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I do some digital illustration, so maybe my perception is colored by a workflow that can't be generalized to others, but I am puzzled by it switching back to the arrow tool after drawing a shape. If I just drew a circle, I'm far more likely to draw another circle than select something.

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There are competing conventions for this in different kinds of apps. In the end, I went with the design app convention.

If you want it to stick with the same shape, double click the shape in the toolbar!

Out of curiosity, from which design app did you model your decision? I’m not questioning you, but I’m very curious to know which design software GUIs use an idiom so different from what I’ve experienced, yet is common enough to be a convention. I’ve used many design apps for many purposes and never used one that would switch you out of any mark making tool automatically once a single mark was made. (I’m a UI designer and developer primarily, so new (to me) things in design tool UIs tick a lot of personal interest boxes.)

Yup. One of the first things I noticed. I'd rather prefer it stays on the same tool.

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