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AMA: Adobe XD 2017

6 years ago from Demian Borba, Product Manager for Adobe XD

  • Cristian MoiseiCristian Moisei, 6 years ago

    I'd be curious to know how you use Sketch Renamer. I tried Renamer plugins in PS a while ago (which seemed to do the same things this one does), and never found them to save me any time. I rename my layers as I create them / before I duplicate them, and I have Append 'copy' disabled, so all it takes is for me to name the first layer 'Item' then all the others will be named Iitem, without the need of a bulk Renamer.

    Does it do anything smarter than that?

    1 point
    • Account deleted 6 years ago

      A problem I had 3 weeks ago. I had symbol names like this: name / name / name. And something didn't work right with spaces (can't remember the exact problem) so I had to rename all my symbols. I used Renamer to find ' / ' and then replace it with '/'. Such a time saver.

      1 point
      • Cristian MoiseiCristian Moisei, 6 years ago

        That may be a Sketch problem, I never ran into any kind of problems with layer names in PS.

        1 point
        • Account deleted 6 years ago

          Ah, Sketch has too many problems... I wish Figma or XD kills it off.

          2 points
          • Cristian MoiseiCristian Moisei, 6 years ago

            One can only dream. Figma took 5 years and $18M to make the version they have now, which is not particularly impressive and doesn't exactly give me hopes they will take the design world by storm with this hugely impressive tool anytime soon.

            I'd say we're stuck with shitty software for now. XD could become good in say 2 years.

            2 points
            • Dylan FieldDylan Field, 6 years ago

              4 years, not 5 ;)

              Look — if there's one thing I can agree with Adobe on, it's that building a quality design tool is hard work / takes a lot of time. The good news is that now we have a great foundation and we are shipping updates very quickly.

              I'm sorry to hear you're not impressed with Figma. What are you looking for?

              6 points
              • David SvezhintsevDavid Svezhintsev, 6 years ago

                I don't know about Cristian, but I've never had any problems with Figma. Have worked in Sketch for 2 years and switched to Figma in one instant.

                The tool works great out of the box, solves problem of storing files on the computer and therefore saves space. Symbols are here. Prototyping is here, even though it's very basic but at least it works. The only thing with prototype that needs addressed is Figma Mirror support?

                Are you guys looking into third-party "plugin" support, something like Power-ups in Trello? Craft's features would be badass, specially JSON content import.

                Thanks for all the hard work on Figma, so far the best tool on the market.

                0 points
    • Chris KeithChris Keith, 6 years ago

      How did you disable append copy?

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      • Cristian MoiseiCristian Moisei, 6 years ago

        Next to the name of the panel 'Layers' there is a hamburger menu. If you click it you'll get a dropdown that has an option for 'Panel Options'

        A couple of goodies in there.

        1 point