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Hubert Chauvat
Hubert ChauvatNew Member
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Team project as free plan

Hi,  Trying to restructure my company’s use of Figma. Apparently, some colleagues have a Pro plan (at least 3 that I know of). But none of them work in a company/team-wide project and files are scattered all around, which is a pain for the front devs (incl. me), who happen to be on free plans (that’s fine, tbh). So my question is: who should create a company/team project and invite people with pro/free plans in it? Someone with a pro plan or I can do it? Thank you for your time

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ELUNEYNew Member
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Plan educación

Necesito renovar mi plan educativo, aún me quedan dos años de carrera para finalizar, pero no puedo actualizar mi estado de estudiante. Me aparece una alerta que todos los proyectos pueden desaparecer. Ayuda!

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Yulya890
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Development of mobile app

Hello. I am trying to develop my android application. Now I am creating design for this. I don’t know how to do prototype between text input and opening user’s account of this app.For example,If I want to log in my account in this app,I should insert text in such strings as login and password and after this my account opens. How to do this? How to setup a right prototype in this case before coding?

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Rah
RahNew Member
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New to FIGMA

Hi everyone!I have just started out to learn FIGMA, with a focus on learning UI and UX. I’m just lost in a sea of information and resources on Youtube and other platforms. Can you please help me with some straightforward channels and other resources that I could learn from without spiralling out and get lost. A consistent problem I have faced till now is that the tutorials seem outdated as in the creator/instructor teaching FIGMA is using a different version and as I follow along the buttons, menu and other layouts placed are different than my current versions and I end up spending more time on google for searching where this button is currently located in my version or so. Can you all help me with this with some good resources, I do  not want to learn from a bootcamp style courses, unless it has some really good social proof or review or you have personally went through the bootcamp and have benefitted from it.

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Yash1623
Yash1623New Member
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"Publish Library" detaches local instances. After trying restore component & trying to publish again - same issue comes up.

I have a file with a single component. Every instance can be followed to the main component in the documentation present in same file. I want to publish the file library so later I can Cut+paste it into another component library.On the last step before publishing I have “Added (?)” message next to a few components (that work before publishing) saying:“This component was moved to another file. Publishing this new copy won’t update instances in other files.”The component wasn’t moved to another file. After publishing the library despite this message all local instances are detached and my only option to follow back to a component is to “Restore main component” - but the component was there anyways. When I click on “Restore main component” it places the same component on top of main component that was previously present.When I delete the one that doesn’t work and publish the library again, same thing happens. I’ve added 20 components like this but did not face this problem. Faced this pro

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Kennedy Ekenedirichukwu Dan
Kennedy Ekenedirichukwu DanNew Member
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Responsivenss Issues

 Please, I’m finding it difficult to make the “Login” text to sit on the yellow shape. Is not responsive like the others.

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yango
yangoNew Member
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How to do that?

Hey guys, hope you're doing well.I am struggling to understand how this part of Figma works a bit so let me ask you a question.I hope I can explain it well:So basically you see the bottom element is icon and text. I want to be able to toggle between the different sizes I want to be able to toggle the icon next to the text to be big, middle or small as on the second row. I want with every size to be able to choose different color, for example I choose the small circle with the text I wanna see how it looks like with red, after with green and after with blue. And same for the middle and the big sizes. I guess the sizes must be component with 3 variables, and the colors should be instance swaps? I am lost please help and explain step by step so I can understand. Thank you in advance! :)(I know it would be easier if they were really just colors, but they are different elements I just used colors for the sake of my question to understand the functionality)

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Sems
Sems
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New Font Available Notification keeps popping up - how do I get rid of to

Everytime I leave Figma window to go to another window, I get this “New available font: Raleway” notifications. Why is this happening? How do i turn it off?

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William_Sexton
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Can't get multiple actions to work when combined with variant interaction

I have a button component with the typical default, hover and active states for mouse over animation, nothing special. I want to click this button and: Navigate to a new frame Open an overlay on this frame. If I map multiple On Click actions to a static element then this works. As soon as I try to map these actions onto a button component, only the first action of navigating to a new frame works. So I can’t get it to work on a hover animated button and I have no idea why this would be the case. I don’t have any conflicting actions with the danger icon on anything. Please help! Thanks. Edit: To clarify, I even tested this with a component that had the 3 button states but didn’t have any prototyping links between the states in the component and it worked just fine. As soon as I added a link to a hover state variant the multiple On Click actions broke.

