Beginning Adobe Experience Design: Quickly Design and Prototype Websites and Mobile Apps

Description

Render high quality designs and interactive prototypes of web sites and mobile apps using Adobe XD's powerful drawing and layout tools. This bookprovides an in-depth look at XD and shows you how to quickly get up-to-speed to simplify these processes with intuitive design tools and a powerful prototyping function. Since the advent of the web, designers have struggled with the need to create functioning demo prototypes of their layouts and designs without an extensive amount of code for their clients. The dawn of mobile apps, which are exponentially more difficult to mock-up and demonstrate, has only intensified this problem. Beginning Adobe Experience Design resolves this for you with it's easy-to-use approach to leveraging XD. What You'll LearnCreate links and interactivity to see just how your site or app will function Preview your site or prototype live in a web browser or your mobile device Use Adobe XD on both Mac and Windows Who This Book Is For Web front-end designers and user experience professionals and educators interested in teaching the tool Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Overview of the Web and Mobile Design Process (Rob Huddleston)....Pages 1-5 Introduction to Adobe Experience Design (Rob Huddleston)....Pages 7-21 Using XD’s Drawing Tools (Rob Huddleston)....Pages 23-49 Working with Text (Rob Huddleston)....Pages 51-67 Working with Images (Rob Huddleston)....Pages 69-94 Creating New Pages with Artboards (Rob Huddleston)....Pages 95-103 Organizing Content Using Content Grids (Rob Huddleston)....Pages 105-142 Designing for Mobile (Rob Huddleston)....Pages 143-151 Creating Interactive Prototypes (Rob Huddleston)....Pages 153-166 Next Steps (Rob Huddleston)....Pages 167-173 Back Matter ....Pages 175-179