What you should know before using Adobe Xd for your next project
An unexpected hurdle
A couple of years ago, I ended up working on a fairly large project in Adobe Xd. Coming from Sketch, I didn’t mind the refined interface, nice design touches, and easy to use features.
I certainly couldn’t complain about color picker, or the content-aware resizing, the prototyping wasn’t too bad at first glance, and best of all it came with our Adobe subscription.
It was only when we needed to move our designs to another UI/UX design platform that Xd’s gambit came sharply into focus.
You guessed it, framework lock-in
Suffice it to say that after scouring the internet, finding some plug-ins that promised to “sorta-kinda-maybe,” and looking into the “SVG export hack,”
I found absolutely no way to reliably export Adobe Xd files to or for literally any other platform.
No Figma, no Sketch, no nothing.
To me this was made even more bitter by the fact that, as I read more and more posts affirming this notion, Xd seems to import Sketch and Figma files more or less just fine.
I learned the hard way in that moment that Adobe is still banking on you using…
