IMO, direct Design to Product platforms (like DreamWeaver and what you want Figma to be) just aren't practical in actual application to web development. The engines and libraries that these platforms have are incredibly powerful, more than what we could probably run on a consumer machine. What WebFlow/SquareSpace have done is take UI elements that a developer has taken time to make entirely reusable and customizable from the end-user side, but there's still development going on. And, most of the time you're not getting an all-in-one designer and developer. You wouldn't be able to efficiently do this in a design tool. Most website will require a lot of bespoke tinkering with a database, security, additional client-side functionality that doesn't come from just the UI elements. Adobe has tried to create what you're thinking of but it's been a pretty widespread failure. Figma/Sketch will spit out CSS (and maybe markup, not 100% sure) but that's really the extent of it. Let me know if you need an html/css tutorial for designers.
What is adobe xd used for software#
You can't just throw a rectangle and expect some software to figure it out, that you probably meant an input field :) For example a form needs an actual input field with maybe some validation too. If in Figma you can just throw some rectangles and call it a day, in HTML there are specific elements for specific cases.
What is adobe xd used for full#
But you still have to adjust the margins and sizes to finish it.Īs for the knowledge required by you to understand both stacks, you need to learn HTML and CSS before expecting to design a full website. If you don't want to start from zero after you finish your design, you can use Desech Studio to import your figma or adobe xd file and this will generate a clean html structure positioned with css grids. As for the prototyping, there's no need to do much in the web stack since you have already created pages and made links between them, so everything should just work.
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But you can't just drag elements where ever, only move them around in different containers.Īs for the styling, either you style an element in Figma or in a no code tool, it's pretty much the same, since CSS is so powerful. Desech Studio does this and so does Webflow to a certain degree. Ideally, it would be great for the design stack to not exist at all, and you can just drag around html elements and position them with css using a visual nocode tool. The javascript bit would be your prototyping where you have some animations and interactions although that maybe not be a direct correlation. The css would be the styling you add to each element like borders, backgrounds, fonts, etc. To make a connection between the 2 stacks, think of html as the design elements like rectangles and text. Then on the other side, you have the web front-end stack which consists of html, css and javascript. On one side you have the design stack where you make the website design in Figma or Adobe XD, and then you can also create the prototyping which adds interactions to the website design file. Please report any posts which break these rules, to maintain the quality of the subreddit. NO PERSONAL INFORMATION Do not publicly post personal information.