How to Leave Comments in Adobe XD

If you’ve ever worked with Dauntless before, you’ll likely be accustomed to some of the tools we use for collaboration and feedback. This series is designed to give you quick references to our ways of working, guidance on how to use any of our collaborative tools, and to give you a place to request features or add your suggestions.  

What is Adobe XD?

XD stands for Experience Design, and similar to Photoshop or Illustrator, Adobe XD is a digital product design tool, specifically for designing websites and apps. (Of course, it can be used for other outputs, but this is its intended function and how we primarily use it.) 

It allows us to rapidly create User Experiences (UX) and User Interfaces (UI) as well as test and refine the Customer Experience (CX). We can go from wireframe directly to prototyping, animating and testing, all from one system. Since we already utilise many of Adobe’s vast offerings, it makes it easy for us to retrieve assets to use in our Digital Product designs. 

Why We Use Adobe XD

Benefits

• We can collaborate with other Crew mates and design together in real time.
• Cloud-based files make it easy to share with our Crew.
• We can test on multiple devices with the XD app installed.
• We can create links to share with anyone, and update them as we go.
• Clients can leave comments and feedback easily, without needing an account.
• Developer handoffs are easier, as we’re able to export assets into a developer link.

Drawbacks 

As with any software or tool, Adobe XD is not perfect. But it’s definitely come a long way since it was originally released. 

Here are a few of the drawbacks we know about: 

• Each file can have only one owner, which makes it tricky when people go on holiday or are sick, because only the owner can add collaborators and save new share links.
• The presentation mode is limited, especially when viewing both mobile and desktop designs. On mobile devices, navigating to other screens is almost impossible.