Organize assets panel objects (symbols/components/colors/character styles) into folders
Would love to organize symbols into folder for easy accessibility. I spend too much time looking through symbols into one library.
Anonymous
shared this idea
102 comments
-
Chris
commented
I often import sketch files that support folders for their components. And that leads to component chaos in XD where those folders are ignored.
Please add this little nice feature for a more professional way to organize Design Systems.
-
Anonymous
commented
This is a big missing feature. I tried shifting fra Sketch to XD, but the lack of organizing my BIG designsystem is keeping me in Sketch for now.
Need ability to:
1. Organize/group character styles by usage, mobile, tablet, desktop into groups.
2. Organize/group Colors by gradients, brand colors, secondary colors, hover colors, light/dark theme, etc.
3. Organize/group components into groups or folders such as icons, desktop icons, logos, etc.I suggest you use same approach as Sketch, that works very well and can fit any need:
Let the user make his/her own folder structure, by naming font, colors, components etc. like this:Font: "Sans Serif/Heading/Large/Black/Left/Heading left"
Component: "Storyteaser/Mobile/Large/Storyteaser NoImage" -
Anonymous
commented
I thought I was just a disorganized human. Tools to organize all of my graphic components would save me the same amount of time some design work takes.
-
Edu Couchez
commented
Hey... simply unusable the asset/component library. Now needing to search one by one through hundreds of small icons randomly ordered to find everything. Worst of all, no simple "order by" option.
It's absolutely impossible to plan, even the most simpler "Atomic Design" scenario... definitively XD is not a productive tool, only a long way beta.
-
JT
commented
I agree with everyone here. Being able to organize/group/sort components would be extremely helpful as we share a design system across our organization.
Navigating through a hundred+ components in a seemingly random order is cumbersome and slows down the creation of mockups.
Please consider this for a future (hopefully near) update!!
Thanks!
-
Aaron Makaruk
commented
This should be a top priority, in my opinion. Please also fix the bug where all assets get reorganized in a chaotic order at random.
-
Phil Parry
commented
I have just ported 100s of design system components from Sketch to XD and I'm staring at a long list, which I'm not able to organise! This is not good and hopefully will be adressed in coming releases.
-
Carol McCue
commented
Completely agree -- disgusted that I just spent 20 minutes manually alphabetizing my assets, saved, reopened, and they're back in random order. How hard could it be to display them in alpha order by default? And yes, I want folders to organize by type.
-
Warren Wang
commented
The idea would be to be able to group components into folders and subfolders as the project grows. In my use case I've imported a sketch asset from an online site which has a ton of things turned into components, but there's no logical way to sort them or group them as they grow in to the > 1000 count. I'm refactoring it as we speak into something more manageable with master component dependencies, but it would be great if we could just drag and drop them into different folders for grouping.
-
Henke
commented
Yeah this is really necessary. When working with larger clients, who have lots of brands you get tons of assets. In Photoshop you can sort assets by group. This would be nice in XD too.
There is another problem with assets: You can't have duplicates. So, lets say that one of the type styles on desktop matches with one of the styles on mobile, then I can't have both among my assets. And I don't want to keep separate assets libraries for Desktop and Mobile. Same goes with colors.
In my attached examples I'm showing a library that belongs to one of our clients. It's a huge oranization with lots of different brands, but with the same design language. I don't want to keep each brand as a separate library, but some of the brands share a few colors and all of them share the typography.
In Photoshop (screenshot) I can group assets in folders and organize them neatly however I want, but in XD (movie clip) I can't store all the assets due to duplicates and I can't organize them by anything other than assets categories, like colors, type and components.
Please keep working on this!
-
Cynthia sanchez
commented
100%. In our use case, we have hundreds of pages designed and had to create a design kit (another XD file) where we can organize all the assets in different groups:
- Form elements
- Layout elements
- Alerts
- Notifications
- etcIf we could have this organization inside our assets, then we would simply have the assets linked to all of our designs, therefore, every time we either create a new component or update an existing one, reflecting the changes in all pages would be a matter of 1-click.
-
Caitlyn Burke
commented
I'd like to:
1. Organize/group character styles by mobile, tablet, desktop into groups.
2. Organize/group Colors by gradients, brand colors, secondary colors, hover colors, light/dark theme, etc.
3. Organize/group components into groups or folders such as icons, desktop icons, logos, etc. -
Andrei Robert Cristian
commented
This should be a priority for the devs, I have a huge project and I can't find anything right.
I need to organize by Desktop / Tablet / Mobile and then by Input field / Buttons / Sliders / Cards and so on.
-
Anonymous
commented
Urgent in need for Assets Components to be able to create folders, or groups, so everyone can easily organize the assets and components and find things in XD.
-
Manon
commented
When I sort the components in the assets menu manually, they jump back into (random?) position. Best would be to have the option to sort them in groups, too. If this is not possible, then at least sorting alphabetically would be better.
-
Anonymous
commented
I agree - Also trying to migrate from Sketchapp - But for now it is simply not possible for me. I have a huge library, and it is impossible to navigate in it right now.
Need a folder structure - with folder-names I can define myself. - The same for test-styles plz!!!
-
Richard Partridge
commented
100% - Once you start getting a serious number of assets it becomes a nightmare trying to organise them. Having folders would make this a doddle ...
-
Jyoti Bock
commented
Agree with everyone. Our component library is too big for just the search feature. I would love to have this done sooner than later because we are currently working on migrating to the new system.
-
Anonymous
commented
I think having just one section called components and dropping everything into it is very limited. I would like to create sections for icons, buttons, text fields or anything that I can group.
-
German Rivas
commented
This would be GREAT! Please add this feature.
