Published on | Prototyping: From UX to Front End — Medium Marc Andrew My daughter Hanna. Her expression sums up this whole debate

Design, and do this for a minimum of 20 years (Any less and I don’t want to make eye contact with you, you inferior species. Even your own family don’t like you, and will probably disown you)
And Design some more. If you don’t, my select group of friends will not invite you into the Pi Adobe Sigma fraternity. You’re an non-entity to us.
Use Photoshop, because Sketch is for those lesser mortals (yes you’re a stain on the industry). Photoshop? No, no, no. A recent survey showed that 100% of Photoshop users create great design work, period. This has been verified by multiple sources (including Dribbble, and Dave that delivers my post/mail*).
*Delete as applicable
Proceed to comment on how folks who use Sketch are not really designers and are just talentless hacks with no creative skills whatsoever (yes that’s every single Sketch user), again verified by Dave the Postman/Mailman*
*Delete as applicable (again)
Keep designing with Photoshop (NOT SKETCH), and then put yourself forward as an entrant into the world famous Iowa Annual Dick-Swinging Contest.
Listen to juvenile, banal arguments on Twitter about my tool is better than your tool. Don’t listen to folks who actually have something constructive to say. There’s professional designers out there who actually want to teach young designers basic design fundamentals, and show them it’s about the right education not the application that truly matters, instead of just unfurling their 140 character trouser snake as though they’ve been possessed by the spirit of Big John Holmes.
Get caught up in the maelstrom of over inflated egos on Twitter, just trying to pick a fight (they’ll refer to it as a debate) over, well how the world is full of shit designers, and that they all seem to be using Sketch. And that there’s going to be some kind of Sketch-Zombie Apocalypse of people drawing boxes and filling them with colours, and then drawing another box and filling that with a colour, and eating the occasional brain (devoid of any activity on the right-side I might add).

And that’s it. No more steps.

You’re a great designer. Hurrah!

This list was brought to you by ‘GIVE-IT-A-F***ING-REST’, in conjunction with a 40 something designer who started in this game using Spray Mount, Scalpels, a Beige Macintosh and a Bitstream Fonts CD (oooh so Retro), and then used Illustrator and Photoshop for nearly 20 years (yes I know, such an enigma inside a riddle inside an enigma) but doesn’t like getting into Twitter arguments that generally end in something constructive like ‘Well, erm, uh, ah, well Sketch has a lazy eye, and stinks of piss’ because it’s banality at its very finest. The skills maketh the man/women, not the tools, and we need to educate on this instead of aiming to win star prize at the Johnson Unfurling Contest in Iowa.

Use the tools your Mama gave ya, and get back to work.

No. Hold up. Scrap that.

Use the skills your Mama taught ya, and select your tool of choice (doesn’t matter which f***in’ one), then get back to work, and listen to folks who have something progressive to say.

Afterword:

This is not taking pot shots at Photoshop users, and/or professionals that I truly admire. It’s just about drawing a line under this truly tiresome debate.

There’s designers out there doing great work in Photoshop of course (the obvious has been well and truly stated), and long may that remain. I loved that tool and will always have a fondness, and appreciation for it. No, this article is about Photoshop Evangelists on Twitter who having nothing constructive to say other than ‘You use Sketch? You suck. I’ve been doing this for 15+ years. I use Photoshop, bow down at my feet you lesser mortal’. That’s great. That’s what those up and coming designers in this industry of ours really want to hear. Stand up job there.

And the ‘Sheep’ on Twitter are not helping the flock either. They read someones pointless Tweet, and jump on in there to add more vapid comments into the mix (Quick Hint: They still might not you follow you back). Like the famous Nakatomi Plaza conquering cop once exclaimed…

“If you’re not a part of the solution, you’re a part of the problem. Quit being a part of the f***ing problem”.

To claim that all Sketch users, or what Sketch is enabling designers to do is create inferior products that have no place in the annals of design history is bullshit with sprinkles on.

You can design a certain way in Photoshop, and another way in Sketch. It doesn’t make a user of either tool in any way inferior to the other. There’ll always be great, good, and, well, not so great designers, regardless of the tool that they’re using.

And apologies to any ladies in the audience, who had to suffer through countless mentions of that Johnson fella, but around 99.9% of these pointless debates are from Male participants so it was speaking to them in a manner that they’ve become accustomed to.

Thanks for reading the article,

Marc

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