
Master Adobe XD from basics to interactive designs, creating beautiful websites, mobile labs, and presentations while joining a supportive community and practical exercises.
Maximize your learning in this Adobe XD masterclass by staying patient, using the free Discord community and workbooks, and following a watch-first, pause-second approach with downloadable resources.
Get started with adobe xd by downloading via creative cloud, creating an account, and starting a 1920 by 10 ad project. Explore the UI, tools, contextual panels, and layers.
Design your first social media post in Adobe XD using a supplied template, customize with Unsplash backgrounds, center the product and title, and export your artboards.
Adobe XD is a fast, lightweight ui design tool that isn't a version of Photoshop but complements it, enabling quick prototyping of websites and apps without coding.
Learn the essentials of navigating adobe xd, including artboards, boards, layers, and design mode, plus fast zoom and pan techniques to speed up web ui design.
Master efficient layer selection in Adobe XD by using control-clicking to select deep items, grouping them, and centering elements, while avoiding slower layers panel and excessive double-clicking.
Develop muscle memory in Adobe XD by practicing selecting components, using the layers panel, color picker, and eyedropper, and mastering multi-select with control and shift keys.
Discover how to bring PSD and AI files from Photoshop and Illustrator into Adobe XD, including SVG icons and scalable vector graphics, and how to handle file formats and imports.
Explore how cloud documents save Adobe XD projects automatically to the cloud, enabling safe backups, easy sharing, and multi-user collaboration, while also outlining saving locally and managing cloud documents.
Explore Adobe XD quirks, including inconsistent tool naming, dark interface not yet released, lack of tabs, no detachable panels, and a shifting release cycle, while learning to leverage its features.
Master Adobe XD as a lightweight, purpose-built design tool that opens Photoshop and Illustrator files, enables Instagram social media posts, and solidifies your UI/UX foundations through step-by-step practice.
Practice as much as possible to work faster and more effectively in Adobe XD, first watching to grasp the logic, then second viewing to dive into hands-on exercises.
Learn the best way to work with images in Adobe XD: drag photos onto shapes or the pasteboard, use responsive resize, and mask with shapes for flexible, accurate image placement.
Design a modern presentation in Adobe XD by creating and arranging rectangles, duplicating them to fill the canvas, importing photos, and refining borders, with a note on repeat grid.
Master the ellipse, polygon, and line tools in the left toolbar to create scalable shapes, from circles and avatars to stars and progress bars, using fills, borders, and rotation.
Learn to edit shapes in Adobe XD by using the subtract tool, path editing with anchor points and handles, and layer ordering to create irregular shapes and icons.
Master the Adobe XD pen tool basics, create paths with anchor points, preview bezier curves, manage symmetry lines, and add or delete anchors with undo for precise shapes.
Recreate all geometric shapes from the photo in Adobe XD by using pen, polygon, and rectangle tools; lock the image, set opacity to 25 percent, and edit points with precision.
Learn to work with text layers in Adobe XD by using point text and area text, adjusting the text box, alignment, and font styles.
Learn to work with colors and gradients in Adobe XD as a beginner: adjust fill and border, use hex codes, adjust opacity, and explore linear gradients and swatches via libraries.
Learn how to use Adobe XD's alignment tools at the top of the properties panel to quickly line up shapes, comparing single-layer versus multi-layer reference and centering on the artboard.
Master alignment tools and the grid in Adobe XD to create precise layouts on a 1920 artboard using snapping, multiple rectangles, color fills, and the distribute command to control spacing.
Create a collage in Adobe XD by arranging images from Unsplash and shapes into a precise grid, applying white borders, center-aligned typography, and optional effects to reflect your personality.
Practice recreating a bulldozer in Adobe XD using rectangle, ellipse, polygon, line, and pen tools while locking layers and adjusting borders, fills, and color.
Build a solid foundation in Adobe XD fundamentals and practice essential tools like shapes, the pen tool, grids, guides, artboard, and layers for effective prototypes.
Master exporting adobe xd artboards as pngs by exporting all or selected screens in design format, ensuring crisp, small files for sharing or web use.
