Introduction to Adobe XD
Course 1 - Getting Started and Exploring Adobe XD: Basic Design Functions
By Ethan Parry , UX Designer and Researcher
Joined December 2016
About the video: Basic Design Functions
Overview
“In this lesson, I will teach you how to draw shapes, edit colors, and add text.”
In this video lesson Ethan Parry addresses the topic: Basic Design Functions, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 1 - Getting Started and Exploring Adobe XD. Get to grips with the software’s tools and features.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, I will show you how to create shapes, edit colors, and change text. Let's start designing. Here I have an artboard. I'm going to go ahead and say, loading screen, for example, give it a name so we can stay organized. I need to make sure that I'm in design mode. If you're in either prototype mode or share mode on accident, All you need to do is click design. Now, as a reminder, here on the left, we have our selection tool. Our rectangle tool, ellipse tool. polygon tool. line tool, pen tool, text tool. and artboard tool. And Zoom. as well. So let's start playing around with so...”
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Course summary for: Course 1 - Getting Started and Exploring Adobe XD

Ethan Parry
By Ethan Parry
Ethan’s interest in UX started when working in public relations in San Francisco, taking part in Adobe’s largest Creative Cloud launch in 2015 and working with Silicon Valley’s biggest players in tech. After completing a UX Design boot camp program, he decided to further his knowledge in the field and study a master’s degree in Interaction Design at ELISAVA School of Design and Engineering in Barcelona, Spain.
Since then, Ethan has worked in both agency and consultancy settings, for international clients such as Meliá Hotels International, SEAT, and Dunia. He leads workshops for businesses such as KPMG, Accenture, El Corte Inglés, and Hola Magazine, and is part of the European Adobe XD team (Adobe XDI).
Over the past few years, he has been part of the Interaction Design Association’s Interaction Awards committee, which recognizes and celebrates examples of excellence in Interaction Design across domains, channels, environments and cultures, and teaches UX design and Agile methodology topics at several design universities and boot camps in Barcelona.
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