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Package all files necessary for developer handoff
It would be great if you can gather the files you’ve used, including fonts and linked graphics, for easy handoff. When you package a file, you create a folder that contains the xd document, any necessary fonts, linked graphics, and a package report.
Like we have in Illustrator or InDesign.120 votes -
Measure via text baseline
Generate specs to be to the end of the last letter vs. the actual text box
It would be nice if the developer can see the height of the text based on the baseline rather than the text box itself. Sometimes text boxes are much longer than the copy inside of them (if the designer forgets to reduce the height of the box), then the developer will not get an accurate reading of padding between elements because the box is oversized.
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Publish Individual Screens for Stakeholders to Use for Communication between Teams
I run into needing to share screen #3, #14, #34 with a stakeholder to use within a presentation, think powerpoint. I have to manually export these screen fo each round of changes. I would like to publish for review only SAID screen numbers where the end user can comment OR DOWNLOAD a png or pdf of the most up to day version.
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Option to remove "resolve" button in Design Specs
I would really like to have an option so that the resolve button is not visible or clickable.
I use the “share for development feature” to give students extra help, but if they mistakenly click resolve, the help is gone, and then other students would not be able to get the help, so it would be nice to make the, resolve the button not visible or clickable1 vote -
Boxed Text with different size and colors within are not being able to be distinguished in designs specs given to developers
While working developers where not able to get information on size of text or color in a boxed text which had a different size and color ontop then the bottom part. Is there a way where probably a developer would be able to highlight text in a targeted area to get character style and color?
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"L" shaped elements cover and prevent the selection and identification/specs of everything below them.
Please look at this XD "Design Specs" file:
https://xd.adobe.com/spec/37ccb941-8fd4-4a7f-6223-499948dc3fcb-41fd/The "L" shaped elements (colored RED and FUCHSIA in the file) cover and prevent the selection of and identification of the specs, of everything below them. Even though these "L" shaped elements are not closed shapes they cover everything below them (BTW, it's the same when there is a surrounding border that is above everything else, layer wise).
Please, this must be corrected.
The attached file was "Exported" to PDF.
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See file/layer structure in design specs
As an added feature, similar to what Avacode and Sympli provide, it would be nice to display the layers panel in design spec mode. The user can select a layer and it will highlight in the document art board.
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Add code to design system
Would love to see a feature to helps create a coded design system for asset management and seamless developer handoff. Thanks!
18 votes -
show date of last update for each screen
At this time one can see "The date when the design specs was last updated"
When working on a living project, with constant improvements, or in general during development phase, it would be pretty handy for
- developers (identify what to do)
- testers/customers/responsible persons (what to review)
to easily see that there where changes on special screen since last look by showing date and time of last update for each screen.99 votes -
Export assets from design specs (we need a better way)
There needs to be a better way or an alternative way to download assets from the design specs for developers. Right now, you would have to set each asset on each page to be able to be downloaded. This works great for a single page, but when you have a ton of pages representing either different states or different parts of the flow, it's hard to remember or even know which page you can download which asset from.
Most assets that get used are made into symbols, so it would be great to be able to set the symbols to…
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Browser notifications on specs link update
It would be nice to get a notification when a specs link has been updated. This could be a browser notification or another way.
Because now when I make a change tot the design, I have to send everyone a email asking to them to refresh their browser to see the changes.
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Select platform in Design Specs on the web, not on publish
I see that now the design specs allows the developers to extract design assets. Totally cool! Good job!
One problem is that right now I have to mark my design spec specifically for one platform (ios, android or web). But sometimes we designers club those in one single file as separate group of artboards for simplicity. In such situations this feature is a problem. Both android and ios developers are using the same design spec, but only one of them can extract the assets.
I would suggest to remove the platform selection option while publishing and provide platform selection to…
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Clearly denote when design specs have comments associated
There's no way of knowing if there's a comment added to design spec unless you actually click the comment icon - and that icon is not very visable or explanatory. Would be nice if there was some sort of visual cue marker letting me know if the spec file contains comments or not. I checked with several developers both inhouse and externally and none of them knew I had placed comments cause its totally out of sight and mind when there's nothing warning them - like a red icon or a marker somewhere for instance? As it is now I…
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Px to Pt Converter
For people using Xamarin to develop Mobile Apps we need a Px's to Pt's conversion on the design specs. We are doing a lot of work converting those numbers when developing. Seems to me that a converter would be fairly easy.
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"Hide Layout grid" shouldn't turn it off in Design Spec
When you hide layout grid in Design mode, you don't just hide it - you turn it off completely. That is a problem, becaouse when you do it, it disappears from Design Specs. So, either rename the command to "Turn off Layout grid" (because that's what really happens) and add another function for just hiding it, or allow its visibility in design spec even when its turned off.
Point is that when you do design you often hide the grid for better visibility. But - when you publish your design spec, you must remember to turn it on in all…
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Export Assets library to Design Specs
It would be great if the assets library in Adobe Xd be exported to the design specs. In that way developers will be able to get a general specification sheets from the designer. Designers can even create classes for each font and name the colors based on there branding standards.
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DPI/PPI switch for font sizes
XD would be a lot more cross-platform friendly if is offered a DPI/PPI switch for font sizes.
For example, I'm mainly desinging for MicroStrategy platform which uses 96dpi to calculate font sizes. XD uses 72.
I've read there's a similar issue with Android development.
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Print option in the design specs
It would be a great idea if there is an option to print the design specs on paper. Just like the option in Adobe Illustrator to print crop marks, in design specs we can create marks & regions of elements used it.
24 votesI’ll leave this open, but you can upvote the PDF story here: https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007/suggestions/34612402
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Track changes via Slack for Design Spec
If a link update has been made by a designer to the Design Spec a slack notification automatically gets sent to a channel/user within slack with the link and the changes that have been made. e.g new artboards added etc.
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Overview of styles for entire Design Spec
It is not easy to manage all the colors and styles in a design in XD
There is no overall design specs for all artboards in the design specs nor in XD, making it hard to review all design styles in 1 place.
Colors and Character Styles in assets can't be use as style guide/ in app design specs, the current version is not favoring this functionSomething similar to this suggestion is needed but with more function
https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007-adobe-xd-feature-requests/suggestions/34285129-integrate-designs-specs-inside-adobexd[Second feature request moved to: https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007/suggestions/34705201]
6 votesThanks for your feedback! I’m going to keep this one open for the Design Specs feature, and have split out the 1 click one to this link, which you should upvote: https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007/suggestions/34705201
In the future, please do file your ideas in individual tickets so that we can better aggregate with others who have similar ideas. Thanks!
-Elaine
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