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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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  • 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!!

  • Evol Ution commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hey any update on this??? Seriously adobe making me press Shift+Crl+P forever to access plugin panel??? What in the hell??
    I have to move my right hand so frequently to press silly shortcuts. When are you going to implement this???
    .....
    or is it like @Waleed said "Adobe just loves to make designers suffer, they will release 1 keyboard shortcut per month and call it a new feature! Sad!"

  • Hulk commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I never need any new features but customizing keyboard shortcuts.

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