Adobe Xd Basics Tutorial #3 - The Welcome Screen in Xd

Key Takeaways

in this video i want to show you the start the screen of adobe xd how it looks and what it does so if you go back to here you can click open next to adobe xd and it's going to launch this which is called starter screen now start screen does many different things but basically what it does is it helps you navigate the ui quickly and it helps you understand and reach all of these things much quicker than if you didn't have this start to screen so starting from here we are home so this is your home screen you can see the plan you are on and i'm on a starter plan for this demonstration because i just want to show you that on free plan you can actually achieve majority of these things that they are located in the free plan in the paid plan sorry as well but you have some limitations and we're going to talk about them a little bit later next we have learn and this is just a learn tab from adobe xd team so you can click right there to access the tutorials and stuff like that and you can also do it by clicking on any one of these links so you can quickly jump and learn more about any one of these features next what we have is we have cloud documents now because xd is cloud-based app all of the documents which are located in your cloud and depending of which plan you have is it a free or a paid plan you will have a bigger or smaller storage in the cloud you can access them right there shared with you are cloud documents which are shared with you by your teammates clients developers whoever else and deleted are obviously the files you have deleted you can manage links because you have a single link to share on a starter plan on a free plan and you have unlimited sharing possibilities on the premium plan then you can simply manage links you can block visitors from accessing those links you can delete links you can update links you can manage them all right here as i said in the starter plan you have just one link to share and in a premium plan you have unlimited links then below that we have on your computer and you can click right here to open up photoshop or adobe illustrator files sketch files or xd files and we are going to talk about that in a separate lesson because i want to share the differences between those right here what we have are common artboard sizes so usually all of these are boards are used by majority of designers in the industry so right here on the left we have phone and tablet sizes if you click right here you can access all of the most common dimensions and as all of these devices are updated as new iphones for example come out or a new google pixel phones come out the adobe xd team is going to update them right here if they require update because sometimes these manufacturers don't update the sizes of their devices they're just using the same size for the future device they're going to launch next to that we have common web design sizes so we have 1920 we have 1366 and we have 1280 obviously there are some differences there but not that major you can choose any one of these and we're going to talk about that in the airport lesson a little bit later we have instagram story we have instagram posts so all of these are social media sizes if you're creating for social media and finally we have custom size so you can enter any kind of size you want in order to open it up and below that we have just some recent documents that we opened on this device if you didn't open anything recently then this is going to be blank until you open it as i said this is a starter plan but you can click right here to upgrade it to premium plan if you don't have it and for this demonstration i'm just going to click right here to open up this 1920x1080 size and in the next lesson we're going to talk about interface what all of this is and how to navigate your way around adobe xd so i'll see you there