The main source of inspiration for this idea was to match the keyboard shortcuts themselves to different keyboard layouts. Right now, users who don’t use US keyboards have to memorize the location of the keys, rather than to use the actual character location to be able to use the shortcuts. Those involving this region are primarily the case:
ABNT2 layout (Brazil).
And here’s an example of confusing shortcuts:
Although this problem could be solved by just rebinding the shortcuts to the actual character and not the location on the keyboard, I’ve noticed there are some other issues concerning key bindings.
On this forum post, a member of the community asked for help on backing one layer level with a different shortcut from what Figma has right now. This makes the user adapt their workflow to the tool, and not the other way around — and that hinders efficiency. It would be nice if the tool itself provided some sort of customization on this regard.
Although being a workaround, Mac users can customize keyboard shortcuts by application, but it is a bit limited. It’s also not a possibility for Windows users.
I think this could be a game-changer, as i’ve seen people who refused to migrate from other tools to Figma because they couldn’t customize shortcuts. It would also give the user more control over the tool and their workflow.
What do you guys think about it?
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While using the German keyboard, the cmd + Z is just besides cmd + T, which opens a new tab, and completely interrupts me workflow 🙃 pls fix thissssss
I get used with ALT/OPTION key + mouse wheel for zoom in & out in most of design industry’s apps. It’s so hard to adapt with CTRL/CMD key here in Figma.
And when I get used to the CTRL/CMD and have to switch back to other design applications, I have to adapt back to the ALT/OPTION again. So it’s frustrating me twice, and I am sure this bothers other users too.
I wish Figma dev team consider a way to customize keyboard shortcuts, but since that almost 4 years have passed since this thread has been created, it discourages my hopes.
Greetings,
I’m a frequent shortcut user, and there is so many important actions which doesn’t have shortcuts. It would be great to have ability to make custom shortcuts.
Same comes to MacBook with Touchbar, it would be grate to include custom buttons to the Touch bar! Simple in development, so much usage.
Thank you.
Figma does not allow me to edit the keyboard shortcuts, yet it would be very useful to do so. Mainly in the case of the “Actions” shortcut: uCommand + ,] is not as straightforward as having iCommand + K]. Despite of knowing the correct Figma shortcut, I always end up doing the latter because it’s such an ingrained behaviour acquired from working with other softwares/apps. This is the most painful case, but others would also benefit from the ability to edit.
This should be a standard feature. Come on Figma team, this is an easy win for accessibility. Also it would be good to have shortcuts organized the way we prefer for our workflows. (For example, the P key is the Pen tool but the V key is the move tool; for my workflow I want them to be close to each other. My brain keeps wanting C to be the shortcut to tweak the bend in the vectors and it brings up Comments instead, which I only ever use at the very end.)
4 years and still nothing… lol
Your comment inspired me to look at the beginning of this thread, with only 660 votes. But below the initial comment, you can see that 46 other threads have been merged with this one, with a total number of votes exceeding 5,500. So there’s no way that Figma doesn’t know it’s a desired feature. Again, I just wish they would come out and say: “We will never do this, so stop asking.” Then we can all stop wasting our time on this. And stop hoping for a change that will never happen.
Or even better, of course, would be some official response saying they’re working on it and hoping to release it by Qx of 2025. Or whatever.
yes some of the shortcuts are extremely awkward to use or understand because they were designed for MacBook laptops instead of desktop or Windows system. Giving some freedom to diverse user is a great idea. Please add the user discretionary shortcuts. Figma is a much larger compony than 6 years ago and it’s important to realize they have various users operating on different systems/ keyboards.
Blease remove ctrl B if the selected layers are not text.
I don’t understand why to block users from customising their workflow. If it’s too complicated to implement in the Figma app itself – no problem. People can use native functionality of MacOS or third-party apps. I have been using specific shortcut for Align objects. I don’t know what is MORE frequent action than that. Now, out of nowhere Figma decided to assign some unknown feature to that shortcut. And I cannot even find that shortcut in the list of Figma’s shortcuts. When I tried to assign that shortcut with System Preferences on MacOS – it won’t work.. Only option I’m given – being FORCED to LEARN the shortcut Figma wants. Frankly speaking = ruining my workflow and wasting my time. This is a bit mental.
I cannot emphasize it more – it is MUST! I could understand why Figma wouldn’t have change shortcuts in Figma app. I could understand why for new users default Figma shortcuts would be useful. But I DO NOT understand why not allowing to use an existing functionality of System Preferences of MacOS or third-party apps. People use different apps, people have different regional keyboard layouts, people use different OSs. It is just common sense to allow people change default shortcuts to what they want.
As an option, support / upvote / comment this topic too:
So this has been requested 3 years ago, still not working. Isn’t this supposed to be a basic feature?
I’m here just to upvote – I would need an option to disable some of them – like Cmd+W. To me it’s a terrible one, I keep reopening the app
I keep accidentally triggering the ‘select next sibling’ shortcut (tab) when trying to switch between apps on windows (alt-tab). It’s rather annoying & I’d like to be able to disable or remap that shortcut.
Although there are numerous great feedbacks in this thread, I want to highlight a few things:
not allowing users to customize hotkeys is a horrible product decision. No flexibility, US first and clearly lazy.
a lot of your hotkey poses significant accessibility issue by pretty much randomly scattering thing across the board. like what on earth do you think I can type control+option +t with one hand? and if I have to let go of mouse every 3 seconds why do i even need hotkeys? totally loses the point here
Adobe is not a good company. I have used its product for a decade and decided to switch. do let its weird culture change you please.
any idea about the progress of implementing this feature?
I don’t even have a dedicated “\” button on my keyboard, for example, and my keyboard config is not in the list. So any shortcut that uses “\” I can’t use.
We need to be able to customize these.
Hello.
I was so fed up with this problem that I created a native macOS app to map custom shortcuts. It works perfectly for me. It's available in both French and English.
Let me know if you have any issues with the app. I only tested it with a AZERTY keyboard.
I’m on PC LaitEau
At any rate, the solution would be for Figma to use a small portion of that 1 billion they got from Adobe and give us the very basic option to customize shortcuts. You know, like any good app does.
I’m on PC LaitEau
At any rate, the solution would be for Figma to use a small portion of that 1 billion they got from Adobe and give us the very basic option to customize shortcuts. You know, like any good app does.
Of course it should be Figma to fix this (btw Adobe didn’t bought Figma 2 years ago) and everybody know that... The app I made was only to fix this temporary (I hope) problem.
But there are a lots of Figma users on Mac, si I’m sure it would be interesting for a few of them.
Can we have an ability to customize our own keyboard shortcuts in Figma please ?
Like Affinity Designer:
Like Adobe illustrator
But we can even do it better in Figma. Thank you
How was this said 4 years ago, and still isn’t a thing. We don’t need FigPals and even more complex prototyping that we don't have time to use anyway, give us the fundamentals!!!!
It’s not the same thing, but I made this plugin to enable more keyboard control, which is kind of like opening up a whole bunch more shortcuts:
Keyboard shortcuts are crucial for speed and efficiency, but Figma offers a pretty limited set and you can't customize them.
Lazer proposes a decent workaround inspired by command line interfaces. It includes a number of common adjustments, each with a short code (see below). When you bring up the Actions input with command + K or command + / and then type a shortcode (eg. w.h), the fuzzy search will be ready to select that action.
These aren’t customizable but there is some flexibility because it just uses fuzzy search results to do stuff.
Please kindly add custom-assignable keyboard shortcuts within the Desktop App. I currently cannot add any custom keys and our workflows would be greatly improved with this essential feature. Thank you!
