Today we’re introducing a new way to create and share different design flows in Adobe XD. This new feature, Multiple Flows, will help you spend more time designing and less time doing repetitive management work.
Oftentimes (well, most of the time), you likely want to create different versions of a design to share with different people. Maybe you’re sharing early drafts with your team, or creating a few options for a client, or designing for various breakpoints, platforms, or locales. To do this, most tools force you to break your designs into multiple pages or files. If you want to use the same screens in different designs, you have to duplicate designs and constantly update to make sure they’re in sync as you make changes. That’s a lot of wasted time and effort.
In these cases, you need flexibility in how you organise your designs. You also need the right controls in place so you can share the right designs with the right audiences without any extra work. This is where Multiple Flows comes in.
Multiple Flows lets you create and share different versions of a design in the same document, all in one place. Wire together different sets of artboards and share unique links for each set. Use the same set of artboards across multiple prototypes without having to duplicate your work over and over. Make changes to your designs and update your links so that everyone is on the same page. It’s that simple.
Now, when prototyping in XD, you can set more than one “home” artboard and define flows for each one. Home artboards act as starting points for a flow where you can drag wires to connect different screens together. If you want to create another version, simply set a second home artboard and wire together your screens from there. You can use the same screens across different flows without having to duplicate over and over for each flow. You can give each flow a name to help keep you organised, such as “Sign Up” and “Log In,” or “Mobile,” “Desktop,” and “Tablet.”