Editor
Editor tour
A map of the Desyn editor — the top bar, panels, canvas, tool dock, inspector and AI dock — and how they fit together.
The editor has the same layout on the web and the desktop app; the iOS app adapts it to touch with sheets instead of side panels.
The layout#
- Top bar — the logo menu (file actions, preferences), the design name, undo and redo, zoom, Share, Export, the avatars of everyone currently in the design, and the AI button.
- Left rail — panels that open in a 320 px flyout: Design (templates, page size, styles), Elements (shapes, lines, icons, stickers, charts, tables, QR, frames), Text (text presets and font pairings), Brand (your brand kit), Uploads, Photos (stock photos), AI (generative tools and workflows), Layers and Pages.
- Canvas — an infinite surface with your pages on it. A floating context toolbar appears next to the selection with the most common actions for what you selected.
- Page strip — thumbnails of every page under the canvas; drag to reorder.
- Tool dock — floating at the bottom center: select, frame, shapes, pen, text, image and hand.
- Inspector — on the right, with tabs for Design (fills, strokes, text, image settings), Arrange (alignment, distribution, auto-layout), Effects, Animate and Position (exact position, size, rotation and constraints). See the inspector.
- AI dock — a prompt bar anchored at the bottom center that expands into a chat with a run log. Open it with ⌘CtrlJ.
Panels are resizable, remember their state, and collapse cleanly on small windows. Toggle all chrome with ⌘Ctrl\ to focus on the canvas.
The command palette#
Press ⌘CtrlK anywhere to search every command, panel, setting and recent design by name. It is the fastest way to find a feature you have not used before, and it shows each command's shortcut.
Context menus#
Right-click a layer, the canvas or a page thumbnail for the actions that apply there: copy and paste (including style only), arrange, group, mask, lock and hide, rename, export the selection, and ask the AI about it.
Saving and undo#
There is no save button. Each gesture — a drag, a resize, a finished text edit — is committed as one transaction and synced to everyone in the design. Undo (⌘CtrlZ) and redo (⌘Ctrl⇧ShiftZ) work per gesture, and an entire AI request is always a single undo step.
If you lose your connection, you can keep working: pending changes are applied locally and sent when you reconnect. Changes that conflict with what collaborators did in the meantime are resolved per property, with the most recent change winning.