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Adobe XD: Feature Requests (Read-Only): 01 : Design mode

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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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  • Elmo Allén commented  ·   ·  Report

    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  ·   ·  Report

    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!!

  • Mardi commented  ·   ·  Report

    No more hold back please

  • Evol Ution commented  ·   ·  Report

    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  ·   ·  Report

    I never need any new features but customizing keyboard shortcuts.

  • Waleed commented  ·   ·  Report

    In backlog for 3+ years! Seriously!

    Adobe just loves to make designers suffer, they will release 1 keyboard shortcut per month and call it a new feature! Sad!

  • Gonzalo Men commented  ·   ·  Report

    I need custom shortcuts so badly! Hope this feature will be released soon.

  • Steffen commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • Renan Mayrinck commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • Jason Hollister commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • Facu Prodo commented  ·   ·  Report

    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

  • andrea commented  ·   ·  Report

    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!

  • Juri Wulff commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

    How: https://imgur.com/Vt0XP7d

  • Jake Martin commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • User One commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • Scott C commented  ·   ·  Report

    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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