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Noor2
Noor2
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Font Installer Not Working on Figma Web

Hello, I only use Figma on the web, I can’t use the desktop app due to my computer macOS version. I have installed the Figma Font Installer, and it says that I can use local fonts on the web, but this is not working. Any solutions? Best,

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DannyEspinoza
DannyEspinoza
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Cannot reset embedded prototype in slide presentation mode (!)

Hello Fellow Figmers, I am giving a presentation where I have a few slide on a Figma Slides deck for a group presentation. Part of my prototype requires me to reset the prototype during the presentation to go through several flows from the same start point. It appears in online explainers that it is simply pressing “r” (which is my go to if im presenting a prototype the non-slides way, and in that scenario it works fine!). No go! it doesn’t work! I press “r” while on the slide with the prototype (i am using Macbook Air as the overlay option) and it utterly doesnt work. For some dumb reason, if I hit R enough times (like 3 times?) it DOES reset the whole PRESENTATION (not desired effect!!!). to not be able to reset an embedded prototype in a presentation seems like a big miss and I hope theres some way you folks may know of to get around this issue? I may have to make a hidden square on each prototype frame to bring the prototype back to first frame… but I really shouldnt have to do thi

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Julija4
Julija4New Member
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Font Installer/ Figma Agent Issue

Hi everyone,I use Figma on the web, my macOS version is Sequoia 15.4.1. I have installed the Figma Agent and it said I can use local fonts on the web, but this is not working. I tried everything from clearing cache, restarting computer, refreshing page but Figma still doesn’t show the fonts under “Installed by You”. I also have the latest google chrome version. I can’t see the fonts in an existing Figma project and also not if I create a new file. Other programs on my mac like Adobe Illustrator show all fonts without an issue.Any solutions? Thank You!  

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Stefano RossiNew Member
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API Support for Component-Level Properties (Corner Radius, Padding, etc.)

Hi everyone!I’m currently building a design system for my company we have already a Figma Enterprise license, and we’re leveraging the API to sync design tokens with dev team. So far, things have worked well when it comes to color variations at the component level — we’re able to extract and sync those successfully. However, we’ve hit a bit of a roadblock: The Figma API doesn’t seem to expose component-level values for corner radius, padding, or spacing — at least not in a way we can reliably use for token sync.While color tokens are accessible, properties like padding or radius that vary across component variants (e.g. input/small vs input/large) aren’t available through the API in the same way. I’m wondering: Is there a workaround or best practice for syncing these kinds of values via the API? Any help, insights, or suggestions would be hugely appreciated!

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Omer Malik
Omer MalikNew Member
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SSO Integration for Figma Plugin

I am building a plugin where we need to let the users to authenticate via SSO. These users are governed by internal IT policies and hence can’t use OAuth. Are there examples/primer on how to use SSO for authentication for Figma Plugins?

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RheaRoy
RheaRoyNew Participant
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Crafting Tomorrow's Intelligence: The Essential Guide to AI Development Careers

In today's rapidly advancing technological landscape, artificial intelligence developer have emerged as pivotal architects of our digital future. These specialized software engineers combine programming expertise with data science knowledge to create systems that can learn, reason, and make decisions with minimal human intervention.What Does an AI Developer Do?AI developers design, build, and implement AI solutions across various industries. Their responsibilities typically include:Creating and optimizing machine learning algorithms Processing and preparing large datasets Developing neural networks and deep learning systems Testing and refining AI models Implementing AI solutions in production environments Collaborating with data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholdersThe modern AI developer must navigate a complex technical ecosystem while understanding the practical applications and ethical implications of their work.Essential Skills and KnowledgeSuccessful AI developers pos

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Clement_Bettini
Clement_Bettini
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Change Properties Variant Order

It would be great if we could put the properties in the order we want in the variants. With drag and drop like layers. Have a good day 🙂

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Educational plan

I am trying to apply for the educational plan. However, when I click on https://www.figma.com/education/apply, it shows me “you’re in” and “go to Figma” instead of application also the plan doesn’t change. I emailed support@figma.com, and they replied by stating that I should ask here in the community forum. Please help me out. For your reference I have attached the screen.

