Adobe XD Reviews

by Elstinko

First, I can’t understand the 5 star reviews of this mobile app specifically.

For starters once you choose a prototype to view, it fixes to the art board viewport leaving black space around board. If you extend the viewport in XD desktop and republish to full vertical, the artboard appears as a narrow strip in mobile app. That would be ok if AdobeXD supported ZOOM. You can’t zoom in on any artboard like all other prototype apps in the market do. Zooming is an intuitive must have for any object. Second I found it almost impossible to go back to the prototype menu. I tapped everywhere on screen to try to access their limited menu drawer. A few times it appeared but I don’t know what I did to access it. Still a mystery.

Many of us would like to use XD for web design, not only mobile apps. Clearly Adobe has not really considered web designers as a user of XD. For one they don’t support color management making any color you design completely off when deployed in AdobeXD. Adobe start by observing your competitors and copy their base functions that we users intuitively expect. Then throw in your Adobe Sensai to give you distinction. The lack basic functions makes this workflow inferior in every way.

by Mruniqueid

Content doesn’t consistently update automatically on my mobile screen when I edit it on the desktop app, and none of my text layers render correctly at all — they’re just jumbled characters. I’ve barely dipped into AdobeXD, and on day one these things are making it unusable as a professional application. The basic function should be to show you accurately what your design should look like on your mobile device, and it’s not fulfilling that use case even remotely competently.

by Stingzon

I’m willing to change my review as soon as I can log in and actually review the product, but it seems like I can’t even do that? The login page offers the ability to log in through Adobe, Apple, Google, or Facebook. All buttons seem to work except “Continue with Adobe.” I’m absolutely willing to admit user error when it’s present, but all arrows point to a broken button. Adobe please help!

by ComeOnThisCantBeTaken

When viewing a prototype, AdobeXD seems to cause the adaptive refresh rate to lower to its minimum of 10hz causing the prototype to feel incredibly laggy. At such a low frame rate, you miss entire animations and miss pages while scrolling.

In case anyone else has the same issue: A workaround I’ve found is to turn on screen recording while viewing prototypes. It seems to force the refresh rate to stay higher

by MacPhilly

Until the latest release of XD CC and the reworking of how you saved your documents (published and shared) this was a serviceable means to look at prototypes made for phones. Now it is UTTERLY USELESS.

I don’t want to have to publish for viewing on the web and save to cloud to view in AdobeXD . I have cloud storage, we have our projects organized in folders, why the bloody blue blazes would I want to have a different version?

Let us access our documents the way we want to, not the way you want us too.

by Ellarrrrrrrr

It’s kind of annoying that you have to bring a USB cable to connect your prototypes when you can actually connect it by accessing the project. Can’t just reference some other brand that once you click on the prototype it will show directly on mobile?

And it will go to desktop prototypes in mobile view and it’s hard to find the navigation tools or buttons once you’re in that view.

by Martoon

Although the desktop version looks promising, this mobile effort doesn’t feel fully implemented yet. There was no clear way to get my desktop file over to the mobile. And there is no way to make prototypes from scratch on mobile. It says use the cloud or connect to the desktop computer, but my work machine cloud ID is different from my mobile and the work machine is locked down so I cannot connect they mobile to the desktop. Adobe’s walled garden is not ideal. Avoid until they work out the kinks

by Joshadik307

With the latest update, I know longer have any idea how to exit a specific project, or even view all the screens in the current project.
I used to be able to do both these things with a simple long press on the screen, but now all this does is have a blue bar appear on the very top of AdobeXD , which I assume is meant to signify some sort of voice command?
Anyways, AdobeXD is unusable in its current state, and i will leave my 1 star rating until something changes.

by Heleva

As an Adobe user, developer, and someone who’s vision is aging and needs applications and websites to be compliant, I am upset that Adobe has not bothered to adhere to the best practices for accessibility of their products. There is no responsiveness or rotation or even an option to increase fonts etc for accessibility making the interface look as though everything is written in a 2point font. I think it is time where those of us who have been paying through the nose for several decades on Adobe’s products and services use the power of our long term association to get Adobe to address the elephant in the room. More accessibility!

