In other design tools you can simply press a key, and any selection outlines, grab handles, etc. get hidden while the key is down, so you can preview and evaluate how things look, without having to de-select everything and lose your selection.
Apparently there is no way to do this in Figma =(
This is important while experimenting with different colors, fonts, etc., and in Figma it could be used to see how different sizes, variants, and states, look in your design, without those selection handles and outlines getting in the way of you previewing things.
It is not possible but it sounds like a good suggestion, so I’d recommend you to edit this topic, turn it into a suggestion instead of a question, and move it to #product-ideas category.
Yep, that’s what I have to do. But it breaks flow state. The subtle, yet magical effect of simply pressing a key down, is that it’s so simple & easy to do, you stay in that flow state as you switch options while designing, which speeds up your design evaluation process by an order of magnitude. Once you experience it, you’re kind of hooked on it
Maybe other designers here who know what I’m talking about can share their perspective on this, but for me it’s a huge speed boost to be able to do this.
+1000000 to this!
This is by far the biggest design update I would like to see. Enabling hiding selection lines with a good shortcut would turn Figma into a powerhouse. I completely agree with the magical flow. It suffers without it.
Hi Gleb
Sorry, a bit of but how can this be done?
I was trying in one of mine and don’t see how.
The advised one is Share Feedback and the tags don’t allow to put anything.
Thanks
By the way, the one I mention is a bit related o this, so, who wants to take a peek…
I’m +1G on this. Very important (and basic to CG design).
I’d recommend a toggle (which is what Adobe does) rather than pressing a key.
Reason: If you are holding a key and the cursor is inside a text box (or anything else that accepts input) you have a conflict in your UX. To see how nasty this is, check out the Affinity products.
I agree, this would be very helpful while editing styles of a selected element, especially the border or box shadows are difficult to see changes when the element is selected with blue selection handles.
In Adobe Illustrator, you can toggle this by simply pressing the “H” key ( i think ) and this helps speed up time of making visual adjustments to the selected layer / element to see what it actually looks like without the selection box.
Great suggestion on #productideas or improvement to the Figma app!
) and this helps speed up time of making visual adjustments to the selected layer / element to see what it actually looks like without the selection box.