I use XD almost every day for wireframing and prototyping game interfaces for both mobile, PC, and console games. For mobile and PC games I'm pretty happy with the current feature set but I feel like there are a few improvements that would really help those doing UX for console games. Here are a few points, in particular, I'd love to see improved.

1) 'Combination' Trigger type for Interactions
For interfaces in games you quite often need to press a combination of keys, buttons, or key + click to open menus. It would be great if you could set an interaction that could be triggered by a combination of a 'tap' and a 'key' - eg. 'Option + Right Click' to display a menu etc.

This also applies to a combination of buttons on a single trigger interaction such as a gamepad. So many games on Nintendo Switch require the simultaneous press of two trigger buttons to start a game. But currently, only one gamepad trigger is allowed in XD, so that basic and common input cannot be prototyped.

2) Use the Analog-stick movements on a gamepad to simulate a 'drag' effect of a scrollable group.
Examples of where this is used, if my game has a large map that is bigger than the screen and I place it in a Hor & Ver scroll group, on PC I can drag my mouse around to pan the map. On the gamepad, I would like to use the controllers analog still to control that panning movement.

3) Support for Diagonal control triggers from Gamepads
So for example, instead of just Up, Down, Left & Right, it would be great to detect top-right, bottom-left etc. from the position of the analog stick.

4) Disabling default arrow key controls in the Desktop Preview
When developing interfaces for PC games, using the arrow keys to navigate menus is a must. While I know there are some hacky ways to prevent this from happening, a simple checkbox from the dropdown menu in the Preview (underneath the enable microphone etc.) to disable or override the default arrow controls that jumps you between artboards would be SO handy. The desktop preview is so quick when testing as I am building, but having to generate new shared links and disable navigation just to test those features is just too slow, not only that but clients and team members may be viewing that link, so testing it locally in the Desktop Preview is essential.

5) Support for Nintendo Switch and Xbox One Controller inputs within XD.
Currently (using version 43.0.12.14 on Mac), I am only able to use a PS4 dual shock controller to input the interactions. If I plug in or Bluetooth connect a Switch Joycon or Xbox One controller it does not detect any inputs within the Interaction/Trigger menu. However, when I share the link to test the prototype the browsers do recognize those gamepads.

We need to be able to recognize the different gamepads (major platforms) within XD so we can assign different button triggers/interactions for different gamepad types all within the same one prototype file. As I prepare the UX for the different platforms support Switch, Playstation, Xbox and Steam (PC) I would love to be able to set those different interactions all in one document rather than duplicating it four times.

6) Ability to type in the gamepad triggers (autocomplete field) if I do not have the gamepad with me. If my fiance is in the middle of an epic Overcooked game and I have a UX deadline, I'd rather have the option to type in or select the controller triggers within XD like 'Playstation – Circle' without having to take the controller from her just to set that trigger (Overcooked is a stressful game as it is and I'd like to get married soon :)

Hope your team can help with some of these ideas, it would make the user experience for me so much better and improve my workflow and output dramatically.

Ofter when creating a prototype for console games, we need to set all the keys for EACH controller model, the prototype easily becomes a monster.
What I propose is a tool where the designer can set the key equivalences for all controllers that work on adobe XD. In a way that if I set B on xbox one controller, I can set in a sheet, that we would have same behaviour on circle for play station 4/5, set the keys for xbox X, etc. This would be extremely helpful. I am sending you one picture of a feature prototype, that is set only for XBOX, mouse and PC keyboard. Now I need to just make it work for PS controller. Adobe XD will explode for sure.

Hi, I raised this is the XD Adobe Community and I was recommended to post it here:
I love XD. Please could you facilitate mouse 'roll off'' events/states/triggers whatever you want to call them, to hover states. I just want a hover animation to play, then when the mouse 'rolls off' the hotspot, the hover state remains the same rather than return to the default state. If I remember correctly this is something from the old Flash days, it's even in InDesign! Please can you get it in XD? There isn't a workaround either and creating multiple artboards is just too much hard work to achieve this basic effect. Thanks, I greatly appreciate you, and all your excellent work.

The idea is quite simple and it exists already in Figma. When you have a dialog displayed as an overlay, it often changes its content as the user interacts with it (I don't want to create a component for that - it shouldn't be the purpose of the component feature and it makes the component panel messy.) So when creating a link between 2 states of an overlay, I would like to have an option to switch the overlays.

Then It would be awesome if the option "close overlay" would close the overlay (the "previous artboard" is not helpful here).

Well, just please do it as Figma does (or better).