by RhiannaWasHere

I love using XD on desktop, it’s my go to for web design. I’m just very underwhelmed by the iPad version of AdobeXD . It’s good for previewing stuff, sure. But I’m disappointed that you can’t edit/create your designs without plugging your iPad into your desktop. I like being able to do stuff on the go with my iPad, but having to use a computer for editing holds me back from doing that. When can XD get a full iPad version like photoshop?

by Jordunit

I have been an XD and typekit user for almost 2 years now and there is a constant problem of fonts not showing correctly in the XD app after downloading from the cloud. It’s been super frustrating an really slowed me down while trying to work with clients.

I have tried everything I could to make it work and the only thing that seems to help is removing and redownloading AdobeXD every time I want the fonts to load correctly.

by Ajax.codes

Having them as a reference is cool. But you can’t edit or do anything meaningful. This is basically one level above screenshooting I mean we are 2 weeks away from full illustrator on iPad. All these other photoshop type apps. And Adobe can’t even make these work on anything other than the computers. I love the Adobe line of products I’ve been with these guys for 8 years +. But this is starting to get embarrassing how far behind the game you guys are on mobile.

by Aberrantartist

Often AdobeXD is very slow and does not even allow me to preview documents, which is currently its only functionality. Since it can’t do this, I deleted it. Is this going to be fixed? I am using an iPad Pro, and it doesn’t work on my Google Pixel phone either.

For me the features that would take this to the next level would be the ability to create wire frames and prototype them right here on the iPad Pro and have a seamless sync into mechanism across iOS and desktop software so that you could create on both devices whenever, and wherever.

by Dbmfbc1

I love AdobeXD but after a recent update suddenly I can’t open any of my files. They’re all stored in the cloud. I can get to them just fine from my browser, but they’re not showing up here. I tried signing out and back in, but still no luck. I’ll put the rating back up once it works. M

by Yojanapple

I love everything that AdobeXD has but the only thing that disappoint us as UX/UI Designers is we are not able to edit projects on our iPads and we have to rely on computers only which is not cool, imagine if We’re going to different places to work which we need something more portable (like an iPad) than a laptop. Adobe illustrator has its version for ipad same as photoshop and other apps, this one should have its version for this device and is almost 6 years old cuz it was released on March 14th 2016.

by Aaaronislit

The Adobe XD iPhone app is very nice. I am able to view my apps on the go, and see some information about it. But, I am not able to edit. It would be nice to have some basic editing tools for AdobeXD , or at least for the iPad.

Thanks!

by GaaraSaru

It’s one thing to be able to test an application after the developers have created a prototype and a developer profile to download on a device, but it’s incredible to be able to design an app, see how you like the look of it in action, and course correct before passing it down the line. This has been a great help to me in my design efforts.

by Edward Grubb

Bring a cross-platform developer who is doing more mobile engineering than ever, I appreciate all the tools Adobe is releasing.

I’m not a designer by any stretch of the imagination, but tools like Adobe XD helps me mock-up my visions.

I’ve not yet dived into all the possibilities of the XD desktop and mobile app, but I hope this helps me save time when etching out the GUI for cross-platform mobile apps I’ll be creating in Xamarin.

The last thing I’d like to mention is how much I appreciate that Adobe focuses on making the experience in all their apps the same in Windows and Apple OSX

by Odh3

What I like most about Xd is that it keeps improving at a pace rarely seen even in other Adobe apps. For rapid development, prototyping, collaboration, integration with Illustrator, and presentation, I give it a solid 5/5.

by Karl4356633

Like every product Adobe need to get its products a little paid to keep AdobeXD available on the store and keep the domain remaining of the website and pay its employees as any company in the world but what I found cool that there is a free starter plan that is not that limited tho thank you Adobe for that option that makes your platform accessible to everyone ! And also it’s so intuitive!