Overall Satisfaction with Adobe XD
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.
- Natively flexible/responsive drawn elements.
- Quick and easy to make a lot of progress on a design efficiently.
- Good app for demoing prototypes.
- 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.
- On projects where we've used it we were able to get interactive demos in front of stakeholders quickly without using multiple apps.
- Limited functionality is free to use and it's already available to use as part of the Creative Cloud license, so there's not really any cost for us to use it other than time.
- The time cost could be negated if the tool became something that we could use for developer collaboration and design system lifecycle management.
We actually use Figma, Sketch, and InVision along with XD in our design practice. We mainly use XD on quick prototypes or experimentation for mobile projects. We always end up falling back to Sketch+InVision for our Design System Implementations and developer collaboration though. XD hasn't been robust enough in those areas for us to feel comfortable using it that way.
Do you think Adobe XD delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Adobe XD's feature set?
No
Did Adobe XD live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Adobe XD go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Adobe XD again?
Yes