Adobe XD 4+

Loved this program

If only Adobe would see its potential. It just needed a little more features and it would have been on par with figma.

I now have to pay a separate subscription for figma alone; potentially kicking me out of the Adobe creative suite as a UX designer.

As a suggestion, making actionable items like you see in PowerPoint would make these prototypes absolutely stunning, even figma doesn’t have such a thing. I’ve seen people make literal video games from PowerPoint using action items.

Void of basic UI controls

First, I can’t understand the 5 star reviews of this mobile app specifically.

For starters once you choose a prototype to view, it fixes to the art board viewport leaving black space around board. If you extend the viewport in XD desktop and republish to full vertical, the artboard appears as a narrow strip in mobile app. That would be ok if the app supported ZOOM. You can’t zoom in on any artboard like all other prototype apps in the market do. Zooming is an intuitive must have for any object. Second I found it almost impossible to go back to the prototype menu. I tapped everywhere on screen to try to access their limited menu drawer. A few times it appeared but I don’t know what I did to access it. Still a mystery.

Many of us would like to use XD for web design, not only mobile apps. Clearly Adobe has not really considered web designers as a user of XD. For one they don’t support color management making any color you design completely off when deployed in this app. Adobe start by observing your competitors and copy their base functions that we users intuitively expect. Then throw in your Adobe Sensai to give you distinction. The lack basic functions makes this workflow inferior in every way.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for the feedback, I will forward it to the team. Also, please post it here: https://adobexd.uservoice.com

You can’t log into your Adobe account. Garbage.

Can’t login using your Adobe account credentials. There’s a button there that SAYS you can, but it’s just a joke (does not respond). Apple and Google both work, but surprise! Those accounts don’t have my Adobe subscription attached to them nor is my Adobe cloud attached to them. My Adobe account is where those things are stored. I can’t login with that information though. So how am I supposed to access my stuff on Adobe’s cloud? How am I supposed to utilize the super ridiculously expensive subscription when no Adobe products work on iPad? Seriously, try using Photoshop on iPad and then use it on PC and you’ll see just how laughably pad Adobe + iPad is. The Adobe sub is so worthless for iPad users and Adobe doesn’t care.

This app is completely useless garbage since you cannot login with Adobe and therefore can’t access anything on your cloud. So that whole “work offline” thing is just lies if you intended to use your Adobe account—it won’t work. Adobe is a billion dollar company and can’t even get a simple login button to work correctly with their website… don’t you guys have API keys? JFC……