Experience Design cc Simple Experience overview

Windows also has sketch to use! Two days ago, Adobe family Bucket just joined a new product called Adobe Experience design CC, today @ Asphyxiation Red Leon brings everyone to experience the preview version of the various features.

Last year Adobe released an introduction and video of Adobe Project Comet on its web site, which is now available for download to the Preview version of the trial, with the current version renaming the software to XD (the file format is also. xd), the inexplicable poke of laughter ...

At present, XD only temporarily Mac version, but the official website has made it clear that the Win version will be launched, so we do not worry. In short, XD is a vector graphics design + simple prototyping software, somewhat similar to the combination of sketch+silver. In view of the Silver I have applied but have never had the opportunity to try, so it is not good to compare the two, so simply give us a summary of XD overview.

First, open the homepage of the software:

You can see that the supported devices and sizes are still quite rich, and there are some commonly used UI kits, such as IOS, Google Material, and so on. This will help designers to quickly choose content from the material library to build the page, very convenient.

The whole software interface is very refreshing, if you are very familiar with the Sketch, that basically does not need any additional learning can be used directly.

The above image is the main panel of XD, the left is selected, insert vector graphics, pens, text and artboards (artboard, similar to sketch), is not very familiar? The right side is simpler, and when you select different types of elements, the corresponding edits appear, such as shadow, color, alignment, Boolean operations are also generated tables, and so on. For vector elements you can easily add, delete, edit anchor points, with pens can make any graphics you want.

A magical function called Repeat Grid, the actual effect is to drag to quickly and intuitively generate a gird. Look, I say like sketch or PS of similar functions, but the actual test will find XD interactive way better intuitive and simple.

The value is displayed directly when the mouse holds down a space. And if you drag the spacing, you can change the entire Grid spacing, and the whole process requires no additional shortcuts to the mouse.

It's also easy to add and replace pictures, just throw PNG in the right place and XD will help you automatically match. Of course, if not satisfied to adjust their own.

In fact, the design part of these functions is enough, deep operation we can dig a bit. The following is a description of the prototype (Prototype) feature.

In the upper-left corner of the interface you can quickly switch between design and Prototype. Under the Prototype interface, the selected element finds a small arrow on the right, and a simple animation type and parameter can be selected:

It is regrettable that at present XD can only do the page switch, that is, let another page from different directions slide into the original page, the most can only do fade in and out, want to let an element fly out of the current should not be done. But I think since the main prototype features, Adobe should not only be satisfied with the page Switch bar, a little bit of complex effect can not meet the day-to-day needs.

The software has its own preview function, you can view the effect directly on the MAC, of course, you can also achieve simple interaction by clicking. Software can be directly implemented recording, but as if the size resolution can not be adjusted, currently can only export MOV format video. Also temporarily do not see the corresponding App on the phone preview, but through the share function can generate a link, sent to others can be seen on the phone. More depressing is not know is not I open the way there is a problem, the link has not been opened successfully.

In short, XD software interface design won my heart, Adobe has PS and AI Foundation I believe that the visual design part certainly will not have problems, but now the interactive part is still very immature. In other words, this is only the Preview version, and I believe Abobe will be more and more perfect in the subsequent iterations.

Click the original view XD website, there are video and so on, more intuitive than the text.