Ability to change individual item colors in repeated groups, in the same way you can change text. Perhaps with a similar system of dropping a text file of hex values to change them.

Alternatively, the ability to have component states be different within repeated groups would be helpful.

For example, I have a health meter in a table, shows a heart in red, yellow, or green. I can have each as a component state and in a repeated grid, select the individual items I want to change for variation WITHOUT having to ungroup. I'm forced to ungroup all the time, and I do this often.

I saw there are already several feature requests about variables, but none of them seemed to be exactly the same.

I seem to spend quite some time placing elements on the screen to ensure distances between them are just like we want them.
Lets say for instance that the page is divided into sections, and each section starts with a Headline. The headline has a 80px margin to the top of the section. After the section content, there is again a 80px margin to the bottom of the section.
It would be great if this value (80px) could be a variable of some sort.

A use case:
I make the mockup. I show it to the product owners and they say: "Great, but we feel the sections could use a little bit more padding.
So i have to go through the whole design and manually position the elements gain so these 80px margins becomes 100px.

This could apply to a lot of different things.
I imagine it to work much like the "color variables", to have a section on the left panel.
We could create a variable and assign it a value, for example create variable "section padding" and assign it "80).
Then inside our section when we create the headline inside the section we could use this value on the position.

In CSS we can use Custom Properties, and using this variables really makes a big difference. I would love if we could bring some of that goodness to XD!
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Hi -

I'm new to XD, but think I'm getting the hang of toggling between files that are open - since there are no pages as there are in Sketch. I like your Command + ~ keyboard shortcut very much for accomplishing this.

However, what I don't like is when a project file window is maximized, you can't execute the command, I believe - only when projects you are toggling between are in more reduced windows frames.

I maximize my projects for size, to be able to see more of the contents of a project. So, giving me such functionality - only to essentially take it away - is frustrating.

Can you review this and make it better?

Thanks!

When working with linked components, there are often times when individual components will 'mysteriously' not allow operations like delete, make local, etc.
This is usually because the selected component is a sub-component another compound components.
The process of finding out which other components in the library depend on the selected components is difficult even for the designer who created the components. It's nearly impossible for collaborators.

If a function like "Show Dependencies" were added to the right-click context menu of components that fall into this category, it would be much easier to manage.

I envision this feature as filtering the visible assets to display only components related to the selected component or components as parent or child with icons that represent the nature of the relationships.

On macOS, notifications come from right to left right below the menu bar on the top right. This means that whenever you get a notification, the preview button and the surrounding interactions are covered.

It's of course frustrating that you ever so often need to close notifications to interact with the preview button. And what's really frustrating is all those times when you are about to click on the preview button, but a notification suddenly gets inbetween and you accidentally open upp Messages, Calendar, Slack or any other app that you got a notification from instead of previewing your design.

There's got to be a better way to place those interactions.

When I create an artboard it adds a default name with some type of long hyphen character. This character has problems with other applications. For example, Windows doesn't really like it. It causes artboard export to crap out sometimes. Gmail doesn't like it because when I export a mobile design and gmail it to myself to view on phone (cause I want to), my device sometimes doesn't want to download the attachment. If I change the hyphen, it works. As a user, I don't really care if it's Windows or Gmail or my phone, it's just unnecessary headache. And you can stick any hyphen you want in there, or just no hyphen at all! So would be great to change it. In any case, generally great software otherwise. Thank you very much.

Literally, Figma, Framer, Sketch, InVision Studio and whole lots of others have this.

It lets you resize a Group or Frame, without messing it's child layers Constraints, Positions and Responsive Design. Kind of like an override for resizing Frames / Groups.

Just implement it just like them : Cmd / Ctrl + Resize on any direction.

Basically for quickly masking child layers inside a Group, without really needing a Mask layer (which sometimes doesn't work to be inside, if your Group is with Stacks)

Also to make the Prototyping on the Canvas much neater, for Drag Groups that goes beyond the boundaries of the Artboard. Look at the screenshot for reference