE 5 LESSON 2 Symbols So far what we've seen It will be similar to other programs you work with, but in Sketch symbols it makes a difference. Let's see it. We will create a button that will be a symbol and in this way, I can modify the original button and change all the copies you have in the document. We tried a rectangle, from R we can add a rectangle here and with the T create a text, I get here "Type something", I can put "txt", like that is the button text. Now if I want this background to have a color, from Fills, can i add a color here and you see that gray...”
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Course summary for: Course 5: Scaling Your Project

Samuel Hermoso (Elastic Heads)
By Samuel Hermoso (Elastic Heads)
Samuel Hermoso has over 20 years of experience working in consulting and digital product design. After working with different studios and agencies, he created the Elastic Heads studio, in Madrid (Spain), where he helps people, companies, and startups adapt to the new changes in the digital world and improve their digital products.
Samuel is also dedicated to teaching, he is a professor of product design, user experience and methodologies, and interactive design tools in schools such as: Ironhack, Mr. Marcel School, IED, Neoland and the European University.
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