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Looking for information on using Creative Cloud Libraries to create and share design systems in XD? You're in the right place!
Creative Cloud Libraries help your team to centrally manage and distribute design and brand systems assets at scale.
Start by curating your sticker sheet with a set of components and styles that constitute design and brand system in an XD cloud document. When ready to share those reusable assets with your broader team, publish your sticker sheet cloud document as a library and invite your teams, with the right set of permissions.
Once your team accept the library invitations, they can reuse assets from that library and be in sync with any future library updates.
Meet Natalia, owner of a design library
"As the owner of a design library, I want to publish my design assets and components to a library and invite others to consume the design system library."
Meet Pedro, consumer of a design library
"As the consumer of a design library, I want to seamlessly reuse the shared assets from the library and be notified when Natalia modifies them."
Sounds familiar? If you want to publish all assets and components to a library and invite others to consume your design systems from XD, look no further!
Be familiar with these concepts in XD:
To build and distribute a design system through libraries, start by curating your design system assets (colors, character styles, and components) in the Document Assets panel of your source cloud document.
Once you define your design system assets, publish those assets as a library linked to your source document. Share them with your team to reuse them consistently across all your XD projects and other Creative Cloud apps.
To publish a linked library, follow these steps:
The published library contains all the assets in the Document Assets panel of your source document.
You can add assets to a linked library only from its source document but can consume the assets in any Creative Cloud apps. If you choose Create new > Create empty library, you get a regular Creative Cloud library not linked to the cloud document. You can add assets to a regular Creative Cloud library from any Creative Cloud app.
If you are a Creative Cloud for teams or enterprise user, in addition to publishing a personal library, you maybe able to publish team libraries. Team libraries have shared ownership.
To publish a team library, follow the steps below:
To learn about team libraries and its benefits, see Creative Cloud Libraries for business.
Once you publish the library, the Share dialog will appear to help you invite your team members.
Once you invite your team members, they are prompted to accept the library invitation through an email or their Creative Cloud desktop app.
Cloud document permissions don't automatically sync with its linked library. So, when you publish a library, ensure that you invite all your document coeditors to the library with Can edit permissions.
There can only be one linked library for a cloud document. So, if you don't invite a document coeditor to your library, the coeditor can publish a new library from the same document without knowing that a library already exists. When the coeditor publishes a new library, it gets linked to the document and your original library gets delinked.
If you invite a coeditor to the library with Can view permission, the coeditor won't get an option to update the library. They will see an Up to date status in the Libraries window of the source document.
Did your original library get delinked from the source document by a coeditor? See Relink library with source document.
If you have accepted the library invite, you can start using assets from the library in XD and in other Creative Cloud apps. To use assets from the library in XD, follow the steps below:
Find your shared library
In the Libraries panel view, find your shared library.
You can choose to show some libraries in the Libraries panel view, and hide others.
Consume assets from the shared library
Click the library that you want to consume assets from.
Apply colors or character styles
You can apply colors or character styles to objects or components on canvas, and drag components to canvas that become linked assets.
View linked assets in your document
Switch to the Document Assets panel view that shows all the local and linked assets used from one or multiple libraries.
You can choose to show some libraries in the Libraries panel view and hide others:
Once you publish a library from an XD cloud document and then modify the assets in your source cloud document, XD notifies you about changes made since you last published the library in the following ways:
When you are ready to publish updates to your library, use any of these options:
Update from the in-app message
Click Update now in the in-app message that notifies you that an update is ready to be published.
Update from the Libraries manager
Click Publish as a library
in the Document Assets panel view to open the Libraries manager. Click Update to push the latest updates to your team.What happens when you update and publish libraries? Your fellow designers using those updated linked assets in their design projects receive the following notifications:
Preview updates from the Document Assets panel view or the design canvas
Hover over the blue update icon on linked colors, character styles, and components.
Update all linked colors, character styles, and components within the document
Click the blue update icon or click Update at the bottom of the Document Assets panel view.
As your document assets and libraries grow in size, you can use search and filter features.
In the Document Assets panel view, enter the search term to search for assets in your document. In the Libraries panel view, search for assets across all your active libraries.
XD provides these three filtering mechanisms to narrow down the assets that you would like to use in your project:
To experiment and change certain styles or properties for a linked asset without impacting others who are using it in their documents, you can convert your linked asset to a local asset.
If you convert a linked asset to a local asset, you no longer receive notifications to changes made to that linked asset in the library. Other XD documents with that linked asset will continue to receive updates.
Make local works when you use an asset from a library, or copy/paste a linked component across documents, or when you have a broken linked asset.
To learn about relinking a delinked library to its source document, see Relink library with source document.
If you decided that you no longer need a library, you can unpublish it from the Libraries manager. To unpublish a library:
When unpublished, any linked assets that were previously taken from this library will become broken links indicated by a red badge. You can either delete those broken assets or convert them to local assets.
XD makes it easy for you and your teams to use assets created in different Creative Cloud apps like Photoshop and Illustrator. Whether you created an inspirational library with a collection of graphics, or Adobe Stock images, or a library with a collection of reusable colors and character styles that are not linked to a source document, you can reuse those assets in XD.
When you drag graphics from libraries to your designs, they become linked graphics indicated by the badge. Any modifications made to that linked graphic in Photoshop or Illustrator will automatically update all linked graphic instances in your design. To unlink a linked graphic, click the link badge or use the context menu to unlink it.
To create a similar library in XD with a collection of colors, character styles, or graphics that are not linked to your document, in the Libraries manager, choose Create new > Create empty library.
Watch this video to learn how to work with libraries in XD.
Viewing time: 6 minutes.
We've got you started on how to publish and share libraries, take a step forward and learn how to share design specs with your developers so that they can inspect your designs.
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