I find myself using Sketch more than XD primarily for one main reason. If I see a bunch of layers or assets piled on top of each other on the z-axis, I can quickly get to the one I want in sketch by using the right mouse click. It will then list all assets directly below my cursor.

This comes in handy when I need to freeze and unfreeze layers as I work through a project. XD doesn't have this functionality as far as I know. Unfortunately though I love XD, I find sketch to be much faster to design in due to this sole feature. Its changed my work from being about 3/4 XD to 1/4 Sketch to 3/4 Sketch and 1/4 XD.

Please design a quick way to scroll through layers under a cursor!

Thanks.

I use Illustrator to draw a set of icons, and put them in Adobe CC Library to share the graphic assets with my teammates and to be used in various design projects in XD, Ilustrator, and Photoshop etc.

When I place the vector graphic asset into XD, somehow the path gets distorted. This only appears to happen on very small vector graphics. (The icons I made in Illustrator are 24px by 24px)

This distortion only happens when graphic assets are place on XD. When I place the same graphic assets on Illustrator, it looks fine. (See the attached assets, you can see the same graphic assets looks fine when placed on Illustrator but looks distorted on XD. I highlighted distortions I see with yellow.)

Every time we duplicate (or copy and paste) an artboard or an element, the new one goes on the top of left panel above all previous elements, and sometimes, to keep a specific order, we need that new artboard to be duplicate RIGHT AFTER the previous one, for example, to have 2 versions just in case we need to compare them in the future, side by side. As it happens currently, every time a new duplicate artboard goes above all previous ones so we always need to drag and drop it right on the place that artboard was supposed to be.

I often create a series of artboards that I want to use in several flows, or more than once in the same flow.

The "return to previous artboard" functionality is inadequate to allow this to happen.

E.g. A series of artboards that show an image being loaded and edited. I want to transition to this series of artboards in many places throughout my workflow, and once I have progressed through these image editting artboards I want to return to the artboard that I was at before I transitioned. Because I am not returning from the first artboard in the set I cannot use the "return to previous artboard" action.

I.e:
< Originating Artboard A> -> <Artboard 1> -> <Artboard 2> -> Return to Originating artboard A

< Originating Artboard B> -> <Artboard 1> -> <Artboard 2> -> Return to Originating artboard B

Currently I have the following options:
a. Duplicate the Artboards (Ie Artboard 1 and 2 in the example above). This means that if I modify the Artboard (1 or 2) I have to repeat the modifications in all the duplicates.

b. Make all the content of the Artboards into a component, one component for each artboard (I.e. a component for artboard 1 and a component for artboard 2). This works for some situations where minor layout mods are made, but feels messy to me, and more importantly does not help if I want to add another artboard.

One way to achieve the required functionality is to llow artboards to be grouped together, and add a trigger action "Return to Artboard previous to group"

A more sophisticated version would be to allow the creation of Artboard level components. I.e. A component that contains whole artboards, and allows modification of things such as layout, triggers and actions, addition of new artboards in the "main component" and overrides in the component instances.

I'd like to be able to see a true to form depiction of my 1920x1080 design in preview mode. When I click on the play button, Adobe resizes and puts a different aspect ratio on my design, including adding two vertical black bars - one on each side of the design. (see screenshot)

The devs I work with like to develop in 1920 and I enjoy designing in 1920. However, we keep running into problems due to the fact that I have been thinking when I click preview, I'm looking at my design in its correct proportions. We just discovered this shortcoming in XD. I notice that the bars appear only if the design is larger than 1820px wide. Anything under that shows true to form. I'd love to see the preview mode work correctly when the design is at 1920. This would save me and my team a ton of headaches, speed up our design/dev process, and make all the follow up client resolution meetings and rework disappear. Thanks so much for taking the time to read this!

I have quite enjoyed exploring all the possibilities using states and prototype triggers, but it seems bizarre to me that I have to experiment and build my own components to achieve functionality such as ... for example

a. Implementing radio buttons where only 1 can be selected
b. Dropdown fields
c. Implementing enabling of a button when a form field is filled

I imagine that beginners would find it useful to have even simple to implement pre-packaged components such as form field containing an in field prompt that disappears when you click on the field and a hover over action available