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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After long search and on call with Adobe Support we manage to pinpoint an issue where setting a fill opacity breaks XD in a way that you can no longer undo any changes, nor is this file auto-saved / saved anymore.

As far as I know you can set object Fill Alpha / Opacity in 3 ways:
1. Open the fill palette, type a new alpha value into the alpha field (which begins at 100%)
2. Open the fill palette, drag up / down on the vertical opacity slider on the right of the palette (next to hue selector)
3. Open the fill palette and drag up / down on the alpha value to change it (the one that starts at 100%)

The 3rd way breaks XD so you can no longer undo any changes or save.

So reproduction steps are:
1. open new file
2. create rectangle
3. set a fill color
4. set fill opacity by dragging the 100% alpha value down
5. try to undo this change

expected: fill opacity is back at 100%
actual: nothing happens

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.