Share your Adobe XD design with a design review link, enable unrestricted access, and collect all screen comments with pins, filters, and thumbnails.
Learn to design presentations in Adobe XD, export all artboards as a single PDF, and optimize canvas size for print with PNG exports for fast digital use.
Share your design with developers by creating a development link and enabling downloadable assets. Explore specs mode to view screen size, color codes, character styles, and element measurements for handover.
Shrink your PNGs and JPEGs without losing quality with TinyPNG to reduce image file sizes. Drag and drop images from Photoshop or Adobe XD to boost loading speeds and SEO.
Explore advanced features in Adobe XD, including repeat grids, the assets panel, components, and managing many artboards and projects, while practicing on small isolated cases to cement knowledge.
Leverage repeat grid in Adobe XD to quickly design repetitive content lists, including avatars, text, and star ratings, and scale and align layouts with precise spacing.
Learn how to create and manage buttons as master components in Adobe XD, generate instances and clones, and update designs efficiently using the assets and reset-to-master features.
Practice working with components in Adobe XD by creating eight button instances from a master component, exploring three styles, and exporting PNGs for web design UI and UX.
Discover how style guides, or brand guidelines, set rules for colors, fonts, and logo usage to protect a brand's identity. These controls guide designers and ensure consistent visuals across campaigns.
Learn to supercharge color use in Adobe XD by leveraging the assets panel to manage colors, highlight on canvas, rename entries, avoid duplicates, and update across artboards.
Explore character styles in the assets panel by creating a title and body text, then apply and update typography across layers for consistency and rapid design iterations.
Choose a style guide and limit colors to hues, with one action color only. Simplify the assets panel and define H1–H4, body text, quotes, lists, and links for web design.
Create a master file with colors, character styles, and components to ensure cross-product consistency across website, Android app, and iOS app, then link assets for updates.
Learn how Adobe XD's cloud document versioning lets you restore previous states, save snapshots for 30 days or forever, and sync across devices.
Collaborate in real time on cloud Adobe XD documents with co-editing, avatars, and an assets panel that speeds up team design work, even while the feature remains under development.
Develop practical Adobe XD skills by creating projects from scratch, exploring features, assets, and components, and prototyping interactive designs for web UI and UX design.
Create our first web design project in Adobe XD by transforming a blank canvas into the home page, details page, and mobile version, inspired by a blog replica.
Define a 1200-pixel active content area on a 1920 canvas, snap guides, and left-align a logo with a 40-pixel top offset beside the centered, white main menu.
Choose a consistent icon pack for social media icons, prefer circular SVG icons in a single color, and resize carefully in Adobe XD to maintain alignment and breathing room.
Design a 60px tall search bar with a 5px radius and 2px border, light gray fill, and a centered 14px poppins placeholder, plus a call-to-action up to 150px.
Build a three-column content area using repeat grid in Adobe XD, setting each column to 380px with 30px gaps, and apply Poppins bold 24 titles and regular 16 body text.
Learn to create and manage pagination through XD components, using the assets panel to configure master components, instances, borders, and responsive resizing for consistent UI elements.
Finish the product details page by resizing the grid, aligning the sidebar, and refining with guides and margins. Use the assets panel and color swatch to finalize typography and layout.
Discover how responsive design adapts websites for desktop, tablet, and mobile by resizing content and delivering device-specific versions, guided by breakpoints and a blueprint from Adobe XD designs.
Understand why website designs function as a precise blueprint for developers, detailing typography, spacing, colors, hover states, and interactions to guide handover and coding.
Adjust mobile design in Adobe XD by deleting social media icons, centering titles, resizing text, optimizing search bar and touch targets, and evaluating header filters or floating actions for usability.
Edit the mobile footer by resizing and aligning sections, centering social icons under contact us, and organizing a left-right layout that includes a newsletter section.
Convert the desktop product details page into a mobile version by copying the title, adjusting typography, refining the two-column repeat grid, and ensuring readable paragraphs with a clear download button.
Explore color variation by adjusting color scheme, typography, and layout, preview changes in the assets panel, compare two versions for client decisions, and test hover states and the call-to-action.
