We need an easy way of organizing artboards by user flows. I have multiple projects with 100+ pages and mutliple flows within them. When you do prototypes for functional things, you can't always just make one big prototype. Due to different user roles, states, etc. They can't be connected and you end up having mutiple flows to account for when you go to publish. Its all a big pain to manage.

My current workaround is to visually group my artboards together and put a big label above them for identification (see screenshot). I then add a "table of contents" menu screen as my home. It has links to all the various flows as well as shortcuts to key points within those flow that we'll likely need to re-visit for discussion.

This help, but is all very manual, and still a pain. Moving whole flows around is unwieldly and I have to make sure to keep my TOC screen up to date or clients wont be able to get to everything they need to.

Simply being able to group and label artboards by user flow or have the ability to add multiple "flow tabs" in a file would be very helpful. These could also then be used to auto-generate a basic table of contents to help users navigate the various prototype flows. Adding shortcuts to key points in those flows could be done by simply flagging artboards in a similar manner as marking them as "home."

Does this make sense or do I need to explain further?

Hello,

I love Adobe Experience Design but I something find myself overwhelmed while working (because I like to organize certain stuff in certain ways). For that I thought about a solution that may help others too.

Publishing without linking (I'm currently working on a project and I have to do changes pretty often because I have to add/replace/change pages and locations and I have to start re-linking everything a lot)
Publish only the "checked" artboards (for example, I want to publish only the homepage and login page, but for now, in order to do that I have to link only those 2 and if I already have 15 artboards linked I have to unlink them).
Publish the "checked" artboards in a certain order (like in Illustrator, it doesn't matter where they are on the canvas, as long as you have them organized in the artboards panel)

Sorry if I'm not coherent, it's 1 AM where I live and it's been a long day.

Any feedback, comments & recommendations are welcomed.

Hope the picture helps.

Thank you.

As you're aware, comments/pins can be applied to a prototype once a link has been generated. However, if a new link has been generated since the previously generated link, then the previously applied pins are erased. When generating a new link, introducing an option which allows the user to carry the pins over to the new link would be very useful feature.

Duplicating or resaving a document does not retain the comments/pins.

Perhaps having the option to apply comments directly within XD could be the way forward. This would allow the creator of the document to add notes, or even flesh out rationale to support the design before passing over to clients or devs.

I'm often designing for multiple user flows, and thought it would be nice to use the multiple share links feature to share separate links for each flow from the same file. It's dope that this can be done!

However, it's tedious and difficult to a) remember which home screen is attached to which shared link, and b) remember which screens were used in which share link. Sometimes one screen from one "flow" will link to another screen in a different "flow," for example, which makes it hard to deal with. Especially when making simple screen updates it's a lot of work to just update a thing I've already shared.

It'd be awesome if when you switched share links in the panel if it re-highlighted / remembered the screens attached to that link, and which were home. Yes, I could split flows into separate files...but dang, it'd be convenient if those headaches were just made easy.

As a Designer I want to create links that will not change during the project for iOS, Web and Android.

I want to be able to update all (iOS, Web, Android) in one click.
I want to be able to generate a single link for both prototype and specs; all should be updated in one click.

In such case, the links should not be changed but stay the same.

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Why is this valuable to you?
Because when designing both iOS and Android applications from one XD file I cannot manage/update 2 spec links at the same time, and have to re-generate one of the 2 links when wanting to publish updates.

If possible, an image or movie to help us understand what you’re talking about
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Sometimes I need to get a prototype shared with devs so they can start working on some small piece of the software before I'm done, and to allow time for comments etc in my fast-paced work environment. I often find myself needing to share prototypes before I've started to make them interactive, when they're just in very early stages (sometimes just to show progress, sometime so devs can get a head start on basic styling / layout). However, right now the app won't allow me to share a prototype that has no interactions. This means I have to either add a bogus interaction that does nothing (silly) or export an image (not helpful, devs need specs). It would be nice if you didn't try to force us into your idea of the ideal workflow, and instead let us decide when to share our prototypes.

I used to cycle intensively and seamlessly between the Design and Prototype tabs with CTRT+TAB. Hundreds of time a day. It was easy, logical, productive.

But now the Share tab came alongside them. While sharing is crucial, it is not designing. Using CTRL+TAB now forces me constantly through the sharing mode, followed by an extra CTRL+TAB. Hundreds of time a day. It is pure repetitive noise for me.

I suggest any of these 2 simple solutions:

1 - Adding a direct shortcut for the tabs (eg: OPTION+1, OPTION+2, OPTION+3);

2 - Removing the Share mode as a tab alongside the design tabs, leaving them two in the original powerful toggle;

I have already posted and voted on similar issues, and I can only hope that someone at Adobe could simply test the use case of switching tabs with CTRL+TAB while designing.

https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007-adobe-xd-feature-requests/suggestions/38959957-remove-share-in-keyboard-shortcut-when-tabbing-bet

https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007-adobe-xd-feature-requests/suggestions/38960050-ctrl-shift-tab-should-navigate-to-previous-mod