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Adobe Experience Design – Review

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tl;dr? A summary and pros and cons list can be found at the end of this article plus some useful shortcuts.

The German version of this article is published here.

What is Adobe Experience Design?

It’s Adobe’s missing piece for rapid prototyping of interactive wireframes and simple sharing of those. Design some screens for your app, pull some arrows between them to define interaction, check your work in the preview mode, share the link and do a live demo directly on your phone. The workflow is surprisingly easy.

The tool is currently available for Mac only in version 0.5.2. It’s a preview, hence we will be lenient and wait for features like layers and scrollable boxes.

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Wireframe-Tools

| Nicole Charlier

[This is the english translation of the german article Wireframe-Tools]

Motivation: Reaching UI agility

One of the main goals of agile development is to improve the reaction to changes. Changing UI is expensive in term of time and resources. Indeed, UI changes do not only impact the UI layer, but may also require not planned features and architectural changes. To avoid too late changes, we propose, to our customers, prototypes of applications, tangible regarding interactions and UI design. Those prototypes are developed early in the development process, and so open discussion about the final UI.
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