Switched from Sketch to Figma in 2021, still finding old habits hard to break.

I used Sketch for like 5 years straight. Then my team in Austin pushed for Figma. Took me 3 months to stop reaching for the 'A' key for the arrow tool. The plugin system in Figma saves me maybe 2 hours a week on icon exports though. Anyone else struggle with muscle memory after switching tools?

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josephf1013d agoMost Upvoted

Did the muscle memory mess with your keyboard shortcuts the most, or was it more about where things live in the menus? I still catch myself hitting cmd + shift + D for duplicate even though Figma uses cmd + D, and it throws off my whole flow for a second. What was the one shortcut or action that took you the longest to unlearn?

terry_mitchell13d ago

@josephf10 is it really that hard to just retrain your fingers? I switched from Sketch to Figma cold turkey and had my shortcuts down in two days.