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3D Transforms
Rotate objects in 3D space. Present in perspective. Layer in depth and create a realistic outlook in seconds.
Coediting
Coediting is out of beta. Start collaborating in real-time from the same document, wherever you are.
Auto Height Text
Use the text layer’s content to automatically adjust the height, while its width remains fixed.
Nested Components
Make changes to components within other components and seamlessly sync changes only in the context you need.
Component States in Design Specs
Give developers the full picture with a detailed view of every state for any component.
Enhanced Creative Cloud Libraries integration
Work directly from the Libraries panel to access colours, components and more from your Creative Cloud Libraries. Easily create and share design systems with your team as Libraries.
Multiple Flows
Author multiple prototype or interaction flows in a single XD document and publish unique shareable links for each flow.
New keyboard shortcuts for Design, Prototype and Share modes
Toggle between modes with keyboard shortcuts. Press ⌥+1 (Mac) or Alt+1 (Windows) for Design mode, ⌥/Alt+2 for Prototype mode and ⌥/Alt+3 for Share mode.
Main Components
Components that define styling and properties of all instances of the component have been renamed to Main Components.
Learn Tab
Quickly access tutorials, videos, articles and other resources from directly within XD.
Folders for Cloud Documents
Create folders to organise your Cloud Documents for different projects and clients.
Social Media Artboard Presets
Select new artboard presets for designing for social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Design Tokens
Add customised names to colours and character styles and then share them with developers in your Design Specs to make sure everyone has a common frame of reference.
Scroll Groups
Create activity feeds, image carousels, product listings and more by defining areas that scroll independently from the rest of your designs. Groups can scroll vertically, horizontally or both.
Durable shared links
Publish a shared link from XD and then change the access settings from private to public or vice versa without having to create a new link.
Stacks
Maintain alignment and spacing between objects on your canvas even as your design changes. Insert new objects or reorder objects in a stack and everything adjusts automatically.
Support for Italian and Russian
XD now supports Italian and Russian in addition to English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish.
Off-line support for Coediting
Work on shared documents even when you’re not connected to the Internet. Your changes will automatically become visible to other collaborators as soon as you connect.
Zoom controls in shared links
Now you can zoom in and out on designs when viewing them via shared links. Zoom controls are available in both desktop and mobile browsers.
Audio Playback
Add sounds to your prototypes with a new action that lets you play sound effects and other audio files in response to triggers.
Anchor links
Add links to your prototypes with a new action that lets users jump to different points on the same artboard.
Shortcut for resizing area text to fit content
Double-click the bottom resize handle of an area text box to automatically adjust the height of the box to match the text inside.
Recipients of a privately shared link can now re-share with other reviewers while preserving read-only permissions.
Multiple actions on a Tap trigger
You can now add both a transitional action (e.g., Transition, Auto-Animate and Overlay) and a non-transitional action (e.g., Audio Playback and Speech Playback) in response to a Tap trigger when prototyping in XD.
Support for macOS Voice Control
Now you can access XD design and prototyping features using dictation and voice commands.
Heart Shape
Create heart shapes using the Polygon tool. Simply type “<8.0 cm (3”) in the Sides/Corners field and your polygon will turn into a heart.
Group sharing
Adobe Creative Cloud for enterprise customers can sync groups and distribution lists to XD from their organisations’ address books. Then they can select these groups when inviting editors to cloud documents or providing access to private shared links.
Publish All Artboards
Unset a Home artboard in Prototype mode to publish all the artboards on your canvas to a shared link, whether they’re wired together or not.
Star Ratio
Add star shapes to your designs using the Polygon tool. Simply adjust the Star Ratio on the canvas or in the Property Inspector to draw anchor points and create your shape.
Drag-and-drop in XD Plugin APIs
Enhanced plugin APIs now let you drag assets from a plugin in the Plugins panel and drop them right on your design canvas. To add drag-and-drop support for your plugin, please see our developer documentation.
Content-Aware Layout
Quickly create common UI design elements without tedious manual work. In its initial release, Content-Aware Layout lets you control the padding of a group and preserve these values as the group’s layers change.
Sharing improvements
You can select a single artboard and publish it to a shared link in Share mode.
Coediting (Beta)
Collaborate in real time with other designers. Coediting lets you and your team work together in the same document at the same time, speeding up your workflow and eliminating duplicative or conflicting work.
Hover trigger
Bring new levels of interactivity to your prototypes. Use the new hover trigger in Prototype mode to specify interactions for when a user places a cursor over a particular design element.
Document history
See the evolution of your documents over time. Document history lets you browse previously saved versions of a document, bookmark and name specific versions and open a version in a new window to see changes.
Multiple interactions
Design for a variety of user inputs without duplicative work. In Prototype mode, you can now drag multiple wires from a single element to add interactions for different inputs. For example, add different actions for “tap” versus “drag” without having to duplicate artboards.
Share mode
Get feedback, present your work, share with developers and more. The new Share mode lets you keep shared links to your designs in sync, see which artboards and user flows are shared and configure settings like password requirements.
Component states
Add interactive elements to your prototypes without unnecessary work. With component states, you can design variations of a component for different scenarios, like Hover or Pressed. You can also use states in Prototype mode.
Enhanced Creative Cloud Libraries integration
Work with assets in your Creative Cloud Libraries directly within XD. Now you can access and use assets from your Libraries or upload assets from XD to your Libraries.
Re-designed Plugin Manager
Get even more value from XD with plugins. The re-designed Plugin Manager makes it easy to search and browse plugins, explore curated collections, see detailed profiles with screenshots and ratings and install plugins to use in your workflow.
Blend modes
Enhance images and graphics in your designs with blend modes, which blend together a selected layer and a colour using preset blending algorithms like Lighten or Multiply. Blend modes are also preserved when importing from other tools.
Nudge and resize keyboard shortcuts
Quickly move and resize objects using keyboard shortcuts. Precisely control the size and position of elements or snap to a layout grid, using the arrow keys in combination with the Shift and Cmd keys.
Select through overlapping layers on the canvas
Using a simple keyboard modifier, select through all the layers under the cursor so you can access hidden or covered layers on the canvas.
Select covered layers in Design Specs
Easily select specific layers in a design even if they can’t be directly clicked. Now, right-click an artboard in a Design Spec and cycle through the complete list of layers.
Plugins panel
Access your favourite plugins right in the XD interface. The Plugins panel puts a world of new capabilities and connections to other apps and services at your fingertips, without breaking your workflow.
CSS snippets in Design Specs
Design Specs now includes automatically-generated CSS code snippets that developers can copy and paste right into their code, so it’s easier than ever to bring your design vision to life.
Edit in Photoshop
Now you can open and edit images in Photoshop directly from XD. When you’re done editing, simply hit “Save” and images will be automatically updated in XD in real time.
Improvements to component bounds
Based on feedback from our community, we've changed how component bounds are defined and set to make resizing and aligning components easier.
Unified development links
Now you can share a single link with developers that includes both prototype interactions and design specs, saving your developers time as you better communicate your design intent.
Grid view in shared links
Quickly navigate a shared prototype or design spec links using the new grid view. Stakeholders can easily see all artboards in a project or jump to a specific screen to view linked artboards or actual artboard content.
Presence
See when other designers are working on the same document to avoid conflicting edits and duplicative work. When you see your team member’s avatar in XD, it means they’ve opened the same doc.
Commenting on mobile
Stakeholders can now easily review and add comments to a shared web prototype, right from their mobile device.
Creativity for all
Photography. Video. Design. UX. 3D and AR. Creative Cloud has everything you need, wherever your imagination takes you.