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MIGRATE YOUR DESIGN SYSTEMS TO CREATIVE CLOUD LIBRARIES
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Topics
1. Adobe XD User Guide
2. Introduction
1. What's new in Adobe XD
2. Common questions
3. Design, prototype, and share with Adobe XD
4. System requirements
1. Hardware and software requirements
2. Adobe XD, Big Sur, and Apple silicon | macOS 11
5. Workspace basics
6. Change app language in Adobe XD
7. Access UI design kits
8. Accessibility in Adobe XD
9. Keyboard shortcuts
10. Tips and tricks
11. Changes to XD Starter Plan
3. Design
1. Artboards, guides, and layers
1. Get started with artboards
2. Use guides and grids in XD
3. Create scrollable artboards
4. Work with layers
5. Create scroll groups in XD
2. Shapes, objects, and path
1. Select, resize, and rotate objects
2. Move, align, distribute, and arrange objects
3. Group, lock, duplicate, copy, and flip objects
4. Set stroke, fill, and drop shadow for objects
5. Create repeating elements
6. Create perspective designs with 3D transforms
7. Edit objects using Boolean operations
3. Text and fonts
1. Work with drawing and text tools
2. Fonts in Adobe XD
4. Components and states
1. Work with components
2. Work with nested components in Adobe XD
3. Add multiple states to components
5. Masking and effects
1. Create a mask with shapes
2. Work with blur effects in XD
3. Create and modify gradients
4. Apply blend effects
6. Layout
1. Responsive resize and constraints
2. Set fixed padding for components and groups
3. Create dynamic designs with stacks
4. Prototype
1. Create interactive prototypes
2. Animate prototypes
3. Object properties supported for auto-animate
4. Create prototypes with keyboard and gamepad
5. Create prototypes using voice commands and playback
6. Create timed transitions
7. Add overlays
8. Design voice prototypes
9. Create anchor links in Adobe XD
10. Preview designs and prototypes
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2. Share designs and prototypes
3. Work with prototypes in XD
4. Coedit documents shared with you
5. Create shareable links
6. Review prototypes
7. Work with design specs
8. Share design specs
9. Inspect design specs
10. Navigate design specs
11. Review and comment design specs
12. Export design assets
13. Export and download assets from design specs
6. Design systems
1. Design systems with Creative Cloud Libraries
2. Work with document assets in Adobe XD
3. Work with Creative Cloud Libraries in Adobe XD
4. Migrate from linked assets to Creative Cloud Libraries
5. Work with design tokens
6. Use assets from Creative Cloud Libraries
7. Cloud documents
1. Cloud documents in Adobe XD
2. Collaborate and coedit designs
8. Integrations and plugins
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2. Work with design assets from Photoshop
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5. Crash dump generation on Windows
6. Crash log collection and sharing
4. Cloud documents
1. Issues with XD cloud documents
5. Prototype, publish, and review
1. Unable to record prototype interactions on macOS Catalina
2. Issues with publish workflows
3. Published links do not appear in browsers
4. Prototypes do not render correctly in browsers
5. Unable to publish libraries
6. Import, export, and working with other apps
1. Import and export in XD
2. Photoshop files in XD
3. Illustrator files in XD
4. Export to After Effects from XD
5. Sketch files in XD
6. Third-party apps not visible in Export
WORK WITH LINKED ASSETS
The linked asset workflow that allows you to reuse colors, character styles, and
components across local and cloud documents will be supported until September
2021. Going forward, Creative Cloud Libraries will be the only way to publish
and share linked assets across documents in XD, and so you may wish to migrate
your existing design system to a Creative Cloud Library before September 2021.
CHANGES STARTING SEPTEMBER 2021
* You will no longer be able to link cloud documents to reuse assets.
* Existing local and cloud documents that have linked assets will no longer
propagate updates when edits are made to assets.
* Copying and pasting a Component that is not published to a library will
result in an unlinked copy of the component.
* Creative Cloud Libraries will be the only way to publish and share linked
assets across documents in XD.
WHY IS CREATIVE CLOUD LIBRARIES AN ALTERNATIVE?
We introduced the ability to link assets across documents to enable reuse of
components while keeping changes in sync across documents. However, design
systems are much more than just Components. It consists of different types of
assets organized in a way that makes it easy for everyone on the team to use and
contribute back to. As design systems mature, teams grow and complexity of
projects increases, teams need a more robust solution to help build consistent
experiences at scale.
