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Whats the difference between Adobe XD and Adobe Muse

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April 8, 2016
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Is the only difference prototyping? Because I see that there is a feature for exporting for HTML. Is this the same?

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Correct answer elainecc

Hey, guys-

Think of Adobe XD as purely a design tool; we export prototypes that are viewable on HTML, but are not live HTML sites in and of themselves. It's a design tool, not an authoring tool. Muse is great at developing responsive websites with code that can work on a live website. Hopefully that helps to clarify the purpose of the product!

Thanks,

-Elaine

OR3O

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Since it is viewable as HTML, is it possible to inspect it, and take the code?

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affectionate_realist157F

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If your creating your own site - use Muse although you will need to use/buy or write code for widgets.

Sketch, XD is used more commercially for design and also you can add interactivity. This can be exported to HTML with assets so a Web Dev can work straight from the html.

elhosary89

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In my opinion,

Adobe Muse more helpful for Website & mobile site Design (Responsive website)

Adobe XD more helpful For App Design

Finally

I hope to combine between Muse&XD in one app

elaineccCorrect answer

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Hey, guys-

Think of Adobe XD as purely a design tool; we export prototypes that are viewable on HTML, but are not live HTML sites in and of themselves. It's a design tool, not an authoring tool. Muse is great at developing responsive websites with code that can work on a live website. Hopefully that helps to clarify the purpose of the product!

Thanks,

-Elaine

edgydoug1

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I'm late to this but what I'm taking away is a mockup of a site can be done purely in Adobe XD then when the site is approved the designer then rebuilds the design in something like Adobe Muse. Yes, No?
If so I'm having a hard time seeing the benefit from a purely business cost standpoint.

Doug

elainecc

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Hey edgydoug1-

Yes, although XD is for a larger set of users than just web designers. Someone can, for instance, design an application to be developed on iOS or Android, so they would hand off a design and assets for their dev to work in XCode or in Android Studio. Similarly, a designer can hand off assets and a design to a web developer to develop in native HTML or in a tool like Muse.

-Elaine

Moosebone

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I have the same question. It's not clear where this fits in between Muse, Photoshop, Illustrator for prototyping web sites. Some of XD's layout functionality would be great to have in Muse, but overall it seems pretty limited.

Unicycle RobAuthor

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I guess why I asked this question is because Muse and XD seems very similar. Not how they fit in with other Adobe software. Photoshop and Illustrator are two different softwares all together from these two softwares.

Maybe I should ask if XD can create websites? or is it just a prototype software so once the prototype is decided on, then the images used for the prototype can be exported to size to hand into the designer that would plug it into say Dreamweaver/Sublime/Xcode?

Muse is more of a Drag and drop, easy to use website builder. Kinda like Dreamweaver and InDesign mixed into one. So does XD make websites too with these drag and drop features? But the prototype part confuses me.

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