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Adobe Xd is now free with Adobes new (free) starter plan

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Every time I see this I read it as "Adobe 😆"

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I have been using this in our project lately and the conversations inside slack lol.

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same, cant take it seriously with that name

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Too many missing features it's so incomplete imo. Hopefully in a few years' time it will actually be a competent piece of software but who knows :/

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What specific features XD dont have? Im curious. Im currently using Figma and it has all i need but im thinking now i might give XD a try.

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I gave it a go, but creating an asset library seemed to be pretty lacking compared to sketch. In sketch you can create assets you can then use in other documents from a drop down menu, but Adobe XD only lets you create them for that specific document you have open unless I'm missing something.

Also unfortunate: I'm primarily a PC user, so I was really hoping, but it doesn't support Windows 8 so I can't use it on my Surface Pro 3 tablet.

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If it was an add-on to illustrator, i would love it a lot more design wise. It definitely still has a lot to go, especially compared to its competitors.

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Give it time. I have a really good feeling in the next year or so, the features we'll be on par with Sketch and if it has plug-in support it's a no brainer. It's current features already work better than Sketch if you ask me.

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XD... meh.

As soon as my subscription is up I'm moving over to Affinity.

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Affinity doesn't have a UX tool?

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I will do anything to avoid a Adobe product with their new subscription pricing. Figma is way better and free.

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How is the performance on figma when your projects start getting large?

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I'm already using it. They update it with new features quite frequently so it shouldn't be too long until it catches up with the other programs out there. I figure I'm already using the rest of CC, I might as well start investing in XD now.

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Same, they've been making pretty big updates monthly and have their backlog of features publicly viewable.

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Thanks for reminding me that I want to purchase Affinity.

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Last time I checked Sketch was still far superior than Adobe try on userinterfaces.

So I am sticking with that

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I tried it with a bunch of imported sketch files and it was simply too buggy to work with. This was like a week ago.