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Grouped layers will still have pins, as long as you’re in a Frame context, I’m afraid. But, whatever works for you! I’m sorry it’s not exactly what you’d hoped. We’re still here to try to help.

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My recommendation is: 1. Keep the default pins, and adjust as needed to keep layers pinned or centered. 2. If you must resize a frame without adjusting any of its contents, hold ⌘ while dragging to resize— or enter edit mode with ⌘-Enter then resize in any way.

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I get that! Why I’m puzzled is because in this same example, if you first unpin the layer, and then adjust its parent’s padding, the layer will still move. I don’t understand how unpinning helps you here, if your goal is to avoid that layer staying put? How does that avoid issues for you?

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Good point about RTL! It’s not top-left just because of it, but because that’s what the X/Y coordinates are relative to.

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I get that, and we’ve got ways to do it (hold ⌘ when resizing). But how does remove pinning fully help when you need to expand the boundaries of a frame? That’ll only make everything be proportionally repositioned.

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Paulo @paulo.is · 12/07/2025

Hi Yann! I’m a bit puzzled by why you’d need to remove pins from elements to make resizing predictable? With the (new) default of top-left pins and fixed size, resizing a frame shouldn’t send everything to hell — quite the opposite, in fact. Could you perhaps show me what you’re experiencing?

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who at WhatsApp thought it was a good idea to start a voice chat by scrolling down when at the bottom of the chat what a silly interaction, but I'm sure the metrics on new voice chats will be great

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Paulo @paulo.is · 28/06/2025

that’s correct, long time wish but just hasn’t come to fruition yet

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Paulo @paulo.is · 26/06/2025

now in beta: 🫨 progressive blur 🔍 liquid glass 🎯 concentric corners

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Paulo @paulo.is · 20/06/2025

"can we make the smooth corners icon more distinct?" me:

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Paulo @paulo.is · 29/05/2025

thanks, I appreciate the sentiment!

Paulo @paulo.is · 29/05/2025

thank you, appreciate it

when sharing a photo/link via text on the iPhone, I need a "send and continue texting" feature to switch to messages/whatsapp/etc after sharing to keep texting

So much appreciated, Mike — and as always, glad to hear any feedback!

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bonus: figured it’d be fun to share this internal doc I wrote early last year, long before we’d started building frames — stuff takes time to brew

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New in Sketch (2025): Frames and Graphics — walkthrough guide

I wrote a not-so-short guide to all things frames and graphics (and groups!) which you can read at sketch.com/blog/frames Or watch this lovely overview from @rafa.design: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nB...

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In our Athens update, we’ve added two new container types to Sketch — Frames and Graphics. Take a quick walk through how they work with Rafa.Grab the update ...

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In practice: • Frames “give” sizing and pinning properties (and defaults) to their contents, and adjust them when resized based on those props. • Graphics have none of that, they simply resize proportionally. Each creates a context and environment that suits its type of work.

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We didn’t just want to flip that around — as we designed frames purposely for interface work, it was very important for us to give icon designers a space to work in, unencumbered by what makes frames, well, frames. That’s what graphics are: a container for doing graphical work.

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Our goal is for *interface work* and *graphical work* (icon, illustration) to both feel like first-class citizens — but their mechanics are quite distinct. Contrary to what you’d expect, Sketch has always favored graphical work, due to its roots as a general-purpose vector tool.

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In today’s @sketch.com update, we’ve added Frame as a container type, which is a long overdue no-brainer — but we’ve also added a Graphic container. Graphics aren’t the standout in this update, but to me they’re the most interesting story to tell. So, here’s why graphics exist 🧵

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we’re making the product better for our customers, and we’re doing so at a higher pace now than in the recent past our only goal is to keep doing that and be a sustainable business, not to to be the biggest or have the most

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Paulo @paulo.is · 24/05/2025

a lot of people are saying nobody’s ever been this back

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the vacation cabin with the guys? oh, you mean the

a candle whose label reads “cabane de bois”

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Paulo @paulo.is · 12/05/2025

Nothing but respect for MY american pope

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Paulo @paulo.is · 20/04/2025

need this hat so bad

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Paulo @paulo.is · 20/03/2025

tbh we don’t get a lot of requests for vector networks, what do you like about them so much that’s holding you back?

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Paulo @paulo.is · 19/03/2025

we‘ve got a new @sketch.com beta with a *ton* of new stuff: stacks, frames, graphics, components in the command bar, comments panel! plus… auto pinning, sizing options, paste and replace, swap fills and borders, container-relative coordinates, and more! → download and changelog: sketch.com/beta

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See the future of Sketch! Download the latest Beta

Get hands on with our latest and greatest features and improvements first. Download the latest beta for the Sketch Mac app here.

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Paulo @paulo.is · 15/03/2025

my carpenter friends? oh, you mean the

a photo of packaging that says

HOLZ
WOOD
BOIS

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Freddie Harrison @freddiewrit.es · 29/01/2025

Very excited to watch valley bros explain how stealing models is bad but stealing books to train models is absolutely fine.

The classic “You wouldn’t steal a car” anti-privacy message, except it says “You wouldn’t steal an LLM”

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Paulo @paulo.is · 28/01/2025

I think the EU should too force Twitter to sell to an EU owner or else be banned in the union after all, it’s owned by an official of a foreign extremist government, who’s meddling in EU elections

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onion person @junlper.beer · 27/01/2025

it says a lot about an industry if a free and open source alternative to every product on the market can destroy 1 trillion dollars of “value” in one day lol

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Paulo @paulo.is · 27/01/2025

capital gets scared when scale isn’t the only answer

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Marcelo Marfil @mmarfil.com · 13/01/2025

Starting off the year with another sneak peek: Components in the command bar and the new replace popover! Grab some 🍿 and come check out what my friend Alasdair (🎙️), me and the team have been up to. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypwq...

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Sneak peek: Components in the Command Bar

YouTube video by Sketch

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onion person @junlper.beer · 20/12/2024

the great part about social media is every new day is a new opportunity to witness the worst thing you’ve ever seen

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Paulo @paulo.is · 16/12/2024

thanks! will give it a watch

Paulo @paulo.is · 15/12/2024

what’s the other advantage, bud

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Paulo @paulo.is · 15/12/2024

embedding icon components? what do you mean?

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Paulo @paulo.is · 11/12/2024

it really is, man, it pains me that there’s so much great design talent in portugal, and this was such a great opportunity to show some of it, thrown away by these little league mindset simpletons

Paulo @paulo.is · 11/12/2024

the portuguese government, who rolled back a great new visual identity commissioned by the previous government for not being patriotic enough, announced a open contest for a new passport design… with a prize of €5000 absolutely fucking embarrassing

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Paulo @paulo.is · 11/12/2024

what the hell man, i’m never volunteering for a video again

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Paulo @paulo.is · 05/12/2024

thank you, that’s high praise! It’s on my wishlist and want to play it soon, but as I’m currently playing Death Stranding, I think I want to finish one sci-fi open-world narrative game before picking up another, maybe with a break in-between

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Paulo @paulo.is · 04/12/2024

We can’t outright remove Smart Layout, but we’ll be guiding people towards Stacks by default once it ships. Only then will we see if and how we can deprecate Smart Layout. It’s tough because it does some things that Stacks can’t as easily, but we’ll see. First we have to ship stacks.

Paulo @paulo.is · 04/12/2024

yay! but please be aware that any documents you open/make in the beta may be incompatible with the stable version!