Assembly is an app that allows anyone to become a graphic designer, regardless of experience level. The design of Assembly itself is simple, beautiful, and fairly intuitive to navigate. The app makes use of light, soothing colours that are appealing to the eyes and everything is laid out neatly for users. Even though Assembly has a lot of fantastic tools under its belt, everything is organized in groups and categories, so it is hard to get lost.
When you launch Assembly for the first time, you will be taken through a brief introduction to the app. It’s recommended to go through these steps so that you aren’t lost. Then you are able to get started with your own projects or even go through the tutorials if you need some beginner’s guidance. The tutorial projects are split up by difficulty, going from Beginner to Intermediate to Advanced.
Each project in Assembly consists of three parts: Artboard, Shapes, and Styles. The Artboard is essentially the canvas, and you can fill it in with a solid background colour or a photo.
The Shapes is what you’ll be using to build your designs. These shapes can be rotated, resized, grouped, layered on top of each other, and even rearranged perfectly with the Snap feature. There are tools for copying, mirroring, and even moving shapes to the front or back layer if needed. Since everything in Assembly is based on vectors, the Snap tool is helpful to get shapes perfectly into place.
The Styles section lets you select shapes and change their fill colours, opacity, stroke type and thickness, and tinker with the shadow levels.
When you are done creating your design, it is time to save it. Users can save projects as a 4096×4096 JPG, PNG, or SVG file, or send the project to another app through the native Share Sheet.
This is a great graphic design app for anyone, from newbie to professional.
