Colors in Sketches

We knew it had to come. With only 6 colors in Sketches 0.5 and older, we had several requests to add more. Some were really specific, "please add brown", some were more generic, "a few more colors would be nice". With our passion to do things as simple as possible for our users, this was no easy task. The current color picker was easy to understand and nice:

We looked at a good number of existing color pickers in different systems. From Hue, Saturation and Lighting circles to the Mac crayons, all had advantages and disadvantages. The HSL circles provide a great range of colors, but it is hard to select the same color twice, plus, not all people understand it well. Other pickers were not too suited for the iPhone/iPod touch interface.

We finally decided to evolve our current color picker, adding more colors, for a total of 24, getting rid of the text and giving it a different aspect:

After several tries, this was the final result:

We hope you like it!

We are getting there!

This is how the initial version of Xslimmer used to look. We thought we were almost done. Every aspect of functionality we wanted to add for v1.0 was there. Then we met Louie Mantia. He redesigned the interface, and a month later, we are still working to get it right. We have changed the look significantly, hoping users will like it better. Soon you will be able to judge for yourself.