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Reusable symbols / master objects

It would be very helpful to have symbols in order to have reusable elements that can be updated in one place and have those edits instantly take effect in all instances/artboards in the design.

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Matt shared this idea  ·  March 14, 2016  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Delete…  ·  Admin →

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feature-completed  ·  AdminPeter Flynn (Software Engineer, Adobe) responded  ·  November 04, 2016

I’m happy to say you can now use symbols in the November release of Adobe XD!

Thanks to everyone who voted on this — it honestly does make a difference in making this happen sooner.

There are lots of ways we could expand on this initial set of symbol features. Please let us know your opinion by upvoting follow-up suggestions like these:

  • Different text, color, or other properties in some copies of the symbol (like editing text in a Repeat Grid, for example): https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007/suggestions/13675224-override-text-color-etc-on-a-symbol
  • Different size for some copies of the symbol: https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007/suggestions/16939339-scale-resize-symbols-individually
  • Interactions/wires on objects inside symbols: https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007/suggestions/16943800-allow-interaction-wires-links-from-objects-inside
  • States the symbol can switch between (like a UI component): https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007/suggestions/13031871-add-multiple-states-inside-symbols
  • Reorganize your list of symbols: https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007/suggestions/16933993-label-and-reorganise-symbol-library
  • Share symbols across documents or within a team (via CC Libraries, for example): https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007/suggestions/12930321-cc-library-support-share-symbols-assets

And as always, feel free to file new suggestions if you have other ideas that aren’t posted in UserVoice yet!

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feature-started  ·  Demian Borba responded  ·  July 11, 2016
feature-under-review  ·  Demian Borba responded  ·  July 11, 2016
feature-started  ·  Tom Krcha responded  ·  June 02, 2016

Hi everyone,

just wanted to let you know that we’ve started working on Symbols.

Stay tuned. And thanks so much for all the valuable feedback. If you want to leave us more info, right now is the best time. Feel free to comment on this thread. We read everything.

Tom (Adobe XD)

feature-under-review  ·  Demian Borba responded  ·  March 18, 2016
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  • SUJITH KRISHNAN commented  ·  March 06, 2018 17:35  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    How do I name Symbols and get the application to display the names? I am going to end up having a lot of similar looking symbols, but not exactly the same. The only way I am going to be able to differentiate between them and use are by name.

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  • Tom Stachura commented  ·  June 22, 2017 10:10  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    Symbols are awesome and it would be the main reason why I would move to XD. However, the number 1 repeated style in our design is a data field (either editable or read only) and symbols can't be used for them because I can't alter the size without affecting all instances. There needs to be the same staging of changes for any property as it is for text, where you can edit an object created from a symbol and not affect all the instances. Another way of approaching that would be to unlink a property (like a width for example), so that any instance could modify the width without affecting the original and everything else.

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  • Hugo Vialet commented  ·  May 18, 2017 02:02  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    I downloaded Adobe XD yesterday (so I suppose it's the last update), but I can't find the symbols library. I'm on PC.

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  • Adam commented  ·  February 08, 2017 10:34  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    Great start, but having a way to make content updates without effecting the Symbol would be huge for quick text updates. Right now changing anything related to typography is a giant PIA. If you agree, up vote this feature: https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007/suggestions/13675224-override-text-color-etc-on-a-symbol#{toggle_previous_statuses}

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  • [Deleted User] commented  ·  December 23, 2016 03:20  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    Export symbol set for use in another project XD project. i.e. export and import symbol libraries/sets

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  • AdminPeter Flynn (Software Engineer, Adobe) commented  ·  November 14, 2016 15:32  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    @Peter: if you _double_-click then you are editing the symbol's content. If you delete all the symbol's content, there's nothing left to show in the library, and the empty symbol definition is automatically removed. If you want to just delete one copy of a symbol, single-click to select the symbol -- that way when you press delete you're deleting the symbol instance and not the objects inside the symbol.

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  • Peter commented  ·  November 07, 2016 10:54  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    It's kind of weird that when I create a symbol, double click on it (on my artboard) and then delete it... it removes it from my symbols palette. I feel it should delete that instance but keep the symbol in my library

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  • James commented  ·  November 07, 2016 08:16  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    Please upvote: Interactions/wires on objects inside symbols: https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007/suggestions/16943800-allow-interaction-wires-links-from-objects-inside above.

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  • Jeremiah Johnson commented  ·  November 04, 2016 08:38  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    Global shared symbols would be a great way for team to utilize and share styled components. Sketch, Axure, JustInMiind have this feature to have a global symbol library that you can connect to and would be great if Adobe XD had it as well.

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  • Winnie Abodo Alinga commented  ·  November 04, 2016 07:17  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    Greaat ! I can't wait to see the release then !

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  • Antonio Maggio commented  ·  November 04, 2016 05:22  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    The one with size may is related to overall resize feature (responsive) whereas the state could be reflected in an overall adaptive design feature?

    Just pointing to the fact that you probably have ideas on how to cather to responsive and adaptive, you shoul reuse the same "pattern" in symbols

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  • Stevo commented  ·  November 04, 2016 01:42  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    WOOOHOOO!!!

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  • Aleksei commented  ·  November 04, 2016 01:42  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    T-H-A-N-K Y-O-U :)

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  • Jeremiah Johnson commented  ·  November 03, 2016 09:33  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    have these symbols a shareable library to a team to consume & update.

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  • James commented  ·  November 03, 2016 08:25  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    I feel the same as Jonson and would like to hear an answer to his question. Include prototype links purlease...

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  • Jonson commented  ·  November 03, 2016 06:36  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    Ilove the layers coming with new update. For web design though, symbols with no prototype links are not useless, but far from effective. Well, ok they are useless to me... The prototype phase on menus, is really grunt work right now. With so much ability to make mistakes... Are you planning on improving the symbols functionality to cover prototype links?

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  • Anonymous commented  ·  October 28, 2016 05:45  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    Adobe...is there an update for expected release of this feature? Not having this feature makes XD unusable for me. I don't want to do this. I want to use XD. But it takes too much time to update changes. I point this major flaw out to others when I talk about XD. I want to change that conversation and move forward.

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  • Dave commented  ·  October 27, 2016 11:46  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    Can't wait to update the nav bar once, then watch it populate the change across my site!

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  • [Deleted User] commented  ·  October 25, 2016 04:35  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    Very useful feature!!

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  • Matt commented  ·  October 18, 2016 19:37  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

    Having buttons with pre-linked navigation would be great and make consistency/accuracy of all the interactions so much faster and easier than ever.

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