Adobe XD Essential Training: Design

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Free Online Course: Adobe XD Essential Training: Design provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 3-4 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Adobe XD Essential Training: Design is taught by Dani Beaumont.

Overview
  • Create great user experiences for any size screen using Adobe XD. This course shows you how to design a wide variety of interfaces, quickly and efficiently.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome to Adobe XD: Design
    1. Exploring the User Interface
    • Creating a new document
    • Adding an artboard
    • Opening an existing document
    • Workspace layouts and panels
    • Navigating the design canvas
    • Working with the exercise files
    2. Design Basics
    • Rectangle, ellipse, and polygon tools
    • Converting shapes to paths
    • Pen tool
    • Path vs. line and outline strokes
    • Borders, fills, and dashed lines and gradients
    • Paste attributes
    • Boolean operations
    • Color controls
    3. Asset Types
    • Introduction
    • Open and roundtrip Illustrator content
    • Open and roundtrip Photoshop content
    • Placing and masking images
    • Applying blend modes
    • Working with Lottie animations
    • Working with videos
    • Audio file transitions (sneak peek)
    4. Text Controls
    • Auto width, auto height, fixed height and width
    • Character style formatting
    • Saving and overriding character styles
    5. Transform
    • Scale, rotate, flip, constrain dimensions
    • Scroll groups
    • 3D transforms
    6. Layout Techniques
    • Guides
    • Grids
    • Aligning objects
    • Paste in place
    • Navigating the layers panel
    • Repeat grid
    7. Content-Aware Layout
    • Padding
    • Stacks
    • Responsive resize
    8. Appearance and Effects
    • Eyedropper
    • Opacity
    • Fill color and gradients
    • Inner and drop shadow
    • Background blur
    9. Components and States
    • Introducing components
    • Defining a component
    • Creating component instances
    • Nesting and swapping components
    • Combining components with repeat grid
    • Defining component states
    10. Organizing Assets
    • Understanding document asset views
    • Search and filter
    • Managing sub groups
    Conclusion
    • Where to go to from here