Illustrator really should adapt AI in another way, personally i used and loved illustrator for a decade. But when comparing to figma, i really miss features like auto layout which help with aligning and just make life as designer so much easier. Instead we get recolour features, i can hardly imagine anyone really wanted that. For example take photoshop, their ai tools make life easier. and so should illustrator.

This isn't just a feedback dump, it feels like my last stand to stay with illustrator, which is kinda crazy, seeming that i love illustrator a lot.

Really hoping to see this coming to Illustrator! Designers are constantly working across tons of sizes and formats, and AI has real potential to make that process faster and smarter. Tools like this actually support the way we work and is way more useful than the gen AI stuff that spits out messy, so-called “finished” artwork and cuts the creative process out.

Yeah this would be a game-changer for Illustrator and needs more attention.

Adding responsive behaviour in the form of an auto-layout function similar to Figma.

Allowing users to create designs that automatically adjust and align elements based on resizing.

Making workflows more efficient and design consistency easier to maintain.

This post needs a bump for real.

This could change a lot of people's daily lives 🙏

I switched to Figma, just because Adobe Illustrator lacks all these vital features for creating advanced layouts

I agree this is really missing in Illustrator, where so much things have to be placed manually one by one. Even in InDesign you can insert objects within a text box or hack something out with tables.

Reference implementations:
– Flex in CSS
– Flex layout in Penpot
– Auto layout in Figma
– Smart layout in Xd

Similar to this request:
Liquid Page Layout (Artboards)
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/46611841

Would love this. Illustrator is great because of the many effects it offers, but it lacks this 1 feature that would make it great for UI mockups.

Ex: I create a button that consists of a rectangle with the text "submit" centered in it. No matter how wide or tall I make the rectangle, I want "submit" to remain centered horizontally and vertically within it.

Sketch allows this via "pinning". I can set a parent object-- in this case, the rectangle-- and tell a child object---in this case, the text-- to maintain a certain distance from the top, left, right, and/or bottom of the parent object, or to remain centered to the object at all times, regardless of how the parent is scaled.

In addition, multiple objects can be pinned to the same parent-- for example, if the button said "submit" followed by a checkmark icon, I could tell "submit" to maintain X distance from the left edge of the parent, and the icon to maintain Y distance from the right edge of the parent.

This would be a HUGE time saver for those of us who do UI work in Illustrator. I'm sure it would be a lot of work to implement, but if doing so is at all feasible its inclusion would be amazing.

Thanks!

It would be great to have the possibility to constrain object dimensions and distances inside groups according to their parent or the whole canvas. This function is a basic setting in many UI/UX applications (responsive behaviour for layout, buttons, etc.)

https://vimeo.com/182383488