Experiment with typography by switching from sans to serif fonts, try options like Noto Serif Bold and Sanchez, and keep to two typefaces for a modern, cohesive UI.
Explore creating a mobile-friendly secondary menu in Adobe XD, using shapes, text labels, and repeating grids, while understanding components, clones, and versioning with cloud documents.
Learn how to wire a prototype in Adobe XD by connecting artboards, setting a home screen, and linking buttons to navigate between screens in prototype mode.
Explore Adobe XD trigger types, including tap, time, and drag, and learn how to assign them to artboards or elements to create realistic prototypes for onboarding screens and carousels.
Explore auto-animate in Adobe XD, setting up artboards with identical layer names, duplicating frames, and comparing auto-animate with transition and dissolve to achieve smooth, professional transitions.
Master auto-animate and drag interactions in Adobe XD by building a multi-artboard prototype, grouping elements, and linking states to create a swipeable credit card picker.
Use the previous artboard as a back navigation trigger in large Adobe XD projects, using prototype mode to set tap actions and large action areas across artboards.
Explore the scroll to action in prototype mode, using the scroll tool and y offset with negative values to create smooth, ease in and out scrolling with an arrow.
Explore why most animations don't make it into real projects, prioritizing functionality and budget over effects, and refine essential design details like line height for practical web design.
Assess what to animate by weighing value against effort, prioritizing essential hover states for menus, icons, and buttons, while avoiding costly animations that create developer friction and budget risk.
Explore creating hover states for social media icons and the main menu in Adobe XD by using components, default and hover states, color changes to purple, and prototype testing.
Prototype a search box in Adobe XD by creating hover and active states, a dropdown, turning layers into components, and wiring auto animate interactions for a prototype.
Create a hover state for the repeat grid in Adobe XD, using a component and a 20% black overlay with a heart icon and 12 likes as an SVG.
Master pagination and footer setup on the home page by configuring component states, hover interactions, and color consistency, then refine clones and pages for a cohesive user interface design.
Learn to use stacks to rearrange layout in Adobe XD masterclass, grouping content, choosing vertical or horizontal stacks, and adjusting spacing; create scrollable repeat grids and layouts for mobile.
Pixel-perfect execution as the first pillar of web design, learn to spot common mistakes like contrast, typography, spacing, color schemes, and layouts, and train your eye to improve projects.
Examine non-standard layouts through student design examples and learn to apply standard layout principles — header, navigation, footer, correct canvas width, and readable content.
Master practical sizing of web elements by comparing fonts and buttons using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts, and verify scales with a screenshot overlap technique to get ballpark sizes.
Apply the perfect body text formula: set line height to font size times 1.5, break text into short paragraphs with an empty line, and left-align within a readable width.
Explore how different text layers affect readability and balance, from title hierarchy and body size to line height, paragraph breaks, and capitalization choices.
Aim for maximum color contrast to keep text, headers, and buttons readable. Choose saturated hues from the color picker and keep brightness and saturation consistent, avoiding neon buttons and effects.
Explore color schemes for modern web design by analyzing saturated colors, contrast, and text readability, and learn why not to base palettes on client logos.
Analyze color choices and overlays that maximize contrast for readable, striking web design. Avoid underlining and misused shadows; champion white text on colored backgrounds and light base rectangles.
Align hero area elements precisely in adobe xd by using left alignment lines, vertical centering, proximity-based spacing, and grouping to ensure balanced, clean web design.
Learn how to choose icons that match across a design, avoid mixing icon sets, use SVG in Adobe XD, and size icons correctly for crisp, scalable web interfaces.
Explore visual balance in headers, footers, and multi-column layouts by balancing icons, a centered logo, and menus to achieve symmetry and proper spacing.
Practice web design with patience and precision, following a recipe and refining line height, contrast, breathing room, and balance. Spot execution mistakes and seek feedback in The View discord channel.
Put yourself in the client's shoes to ensure every element has a reason and aligns with pixel-perfect execution. Learn from hands-on, case study based insights, foundational for serious web design.
Craft a website with surgical precision by defining its business goal, targeting a specific audience, and presenting a clear message, headline, selling points, and a decisive call to action.
