TrustRadius Insights for Adobe XD are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Clean Design: Users have praised the clean design layouts and UI interface of Adobe XD, finding them easy to navigate and work with. The minimalist and intuitive design contributes to a positive user experience by making tasks more efficient.
Integration with Adobe Suite: Many users appreciate the seamless integration of Adobe XD with other Adobe Creative Suite software, which enhances their design projects. This integration streamlines workflows and allows for a cohesive creative process across different applications.
Prototyping Tools: The prototyping tools in Adobe XD are highly valued by users for creating interactive prototypes, enhancing user experiences, and bringing designs to life with functionality. These tools enable users to test interactions and iterate efficiently during the design process.
We use Adobe XD to mock up and design static ads for Facebook, Instagram, and Linkedin. We also use XD to design web graphics, utilizing the mock up tools to envision how our graphics will look on our website.
Pros
Clean user interface
Easy to use tools
Same keyboard commands as other Adobe products
Cons
Creating/previewing GIFs
Ability to use mouse scroll wheel to scroll across the screen
Likelihood to Recommend
XD is a simplified option for designers looking to make static web graphics. I think it's quicker to create basic designs than Illustrator. However, it's not good for motion graphics.
At my company, I use Adobe XD to create all user experience and design assets for marketing, web, and other things for our product-related projects. I use Adobe XD everyday to store all my design files, and share them with the other designers through the cloud function within Adobe XD.
Pros
Cloud sharing.
Layering
Usability
Cons
Exporting or converting to other design files (sketch, figma)
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe XD is suited for any design-driven team to create, review and share design work.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Corporate (Design company, 1001-5000 employees)
As Adobe XD is the Adobe prototyping tool for user experience and interaction designers, Adobe XD features are used for creating wireframes, prototypes, and screen designs for digital products in our company, such as websites and mobile apps. it is really helpful for our organization to design mobile applications and websites.
Pros
speed
layout
advance designing tools
Cons
user interface is not attractive
real time collaboration is missing
Likelihood to Recommend
It is very good at designing websites and mobile applications and has many powerful designing tools speed is also good. Transition effect and animation are literally wonderful. After the prototype has been made, we can actually run that app in different screen sizes and all mobile devices. Screen responsiveness is amazing.
Adobe XD is very useful due to the integration with other Adobe software like Photoshop and Illustrator. It is used across the design team, more for exploratory purposes rather than a full alternative to Sketch, Flinto, and Invision. While it has potential, moving the entire team to this new software is going to be a lot of work and resistance that could hinder our speed.
Pros
Compares all the prototyping features with Sketch.
Quick integrations with other Adobe software for quality asset creation.
Ability to prototype as we design is very attractive.
Cons
The interface isn't as friendly as Sketch, maybe because it takes a more minimal and Adobe systems approach.
Not much popularity among the design community and enough support for plugins.
Developer hand-off is not as smooth as Sketch or Zeplin.
Lack of or slow plugin support that designers rely on for their day-to-day jobs.
Likelihood to Recommend
If someone is already in the Adobe ecosystem, this is going to be a great addition. But if you are already deep into using Sketch and other services, dip your toes before diving in to see if this suits your needs. It is very important since learning another tool might not be desirable in your team.
VU
Verified User
Contributor in Research & Development (Consumer Electronics company, 5001-10,000 employees)
We use XD in our practice for rapid design prototyping mainly for mobile design. It's great to have native prototyping elements in the app, unlike Sketch for example, but the drawing tools aren't as flexible as Sketch. We use a mix of products depending on what our clients like to use or just to see if there's a tool that might work better - Sketch, Figma, XD, InVision Studio, FramerX - they're all good at different things but they all allow for at least mid-fidelity prototype creation.
Pros
Natively flexible/responsive drawn elements.
Quick and easy to make a lot of progress on a design efficiently.
Good app for demoing prototypes.
Cons
I find the drawing tools a little limiting - Like they really want you to go over to Illustrator for some more complex things instead of staying in XD.
There isn't really any support for Design System integration.
XD's code export plugins are all either clunky or cost extra, and it's not native to the app itself.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's very well suited for creating "throw away work". If you just need to create a prototype to demo to get buy-in or if you're not worried about needing to turn the designs into a full design system or need to worry about developer handoff - then XD works great. There is a time for that type of rapid prototyping in the beginning of large projects, but I haven't found a way to be able to transition the project into a development phase by only relying on XD instead of other tools like Sketch or Figma or InVision.
We use Adobe XD. Before with Sketch, our team had to pay for InVision as well to share out our prototypes. Now, we share with XD and dropped the vendor.
Pros
Since we pay for Adobe, it's included. Sketch is an additional burden on the budget.
Syncs well with other Adobe products which many devs and designers have experience with.
Ease of use.
Cons
I like the "open" aspect of Sketch where users submit new tools and plugins.
Likelihood to Recommend
Not for print layouts. It is our go-to product for UX wireframes.
Adobe XD is used to create mock ups of software before being sent to our application development team. The applications are typically simple information and links to resources for nurses and staff in clinical environments. As educators we have found that our internal customers are very receptive to accessing resources via apps on their mobile devices, much more so than on a designated work computer. XD has been integral to our development of this.
Pros
User friendly, dissimilar to many adobe products that have a steep learning curve.
Simplifies Application development with interactive prototypes.
Gives you the ability to create really attractive prototypes and integrates with Photoshop / Illustrator seamlessly.
Cons
It would be great if the software helped to generate usable code. It does not.
Only allows for simple transitions and not many effects.
Image editing within the application is limited. Should at least be able to crop images.
Likelihood to Recommend
Many times in the past the needs of the users weren't necessarily conveyed properly to the application development team which resulted in a lot of unusable work. By having the requester utilize Adobe XD to create a mock up of the software with the intended functionality has been a very successful way of alleviating the aforementioned miscommunication issues.
