Commenting and making annotations in design OR on shared prototype online
it's pretty self-explanatory.. you can give feedback by commenting and making annotations on the prototype, if someone posts something you get an email with a summarium of all the feedback or you get notified via creative cloud.. there could be settings where you want to be notified and if instantly or like 1 hour later!
this is valuable to me because it makes the communication easier, which otherwise would lead to tons of emails going back and forth.
With our November release, you can now add comments to shared prototypes! Comments are contextual to the artboard. Please check it out and let us know what you think. Feature improvements should be suggested as new ideas in UserVoice.
Thanks!
-Elaine
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Arondale commented
I agree - access only by those emailed file. Offline password protection for non-cloud distribution. Prototypes are the genesis deliverables for a project - the blue prints. That said, they MUST be secured. I work for TCS / Tata - the largest company in India - we have all tried Adobe XD and love it - but can't use the share feature because of security risks. TCS provide solutions for GE Aviation, GE Capital, GE Transportation, GE Power, GE Oil & Gas, GE Healthcare, Delta, The Home Depot, and obviously many many more Forture 500 companys... ALL whom require STRICT security guidelines. Adobe will lose a lot of business without this. iRise, for example, offers very secure protection on shared deliverables.
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Anonymous commented
+1
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inksquid commented
Ditto, ditto, ditto. Love XD - seems to only be lacking annotation ability.
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Yao Bao commented
We really need annotations to communicate our design with our developers!
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Thomas Hallgren commented
As a UX-prototyper, I would like to have a place to add "Artboard Notes" on each artboard. This would be a place where I can share comments explaining the designs for QA, Product Manager and Developers. Maybe I could even add color and specs, html snippets, etc, and more. This is highly valuable to me, because doing this now makes my prototypes VERY messy.
When I share on the web, or export to PDF or PNG Artboards, I would like the option to show these notes revealed as an overlay, or to the side of the artboard (possibly in a 1-pixel black outline box)
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Thomas Hallgren commented
As a designer, I would like to allow users of my shared click-prototypes to be able to comment on different Artboards. This is very valuable to me because we can all catch and markup any text, incorrect button, contents or links, right away - or any other details that prototype viewers might notice. Great for feedback prior to going into development.
This is not an easy feature because the shared prototype must be locked down so that comments are not overwritten.
If there is a better way to do this, I would appreciate having in the shared mockups.
I recommend using Acrobat-style commenting. Yellow ? icon, when clicked on shows written details.
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Allen Demanuele commented
A feature for acquiring feedback in form of threaded comments; offering easy and convenient collaboration across team members. Would be greatly appreciated by agencies that have multiple designers working on one project as a team, and furthermore teams working remotely.
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Anonymous commented
I think adding notes (as on Photoshop) while on prototype mode is a great way to express designers ideas, metrics, animation, links to examples, and other crazy (creative) stuff that we want to communicate to developers, and that can never be covered by any software, thanks already.
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jacqui commented
I would use XD exclusively if this feature was added.
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Angel Cortes commented
Ditto for this feature. Perhaps once comments are submitted we can go to the published link and see comments pop-up as we go through the prototype.
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Tom Cooney commented
+1 for a way that clients can easily give feedback without the need for any additional software / subscription. It's the only thing currently stopping us from using xd.
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Potentially related:
* https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007/suggestions/12928284-commenting-and-making-annotations-on-shared-prototype
* https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007/suggestions/14866464-adding-comments-notes-on-design-stage (though not necessarily ones that will be visible when interacting with the shared prototype?) -
Doug Oberndorf commented
The idea is to have "tool tips" that can popup or show themselves while you are testing the app. The idea can also be for things that cause usability issues, like yes/no, on/off questions that need to be asked prior to doing something. That way, you could also share notes about things like interactivity, animations, general notes about things like color options, etc, etc, etc, while testing.
In design mode, there is a text property for text objects. You would add an additional text object for tooltip/notes to those text objects, and/or to all objects. Then there would be an option for show on active (when the art board loads), show on hover (for web), show on press/hold (for mobile), etc.
Right now, I'm replicating this with blank "info" square objects on top of my other buttons/objects, and with identical extra artboards that now contain that extra text/image/info, and extra wiring that would not be done in the app, which also looks less efficient and takes up space in the software while working.
Thanks for thinking about it!
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Thomas Hallgren commented
Extremely important to our work flow. I use XD 8-10 hours a day now.
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Timothy Sean Neville commented
I'd love to see a form of "Notes" to explain the prototype wireframe. I'd also LOVE to export all the artboards in some kind of workflow map view to see how the artboards are connected.
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Note: for adding comments while viewing a shared prototype (instead of within the XD desktop app), see https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007/suggestions/12928284-commenting-and-annotations-on-shared-prototype
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Note: for adding comments visible within the XD design tool, see https://adobexd.uservoice.com//forums/353007/suggestions/14866464-adding-comments-notes-on-design-stage
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Konrad Pitala commented
Just need some comments/notes tool similar to Acrobat's one. As I design, I have some additional ideas/comments and would like to anchor them to a given area. And then being able to hide or collapse them.
Now I tend to use a text box, which is not a perfect solution (clutters workspace). Would be great to have it under right click or something similar, even very basic note making solution would do the job.
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Anonymous commented
Hi Elaine, thanks for looking into this. I was envisioning a note/feedback capability that serves both the designer when adding descriptions to a screen when in design or prototype mode , as well as the client when viewing the screens. It'd be something like Acrobat Pro or inVision's note feature.
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Chet Tailor commented
I responded to the survey, however there should be an option as to whether the commenter would like to keep a particular comment private or public.