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by jbob2000 3261 days ago
Ugghhh, if you're using this, then you don't really grok Sketch. Sketch has all these wonderful tools for breaking up your design into reuseable components and playing with them like lego pieces. If you're doing a straight conversion from PSD to Sketch, you're missing all the things that make Sketch great.
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When you're starting from scratch in Sketch it has a lot of great features that are worth exploring. But what about making the switch to Sketch from PS? Normally, you would have to recreate the whole design. Most people and especially bigger design teams don't have time for that. So this service is meant to save you all that time, convert your current design system and then you can play around with the design some more and add all the wicked funtions in Sketch anyway. And I'm sure others can think of more use cases.
Well that's my point. If you don't have the time to convert your design system, then you might as well stick with PS until you do. You'd just be using Sketch as PS-Lite. It's not a "cheap PS" or a PS-lite, it's a tool for a new system of design.

It would be like using JIRA for Waterfall development. Sure, you can do that, but that's not really the point of JIRA...

Consider the use case where the designer doesn't have PS but receive a bunch of third party .PSD files.
You can incrementally convert your design system. Doing it all at once could be difficult to justify to some pointy-haired bosses.