{"id":380,"date":"2019-08-25T11:51:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T16:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/articles.mattinglydesign.net\/?p=380"},"modified":"2020-10-19T11:11:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T16:11:09","slug":"adobe-xd-software-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattingly.design\/articles\/adobe-xd-software-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe XD: Three Years In The Oven and Only Half-Baked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Adobe XD (Experience Design) is an odd mix of useful features and glaring omissions. It has a clean GUI, low learning curve and a few nice functions, but overall it&#8217;s missing some fundamental website interactivity capabilities.<!--more--> It also loses points for inconsistencies with other Creative Cloud software. My video demo focuses mainly on its capabilities and not so much the wireframing process.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Points of interest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Page setup<\/li><li>Assets panel<\/li><li>Guides<\/li><li>Text entry quirks<\/li><li>Repeat grid<\/li><li>Missing features<\/li><li>Summary<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"gutenbee-responsive-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adobe XD software review\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WGDon1tUhHY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe XD (Experience Design) is an odd mix of useful features and glaring omissions. 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