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   Niki Tonsky (nikitonsky@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jan-2026 21:14:58 JST Niki Tonsky

   Selecting multiple objects in Figma: Shift+Click
   Selecting multiple objects in layers panel in Figma: Cmd+Click

   I expected better from a UI design tool. Where is Shift+Click even coming from?

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     Niki Tonsky (nikitonsky@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jan-2026 23:07:05 JST Niki Tonsky

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     • Hugo 雨果

     @whynothugo Yes. And it was like this in Figma too, until recently

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     Hugo 雨果 (whynothugo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jan-2026 23:07:06 JST Hugo 雨果

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     @nikitonsky historically, shift-click selects multiple consecutive objects, and ctrl/cmd-click selects multiple objects excluding intermediate ones. It’s been like so since the nineties (eg: file managers, etc).

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     Marcin Wichary (mwichary@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 19:44:57 JST Marcin Wichary

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     • Hugo 雨果

     @nikitonsky @whynothugo This is alas a historical discrepancy that came to Figma via Sketch and I believe before that via Illustrator. Unfortunately there’s always been a big contingent of users with established motor memory/gestures for those things from prior tools, so these are really hard to change.

     btw I don’t believe Figma changed anything here recently – let me know if you see otherwise. There was never a ⌘click multi select on canvas.

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     Niki Tonsky (nikitonsky@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jan-2026 23:51:13 JST Niki Tonsky

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     • Hugo 雨果
     • Marcin Wichary

     @mwichary @whynothugo I could be imagining things, of course, but I feel like I had no friction selecting multiple objects before and now all of a sudden I have. Would be great to know for sure

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     Marcin Wichary (mwichary@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jan-2026 00:23:58 JST Marcin Wichary

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     • Hugo 雨果

     @nikitonsky @whynothugo I mean my default occam razor for motor memory is that things that are natural start feeling weird the moment we even accidentally start thinking about them cerebrally! But I don’t want to victim-blame you, maybe. 😀 Let me know if you find any clues! I’m very curious.

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     Niki Tonsky (nikitonsky@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jan-2026 06:48:41 JST Niki Tonsky

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     • Marcin Wichary

     @mwichary found two year old tutorial video and they did use shift while selecting. I guess I was imagining things, sorry for false alarm

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     Marcin Wichary (mwichary@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jan-2026 11:13:58 JST Marcin Wichary

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     @nikitonsky No worries! I agree it’s not a great situation.

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     Sergei Smagin (smagin@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jan-2026 22:22:16 JST Sergei Smagin

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     @nikitonsky THANKS

     I just thought if multiple object selection doesn't work on cmd+click it doesn't work at all. My life will be different now