Adobe XD Information Reviews & Insights

Score6.2 out of 10

261 Reviews and Ratings

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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.

Adobe XD Reviews

7 Reviews

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Adobe XD Convinced Me to Use Figma

Rating: 1 out of 10

Incentivized

June 13, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used Adobe XD for designing wireframes, prototypes, and mockups. I made a purchase of roughly 280 dollars earlier this year after using the free trial version. Adobe XD keeps trying to get me to buy it on the same account I used to purchase it back in February of 2022. Not only are the popups extremely annoying and unnecessary, but sometimes Adobe XD refuses to work as it's meant to; The type tool will either not select a type layer so I can edit it but instead create a new type layer which I really don't want or need for the designs OR it will not allow me to rename artboards or layers. Sometimes I can't even select the correct hex code when I need to change from the default color. To "remedy" this issue, I constantly have to exit and reopen Adobe. One time I had to uninstall and reinstall it on my laptop. It's a serious hindrance to the time I spend designing for my career. It's hardly efficient. I'll be using Figma after I'm done typing this review. I'm incredibly disappointed and I feel like I wasted my money. I would not even spend 100 dollars on this software. If Adobe XD improves, then I MIGHT reconsider using it again.

Pros

Not focus on improving itself
Making sure some of its design features don't function
being frequently inconvenient at random moments
wasting my work time
telling the customer they used the wrong account when they didn't
asking for money I already gave

Cons

The Type tool needs to be fixed
Stop asking to be bought when a purchase was already made.

Likelihood to Recommend

I spent roughly 280 dollars on this product back in February of 2022. I use the same account to buy it for the year and for work. Adobe XD tells me to buy it every time I open it to work on an existing project or to start a new one. So far I haven't been able to solve this issue on my own. And thankfully, even though Adobe XD hasn't tried to forcefully take the money off my account without my authorization, having this popup always asking if I bought it or telling me that I should, is ridiculous. It's bad programming. Speaking of bad programming, the Type/Text tool constantly gives up on me at random moments. I've had to shut down and -one time- re-install Adobe XD to get it to function again, and even then I still have the same issues. It's become more of an obstacle in my work than a help. It eats up my time just trying to fix it when I could be making progress with design projects. Adobe XD isn't worth my time or money. I'll be using Figma from now on after this point.

Kahli Clarke

UX/UI Designer in Social Media at Kahli.Design (Online Media, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Doesn't feel like an Adobe product

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

January 20, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Adobe XD is used by both our product and customer success orgs. Our product team uses it for quick, interactive mockups of both web and mobile experiences in order to complete internal and external testing before allocated development resources to a project or change. Our CS team uses it to create whitelabeled app mockups for our new customers so the look of apps we create is agreed upon before development takes over. This saves us time and cost for developers and allows us to more quickly iterate interfaces.

Pros

Mockups without code.
Fast to use.

Cons

Very different from other Adobe tools.
Learning curve.

Likelihood to Recommend

Honestly, if everyone had Macbooks we would likely just purchase Sketch. XD is an okay tool for mockups and quick iteration, with interactive demo, but it's so different from other Adobe tools in how it works it might as well not be an Adobe product. We use it because some members have Windows machines and also because it's included in our Adobe suite. I wish it felt more like Photoshop and Illustrator.

As well, it sounds like some features will be spun out as ANOTHER upgrade when CC's price is already astronomical. That will likely be our breaking point if they paywall features we use.

Matthew Gardner

Director of Customer Success at RouteThis (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Great wire-framing tool!

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 17, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Adobe XD is being used by our design team (me) to build prototypes of our software before handing off to the development team for building. Currently, I am the only one who uses it, as I am the lead UI designer at our company.

Pros

Integrates with other Adobe products.
Easy to use.

Cons

Not as scaleable as some other prototyping tools.
Strong in wire-framing, but lacking in other areas.

Likelihood to Recommend

Adobe XD is great because it has a free version. Wire-framing is one of the things they do best, however, I've found that the more complex the software is that I'm prototyping, the less practical Adobe XD becomes. It's great for making high-level wireframes, but the more you get into the weeds with a design, it becomes obvious that other tools may be better suited for the job.

Verified User

Team Lead in Marketing (Computer Software company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Adobe XD - Ultimate prototype and wire-framing tool

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 6, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

At our company. we are making android applications for our clients. The whole process of Android Application Development from start to end includes Designing, Development, Testing and deployment on play store. The most important and initial part is design of Android Application. For that purpose, nowadays companies are using Adobe XD as a tool for making a prototype of an android application, which will reflect that how android applications will look and what it will behave like with screens.

Adobe XD is used by our whole organization because Adobe XD is used in making prototypes of Android Application, iOS Application, and web development also.

By using Adobe XD, we can prevent most of the problems regarding design of our project. Implementing screen designs directly into particular IDEs may consume so much time later on if any problems or changes occur. Prototyping that design will make it easier to understand the behavior of that project down the line.

Pros

Prototypes of Android, iOS and web applications.
Can make wireframes of that project screen. After applying transition effects and animations, we can elaborate on the details to enhance the look and feel.
After the prototype has been made, we can actually run that app in different screen sizes all sizes of Android Mobiles, iOS Mobiles and also web applications.
Some basic designing particles are provided by Adobe XD library so that we can use it directly in our project.
While this process of prototyping the whole project in Adobe XD and then testing it can take a long time, it will decrease the chance of design failure to almost zero.

