In addition to the Adobe Creative Cloud, XD can also connect to other tools and services such as Slack and Microsoft Teams to collaborate. XD supports and can open files from Illustrator, Photoshop, Photoshop Sketch, and After Effects. These prototypes can be previewed on supported mobile devices.

Helps creating a grid of repeating items such as lists, and photo galleries.Ĭreates animated prototypes through linking artboards. Many features in XD were previously either hard to use or nonexistent in other Adobe applications like Illustrator or Photoshop. Features Īdobe XD creates user interfaces for mobile and web apps. On October 18, 2017, Adobe announced that Adobe XD was out of beta. A beta of Adobe XD was released for Windows 10 on December 13, 2016. The first public beta was released for macOS as 'Adobe Experience Design CC' to anyone with an Adobe account, on March 14, 2016. This was in response to the rising popularity of Sketch, a UX and UI design-focused vector editor, released in 2010. Adobe first announced they were developing a new interface design and prototyping tool under the name 'Project Comet' at the Adobe MAX conference in October 2015.