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AMA: Adobe XD 2017

6 years ago from Demian Borba, Product Manager for Adobe XD

  • Nice ShoesNice Shoes, 6 years ago

    I agree with most of the comments/questions. With the size of Adobe XD has the potential to be the go to tool. Yet there seems to be a complete lack of understanding about what is needed. And more more and better is expected.

    Not having guides just sums up the issues.

    3 points
    • Cristian MoiseiCristian Moisei, 6 years ago

      This is Adobe, what do you expect? I'd say the days of them understanding what the pro market needs are long gone - if you look at their conferences, everything seems geared towards amateur users.

      2 points
      • Interested Curious, 6 years ago

        It's not gone, there are pros who still rely on adobe. Other types of design still do exist. I understand there are fewer prototyping tools + purely UX design tools, but even the "top" ones are from companies barely a 10th of adobes age and still need fixes and still all offer different paths, with non truly being all out better than the others. One of the most popular alternatives isn't even available on windows. The adobe is dead thing really confuses me so much because they still have some fantastic tools.

        0 points
        • Cristian MoiseiCristian Moisei, 6 years ago

          I am not saying Adobe is dead. Even though Sketch has some 40% of the marketplace for UI and Adobe only 30% (20% for PS 10% for XD), they are still the market leader in many industries and are not going anywhere anytime soon. I am however saying that they have focused heavily on amateurs lately and not enough on the pros (look at the features introduced in PS or the stuff they talk about during their conferences).

          0 points
    • Andrew Shorten, 6 years ago

      We've focused our attention so far on providing a core set of design, prototype and sharing tools, on Mac and Windows, together with preview apps on iOS and Android, where quality and performance are the top priority. With that in place, we're now focusing our efforts on additional features in each area - layout guides are currently being worked on.

      Thanks, Andrew (Adobe).

      3 points
      • Cristian MoiseiCristian Moisei, 6 years ago

        I hope you understand the skepticism Andrew given Adobe's track record with other programs. The XD team hasn't done a great job of being transparent either - they did try to engage the community but when a lot of our requests go ignored with no explanation, people loose faith.

        I think the attitude towards XD would be way more positive if you took the time to explain why certain things are not getting done (like underline, which last I checked had 700 votes making it one of the most requested features), instead of writing every article to brag about how amazing and perfect XD is.

        1 point
        • Andrew Shorten, 6 years ago

          Skepticism understood. Fair comments on continuing to improve transparency and explaining what we're doing/not doing, etc. Will take that on board.

          Thanks, Andrew (Adobe).

          1 point
        • Scott Perdue, 6 years ago

          I disagree wholeheartedly that the XD team ignores requests. Much of why I'm such a proponent of XD is their community involvement. I tried Sketch for awhile and was unable to get any response on a simple bug that has persisted for years. The XD team, on the other hand, is extremely active on social media. They even host a weekly Facebook livestream in which they present what's new and field questions. I'm as frustrated as the next guy that we still don't have a few basic features like text underlining and guides, but to say that they ignore their users is entirely inaccurate.

          4 points