I want to be able to add some floating elements and animate them, instead of create a whole new artboard (even if it's a copy-paste), something like a drop down menu, or a button for customer support or something like that. to create a solid design instead of using entire artboards. A lot of designers making SPA will appreciate that.

The latest Adobe XD CC January update enables 3rd party integration. To add advanced, customized on-screen (micro)interactions to your Adobe XD designs, you can make use of ProtoPie.

ProtoPie enables you to import and re-import your designs from Adobe XD into ProtoPie seamlessly and create high-fidelity sensor-aided interaction for single on-screen elements.

https://protopie.io/with/adobe-xd-cc/

To make advanced, customized on-screen interactions, you can make use of ProtoPie and its Adobe XD CC integration to import your designs into ProtoPie seamlessly and realize what you requested.

https://protopie.io/with/adobe-xd-cc/

I am a beta tester for the upcoming "Invision Studio" and they are implementing advanced animation features. (not just the presets on prototype mode that XD has) I'm talking about individual elements animation, micro-interactions and explicit motion controls etc.

Adobe is the owner of some of the best Animation tools that have ever existed: Adobe After effects, Adobe Animate (formerly Flash) and don't forget about Adobe edge animate.

Yet for some unexplainable reason Adobe has not taken advantage of the Potential integration benefits.

Ideally Adobe XD should have an "Animate mode" where the most useful features for UI/UX design from adobe Aftereffects, Adobe Animate and Adobe edge Animate would collide beautifully to make Adobe XD turn into the masterpiece is ought to be.

But at the bare minimum. We should be able to import our XD files into these of tools and/or vice versa to then be able to create the animations we need without having to go back to PS/UI/Ae workflow or worse we may end up switching to Sketch+Flinto/principle/hype.

We want transition / animation of any particular object. Not just the pages but also every single element.
Thus, the workflow will be much more better. This function will help us to get rid of the annoying workout in after effects or any animation software for animation prototyping. We will be able to complete all the UI/UX design and prototyping with custom animation in adobe XD only. This will be a life saver.
We are waiting for this feature...

Invision Studio looks like they already have it! And there's a plugin for Sketch - https://timeline.animaapp.com/

Will Adobe XD have one too?

A more detailed explanation of the idea:
It's basically like Photoshop. You have a blank canvas and then you can start designing. Add a play button you found on the internet and give it the ability to make the video play and add another state of the play button; the pause button when you click on the play button your own pause icon will appear. And you can add all kinds of things. 15 seconds forward button, 15 seconds backwards button, full screen to a little screen in the corner of your screen (like in YouTube).

But with this I do not just mean video players and music players (same idea as the video player but playing audio and displaying album art). Next to these two things add things like swiping one certain object or a group of objects leading to an action (not going to another screen). Make an icon bounce or whatever when you click on it, you know? Those kind of things that Adobe XD lacks.

You probably wonder why the title says Interactive Prototyping and then I put it under 01: Design mode. You'll see why.

I think Adobe XD should add the ability to design other elements in your design apart from the missing option to even add video's to you designs I think Adobe should make it so you can customize the whole video player (or music play, or whatever).

Let me explain. You have a blank space where you can put the video. Then you can add a timeline to scrub to the video and customize it to your likes, then you can add a play button anywhere on the screen (you could place it in the bottom and make it go away after a few seconds or leave it there. You get the idea. Just that you can make you can designs even more interactive because in the end of the day you want to present a prototype as close to the final version as possible so Adobe go put some more people in the XD team and get to work.

BTW, I think Adobe XD definitely has the potential to become the new Sketch but it lacks so many things that they should really hurry up. Right now it's a fresh app but if it takes any longer people will not switch.

neeeeed now!

OMG that's real that XD didn't have this feature yet? Please update this feature as soon as possible. Without microinteraction, the "prototype" now is so useless. It's 2018 now... Hope this can be updated as soon as possible

when this feature will start?

Can't believe this feature is not implemented yet ... still need to use invision to animate prototype :(

I support this request. Without microinteractions, the only way to illustrate a modal appearing (for example) is to duplicate an artboard (one with the modal, one without). This feature would give XD the edge over other UX Design tools.

Although XD is a very simple to use application, I don't think we can achieve great results since interactivity is limited to artboard links only. With a little more time we can do very beautiful prototypes with dreamweaver, animate or even Indesign, it is not very hard to change between screens.

Animation is a key for a good user experience. Adding Microinteractions that are not transitions between artboards is a key. Moving from one artboard to the other with some animation is not enough. If you want to win you should create a product that has Sketch+Principle (protoPie) features into one.

i think that adding individual interaction animations within a page will help this software to be a true UX tools like Invision and proto.io. Ability to create sliders, accordions, animations of elements, and morphing animation

It must have animation features, shouldn't be like super fancy just fade in out or move just like CSS or CSS animation capabilities eg: transform and opacity property. ( moving to 200px etc )

If at least that is implemented it would rock more than UXPin

Just show and animate a piece of the prototype and not be forced to scroll down to see the result.

Example: I want to click to a "more pictures/videos/articles" button to show more thumbnails and the animation forces me to scroll down all the desktop page to see the result.

We really need more animation options like Framer!

Animation support to show how animated menus, transitions, galleries, smooth scrolling, page motions and background animations will work, are essential to be able to quickly explain interactions, gestures and layout to both coworkers and clients. Animations are now a must for UX/UI design.

To be animate different elements to make UX Prototypes far easier than using Adobe After effects