Explore the two sides—the user and the business owner—and how first impressions drive conversions, with insights on bounce rate, ad targeting, and designing for a quick, memorable experience.
Analytics guide web design decisions by measuring statistics to improve performance, understand client needs, and optimize the add-to-cart call to action, key performance indicators, and mobile versus desktop outcomes.
Explores whether web designers are obsolete due to templates and page builders. Argues designers remain essential for tailored WordPress-based solutions despite affordable, time-saving tools.
Examine four website variants from 99 designs to see why clients pick a design that fits their vision, not the overall best; learn to read briefs and align visuals.
Showcase product variety with a three-column homepage layout featuring large photos, clear titles, social proof, price, quantity, tabs for quick navigation, and dual calls to action to boost sales.
Explore a complete ecommerce checkout redesign that keeps the order summary visible, clarifies delivery options and shipping costs, and guides users to checkout confidently.
Even when the design is pixel perfect, live sites break due to coding issues, priority gaps, and edits that cascade across fonts, line height, and layout.
Explore how luxury brands use minimal design and white space to meet client needs and target audiences, guiding KPI-driven ui/ux web design.
Explore how effective landing pages use a strong headline and lead generation to convert visitors, using a clean, modern design, serif typography, and a clear get started call to action.
Explore why landing pages have a bad reputation by examining cluttered, long pages with bold claims, missing navigation, and gimmicky products that overwhelm users.
Analyze a digital product landing page that introduces the creator with a video, uses badges and a comparison table, and deploys targeted calls to action to boost sales.
Explore how A/B testing on landing pages drives conversions by comparing call-to-action buttons and forms, analyzing real-world patterns, and leveraging analytics to evolve web design.
Analyze a Photoshop course landing page to understand how every detail serves the sole goal of selling, focusing on the visitor's needs, copywriting, headlines, and credibility to reduce bounce rate.
Align your web design work to your client’s needs, choosing the right page type, whether landing page or site, and delivering what the client wants while balancing specialization and versatility.
Adobe XD is the next big thing in the design industry! Learn how to use it to create better designs, impress your work colleagues or your boss, start a new business, or charge more for your freelancing projects.
Note: Adobe XD doesn't work on Windows 7 or 8!
This training is perfect for people of all levels. It doesn't matter if you're a long-time Photoshop user, an Illustrator enthusiast or you're just getting started. Adobe XD will make you a better UI & UX designer. Here's what you'll learn:
The fundamentals of Adobe XD - how to get up and running with it;
How to use Adobe XD's advanced features;
Design beautiful UI (user interface) projects: websites, mobile apps, presentations of all sorts;
Learn how to apply UX (user experience) principles without getting overwhelmed by loads of theory;
Create interactive prototypes that will impress clients;
Help your clients make more money by making key design changes to their websites;
Who is this training program for?
Anybody that wants to learn about the next big thing in the design world;
People who are not happy with Photoshop's performance - it's so slow sometimes!
Web designers who want to make more money from their projects;
People who need to create sleek and professional presentations (forget PowerPoint!);
App designers who want to quickly create iOS or Android apps;
Developers who want a better handover process from designers;
Project managers that need interactive prototypes done fast;
If you don't have a lot of time to learn about various design programs, then this is the best course for you! Adobe XD is easy to learn and you'll see how through fun exercises and activities, you'll become proficient in no time at all!
"Get great results as fast as possible!" - that's how I've created this course. We don't waste time with boring theory. We start with the absolute basics and we work our way up, gradually, step by step. This is beginner friendly, but in the later sections advanced users will have a lot to learn too!
Important Features Included:
Course workbooks (cheat sheets): use them to get up and running fast. They contain answers to most questions, detailed explanations about certain techniques shown in the videos, and much more;
Live chat: my students frequently find me on our Discord group chat. This is a free program where you can chat with my fantastic community of students, ask questions, and get help fast. I'm regularly on there!
All the sources files are included (.xd files): this means you can easily work along and pick things up at any point
Facebook group: get access to a private group of over 7000 people who regularly share their designs, insights, and comments.