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Display online comments in desktop application

It's great to have add and see comments in the online prototype. But even better (for the designer) would be to see those comments in the design file.

I envision a third tab next to Design and Prototype: Comments (or Feedback). When you go to that tab, you see all your artboards, but you also see any comments that have been made on the online prototype. Pin or bubble icons (or whatever) appear next to artboards with comments, which you can click to pull up the comments in a comments panel (similar to the layers and symbols panels, but perhaps on the right side of the screen). In that panel, you can navigate your comments for that artboard, reply, resolve, etc.). Ideally, you could zoom out in this panel to see a list of all your comments (as you can zoom out to see a list of all your artboards in the layers panel). What's helpful about that is when you only have a few comments left, you can easily find them without having to zoom out on your pasteboard to find them visually.

But comments are only online, you say! How would they get into the file? Wouldn't it be great if every time you click Update Link, not only did it upload any updates to CC, but it downloaded any comments that have been made?! Right?! And when you resolve comments or reply, clicking Update Link sends the updates up to CC. Naturally, the wording and UI would need to be changed to reflect more of a syncing functionality rather than just updating a link.

Why would this be so valuable? The entire value proposition of Adobe XD is that we designers don't have to go back and forth between two or more platforms, but could do everything in XD. This would allow that vision to be real. Otherwise, we still have to toggle between XD and a browser window. But if all comments could be downloaded into the file, we could see comments on our designs and change them right there and then!!! That, my friends, would be amazing.

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  • John Bentley commented  ·   ·  Report

    Description of the feature
    Rather than having to go to the XD website in order to view comments, all of the comments and the markers appear right in the app (as another mode like Design/Prototype, or in an existing mode).

    Why this is valuable to you
    It's annoying to have to go to a separate web site because I have to manually make a list of tasks for myself (based on the feedback) and then go back into the app to address them. It would be great if all of the comments were in the app, so I could keep track of them in the same space where I'm addressing them.

    If possible, an image or video that helps us understand your feature request

  • / / / L A D E Z O N E / / / commented  ·   ·  Report

    I also can't understand why there are no comments seen in the iOS or iPadOS-Apps of Adobe XD??
    I don't like Figma but the commenting feature inside the design document itself is great and feels very natural.

  • christinegaliano commented  ·   ·  Report

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    I thought they were saying they would have this at adobe max with the latest update, but I am not seeing it. Arrg.

  • Thomas O commented  ·   ·  Report

    FIGAM is way ahead of Adobe...what's wrong over there?

  • Thomas O commented  ·   ·  Report

    PLEASE this would be so much easier ti implement changed...otherwise we need to use a third party like FRONTITUDE

  • Christopher commented  ·   ·  Report

    Allow feedback given on a published prototype to be viewed and responded to from within the XD app (maybe it is, I cannot figure out how to do it)

    Designers tend to work in their tools and it wouldn't naturally occur that they need to link their own link to see the feedback from the prototype. This feedback should appear in the XD app in context of the art board on which it was given.

    The same feedback panel would be fine - perhaps a 4th feedback tab or a section under the share options in the settings panel. Needing to navigate to another tool seems very inefficient.

    ** Additionally ADOBE please look at the collaboration feature requests! These are desperately needed - collaboration and transfer of *file* ownership of cloud docs is driving organizations out of CC in order to run business efficiently. Not everyone works for an ad agency... Make XD work for enterprise design work

  • GD commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's ridiculous that almost 4 and a half years after, Adobe hasn't tried to address this in any way, shape or form.

    Little good it is to have stakeholder comments, if I have to go back and forth between two different applications just to see them.

    They figured this out for InDesign, why haven't they figured it out for XD? Worst is, there's not even a notification in-app that someone left any feedback, you only get them on the Cloud app, where you're not checking (and even THERE, there's no way to see them all streamlined and relating to the project in question).

    No wonder they lose market to Figma and Sketch that way!

  • Dustin Wood commented  ·   ·  Report

    Just had my first project where the AE added comments to the web link. I was going crazy trying to find where to turn them on in the desktop app. Turns out Adobe is crazy for not putting them in there. What's the point of having them then?

  • Graeme commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is one of the main reasons for using Figma over XD. It seems an obvious feature to add.

  • Orun commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is even more relevant now than it was in 2017, when the feature request was originally created. Since then co-editing in XD became a feature.

    Co-editing is an incredible feature that I'm so happy to have. However, now that there's many of us working at the same time on the desktop XD app (within the same cloud-shared files), it's become a pretty big hindrance to not be able to annotate and share information without publishing a link and commenting there.

    What would be ideal:

    1. An option for comments or threads of comments, attached to an artboard (like they're absolutely positioned relative to the artboard) would be amazing

    2. Also, the ability to toggle this comment/annotation layer on/off in a dedicated place, like toggling the grid

  • Filip Miloszewski commented  ·   ·  Report

    This single feature makes collaboration in Figma a better tool for design feedback in larger teams
    We've been working in XD for 3+ years have a ton of resources / design systems / etc maintned in XD and are still considering a migration to Figma.

    I would really, really love to see this one implemented in XD

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Scroll down to pins selected via the comments.

    It would be a lot easier & less time consuming for a user on the share mode to select the comment and have the artboard auto-scroll to that number/ highlight so a user can identify quickly where the comment has pinned to/ referring to, without the user having to search for each number.

    Such simple user functionality, yet highly beneficial for both designers and clients.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    It would be great if i can see (as a developer) the comment from my colleagues in the XD desktop version. At this moment i need to go to the web version the check the comments.

    Furthermore, this is an amazing application!!

  • Julius commented  ·   ·  Report

    The whole concept around "Share" mode feels a little against what cowork does. It kind of feels as you were uploading it somewhere and you need to go there to see comments instead of having all of it in XD. It would be great if Share mode contained all comments pinned on the designs so you don't have to switch to the browser to read the comments and then make changes. This way we're closer to what Figma does but closer to "PMs got their own way of seeing designs by using the browser" and the designer can still fiddle around in XD to see comments and make changes.

    This would speed up my workflow and integrate the share-functionality more into XD instead of uploading it "to a website".

  • Seth Erickson commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please at comments into the app so we don't have to jump back and forth between the browser and the design view to update the file.

  • Jeff Gage commented  ·   ·  Report

    Allow the designer to see/add Share mode comments while in Design mode.

    This would allow the designer to see the comments made online from within the application and allow the designer to respond with questions and such without having to deal with two screens. When I first learned of this feature this is how I assumed it worked and was shocked when I finally figured out that it doesn't. I just thought I was doing it wrong.

  • Matza commented  ·   ·  Report

    In design process I always have to leave comments for the developers. At the moment I use yellow boxes and places them. But this disturbs the layout for the stakeholders

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