4 Steps To Organise Your Design Files
I’m sure there are times when you are collaborating with another designer, you open their file and it’s a mess…. 🤦🏻♂️️️️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Layers with improper names, weirdly grouped items, a scattered work area with half-complete artboard, next to an artboard that looks like the final design but is a concept. 😫
If your file also looks somewhat similar, clearly these are the signs of a disorganised file. A disorganised file costs a designer and the team in productivity and efficiency. 😅
In this video, I’m talking about file organisation and sanity. Why should we organise our files, the advantages of a well organised fie and how an organised file is a part of creating a good user experience. 😁👍🏻
A disorganised file costs a designer and the team in productivity and efficiency.
TL;DR
Four Ways to organise your design files are
- Create separate pages
in your sketch file for concepts and Final deliverables. Putting everything in one artboard can make the file look messy, overwhelming and hard to understand. Especially for your collaborators.
2. Name all the layers, groups and symbols and artboard in your file.
Rename them according to their function as soon as you create them so you don’t have to do it later on altogether. With time this will become a habit
3. Cluster the app screen into sections.
Use big text size titles. This will keep your file organised and easy to navigate, especially when you have a file with a lot of artboards and multiple flows or features
4. Arrange the Artboards in chronological order.
Left to right in the work area and top to bottom in the layers panel. This will help you locate artboards quickly in a large file.
I hope this was helpful. Let me know if you have any followup questions in the comments below. Until next time I’m Manav Madaan, thanks for reading UX and more. A channel about design products business and more.
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