Shortcuts.design - Any shortcut a designer ever wants to know, all in one place

over 5 years ago from Michel van Heest, Product Design intern at Awkward

Hey DNers!

I'm Michel van Heest, a second-year UX/UI designstudent. For the last few months, I worked on Shortcuts.design in my spare time.

Shortcuts.design is a small website that lists every shortcut a designer ever wants to know, all designapps in one place and in a simple and clear way. It's very usefull for beginning designers to quickly charge their workflow, when you switched to a new designtool or when you just want a reference to see which shortcut to use for that action you have to do all day long.

I build this tool to charge my own workflow and to help the first-year designstudents at my university I teach to work with designtools to become better in the tools they're using; maybe Shortcuts.design can speed up your workflow as well!

Check it out at Shortcuts.design !!

I'm open for any feedback, feature requests and AMA so feel free to contact me down in the comments or via Twitter.

I also launched the site on Producthunt, feel free to catch me here!

Cheers! And please let me know what you think about the site

33 comments

Davin M., over 5 years ago
Why no Windows? Any shortcut a designer ever wants to know. So there is not any designer using Windows softwares?
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- Michel van Heest, over 5 years ago
  Haha I’ve got that feature request a lot :) it’s coming soon but I wanted to know what everybody thought about the website before I made it bigger. So Windows is coming, if you have any other feedback or request, please let me know!
  1 point
  - Kevin Oliveira, over 5 years ago
    I just want to second Davin's feedback. Without adding too much clutter to the page, I think it could be useful to have some sort of global switch for displaying OSX or Windows shortcuts - just doubling the list for more or less the same content would seem a bit redundant and waste a ton of space.
    0 points
    - Michel van Heest, over 5 years ago
      Yes you're right Kevin, adding Windows is the first thing in the next release :) stay tuned!
      0 points
Ben Pepin, over 5 years ago
This is awesome! Thank you.
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- Michel van Heest, over 5 years ago
  Awesome! Thanks :)
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K. D., over 5 years ago
I am using this tool on my mac - CheatSheet if you press ⌘ command key, the tool shows list of short-cuts of active application.
1 point
Michel van Heest, over 5 years ago
The moment when a large German magazine writes an article about your website: http://t3n.de/news/website-zeigt-shortcuts-webgeeks-873488/
1 point
Philipp Lehmann, over 5 years ago
How can I participate?
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- Michel van Heest, over 5 years ago
  Participate as in..?
  -1 points
Gabriel Sturk, over 5 years ago
Well done!
Could you make a hover state for each row? It would be easier to see which description belongs to which command. :)
1 point
- Michel van Heest, over 5 years ago
  Awesome request Gabriel! Thanks for the feedback, just put it on my feature list :) Have a nice day!
  1 point
Stephen Olmstead, over 5 years ago
This is fantastic Michel- really great idea and well laid out! :)
1 point
- Michel van Heest, over 5 years ago
  Thanks mate!
  0 points
Peter Lundblad, over 5 years ago
this is great! thanks for sharing.
1 point
- Michel van Heest, over 5 years ago
  You're welcome! :)
  0 points
Cristian Moisei, over 5 years ago
Nice. You know what would make a service like this really useful IMO? To have it as a native menubar app you can search through. Opening up a web browser, going to this site, clicking on Sketch then doing CMD + F is more hassle than just googling the shortcut and I would not see myself reaching for this when needing a shortcut.
1 point
- Michel van Heest, over 5 years ago
  Thanks for your feedback Cristian! I think you have a really valid point there and I will take it in consideration! Thanks and I hope you can still get some use out of it
  3 points
  - Cristian Moisei, over 5 years ago
    I might.
    0 points
  - Greg Wolff, over 5 years ago
    This is actually already a native feature in Mac OS. If you press Command + Shift + / in any app, type the shortcut you want to use and then hit the down arrow—you can see exactly where the option is on the context menu and its shortcut.
    2 points
- Tom C, over 5 years ago
  Heard of Cheatsheet?
  3 points
Helen . , over 5 years ago
Actually had an idea similar to this a while back but never worked on it hahaha. Congrats on launching it, upvoted on PH!
1 point
- Michel van Heest, over 5 years ago
  Thanks Helen! I hope you get some use out of it even while you didn't build it yourself! If you have any feedback, tool requests or feature requests please let me know via Twitter or here in the comments :)
  0 points
Taylor Palmer, over 5 years ago
Nice idea. Congrats!
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- Michel van Heest, over 5 years ago
  Thanks Taylor!! :D
  0 points
Lucas Debelder, over 5 years ago
Great idea, upvoted on PH and bookmarked!
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- Michel van Heest, over 5 years ago
  Thanks Lucas! I hope you get use out of it
  0 points
Michel van Heest, over 5 years ago
Hi everybody, thanks for upvoting and commenting on Shortcuts.design. If you have any questions left, feel free to reach out to me via Twitter. Cheers and make sure to use Shortucts.design!
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Dima Braven, over 5 years ago
Interesting project. BTW maybe you know how can I change shortcuts from Sketch. For example, I change hide/view layers to cmd+shift+v, but it doesn't work. Also, I change group layers from cmd+g to cmd+shift+b, it's definitely better for me, but all my changes are not working. WHY?
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- Michel van Heest, over 5 years ago
  Die you enter the exact name of the menu item you’d like to create a shortcut for?
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  - Dima Braven, over 5 years ago
    course I did it. Moreover sometimes shortcuts work in sketch.
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Jonathan Nemargut, over 5 years ago
Are the greyed out apps coming soon?
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- Michel van Heest, over 5 years ago
  Yess, working on them :) you can expect them in the future, feel free to reach out if you're missing some so I can add them!
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