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dvaliao
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Paul123
Paul123New Member
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cheat sheet of shortkeys for macOS

I need a pdf cheat sheet of the shortkeys for macOS.  the reason i need it in pdf is so that its reliable.  What i mean is is figma is so hard i would have to cuss to explain the problems i’m facing.  school is requiring me to go thru the old 4 tutorials which, because of the change in format since the video, i’m in hell right now.  i need a pdf so that i can open in in a side by side window.  figma is squirrelly as i could ever imagine.  i tried to load the cheat sheet in  to my desktop app of figma, but i can’t find it.  please Figma, take this as the worst feedback you could imagine.  I despise my situation that i’m in… having to figure out this crazy program.

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Sean_Cooley
Sean_CooleyNew Participant
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Why is image DPI doubled when exporting with a multiplier?

When exporting using @2x, @3x, etc multipliers, Figma not only doubles the resolution (width x height) it also doubles the DPI of the image. I’ve been told by Figma on twitter that this is by design. My question is why? DPI is useful for print, but digital screens and devices completely ignore DPI when rendering an image. All they care about is the resolution. I know this sounds wrong, but it’s a fact. An image that is 100x100 will display the same on screen regardless of it is 72 or 144 DPI. High Density screens rely on larger resolutions (i.e. double the size, triple the size) and then pixels are doubled or tripled to get the high-quality look of retina or High DPI images. Also, if screens really did respect DPI, then doubling the DPI would be enough to support these screens. There would be no need to also double the resolution. By doubling both, you are effectively making an @2x image @4x. You’re also making the resulting exported image unnecessarily large. We have certain systems t

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Pablo_Romero_Jaren
Pablo_Romero_Jaren
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Instance swap issue. Height set to fixed

I’m experiencing an issue with an instance swap property in Figma. I have a Card component with Auto-layout (width: fixed, and height: hug). It wraps an instance of a component associated with an instance swap property (width: fill and height: hug). When I create an instance of Card and change the inner instance through the instance property it works fine the first time. From there, if I change it again, Figma sets the height of the inner instance to fixed. This crops the content. Does anyone knows why this happens and how to fix it? Is it a bug in Figma? File here: https://www.figma.com/file/eikqjwKX167uMlUeiGRUOM/instance-swap-issue?type=design&node-id=0%3A1&mode=design&t=4douRHhJOBFMc5Oa-1

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Kei Huynh
Kei HuynhNew Member
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From Code to Design

I’ve been using Cursor to vibe code some screens to help me speed up prototyping, which has been super helpful up until a certain point. When I needed to expand the prototype, I found myself wishing I could just pull the main screens back into Figma with all the design system components already in place.So far, the closest I’ve gotten is exporting HTML/CSS files, but I still need to manually rebuild them in Figma. The design system were built on React. Has anyone looked into this?

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Thomas_dF
Thomas_dFNew Participant
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Change variant and open Overlay with position Manual

I want to change a variant and open an overlay with “Position: Manual” after a “click trigger” in Figma. The trigger performs both actions, but the overlay opens as “Centered” instead of “Manual.” Any suggestions? Thank you!

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Zakyrou
ZakyrouNew Member
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Request for Steps to Change Domain Name with Google Login Integration

Hello,We are in the process of changing our domain name, and we are currently using "Login with Google" for authentication. Could you please provide the steps to update this integration with the new domain?

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Cayte_Licazali
Cayte_Licazali
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Using conditionals with typing in figma

I’m trying to create the following scenario in my Figma prototype: There is an input field and a disabled button. Once the user types at least 3 characters, the button is enabled. Is there a way to use conditionals and variables in Figma to do this? Here’s an example of what I’m working with: https://www.figma.com/file/UbQIf2uwqG8bxYIIX1gh2D/Typing-prototype?type=design&node-id=1817%3A47672&mode=design&t=MRMxUzaH6xB5K0GK-1 Any help is appreciated!

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