Although they are both great pieces of software, they are neither lightweight nor streamlined for this type of job. The software launched in preview in March 2016 as part of the Creative Cloud, and nowadays it is in beta phase, receiving updates almost every month.īefore that, Adobe was working on adding features for UX designers on their established tools like Photoshop and Illustrator. The Sketch user interface, which is clearly the main inspiration to Adobe in XD, as it tries to appeal to the same type of user.Īdobe Experience Design CC, or Adobe XD, is a lightweight vector graphics editor and prototyping tool that was announced at Adobe MAX 2015 as Project Comet. But now Adobe is actively working on a proper cross-platform Sketch competitor (and lookalike?), after years of absence: Adobe XD. This means that, unless you have an Apple machine, you are left out. If you do your work on a PC, you are probably haunted by the constant mention of Sketch, a popular, streamlined vector graphics editor with countless useful plugins that is quickly becoming an industry standard- but only available on Mac OS. A UX designer needs many tools to complete the many stages of the UX workflow from research to design to prototype and handoff.
