Certain designs are not possible to translate in a flat design, but with the capabilities of XD, we can communicate UI and UX to a client with greater precision and efficiency. Clients have responded well to it and the development team prefer it. Overall, we have been very pleased with the decision to switch to XD. I can foresee needing another high-fidelity animation tool if clients continue to seek that trend beyond the prototyping abilities of XD, which is a challenge given the lack of compatibility of XD outside the Adobe suite. While I respect Adobe’s effort to give us prototyping tools that are industry-leading fast, I think its offloading to After Effects of more advanced animation is a negative. There is a strong trend in the UI and UX design community towards animations, and we think that’s going to continue to grow in concert with browser and online technology advancements. We just got hover-states, and their implementation could be better, but so far Adobe has shown real commitment to building upon XD. So we had to adopt a bit of patience while they worked in some of the expected functions of the peer offerings. However, Adobe deploys updates frequently, maybe every month. Of course, you have to think long term and this is for sure paying dividends!Ī: When we first switched tools, there was some basic functionality that XD did not have yet that Sketch/Figma/InVision Studio did offer, such as components/symbols. On that, we’ve found internal cross pollination of new techniques very beneficial. I knew it would take a commitment for my own education on the tool, and given the frequency of updates, XD certainly requires an early adopters' attitude to new features and concepts. Q: What challenges did you face when switching tools?Ī: As the Design Director, I had to teach my team a new workflow and tool set, develop best-practices, and then learn alongside the project management team how clients want to use XD. If anything, clients now expect that level of intuitive integration. XD allows extremely fast prototyping, and allows clients to leave comments directly within the Adobe ecosystem which expedites the entire process, making the collaboration smoother for us and for the client. It has been exciting to pair a new design workflow with a state-of-the-art tech stack that both push each other.Īll of that is to say the most important aspect of XD is not so much its design capabilities as much as its prototype capabilities. Q: Considering the market’s options of design softwares, why XD?Ī: We wanted to make communicating design to the client more effective. Sketch revolutionized the UI of all design apps, however Adobe really understood the balance between being a fast design tool, presenting to the client, receiving client feedback, and then handing it off to a developer, all without 3rd party services like InVision or Zeppelin. But our development team and our designers are in-house, which made it far easier to adapt to a new software and simultaneously educate ourselves. Using an industry standard software such as Sketch is beneficial when your teams are scattered or you rely on outsourcing.
We also already had access to the Adobe suite, so the fact that it was a part of that ecosystem was a positive. With all of that in mind, we thought XD was a good all-in-one solution to those needs.
We evaluated how we present designs to clients, how the project management team shares and collects feedback, and how design communicates with development. How did you go about choosing?Ī: The decision to use XD involved months of extensive research, combined with thoroughly assessing our needs, our clients’ needs, and anticipating the evolution of those needs as we move into the future. Funkhaus Design Director Rick Baker explains his preference for using Adobe XD.
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