TIL a keyboard shortcut I saw at a conference in Austin saved me from a huge mistake

I was at a design conference in Austin last month watching a live demo in Figma. The presenter used 'Shift + Command + K' to quickly flatten a bunch of selected layers into a single component. I tried it yesterday on a client dashboard project and it instantly merged about 20 stray elements I had missed, which would have taken me ages to group manually. Has anyone else picked up a game-changing shortcut from watching someone else work live?

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noahw535d ago

That's a huge time saver... did the presenter mention any other Figma shortcuts that felt like secret weapons? I'm always worried I'm missing the good ones.

simonreed5d ago

Totally get that worry about missing the good shortcuts. I used to think the basic ones were enough, but learning about the shift key to resize from the center changed everything for me. It seems small but it saves so much fiddling around to get things aligned. Another one that felt like a cheat code was using option plus click to pick up a color from anywhere on the screen. What other ones have you found useful lately?