Adobe XD Essential Training: Design (2018)

Get up and running with Adobe XD. Learn how to design great user experiences for any screen with the XD platform and its powerful tools to learn, iterate, and succeed sooner.

Adobe XD is a powerful platform for creating user experiences using an iterative design process. In this course, strategic development manager Demian Borba introduces the design tools and workflows in XD. Learn how to set up a project for UX design, use artboards and grids, and start working with the vector design tools. Find out how to access the official UI kits from Apple, Google, Microsoft, and from the community, all for free. Then, discover how to use power capabilities such as Repeat Grid and the Assets panel. Leverage files from other apps as well as from Creative Cloud Libraries. Resize elements responsively and use plugins to do a lot more. By the end of the course, you should have everything you need to know to create efficient web and mobile application designs with Adobe XD.

Introduction

• Take your design to the next level
• What is Adobe XD?
• What should you know?

1. Get Started with Adobe XD

• UI overview
• Design with artboards
• Navigate the canvas
• Open Sketch, PS, and AI files
• Access incredible free UI kits
• Square vs. layout grids
• Layers and the selection model
• The color picker
• Linear and radial gradients

2. Design Mode Basics

• Create and edit vector shapes
• Pen tool and strokes
• Point and area text
• Work with masks
• Bring images into shapes
• Boolean operations
• Copy and paste the appearance
• Go faster with the Repeat Grid tool
• Add images and text with Repeat Grid
• Work with symbols and overrides

3. The Assets Panel

• Add and manage colors
• Add and manage text styles
• Label and organize assets
• Swap symbols
• Link symbols across documents

4. Connect with CC Libraries

• Creating CC Libraries
• Consuming bitmaps from CC Libraries
• Consuming vectors from CC Libraries

5. Responsive Resize

• Resize elements responsively

6. XD Plugins

• Find plugins to extend XD

Conclusion

• Next steps