A setting to make new layers go downwards

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May 26, 2021
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Hello, I really would love a setting that would make the new layers, freshly duplicated layers, etc, appear downwards - on the bottom of the list if nothing is selected or underneath the currently selected layer. In other words, to change the general direction of layer stacking - to go from top to bottom, instead of bottom to top only, as of now.

This is very logical, isn’t it? We create pages in figma and they go from top to bottom, most designs are created from top to bottom, most content flows from top to bottom. Then why do layers go freaking upwards? 😀

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Jerry_Wang

Hi, has this been changed? In the month I’ve used Figma, I’m overall very happy with it, except for this one quirk. It’s not intuitive and wastes time.

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LudvikM

I pray for this feature to be done - I am new to Figma, but experienced with other creativity tools over 20 years, and this is really anti-pattern to put newly duplicated items above the original items.

Also, the newly duplicated items should be selected. Now, when I duplicate anything and start to modify the item, I realize that I am editing the original item instead of the new one.

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Daniel_Robertson

I’m also really hoping for this feature, drives me crazy having to constantly manage the ordering of layers so they match the flow of the document!

Brian_Smith1

What is wrong with @Customer_Support ? Please review this thread. It makes NO sense to have new layers stack above layers you already created! If I design: Navbar > Header > Footer – Then why on earth would you default order it: Footer > Header > Navbar? Now the Navbar is buried at the bottom of the layers. Please fix this already, there are tons of reddit and forum threads saying the same thing. I don’t know enough HTML to know if it’s justified in some way… but designers think logically… Left to Right / Top to Bottom. So if this has to be done for Developers – make the layers switch in Dev mode. Or provide a sorting feature that helps with New > Old / Old > New / Page Hierarchy by Position (see sorter plugin by position). This is a fundamental feature that’s irritating many designers and causing confusion. Don’t rely on your plugin community to fix what amounts to a bug for most of your users. I hope you fix this soon!

Danijel_Kurincic

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IDEA: duplicate shortcut works on key-up. By default it behaves like it does (or a setting override), by pressing cmd+d an item is duplicated above the selected item.
By pressing an arrow key while holding cmd+d, would position the element corrspondingly to an arrow key pressed.
(and yes, I am assuming that holding cmd+d and spamming duplicates is a remotely useless feature)