Adobe InDesign Reviews: 4.6/5 — Highly Rated

This software is intuitive, and easy to use. I use it mostly for presentation materials, and I love that you can link Photoshop files directly into Indesign.

It's easy to forget to update links, it would be nice to have more warnings or notifications when links need updated.

Indesign is perfect for presentation layouts.

Clear learning curve, easy to use quickly. Good amount of customization

Some basic options in other programs are more difficult to find/use, like spell check

Create booklets and print boards for client use, Indesign allows for easy customization and a high level of precision

While InDesign does have a bit of a learning curve, once you familiarize yourself with the menus and layout of the tools on hand, it is so invaluable to design processes. And there's simply no beating the compatibility with the other Adobe products. In fact, if you have any experience at all with other Adobe products such as PhotoShop or LightRoom, the learning curve for InDesign lessens dramatically. This is my favorite tool to use for laying out and organizing designs.

As great as InDesign is, it is unfortunately not an industry standard here in Silicon Valley. For that reason alone, it can be kind of a pain to use, as many people don't actually have this software installed.

We use Adobe InDesign for a few steps in our design process, most notably simply laying out designs for a page. The main benefit is that it is incredibly easy to use and is a software that is typically easy to obtain since many companies already have overarching license agreements with Adobe.

Intuitive software once you get the hang of it, accessible for book design, more freedom in design, great range of typefaces

While it IS intuitive, there is definitely a learning curve for beginners

Layout design for print issue in 2017

Adobe Indesign is user-friendly and very easy to learn. It works well for designing advertisement templates, magazines, newspapers, etc.

There are a few hidden tools that are useful but may take some practice to find.

Designing templates takes way less time than before, and the results are more precise and professional.

InDesign is a great platform for creating and editing large print documents. The master template feature makes it easy to create several templates for the same types of publications. InDesign also does a great job of accepting images and files from other Adobe products, such as Illustrator and Photoshop. The program is easy to learn and offers a lot of great features!

I honestly don't have any dislikes about this program. At least for what we use it for in our workplace.

In our business, we use Adobe InDesign to print out our catalogs, guides, brochures, etc for our students, staff, and schools.

I like how easy it is to make design using InDesign.

After the update sometimes my library doesnt sync.

I create a lot of things using InDesign. I make flyers, manuals and other things.

I love that you can save time and work by creating master pages and adding to them as you go.

It is such a complex program, it is difficult to get acquainted with in a busy work setting.

I create nearly all of my graphics with InDesign now. It saves me tons of time I would have spent designing page by page in Photoshop.

I primarily use the software to make my resumes and flyers. In terms of using it for resume writing, it really helps your document stand out from everyone else using the standard word templates. I have gotten comments on it in inteviews and everything.

how much it costs. It really breaks the bank, especially because I only use the software a handful of times a month. If Adbobe could make a cheap package like they do with photoshop that would be amazing.

I use Indesign to make my documents feel less generic than they done in Microsoft Word. LIke mentioned before, I am able to create a unique professional looking resume with ease without dealing with the nightmare that is Microsoft Word.

Great for large documents. Master pages and styles are so useful. It's a pretty complex software to use, but once you learn the ins and outs, it is really nice. I think they have definitely improved the software over time, although I doubt that I have utilized it to it's full potential.

Tools that indesign shares with illustrator need to be the same and in the same location. Nested styles could be easier to setup and use. The ability to completely turn unused setting off with ease would be nice.

Layout, styling, large document setup and publishing. We use indesign for a variety of documents and most single page layouts. It is incredibly quick and useful.

Easy to use and makes all of your presentations look great and professional.

I don't have any dislikes at this time. I find it easy to work with and quite professional.

I do all my flyers and brochures in indesign. I have also designed my professional portfolio with it and it came out FABULOUS

the ability to crop photos in the design process.

sometimes the page spread preview is hard to understand

I do all my tear sheets for my clients in this program

The ability to create professional looking collateral with ease

Learning curve to use the tool, it is not particularly intuitive

The ability to design brochures, invitations, and event materials in-house, saving us tons of money

the new functionality around changing page sizes within one document, making alternative layouts and the quick export features

it doesn't play nice with imported images from Photoshop & Illustrator (esp better integration with the CC Libraries). I think they need to improve the way you preview EPS files as well.

designing templates for sales presentations, RFPs and product tear sheets. It's also critical for designing name badges and using the mail merge tools

I love that InDesign files are small and they have pre set sizes for print and web

Updating links and fonts can be a pain sometimes.

Print materials, Web banners, social media

Indesign allows me the flexibility to work in the office or at home. I enjoy the versatility of being able to use it for a multitude of work tasks, but also being able to use it for simple, personal things such as resume building or design. I have used InDesign to create a number of different documents, with a wide range of purposes. Everything from promotional materials like posters and pamphlets, to creating a number of different chapbooks, including one that was sent to the printers and published--all of which I wolud not have been able to do without InDesign software.

Like many products, it comes with occasional crashing. This doesn't happen too often, but when it does, it can becomes really daunting to recreate everything that was lost in the original crash.

Adobe is helping solve business problems that mostly deal with a lack of visual representation that is attention grabbing. By using InDesign for creating posters, flyers, brochures, etc., it makes business more streamlined and more appealing to the eye.

