pedrowunder

That's just bad user experience. In my example above, the distance between the edge and the elements is 15 pts. That should be easily readable, but I had to zoom in. The UI should adapt, and display distances as small as 1pt. See how Sketch does it. If it's a fraction of a point, then sure, zooming would be reasonable. For UI design though, you usually only work with 0.5 points and above, which all should be easily displayed with dynamic tooltips.

The distance value between the element and the edge here is impossible to see. You could get rid of the arrows on either side, and just have lines + the value to save some room.

Hey thanks for the welcome. Yea, I found that after I posted this first post but couldn't edit because it was waiting for approval. Thanks for the reply tho!

Now working with a ton of artboards (a la' Sketch), I'm having trouble finding the layer I'm working on. The layer list should auto scroll to the selected artboard / layer when selected. I'd also like to see more contrast between selected layers and artboards in the layer list. I'd really appreciate this as I'm getting lost in a sea of layers.

Congrats on launching v1.5. I love Affinity Designer's speed and vector tools. It's always open on the side when I'm designing UI with sketch to do quick vector work, then bring it back to Sketch. Now that you guys brought art boards, constraints, styles, etc... to Affinity, I'm very happy to consider using Affinity Designer exclusively (it's just faster than sketch!) But in order to get to that point and make it the perfect vector + interface tool, there needs to be a couple of things: 1. Artboard on phone live preview. Like Sketch Mirror, seeing my design as a final user—on the phone—is crucial. 2. Content generation: Be able to say, fill a bunch of shapes with images properly cropped and fitted (for avatars, for example). Generating text is also important for UI design. Currently I use Sketch plugins for this. 3. Grids: Be able to copy a shape a number of times within a user-defined grid of x columns and y rows 4. Scale: enlarging a symbol or group of shapes inside Affinity feels a big buggy and doesn't scale well. I'd like to see a scale feature where I define the dimensions for a group of shapes and it'll grow it proportionally (all styles and effects are scaled as well). Now, I know everything I've posted is is not trivial at all to build. Having said that, if UI design is a space you guys want to compete in, then I'd really love to see you guys push it further. You're really a few features away from getting designers like me to recommend Affinity exclusively for design work (both designer and photo). Cheers and congrats on the work guys! Love the new update!