Design with real content: How to connect Sanity with Sketch using InVision’s Craft plugin
Blog post from Sanity
The text provides a practical example of integrating Sanity, a headless CMS, with design tools like Sketch and InVision’s Craft plugin to streamline the design process by enabling cross-disciplinary collaboration. It emphasizes the ease of installation and usage of Sanity, which allows developers and editors to work together to create an editorial interface. The process involves creating a query using Sanity's API, designing placeholders in Sketch, loading content from Sanity into these placeholders via Craft, and duplicating content to populate design mock-ups. This example illustrates how content management and design can be effectively merged, allowing teams to experiment and adapt their designs based on real content, thus enhancing the overall design workflow. Additionally, the text hints at the versatility of Sanity in various applications, encouraging community engagement to explore further innovative uses.