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Sad but my studio is now jumping ship from XD to figma. In the hopes of getting necessary features quickly, was replaced with unnecessary features with a very slow release schedule. All that and a huge host of bugs with "license expired" being the most infuriating and the whole Adobe team's solution to everything being "uninstall, reinstall". Do you realize how much time is lost with this terrible solution to a bug that should of been fixed in 2016???

XD is just missing way to many features to make it a viable professional tool and is roughly about 2 years away from being considered one (especially with the slow release schedule). In your hopes to differentiate XD from other software, you replaced needed features with nice-to-haves and before the Adobe support team pastes a link to "feature request"... that does nothing and means nothing. I've seen the top 5 features in that list for 2 years not be implemented. You have your own agenda which is not in line with your customers. Adobe seems to constantly fall into this issue and for that, we're out.

Hope you one day listen your customers needs rather than what makes a great marketing feature that isn't necessary.

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elainecc · Accepted Answer

Sorry to hear you’re leaving for another product, but you have to do what is best for your company. I hope you give XD another shot in the future.

Regarding UserVoice, since there’s some curiosity:

UserVoice is one of many inputs we have to our product roadmap, not our only one

Some features require long-term investment and building up a feature set, not just an individual feature. We release what makes sense (specifically, what has utility) when we have ensured that it is to the quality and performance our customers rely on

Once a feature is delivered, it is removed from the list. We have been consistently delivering features from the top 10 list. If I look at the top 10 of all time, we’ve delivered half:

Fixed elements

Guides

Text transform

Global style/color edits

Layout grid

Of the ones that are in progress:

We have shared publicly that we are working on bringing animations to components, which would meet #2

Tap and hover (#1) are hugely inefficient with artboard > artboard transitions, so we are linking this to animations to components

Carousels (#4) will be able to be created with component animation

Hope that helps clear up the confusion.

Elaine Chao

Product Manager

Adobe XD

cmgap · Answer

Hi Snaz1 - The user voice / feature request page does seem to be a bit of a mystery. It would be helpful for staff to explain how the process works so that we know that making suggestions and voting is taken seriously.

Out of curiosity... are any of the top 5 features (you mention in your post) in line with what is important to your company?

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