First of all thanks for the latests updates in November – they are great 🙌

My team often struggles to find the needed character style in the assets panel. In the 'List View' you can give the fonts certain names; eg: H2 Titles 50/60 px.
image: List View

When we switch to the 'Grid View' (which portrays the components larger and thus more useful in that case), then the given name unfortunately disappears and only the font names are visible, which we can do very little with.
image: Grid View

It would be great to get this issue improved in the near future!

Below we have provided a possible solution:
character-styles_Grid-View.png

Thanks a lot!

Best regards,
Serkan Zararsız

Component states are awesome, but right now the size increase for a complex component is not scalable. After doing some testing, components appear to increase their size proportionally to the number of states.

For example if I have a Default state, create a new state and move the components, say in a mask, to do an animation the size has now doubled. Then if I copy that to a new artboard, it doubles again, because both states get carried around. Therefore what originally would have been a master with an instance in 2 separate artboards with size 2X is now size 4X because there are two instances with 2 states. Add another unused state and it is now 6X

I understand why this method would be used, but it has not been scalable for some of our work.

Any plans to address this?

When you have a layer within a group selected, then collapse the group and hide it, the group expands again.

I understand the thought behind this would be to always show the selected layer in an expanded hierarchy, but during my workflow it seems very counter-intuitive and different from the way I have been accustomed to expect adobe products to behave.

I would like to see this changed so when I have a layer selected within a group and I collapse the group and then hide it, the group stays collapsed with the group becoming the main selection instead of the sub layer, that way if you happen to forget where your selection was you at least have the group already selected and can dig through those layers.

I have a separated file for all assets and my actual project, so what I usually do is call the assets file from clouds (this is so my other team member able to use the same assets when they working on other pages).

So with the new state feature where I can add hover and other states to my buttons, I change some of my buttons in the master assets file (the one i save on clouds) and then I click update assets on my project file.

The default state is updated but not the other states (hover, inactive, etc..) Whatever changes I made to the other states in the master component file it doesn't reflect on my actual project. I need to copy-paste the master component to my project every time I make changes to the states. Imagine I have 20 buttons across 10 pages I need to copy-paste all 20 buttons to make sure the states are reflected.

Let's say we want to add a Radio Group and use our Design System Radio Button Component for that. Currently it's not possible to set one of the components to the selected state.

As a workaround we can create the list with the repeat grid, then ungroup it and change the desired item. But that can't be how it's intended to work.

ps: I feel bad for lodging a Feature Request days after you released such a great feature. It sounds lI'm ike complaining instead of being thankful - thats not the case, the component states are awesome,d thank you all for this!

I'm using the new convert sketch library in XD to import all the different libraries i have. While I appreciate the ability to add states, it has one major flaw.

I cannot create a new symbol from an existing symbol that already has the states i want in it.

A good example of this is my button system. See screenshot for how it exists in sketch now.

Basically i have 20 different types of buttons (this is an enterprise design system) each with 2 different sizes (big and small) and each of those button types comes in 5 states:

Default, hover, focus, active, and disabled.

In XD with states right now I imported the buttons in and i have to recreate each of those states for all 40 button types. Each time i create a new symbol i have to add the 5 states manually and type in the titles of those 5 states manually and then copy and past in colors and text styles manually. It's soooooo slow.

I would like the ability to either copy states to new symbol (at least the names maybe) but i would also like to create a new symbol from an existing symbol so that i can even preserve the contents of those states to make the minor tweaks needed for each new symbol.

Again, I feel this is especially relevant to those people who want to convert their design systems to XD. Thanks!