Sketch introduces design token sync and AI-assisted constraints

Design · 4 min read

Sketch's token sync feature connects artboards to a central token registry so updates to color, spacing, or typography tokens propagate across files. The sync includes versioning and a change approval flow for teams, preventing accidental overwrites of shared brand parameters.

Complementing token sync is an AI assistant that analyzes layouts and proposes constraint rules — pinning, proportional resizing, and anchor behaviors — to make components responsive. Designers can accept the suggested constraints or edit them, and Sketch will apply the changes across instances.

Sketch also improved export fidelity for dev handoff, mapping tokenized properties to CSS variables and producing a small dev package that includes intent annotations and a changelog. The company stressed low-latency local inference for the assistant and optional cloud processing for large projects.