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XD for designing interfaces: Part 6 – Flows, voice, recording preview

Viewport Height Flows Voice and keyboard triggers 3D transformations Screen record prototype

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XD for designing interfaces: Part 5 – Digging deeper into actions

Time trigger, auto animate and Fix position when scrolling Time trigger allows designers to set up animations and interactions to occur at specific times during a user’s interaction with a digital product. This feature is particularly useful for creating dynamic transitions between screens or for adding subtle animations to elements within a design. Auto animate, […]

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XD for designing interfaces: Part 4 – Prototypes, triggers and actions

The fundamental use for apps like XD and Figma is to create interactive prototypes. Interactive prototypes can help designs see problems in a design and avoid costly mistakes in production. An interactive prototype is also a good tool for testing, and allows designers to get the product into the hand of users, and see if […]

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XD for designing interfaces: Part 3 – Components, nesting, swapping and states

Components are a powerful part of Adobe XD. They allow you to create systems for your design work. With components you can create reusable elements that help to organise your workflow. Components are hierarchical, you create main components and then reuse instances of the component. If you have design elements that you regularly use, you […]

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XD for designing interfaces: Part 2 – Repeat grids, padding, stacks and responsive layout

Designing for screens often requires creating repetitive elements, like grids of product shots or price guides. Manually generating these kinds of assets can be very labor intensive. XD can speed up our workflow by simplifying these repetitive tasks that are in almost every project. Repeat grid The Repeat Grid allows you to quickly generate grids […]

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XD for designing interfaces: Part 1 – Artboards, text and shapes

The above demonstration explores the basic fundamentals of the XD design workflow as we step through a simple single screen design. Links to assets used in the demonstration are below. Notes on the aspects covered in the demonstration are further down the page. What is XD? XD is an application that designs the experience users […]

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First steps with Adobe XD: Building a website mock-up

XD is an integrated tool for the user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design process. You can create flowcharts, wireframes, mock-ups, interactive prototypes, and animations – all in the one design space.