Cons

We can test android prototypes into Adobe XD's inbuilt system, but there is also one option to test that project on your real device. That option is only available on iOS devices only and that feature should also be available for android devices.
After so many improvements, Adobe XD is still lacking some designing features like real-time collaboration. Third-party plug-ins are also not available.
Adobe XD's User Interface is still a bit not so attractive compared to others like Sketch.

Likelihood to Recommend

Earlier people used to design into Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator and those software are really not made specifically for Android, iOS or web designing. To fulfill that purpose, Adobe made XD which is specifically for Android, iOS or web designing. It also has testing features built in so that people can actually test it in real time with real or demo devices. Prototyping and wireframing features are so good that it can actually put you one step ahead in the look and feel of your project.

Chiyars Malhotra

Android Developer in Information Technology at Mealocity Food Tech (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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I use Adobe XD and you should too

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 5, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Russ Blackburn

Senior Interaction Designer (IxD), Red Hat UXD in Research & Development at Red Hat (Computer Software, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

15 years of experience

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Adobe XD - A Fantastic UI/UX Design Software

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 30, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our organization is currently using Adobe XD across multiple departments. \

This software is primarily being utilized by our Creative Design team for the purpose of creating comprehensive software, website, mobile applications, and dashboard designs. XD is a very effective tool for these purposes because it gives the designers the ability to 'wire up' slides so that the UI/UX can be accurately modeled and demonstrated. These XD designs are then submitted to the development team who use them as a wireframe for building and designing websites and other software products.

Personally, I use Adobe XD for creating interactive business process flow diagrams for explaining complicated business processes to company executives and team members.

Pros

Super intuitive UI.
Very fun to use.
Complete creative freedom: there is very little that you cannot create within the XD suite.
Wiring/wireframing ability between slides, buttons - can design and map comprehensive software/app UI/UX.

Cons

Given my use of the platform and its ability to satisfy all my current requirements, there is not missing functionality that I can think of.

Likelihood to Recommend

Creating wireframes for websites, other software programs, mobile applications.
creating interactive presentations and process flow diagrams.

Aaron Goldstein

Business Process Analyst || Executive Assistant in Corporate at DigiProMedia LLC (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Intuitive and lightweight. One of Adobe's best creations.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 1, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Adobe XD has been a great tool for creating high fidelity mockups of website designs. The tools and interface are very intuitive to use, and the "repeat" feature is one of my favorites. It's usually the feature I miss most when using a different tool.

Although Adobe XD has good prototyping functionality built in, I haven't used it very much at this point. From the little bit I have used it, I'd say it works great.

Pros

Adobe XD keeps shapes aligned to a grid properly. Coming from Adobe Illustrator, this was very refreshing. This makes it much easier to get everything pixel perfect.
Adobe XD's file sizes are small! Illustrator has an unfortunate habit of creating files that are quite large. Adobe XD was built from the ground up to be light and streamlined. In addition to the interface, etc. they did a great job at making the saved files nice and light too.
It's easy to export designs, or even just design assets. In Illustrator, I had to separate assets from other design elements in order to export them. In Adobe XD, you can export something in isolation, just by having the item selected.

Cons

The area I usually run into problems with Adobe XD is when I'm trying to accomplish a complicated or intricate object alteration. This usually happens when I'm designing icons or logos. Logo design should be done in Illustrator and moved over to Adobe XD once it's finished.
There are a couple odd things here and there that make things tricky. In Illustrator, locked layers can't be selected. They're visible to you, but invisible to your mouse. In Adobe XD, locked layers are still selectable. This makes it harder to select a layer under another layer (example: a photo under a gradient layer).
Adobe XD has been a little slow in rolling out new features (such as underlined text). They're taking their time to get things right, but it can still be frustrating at times. There are still areas where we're waiting for additional functionality to be added such as better control over shadows, and the ability to have multiple shadows. Breaking the borders into individual sides would be great too. It's strange to have something easily accomplished in html/css, but not in the design program. Unfortunately, some of these things are typical of design programs, not just Adobe XD.

Likelihood to Recommend

Adobe XD is excellent for designing apps, websites, any interface really. Not great for icon or logo design.

Brandon Zell

Web Designer in Professional Services at Self-employed at Zellous Design (Internet, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Adobe XD - Ultimate prototype and wire-framing tool

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 6, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Prototypes of Android, iOS and web applications.
Can make wireframes of that project screen. After applying transition effects and animations, we can elaborate on the details to enhance the look and feel.
After the prototype has been made, we can actually run that app in different screen sizes all sizes of Android Mobiles, iOS Mobiles and also web applications.
Some basic designing particles are provided by Adobe XD library so that we can use it directly in our project.
While this process of prototyping the whole project in Adobe XD and then testing it can take a long time, it will decrease the chance of design failure to almost zero.

Cons

We can test android prototypes into Adobe XD's inbuilt system, but there is also one option to test that project on your real device. That option is only available on iOS devices only and that feature should also be available for android devices.
After so many improvements, Adobe XD is still lacking some designing features like real-time collaboration. Third-party plug-ins are also not available.
Adobe XD's User Interface is still a bit not so attractive compared to others like Sketch.

Likelihood to Recommend

Chiyars Malhotra

Android Developer in Information Technology at Mealocity Food Tech (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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