To help teams with this goal, we introduced Creative Cloud Libraries in XD.
Using libraries, you can build design systems that allow you to share more than
just components.
Features
Linked Assets
Creative Cloud Libraries
Linked components across documents.
Supported
Supported
Linked colors and character styles are supported for linked assets.
Supported
Supported
Linked audio files and other asset types.
Not Supported
Supported
Invite users with view and edit permissions to a design system.
Not Supported
Supported
Publish a design system publicly for anyone to make a copy or use.
Not Supported
Supported
Gating updates when publishing changes to a library.
Not Supported
Supported
Organize your design system with groups and tokens.
Not Supported
Supported
Bridge design to development with design token and code hinting.
Not Supported
Supported
Create a library that can be shared with a team.
Not Supported
Supported
Reuse assets from other Creative Cloud apps like Photoshop and Illustrator.
Not Supported
Supported
HOW DO I MIGRATE MY LINKED ASSETS TO CREATIVE CLOUD LIBRARIES?
You can migrate your existing linked assets to Creative Cloud Libraries in a
couple of steps. Before you start the migration process, it is important to
ensure that you inform your team about this so that they don’t make edits to the
source document or the consuming documents during this period. Migrating your
design system should only take a couple of minutes.
Save your source document as a cloud document.
If the source document for your linked assets is a local document, you need to
save it as a cloud document. You can only publish a library from a cloud
document. If your source document is already a cloud document, skip to step 2.
Prepare your document to publish a library
Before publishing a library, ensure that the cloud document doesn’t contain
copies of components from another local or cloud document. If it does, make sure
to either convert them to a local component or remove them before publishing a
library. This will ensure that the library published contains assets from a
single document instead of referencing multiple documents.
Access the Libraries manager
From the Document Assets panel, click the Publish icon to open the Libraries
manager. From here, you can publish your design system as well as push updates
when you make edits to the document and want to update the library.
Publish your library
Click the Publish button to create a library that contains all your documents
assets containing the document’s assets like colors, character styles,
components and audio files.
Navigate from Document Assets panel and publish from the Libraries manager
Depending on the number of assets, publishing the library the first time might
take a few minutes. The progress indicator in the Libraries manager will
indicate when the library has finished publishing. Make sure no other editors
are actively updating the document while it's being published as a library.
Invite other to use and contribute to the library
Once the library is published, you can invite users using their email address
with either view permission or edit permission. Make sure to invite anyone who
was previously using linked assets from this document.
User with view permissions
If you invite a user with view permissions, they can use this library to reuse
the assets. They can’t make changes to the library.
User with edit permissions
If you invite a user with edit permissions, they can use and make edits to the
library. To make edits to a library, a user must have edit access to the library
and the cloud document. Make sure to invite the user to the cloud document to
edit.
Accept the invite to the Library
Users invited to the library in the previous step will be notified through an
email or in Creative Cloud desktop app about the library. Once they accept the
invitation, they can access the library from XD. It is essential that any user
who was previously using linked assets from this document to accept the
invitation to the library else the assets will show up with a broken link that’s
represented with a red badge. Once you accept the invitation, it will take a
couple of minutes for the library to sync and show up for the first time. When a
user accepts the invitation, all the linked assets should automatically be
relinked to the new library.
Test your design system
An easy way to check if you have successfully migrated your linked assets to a
library, is by opening any document that contains these linked assets. If the
user of that document has accepted the invitation to that library, the linked
assets should now be referencing the new library. If it's not then it will show
up with a red badge which indicates it is broken.
Next, ask any user with edit permissions to the library to make a change and
publish an update to the library. If other users see an update in their library
panel, it indicates you’ve successfully set up your design system with
Libraries.
MIGRATE YOUR LINKED ASSETS TO CREATIVE CLOUD LIBRARIES (VIDEO)
Here is a step-by-step video walkthrough to help migrate your existing linked
assets to Creative Cloud Libraries.
WHY DO MY ASSETS SHOW UP WITH A RED BADGE?
If your assets have a red badge, it indicates that the link is broken. You can
follow the steps below to resolve this:
* Ensure the owner of the library (previously the source document for the
linked assets) has invited you to use the new library.
* Ensure you have accepted the invitation to the library. Once you accept the
invite, the links should automatically resolve and your assets should be
linked to the library. Check for the invite in your email or Creative Cloud
desktop app.
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