In this quick tip I want to show you a neat trick for creating one-sided borders in both Sketch and Adobe XD.

If you’ve used either of these applications before you’ll know that creating borders is actually pretty simple. The problem is that borders are added to an object’s whole outside edge–neither application allows for adding a single border along just one side.

It is, however, possible to achieve what we want by using drop shadows. Let’s take a look.

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