Adobe XD gives you the opportunity to design UI / UX and make prototypes simultaneously. Various third party plugins are one of the best features of Adobe XD. The list of Adobe XD plugins continues to grow as Adobe XD developers provide updates on the latest features which provide a better design workflow.
Many developments have been made in the latest Adobe XD plugins to enhance usability and efficiency of design work. Various plugins available will help you make UI / UX designs better and save time. In this article, I have listed the best plugins for Adobe XD.
This plugin will give you Lorem Ipsum dummy text. It is suitable for those of you who are confused filling the text content in your design. To use this plugin you must select the area of the text you want to change to Lorem Ipsum and adjust the area of the text you want to fill in.
Because looking for photos of people for design purposes is very time-consuming, UI Faces allows you to add avatars or photos of people into your designs without having to search them on various stock photo provider websites.
You only need to make a few shapes that will be used as avatars, select the shape and open UI Face in the list of plugins. Then you can set parameters ranging from image size, photo source, age, gender, hair color, and emotions in the photo. Click apply and wait until the process is complete.
There are many plugins that have a variety of amazing features, but make sure you install this one plugin. It does things like finding and replacing text in the design, swapping positions between two selected items, clearing all redundant groups, exchanging fill colors with borders on selected shape layers, masking photos of unsplash, and filling dummy text instantly.
One of the best plugins, Artboard Plus will allow you to arrange multiple artboards into a grid, create artboards based on the design elements you selected, sort artboards based on the A-Z name and vice versa.
The function of the Rename It plugin is to rename several layers and artboards together, i.e. change the layer names in sequence with additional numbers, layer sizes, and alphabet. A search feature is available that makes you not have to spend time searching for the artboard or layer you want to rename.
This plugin will help you to change your design into developer mode so that developers can see measurements, export assets and even export CSS and HTML code from the designs that you have created. Zeplin makes Adobe XD a design application that supports the development process.
The function of this plugin is to create visualization data in the form of line charts, bar charts and donuts. All shapes in the visualization produced by VizzyCharts can be edited directly within Adobe XD. This plugin will be very useful if you compete on UI design challenges
This plugin will help you to create confetti patterns using whatever shape you want. You can adjust how many columns and rows of the desired confetti pattern. Randomly adjust opacity, rotation and scale, depth of field, blur features and even make confetti patterns with several colors at once.
This is a plugin that will help you send XD design assets to the board, list or card that is on your Trello account. The way to do so is easy, you just need to choose which assets to import, then select Trello in the plugin manager, select the board, list or card you want, click next and select the file format and size, then click next and click add selection to card.
Usually you need to use a mockup file in Photoshop to be able to create your design file in presentation format. With the Angle plugin, you can directly make design presentations inside the Adobe XD application. Angle has hundreds of popular mockup devices today and with various presentation angles will certainly produce a very interesting presentation format.
This plugin helps you explore colors further as well as editing functions in Photoshop. You can edit brightness, hue and alpha. So your Adobe XD will be equivalent to Photoshop in terms of color editing and you can also make presets of the color settings you have made, so that you can use them again later.
This is a type of plugin that can cover crucial deficiencies of Adobe XD in terms of export files. With this plugin, you can export design assets on a 2x or 3x scale and now Adobe XD is equivalent to Sketch in terms of export files.
This plugin will help you change the content in repeat grids, resize repeat grids and reorder features. You can change the contents of various categories such as an address, date, name, phone number, company, and others. There are also features to import the best images from unsplash that can be used for avatars and other purposes.
The number of Adobe XD plugins will continue to grow and one day Adobe XD will become the most popular design application in the world. In this article, I have explained several plugins that can help you in UI / UX design in UI design challenges in the Topcoder community. Hopefully, this article can be useful for you.