Quick and Easy UI Creation
February 03, 2019
Quick and Easy UI Creation
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Adobe XD
The organization I work for is a career and technical education facility where I teach a digital media communications program for high school juniors and seniors. Students in our program are proficient with Adobe's graphics creation software (Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator). Adobe XD allows our students to create user interfaces, web utilities, and simple web pages using a graphics-based interface similar to that software without extensive knowledge of code required.
- Similar features and functionality as found in other Adobe applications allows for easy transition from other Adobe software.
- Integration with other Adobe software (such as Adobe Illustrator)
- Included with Adobe CC subscription (all apps option)
- Plug-ins and Extensions available to integrate XD creations with other software / web utilities
- Unable to outright purchase Adobe XD software, or select a subscription option for only Adobe XD
- Constant crashing
- No image editing functionality, so XD still relies on a photo manipulation software (like Photoshop) for some aspects.
- With an Adobe Creative Cloud Subscription, no additional purchase is required.
In our program, we utilize both Mac and Windows workstations. We had attempted to use Sketch (another similar application to Adobe XD), but it is only available on Mac platforms which prohibits our students from accessing software at home (which is predominantly Windows PCs). Also, many of our students already have Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions for access to Adobe Premiere Pro, Illustrator, and Photoshop, so access to Adobe XD is easier than alternative software that accomplishes similar results.