Adobe XD.
Adobe XD was Remiam's primary design tool through 2018–2024 — used end-to-end for the LinkedIn talent experience, the Norton Motorcycles rebrand quiz, the Play to Win activation, the Heritage Quiz Journey, the Spin Booth, the Sprint Lane, and dozens of client systems. Adobe announced XD as no longer in active development in 2023, and the studio has migrated new work to Figma since — but historical work catalogued here was largely shipped in XD. The notes catalogue includes the studio's view on the XD-to-Figma transition.
Cinco Jotas — GastroTour
A bespoke Laravel and MySQL website hosting participating chefs, dishes, and a public voting platform for the GastroTour UK celebration of the world's most luxurious ham.
Heritage Quiz Journey
A brand-led design for a quiz experience that took visitors on a journey through history, answering questions along the way. Designed end-to-end in Adobe XD for a major UK insurance brand in 2024. Production build delivered by a separate team.
LinkedIn Talent Experience
An interactive event experience built for LinkedIn's major London talent event in 2024. Two parallel content tracks — one corporate-facing, one staff-facing — designed end-to-end in Adobe XD, content-mapped in Miro, then built as a local-first slide-and-branch system backed by MongoDB so the experience never depended on venue connectivity.
Play to Win
A QR-scanned companion website for a beat-the-clock in-store reaction game running at a flagship German retail location for a global lifestyle brand. Remiam designed the full experience in Adobe XD and built the public-facing site that visitors landed on after winning — bilingual (English + German), branded, prize-claim-ready. The physical in-store installation was delivered by a separate vendor.
Reaction Pad
A modern take on the Batak reaction-tap challenge, built for the internal events of a major global payment network. Targets light up across a 4K portrait screen, players tap them as fast as they can, scores hit a live leaderboard, and a local sync server keeps the kiosk usable even when venue wifi can't be trusted.
Speed Run
An iPad quiz Remiam designed for Norton Motorcycles' global rebrand launch in 2025. Speed determines rank — the faster the visitor answers the quiz, the higher they finish on the leaderboard. Full Adobe XD design across the welcome, quiz interactions, results, and leaderboard. Build delivered by a separate team.
Spin Booth
A camera-rig capture experience designed end-to-end in Adobe XD for a global beauty brand. The visitor stood in the centre of a rig, the camera arced around them, photos and a short video were captured and composited into a personalised output. Remiam designed every screen, every state, every output asset — the physical rig and the build itself were delivered by a separate technical partner. Toured across the UK and Ireland.
Sprint Lane
An Adobe XD design for a 100-metre sprint live activation for a global sportswear brand, deployed across Europe. Visitors ran a calibrated sprint on an on-site running machine paired with a screen displaying their pace, time, and rank — chasing their personal best and the live leaderboard. Remiam designed the visitor flow, in-run feedback, results screens, and the leaderboard end-to-end. Build delivered by a separate technical partner.
Stage Stream
A ticketing-and-live-stream platform built for a major UK schools-performance group. Families and supporters who can't make the venue in person buy a stream ticket through Stripe, watch the show live, and receive the recorded video by email afterwards. The admin backend lets the operator manage shows, venues, schools, pricing, discount codes, refunds, and customer service end-to-end. Designed once and redeployed yearly via an env switch — same codebase, new show year.
The Player Card
A multi-station live event activation Remiam built end-to-end for a sportswear-and-retail collaboration touring UK shopping malls. Visitors registered on an iPad, walked four physical challenge stations — reaction tap, vertical jump, grip strength, and football-accuracy kick — captured a portrait at the end, and walked away with a printed personalised player card scored against their attributes. A local server held the whole thing together and synced to the cloud for the leaderboard, analytics, and post-event card downloads via QR.
Tour Booth
A travelling video-and-photo booth platform built for a major globally-touring content creator. Visitors step inside the booth, record a short video and a burst of photos to the creator's music, and walk away with a QR code that unlocks their media for download and sharing. Designed end-to-end in Adobe XD and built with a stats dashboard so the team can see how the booth performed at every tour stop.
Trophy Tour
A multi-city UK activation tour built to build hype around a major football tournament. Pose-tracked keepy-uppy, an endless Mexican-wave loop where each visitor adds their wave to a growing crowd, a count-down-and-record goal celebration composited into a real goal scene, a studio-experience zone, and a Firebase-backed viewing platform where visitors could find and share their clip afterwards.
- 12 Dec 2023→
Adobe XD is gone. Figma was right.
Adobe quietly removed XD from Creative Cloud last month. Four years after we wrote a head-to-head, the answer turned out to be all of one of them. Some reflections.
- 19 Aug 2019→
Figma vs Adobe XD: a head-to-head from a working studio.
Adobe has thrown serious money at XD. Figma has thrown serious focus at design itself. We've run the same project through both this year — here's the verdict, the feature comparison, the pricing reality, and the recommendation we now give every client.