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Recently, I stumbled upon a tweet titled: “Toolkit of a product designer”, and I noticed that it’s missing the only software I’ve been using daily for the last 9 months: Adobe XD.
And my instinct reply was:
Suddenly, I realized that more than 90% of my work is now on Adobe XD unless I’m doing some detailed image or vector editing (I have Photoshop / Illustrator for that)!
So, I decided to review why I switched my wire-framing and UI design work from Axure RP / InVision / Photoshop / Illustrator to Adobe XD:
As much as I read (and tried) Sketch, i couldn’t keep using it for a couple of reasons:
One of the most established tools on Windows is Axure RP. It’s a fully featured software for wire-framing that claims to be also about UI Design and prototyping.
Claims, because after spending 4 months with it, I was unable to produce a single prototype that looked decent. On the other hand, getting the html/css values for your prototype is a piece of cake!
Last fall, Adobe FINALLY launched XD on windows making it truly cross platform. The initial launch was boring and full of bugs, but the team behind it were awesome! ( Shoutout to @Jonthanjosh @elainecchao and @ashorten for being hyper active and super responsive on Twitter).
Jumping to the last release (which was a couple of days ago), XD truly became my BFF (with some quirks as all BFFs are):
What’s my wish-list for the next year of Adobe XD?
This is maybe just my thoughts, but you can give me your comment either here, or find me on Twitter!
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