Every app ever has a top nav bar, since there is a room for it and it's convenient, and yet Xd say naaahh :D

Cmon guys, make it happen!

Thanks. We'll take a look at this when 1809 is supported.

Hi Elaine, bringing a full menu bar to XD on windows is without question top on everyone's mind. The hamburger style menu just doesn't cut for an app of this calibre. PLEASE MAKE THAT COMPROMISE, and bring us a full Menu bar on windows.

They actually can make it on top, but they don't want.
→ https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007-adobe-xd-feature-requests/suggestions/35835829-top-navigation-pane-windows

You really can make it true
And Windows UWP Guidelines allows it

https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007-adobe-xd-feature-requests/suggestions/35835829-top-navigation-pane-windows

You really can make it true
And Windows UWP Guidelines allows it
→ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/design/controls-and-patterns/navigationview

See my example.

Why is this valuable to me?
This (top menu pane) more convenient for me, and lot of other people, burger menu is painful option for all Windows users

Thank you.

I wonder why is the menu in Windows app a hamburger menu?

There is a reason for when to use a hamburger menu, and its not in a desktop app. It's cumbersome to use and requires more clicks, expecially when using plugins now.

Why not make it like every other app? Menu items on top right next to each other.

Ty, Congrats on the progress so far!

Hi Elaine.
It sounds quite strange what you are saying as in UWP there is still a control called "Navigation View"
1. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/design/controls-and-patterns/navigationview
2. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/communitytoolkit/extensions/navigationview
You can also take into consideration how the latest Ms Office apps (Word, Excel...) look like and behave in both the Desktop and the Mobile versions. Even in the mobile one, you can see a navigation menu which pops-up with options and sub-options, i.e. Insert->Pictures, Formulas->Sum, Data->Sort...etc.
Cheers,
Marian

I'm so baffled by the insistance that this is a Windows thing. The Snip Tool in windows has a top menu. Windows Explorer has a top menu. The Alarm app has a top menu. Microsoft Edge has a top menu - which is more than I can say for my other browsers. Paint 3D has a top menu - albiet a different one.

I just updated to windows 10 and these are all programs that came with it, except for my chat program.

How can it be that you're designing for windows when any number of windows programs have a top menu?

And even if you were going to insist on this fastfood menu scheme - why won't you include the same content in that menu that mac users are getting from their top menus?

It feels like some mac-fanboy decided he could make us switch by cutting us off from Xd features, but you have to know that people will just switch their software - especially when the program in question is new and entirely optional (though neat, if it weren't for this absurd issue I would really be enjoying it).

Is this really where Adobe wants to draw a line in the sand?

If you were following the standards then the Edit Object etc (all the missing items) would be in the hamburger icon, not just disappeared.

"Why can't you just also add under the damn Hamburger Menu the missing functionality people are complaining about ? Right now that hamburger is just a File menu. You are calling a bread roll with a lettuce leaf a hamburger. But there's no meat. Don't expect people to be happy. Hidden functionality is still funcitonality but missing ones are not."

To use the hamburger menu on a desktop is just plain stupidity. Why hide important tools and menus when there is enough space?? Ridiculous

I decided to give it some time before I jumped into Adobe XD and I thought the app was still in beta testing as I was using it.

I was following a tutorial where the instructor happens to be using a Mac and as he's discussing how to zoom into a specific art board, he says you can press cmd+3/ctrl+3 or you can go to View and...That's when I was pulling my hair out wondering where my top menu was, which led me to this thread.

You want to OR have to keep the hamburger menu? That's fine with me, but at least give Windows users a place for Edit, Object, and View menu items.

This seems like another lame UI concept from Microsoft. I don’t know why they hate menus so much. Menus can be very useful for discovering features. I’m glad I use a Mac and only have to teach XD on Windows.

One thing that XD promotes consistently. But there is no consistently between Mac and Windows.

We are not A-MUSE-ed I fear, sorry to say, was just putting many hours in MUSE and now I
should switch to XD CC? Is that the best way you think?
Thanks

Adobe, when do you expect to fix the Edit and Object bugs described in the comments below? Would like to start using XD but seems like it's still in Beta for the Windows 10 version

I discovered by accident this morning that holding down ctrl + L click will help move art boards around the design and prototype views.

To Adobe:

Elaine? Maybe you could include a screenshot of where in the hamburger menu we could find the object commands? I can't find them at all in Windows 10.

I usually work on a Mac however when I am in office I use my Win10 laptop and would like the same functionality/UX.

Agree with both of the comment above... There is no Object or Edit menus in Windows 10

Personally I felt like I had little control over the software, I couldn't find a preferences menu anywhere. But maybe it's me, I'm used to other adobe software, where I use the menus and shortcuts a lot, I also usually search for the regular app version instead of UWP (especially if it's fullscreen).
I'm hoping to make the jump for XD, can't wait until all the backlog features are implemented :)