From the course: Adobe XD for Designers (2018)
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Using and reusing symbols
From the course: Adobe XD for Designers (2018)
Using and reusing symbols
- [Instructor] Now it's tempting, when you start making multiple screens, you're gonna feel the need to just start duplicating art boards just like that. But I'd suggest you hold on a little bit and be really intelligent about how you do this. Because essentially, what this means is I have two assets right here. What if I changed them? Are they gonna change everywhere? And that's actually what I'd want to do. In fact, I'm gonna delete these, 'cause I'd wanna make them all symbols. How do we do that? Well, it's just a matter of selecting the asset, we see it right there, and going to your Assets Panel, and then right down here, Symbols. Click, adding that as a symbol. And not only that, I made these colors earlier, I can select this text and add it as a character style. So this could be my header one text, for instance. But that's what I'd do. I'd go down the lines, selecting this object, adding that as a symbol. Where's this name coming from? It's coming from the layer. For these…
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