Sketch Assistants

## About

Wonderful Sketchies,

Having an online meetup is probably the best thing after ice-cream. Since we loved hosting the first one, we are doing it again. This time we are bringing you a new Sketch feature, Assistants.

This meetup will be revolving around making your workflow easier, keeping your files pristine, and your day the best it can be! We will also hear first hand from the amazing Andrej Bodrusic about what soft skills are, and which ones are important for designers.

The meetup will be held on 16.09.2020. at your home, 18:00 CEST, and the link will be added beforehand.
Prepare some ice-cream and questions!

Talk to you soon :)

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Talk #1
Helena Bukovac - Design Team Lead at Emondo design
Sketch Assistants 🛎

Helena specializes in UX / UI design through which she helps build digital products in the commercial, financial, and education industries. She leads a design team in the creative agency Emondo design. The knowledge she gains working on different projects, she transfers to her students at Algebra University College, as well as to her students at online design education platforms Springboard and Designlab. If all that wasn’t already enough, she is also a cheerful Sketch Ambassador that organizes these lovely meetups which bring happy people together.

Sketch has recently released Assistants, a new way to automatically spot issues with your documents, stay consistent with design systems, prepare your files for collaboration, and follow your team’s rules.

In this talk, we'll explore:

• What are Assistants?
• How to use them?
• Which Assistants are available right now?
• How to make your own custom assistants?
• The sky is the limit here! ✈️🛎

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Talk #2
Andrej Bodrušić - Product Designer at Infobip
Soft skills for designers

Andrej is a curious person split between 2 opposing sides. One is that of storytelling and creativity, the other is of logical challenges and calculated precision. Having experience in the gaming industry, various creative agencies, as well as enterprise product design, he learned a lot. But mostly, he learned a lot about people.

Soft skills are important in every area of life, but they hold a special function in design. Designing for people, by people, is exactly that. Everything is human interaction. Pixels on the screen are just vessels for real human needs, problems, and challenges. The conversation is only the beginning. Learning how to really listen and understand people is the key to successful problem-solving.

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## Agenda

18:00 - 18:10 Guest gathering and chitchats

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18:10 - 18:40 Talk 1 - Sketch Assistants
18:40 - 18:45 Short break
18:45 - 19:15 Talk 2 - Soft skills for designers
19:15 - 19:25 Short-ish break
19:30 - 19:35 Raffle if the odds favor us
19:40 - 20:00 Stick around to chat

*Time shown in CEST

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## Location

At home,
Homesville,
Homely road 1

Sketch is coming to you, in the comfort of your PJ pants, or shorts, depending on the weather. Get comfy in your favorite chair and prepare to be bedazzled by Sketch Assistants.

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## Sponsors

Y.O.U. are providing the venue and refreshments (hopefully ice-cream),
SKETCH is providing the licenses if we fill out the criteria of the number and,
EMONDO DESIGN is making everything possible <3

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## Refreshments

There will be snacks and beverages! Make sure there is enough to keep you happy for the whole event. Also, don’t forget to stretch during the breaks!

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## Fine Print

We welcome everyone and want to make sure everyone feels safe and happy when under our wing. Even more so with everything going on in the world. Respect your fellow designers, your fellow people, treat everyone equally, and be excellent to each other!
Have a further read here -->
https://www.sketch.com/meetups/code-of-conduct/

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## Connect

When you attend our meetups, feel free to let the world know with #SketchZG !!