I would not expect XD to export as a functioning website, but I would expect it to be able to export a blueprint. The code they generate is terrible and hard to deal with later. So yes - all software that attempts to take a design and create a functioning website are lousy because they are attempting to take the place of a developer. Graphic artists and modelers are great for marketing departments who want to do magazine ads, but a Web Designer is a person who is a skilled graphic artist in a web environment. What you are speaking about here is the need for a Web Designer - a person. We take the design and make it dynamic, design and build service / data layers and connect it all together. We take the raw HTML / CSS and import it in to our development environment - Microsoft, Java, PHP, or whatever. Developers are the ones who make a website functional. A prototype that is not exported into raw html and css is absolutely worthless to a Dev team. That's when everyone starts laughing, because so do we. "Whaaaat? How can I do that? You can't make a building out of a picture? I need blueprints, measurements, material specs, color codes." It is a running joke in my office when a newbie associate turns in a design from XD, Photoshop, or anything else and says, "Ok developers make this in to a website now thanks!" I turn around and show them a picture of the front of our building and say, "Ok, make this in to a building please - thanks." As a manager and team lead for a group of web developers, this kind of thing always cracks me up.
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