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PWAs

DON’T SWITCH STREAMS

Would it be true to say that there are two

types of progressive web apps (PWAs)

emerging? For example: older websites

that are progressively enhanced with

things like offline/push notifications; and

single-page applications developed more

recently that are intentionally built as

PWAs from day one.

Calum Ryan, Tonbridge, UK

AR: I think that’s about right, although

I also think the landscape will get more

complex this year thanks to Streams.

Streams enable us to start doing

‘template stitching’ on the client side,

How is Adobe XD going to be developed this year?

Hemali Tanna, Mumbia, India

QUESTION OF THE MONTH

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Practical

advice from

industry experts

ELAINE CHAO

Elaine is a product

manager at Adobe

working on Adobe XD CC,

the all-in-one UX/UI

solution for designing and

prototyping mobile apps and websites.

She’s the author of the popular Adobe XD

pro tips series on Twitter.

w: gotspit.com

t: @elainecchao

ALEX RUSSELL

Alex is a web developer

working on Chrome, Blink,

and the Web Platform at

Google and serves on

ECMA TC39, the

standards body for JavaScript. He’s also an

elected member of the W3C Technical

Architecture Group.

w: infrequently.org

t: @slightlylate

THIS MONTH FEATURING...

EC: We have a lot of new functionality in the pipeline for the next six months and

beyond. Adobe XD is constantly growing and evolving and our monthly releases mean

that you’ll be able to use new features as soon as they’re ready. If I were to categorise

the two types of features we’re focused on in the next six months, I’d say increasing

both productivity and expressiveness.

Productivity features like the introduction of linked colours and symbols through

the Assets panel increase the speed of your design process. And additional changes –

such as adding support for math operators in our Property Inspector values – will

enable you to truly design at the speed of thought.

Additionally, we’re heavily investing in increasing the expressiveness of both design

and prototyping features (see panel). Finally, we’re also looking at deeper integrations

with other applications within the Creative Cloud, focusing on Photoshop and

Illustrator. We know we’re part of a larger ecosystem and are working on ways to bring

the entire family of applications closer together.

As competition hots up in the prototyping tools space, Adobe XD is refusing to rest on its laurels in 2018