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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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  • echo commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    OMG, Why this hasn't been solved since 2016. I really need keyboard shortcut customization!!

  • Steve Rekhler commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    UPDATE: Totally forgot about this: there's a nifty windows app (I'm sure a similar app, I think it was called Robot.. something for Mac) called Autohotkeys which allows you to map unique combinations of hotkeys to unique combination of clicks; so you can technically create a combo that would let you use the general Ctrl+Click to a select an object after being creating it. (https://www.autohotkey.com/)

    As a UX/UI student, and a new user of this tool, I find it a bit crazy that this option does not exist in any form, even limited agile set of keyboard mappings would be good to start. A as an example, in PS, once you create an object/layer, you can hold ctrl+drag that layer/object all over the screen. Currently, in XD, you have to manually select the selection then be able to use features like drag one, select all, etc.. similar to PS.

    It looks like the spacebar+drag allows you to drag the entire canvas, so why can't there be a custom mapping or at least a 'general best practice' mapping of ctrl+drag, regardless of what tool is currently selected, to move objects around?

    I think this XD has so much potential but as a tool that's been around long enough, something like this should have been baked in by now.

  • Beth commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Some of the shortcuts are completely unusable in my opinion, like show/hide layout grid, which I use constantly. Please, please allow shortcut customization.

  • [Deleted User] commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I really want to be able to customise shortcuts - my hands are too small to easily reach some of the multi-key shortcuts that I want to use regularly!

  • Onur Oztaskiran commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I don't get the reason behind this being in the backlog for 3 years. You can animate 1000 layers with a single click with XD but yet can not change a single stupid keyboard shortcut? Still? Sigh.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Problem: Too few shortcuts:
    - I don't mind learning new shortcuts. Or customizing ones that are made for US keyboard layout.
    - Or event switchin keyboard language per application, like I do when working in After Effects.
    - But in Adobe XD I'm missing interface-navigation shortcuts. Stuff I'm used to from Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and Sketch.
    - I find that I'm using my mouse and a lot more than in other programs. Move to input, click, enter value and then back to mouse.

    Missing shortcuts:
    - Jump to X-position variable
    - Open/close folder in layers list
    - Zoom to 100% and center element in one shortcuts
    - Anything relevant from other Adobe applications like Photoshop and Illustrator.

  • Travis commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please add this! Switching between Illustrator and XD is tricky since the shortcut keys are drastically different.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Still no news on this?
    I have a spanish keyboard distribution and this absolutely destroys my workflow.

  • Chris commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    that is ridiculous. with all the different keyboards out there and a tool for professionals who are very used to work with shortcuts. Please big Adobe, hear your crowd and dont loose touch to the base and integrate that feature. thank you

  • Manon commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'm very much used to the shortcuts used in Illustrator, Indesign and Photoshop. Almost every shortcut in those programmes are the same as one another. Xd seems to be very different and I don't understand why. Customising the shortcuts would definitely solve this problem!

    By the way, why is there a 'preferences' button when there's no 'preferences' menu?

  • Glenn W commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Come on, this cannot be so difficult to manage. I can imagine it's a little bit tougher than implementing a UI around changing entries in an XML file, and applying those changes on the fly, but this has really been one of the most requested features for XD. Any design/development tool worth its salt has this by default on release.

    What frustrates paying users is that (on top of usefull stuff) every single update releases insignificant minutia no one asked for in lieu of something meaningful like editing keyboard shortcuts, on which there is no ETA.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I would really use this. I have having to show the layout guides manually every time I need them on/off (every few minutes).

  • Mike L commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I would love to be able to assign keyboard shortcuts for all the tools, states, color swapping, fill/border toggle, and tons of other UI elements that I use all of the time.

    Thanks for reading and thanks for XD.

  • Elmo Allén commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I would really like this feature. I use a Finnish-Swedish keyboard, so for example the Bring to Front and Send to Back commands don't work (the [ and ] keys are behind an Alt Gr modifier). The only way to circumvent it is by changing Windows keyboard layout (thankfully you can nowadays do it quickly with Win+Space), but it's still a hassle and not very good UX. I'd be better if I could just config different keys to shortcuts.

  • L.chand Shrestha (Devin) commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Its a basic feature that should've been added long time ago. Its silly not to include this already. If XD is a UI software, What type of UX is that for the adobe users? Giving no basic features such as custom keyboard. LOL!!

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