Customize Keyboard Shortcuts
I know that your design team probably had some rationale when defining shortcut keys for actions. For example, Z does not bring up the zoom tool, A is used for artboard creation instead of direct selection, etc. On the And that's fine - you can't design for the convenience of every user. But it'll be super duper awesome if you can let us define our own shortcuts... and sooner rather than later please.
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Steffen
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Amazingly, this feature request will soon celebrate its three year anniversary. This most basic of features. I want to love you Adobe, but you are making it very hard. I find myself missing the awesome powers of InDesign every single time I work in XD.
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Renan Mayrinck
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Would be nice to have an option to edit the keyboard shortcuts of the application. I'm used to work with Inkscape and Illustrator and I have some keyboard shortcuts I use in both applications to work faster when creating layouts. If I could edit the shortcuts on XD to match my workstyle with other applications, would be easier to work and switch between them.
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Jason Hollister
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There are so many things like this that were standard features for EVERY app 20 years ago. It boggles my mind that I cannot change the shortcuts. You create such a well designed, powerful app, and forego stuff like this? Why would you EVER build ANY app of ANY kind without allowing users to customize their hotkeys? This is truly mind-boggling. There are so many blatant UX faux paws in an app made specifically for UX people.
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Facu Prodo commented
any update on this? several shortcuts do not work in spanish keyborads. I'm shocked by the fact that something soooo basic as a customize shortuts panel is missing in this app :O
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andrea
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Yup, want that too. I can't believe that every single Adobe application has different shortcuts for the same function. At least let us change them by ourselves!
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Juri Wulff
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Buy a Mac :-)
Joking aside. I also miss the option for configuring shortcuts. For MacOS users there is a workaround. I needed a new shortcut for "Zoom to Fit All", which I made in the System Settings for the keyboard (isolated to only be applied in XD). This overwrites the default shortcut in XD.
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Jake Martin
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We need this. If they are gonna make the shortcuts whatever they want to confuse everyone that's used to illustrator that's fine but at least let us change them.
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Katrine
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You can create shortcuts the same way you do it in Sketch. See how here: https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/sketch-tip-set-custom-keyboard-shortcuts-31652594522
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User One
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Any update on this? It has been THREE years! How complicated can it be to implement it? Not sure why there are these "uservoice" websites on Adobe's products, I guess it's just to give their paying customers the ILLUSION that they are being listened to while Adobe goes ahead with it's own agenda anyway.
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Anonymous
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customise shortcuts pklease!!!
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Scott C
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Within all the other Adobe software and one competitor you can create custom shortcut keys to help with your workflow. Please allow me/the user to see in the software the list of all the keys and be able to edit them and possibly upload a config file of the shortcuts. This would be a marked differentiation in the space. Most other SW that competes with XD doesn't have this just a list on a tech support site.
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Seth Sherman
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Yes, this would be a great add. In Photoshop I've created a shortcut for collapsing all layers and groups so that it's easy to keep things neat and tidy. However, in XD after a little bit of clicking around the layers become expanded and messy and the only way to collapse them is to individually click on them. This is a very time consumer process when you're doing it multiple times per day.
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Ahmad Mansour commented
Awesome Video man!
Please implement this Adobe. -
Alex
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Can customization shortcuts be added for any function in the program such as the right hand panel where you do the majority of the work? It would speed up productivity a lot and have to do less mousing between the main canvas area and the right hand panel. For example, a shortcut for fill where you press control + shift + d or something and the fill window pops up right behind your cursor. It might not seem to take a long time to go to the right hand bar for fill or anything else every time but it does over the course of a day. It would speed up workflow a lot. Same goes for shadow, border, etc.
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Alex
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Can customization shortcuts be added for any function in the program such as the right hand panel where you do the majority of the work? It would speed up productivity a lot and have to do less mousing between the main canvas area and the right hand panel. For example, a shortcut for fill where you press control + shift + d or something and the fill window pops up right behind your cursor. It might not seem to take a long time to go to the right hand bar for fill or anything else every time but it does over the course of a day. It would speed up workflow a lot. Same goes for shadow, border, etc.
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Alex
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+1, need this
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Evol Ution
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Okay when is this feature coming?????????
Its late 2018 adobe.
Isn't the keyboard shortcut a very basic feature in every software.
Then why isn't this one implemented????????????????????????????????????????
YOU LAZY BONE ADOBE COME ON!
MY FINGERS ARE BREAKING ON DAILY BASIS 😫😫😫😫 -
andras
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dude you ain't playin' :D awesome video!
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Vít Kološ
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The video is awesome :D
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Hugo
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As in photoshop or illustrator, adobe XD should allow set the keyboard shortcuts.