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6 years ago from Demian Borba, Product Manager for Adobe XD
Sure, here's what it would take (for me):
Designs are no longer static, we create huge systems that are a pain to maintain with static apps, so we'd need a tool that finds more efficient ways to:
On this end, I think XD is nowhere nearly widely adopted enough to make it safe to switch. Apps like Avocode don't support it, it doesn't have the powerful exporting tools in Sketch or PS for sharing with others or uploading to InVision. Fragmentation is already a problem - for example I (a PS user) am leaving my company at the end of the week and the person replacing me uses Sketch. This means he cannot rely directly on any of my work, he has to recreate it from scratch.
All of this means you pretty much have to go against the tide to use XD in a professional setting.
What I've noticed is a lot of UX designers forced themselves into photoshop for things that indesign does.
Like the global changes for text is pretty easily done with the paragraph styles and character styles for indesign.
Maybe those can be implemented in XD in the future.
The support for multiple resolutions is almost there by default thanks to it being a primarily vector based application.
I won't pretend to be fully entranced in the history of why photoshop was the go to in UX over Ai or ID but it's always seemed curious.
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Thanks, Andrew (Adobe).