I love how easy it is to use, clicking and dragging elements and resizing is a breeze.

I’m not fond of the learning curve which can be a not as easy as other Adobe Products to use.

Used it to set up materials for printing such as books and advertisement.

InDesign is by far the easiest to use for creating catalogs, books, letters, etc.

It gets pretty cluttered when it comes to designing things like catalogs that include photos of products and what not. The bounding boxes on objects get pretty tiring on the eyes after a week of working on a certain catalog.

Most of our work with InDesign is done to create catalogs for products and letterheads for clients. The anchored pages help a bit and the ease of drag and dropping different objects is nice. I do wish resizing images wasn't such a difficult shortkey, because I swear that alone just seems like a flawed UX idea.

You can easily update a booklet as artwork can be linked

interactive pdf format is limited and receiver of such document could have a hard time opening it

I use it mainly to create rendering package to present proposed exhibit design concept. I use it mainly for the uniformed layout for my projects, and how fast it is to create a booklet.

I love all of the possibilities with InDesign. You can accomplish so much. I like to use it for designing magazine spreads and laying out pages.

It's not intuitive software to use. I had to watch tutorials and attend seminars before I felt like I was using it effectively, and there are still so many things to learn.

Designing attractive magazine spreads for my subscribers

I liked that I could do basic design work on my own without needing to watch videos to instruct me. I then used youtube to start learning how to make the designs more creative and learn how to layer. A beginner can definitely use this and learn slowly how to design themselves.

For a beginner, there are a million features that I would never use. I wish they had a more basic InDesign program for beginners that was a different price point.

We used this to design our own newspaper and menu for a small business. We could really put our own spin and feel of design into our work.

I love the entire program, but I especially enjoy the fact that it can package files for you!

Sometimes the program crashes, which is not fun.

We use InDesign daily, for almost every single design application possible.

It is great for books and layouts, uses gridlines and templates that help align materials

There isn't much I don't like, it is easy to use and increases productivity

Marketing books and posters, starting to use it instead of powerpoint

Ease of use in exporting large documents. Ease of use in adding in multiple photos and graphics without slowing down the file. User interface.

I don't really think I have anything I dislike about the program. CC2018 has a few minor crashes when handling larger (100+) page documents, but beyond that.

Catalogs - both large and small catalogs. Flyers Programs for Races Larger PDF Documents, whether in house or out.

I can use it to design ANYTHING not just print but digital design as well.

There isn't really anything I dislike in the product, but I do dislike the required subscription model pricing now.

I produce all of our company's collateral using InDesign, both print and digital (banner ads, etc).

I love the ease of use and simplicity without laying out large publications. Indesign is much more intuitive than photoshop and does not require the same level of education to use the program.

The only thing I dislike has more to do with my lack of knowledge than the program itself. I often "wish I could do certain things," only to find out I actually can.

I use Indesign on a daily basis for laying out everything from large magazines to simple posters and business cards.

InDesign is the easiest (in my opinion) application out of all the Adobe software products. If you understand how print and online page layouts are structured and how to design them, InDesign is a piece of cake. It's great for anything you could dream of in the world of print and online page design.

It annoys me when the default measurement setting is not set to inches (I know, how American of me). This is an easy fix, but it gets me every time. The main thing I "dislike" is the price of InDesign. I also dislike that links often have to be packaged in a folder for an entire project when the file is transferred or opened on another device. If it's not packaged every single time – I lose my links. And while packaging it's annoying that I can't save a new file as the same name as an old file. I'm doing it on purpose because I want to replace an old file with an updated version. Instead, InDesign insists I choose a different file name. I'm sure there's better ways around this, I just haven't found one yet for myself that I find easy enough.

I use InDesign for newspaper design, magazine design, web design, posters, flyers, brochures, tickets, etc. Often times I'm using InDesign to recreate or put a twist on the designs for just about everything. InDesign is by far the best software I've used for this.

Adobe InDesign, like most of the rest of Adobe suite, has become an indispensable part of our workflow. Integrations across the rest of the suite, native support for vector graphics, and its ability to handle very large documents while remaining very stable is fantastic.

I'm not a huge fan of the fact that the keyboard shortcuts and toolset in InDesign are different than that of Photoshop and Illustrator. I think it would be to the user's ultimate benefit to have consistent keyboard shortcuts, especially for things like undo and redo

Adobe InDesign is how we publish our quarterly magazine, design our print material, and create virtually every item that is printed. Our operation would come to a halt without InDesign.

I love that everything works very grid-like. It is a great program for any type of layout design or to use to set up for printing.

I wish that it could be combined with Adobe Illustrator so that you could more easily draw and do creative things.

I use it for almost every one of my design projects/tasks and I've realized that the benefit is that if I'm working with a multi paged project, it becomes very user-friendly.

Freedom to create, customize, organize and share my workspace. InDesign works so fluidly with elements from Illustrator and Photoshop.

I dislike the limitations in the color swatches. There are less ways and more obstacles in coloring my artwork compared to Illustrator, so I'll create my objects there and import them into InDesign.

InDesign is responsible for all of our printed materials and is by far the best stepping stone for someone learning graphic design.