<aside> 🔗 Medium Link: https://chinguyenthuy.medium.com/why-do-we-should-build-scalable-responsive-components-for-your-sketch-library-58cc3a63d30e

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• We, designers, all love Sketch (before Figma came to life). It is a powerful tool that makes our jobs easier and faster. And of course, the Sketch Library is amazing! It helps to manage a bunch of symbols in the design system, rationalize the process, and most importantly, maintains consistency across the production.
• Sometimes, we finished building the Sketch library without any consideration for scalability. After a while, this issue may happen:

Irresponsive Button

• The button container does not fit with the size of the content.
• It keeps the predefined size of the component, so this symbol is not scalable to the context.
• You may need to adjust manually to have the correct padding or even end up detaching the element from the symbol.

In my experience, this is what I do to have the exact correct padding. It works for me, at least, fast enough. Would you like to share your way of handling this?

I have faced this problem so many times and realized the importance of the scalability and maintainability of a symbol.

What are the benefits the responsive symbols bring and why does it worth spending time doing it?

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If the symbols are responsive, it saves tons of time in adjusting for correct measurement. It becomes super quick and fast to work with a responsive component.

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<aside> 2️⃣ Detaching from symbol? This will never happen again.

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<aside> 3️⃣ Quick updates just by 1 click if there are any changes in the future.

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<aside> 4️⃣ Who will be in charge of making the symbols? Designer. We design the product for users to use it. But designers make symbols for designers to work on it. Therefore, it’s critical to make the symbol works in the most effective way to support the designer. If the designs are having trouble with the symbol, so this is the users’ paint point. We, designers, need to solve it for our users.

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Therefore, I’m here to share my knowledge and tips to create responsive components in Sketch that hopefully will help you guys proceed faster and easier in your design hands-on task. 🤝

Through the short series, I aim to show you how to build a powerful and versatile symbol that will enable you the flexibly control the UIkit.

Stay tuned and let's learn better together! 😉

Design!