In Adobe XD you have some predefined screen sizes to choose from or you can start with your own custom size: Yes, artboards are nothing new and you may already be familiar with them if you used Sketch, Photoshop or Illustrator before. Let me quickly go through some of my favorite features: Artboards All of the functions are very simple, intuitive and work as expected. All measurements, transform controls, and editing boxes appear only when you click on a specific element or perform some actions. You donвЂ™t see things that you donвЂ™t need to. ItвЂ™s functional вЂ“ it looks very minimalistic at first, but itвЂ™s actually packed with little time-saving features.You can even feel confident to invite other team members who are not designers to visualize their ideas. If you have some experience with Photoshop or Sketch, youвЂ™ll be able to start designing your first screens immediately. ItвЂ™s easy вЂ“ the interface is so intuitive and easy to use that it doesnвЂ™t really require any learning time.One of my project files with 40+ artboards loads faster than a single blank PSD in Photoshop.

Well, the app loaded before I even blinked. When I opened XD for the first time, I clicked the app icon and was going to stretch my legs and grab some water, as I was expecting it would take a while to load it based on my experience with other Adobe apps.

ItвЂ™s fast вЂ“ no, seriously, itвЂ™s ridiculously fast.

The app is missing a lot of features and itвЂ™s definitely not ready to be used to create beautiful hi-fi website mockups, but there are three main things that got my attention and gave me some hope for the future: IвЂ™ve been using Adobe XD for some time already and even though itвЂ™s still an early 0.5 version, I have had such positive experiences. ItвЂ™s focused on designing better user experiences, bringing your ideas to life, and getting some feedback before itвЂ™s actually developed. ItвЂ™s a new desktop app that can help you to design quick prototypes, wireframes or even complete screen mockups of your websites or apps. I felt like something new would be coming and we didnвЂ™t have to wait too long вЂ¦ What is Adobe XD?ДЄdobe Experience Design was introduced in March 2016 and itвЂ™s been updated monthly with packs of new features since then. WeвЂ™ve seen some updates to Photoshop and additions like Edge Reflow, but still there was nothing really good for UI/UX designers. Adobe has discontinued working on the Fireworks, but didnвЂ™t really introduce any good replacement for that. There was an obvious gap in their range of products. I was very close to switching to Sketch, but I finally decided that IвЂ™d rather stick to Adobe products. So, I was exploring some other tools recently, but nothing really convinced me to invest more of my time in learning and changing my habits. In order to make interactive prototypes, I had to export all of my screens to PNGs and use another app like InVision (which I love, BTW) to present my work. However, IвЂ™ve been doing a lot of UI/UX work recently where Photoshop often appeared to be too slow and too heavy for rapid wireframing and prototyping.

I donвЂ™t think itвЂ™s a perfect tool for a design job, but there are still many reasons why it makes sense (I explained this in one of my blog posts in 2014: Should We Still Use Photoshop To Design Websites?).

IвЂ™ve been using Photoshop as my main design tool for years, making all of my design mockups, wireframes, and even some illustrations and graphics.

Adobe xd wireframe