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What methods, tools, or habits do you use in Figma to make sure your designs stay uniform and follow the same rules — even when you work on different files?

The selling point of Banana Pro is that it can generate 4K images. Can Figma's Banana do that?

Hello! I have a question regarding my use of the Figma Education Plan as a university professor. While attempting to use the new AI tool with Figma Sites, I encountered two issues: The AI tool wouldn't work on figma sites (it’s like blocked); When I published a site, I was not given the option to set a custom domain. I contacted Figma’s chatbot, and it responded with this message:"Figma Sites is available for higher education or bootcamp Education users, but not for K-12 users. If you're a higher education student or bootcamp participant, you should have access to custom domains."However, I still don’t have access to this feature.Can anyone provide further guidance on this?

Hi,I am making changes to my Figma Github Repo using Claude Code Web - but it seems to not have the ability to pull from Github, Is this correct? If so, what is the best workaround for this?

Hello forum! So the default hotkeys for bringing to front and sanding to back, as moving layers above or below or other layers, are ] and [.And bringing forward and sending backward, as moving layers on one position abore or below other layers, are ctrl + ] and ctrl + [ key combinations.My issue is that I use second option, that is moving layers by one step much more often, so it would be much easier if that would be just ] or [, without also pressing ctrl key.Is there a way to switch those functions or hotkeys for those functions in Figma? Am I the only one having such an issue?Thank you 

I found many topics related to my question, but without answers and closed due to inactivity, so my hopes are really low, but give it a shot anyway. Whenever I create a Layout Grid (columns) it will be visible, and work fine toggling the visibility with L Shift + G. but for some reason, eventually the grids will just not show… the toggle is still happening (the eye icon beside the layout grid toggle open and closed) but the grid is not visible anymore, and the only way to make it work again is to delete the grid, and create the grid again… which is a bit annoying. Has anyone encounter this similar problem and had a solution? is this a bug that is beign addressed? I will appreciate any type of answer, considering that most of the similar topics where closed without a single response. Thank you! 😅

Hello fellow Figma friends,For the life of me, I can’t understand why I can’t see the MCP setting under Preferences. I can’t see it in Dev Mode or Design mode. Thanks in advance :)  

 Trying to create hamburger menu that opens a popup menu in Figma Sites, nothing works. please help!

Anyone ever used figma make? especially until finish it and try to deploy?I’m tried to download generated code from figma make and deployed it to github and vercel. It is doesnt work, seems because the structure is not common. now I still host the website in figma but connect it to a new domain. my question is, does figma make code able to deployed and continue the development as functional website? or it is just mare prototype? does figma has plan to make it website builder like lovable or V0?I also trying to implement Google Analytics, but despite Figma Make's reported implementation using the provided script, GA testing consistently failsany help will really appreciated, thanks!

приложение на Windows не видит установленный шрифт, шрифт установил прямо в систему как и надо, раньше всё работало а теперь нет. пробовал и перезапустить приложение и процесс но нет, что делать?

Hello forum!Is there a way to enable showing line height in pixels by default? By default it shows in percents and I don’t find in really convient, I would much rather just see it in pixels by default or were able to switch it somewhere

I’ve noticed that when I make changes to a main component, some overrides in its instances don’t update as expected. This is causing inconsistencies in my designs, and I’m not sure if it’s a bug or something I’m missing in the workflow. Has anyone else experienced this? Any tips on keeping component updates consistent across all instances would be really helpful.

Hello,I'm contacting you because I don't have access to the Figma AI feature "Remove background".I'm on the verified Student plan and I've noticed that my classmates have this feature but I don't.How can I get access to this feature and other AI features?

Hello, I am pretty new on Figma and I am learning via online course.I just started with the topic smart animate and I tried to animate an arrow that is fading in. It works, like I follow the both rules, have the arrow on two different pages (included) and also they both have the same name. It works fine, but as soon as I try to change the design of the “start” arrow a little bit, let’s say it is bigger than the “end” arrow so that it sizes down, the animation doesnt work anymore. I hope you understand my problem… maybe someone has an idea here? Arrows both have the same name, they are both imbedded on their appropriate layer page.The grey to black fade in works, but not the change of the form, as soon as I change the form of the left arrow, the animation doesnt work anymore. 

In the keynote, the left navigation is mostly discussed in tandem with the “extended collections” feature, which I believe is only available to enterprise. However, I’m interested in the new, full screen variables panel that’s included with the new left nav panel since it makes it much easier to get a complete picture of a design system token set. Is this UI element going to be rolled out to everyone, or only enterprise users? If yes, when’s the target roll out?

I’m trying to the enterprise package, to get this I have to contact sales which I have done 3 times now but no response. Can anyone help with this? I’m trying to get this done asap and its proving to be quite a tedious process.  

Why I don't have figma AI tool after one year? how should I get it?

In the desktop version of Figma, ALL the images have disappeared from ALL my projects. The frames are still there, but they are empty. However, everything is working fine in the browser version. I've tried restarting, uninstalling, and reinstalling Figma, but nothing has worked. Has anyone encountered a similar issue?

I’m experiencing slow loading times when previewing my website designs on mobile, especially when using the Figma mobile app or opening shared prototype links. The desktop preview works fine, but on mobile the pages take several seconds to load, and sometimes interactions lag or don’t respond smoothly. I’ve checked my device, internet connection, and file size, but the issue still appears. I’m wondering if this is a common problem or something related to my setup. Has anyone found a reliable fix or optimization method to improve mobile preview performance?

I'm experiencing a problem with my published design system in Figma. Although the system file containing components and variables has been successfully published and linked to other files, the color variables aren't showing up correctly in the list or grid views. I've already tried re-publishing the file, re-linking the library, checking for naming conflicts, confirming styles are properly defined and published, and clearing the Figma cache. Despite these efforts, the issue persists, which undermines the purpose of a centralized design system. Has anyone encountered this before or found a reliable workaround?Thanks  

How do you sync the changes being done in one copy of the screen to other copies on different pages? I tried making the component out of screen but then it loses it’s floating name on the top left.

So, variables are one of the most important functionalities in Figma, but the plugin API doesn’t help developers when it comes to variables, basically, there is no way for an open plugin to know when a user create, remove, reorder, or edit a variable or variable collection. Even though, this is possible with styles, which are less important and common than variables.If the document change event doesn’t include variable changes, then how an open plugin is supposed to get this information?Why variable changes haven’t been added to the document change event until now?@James_Yang I mentioned you as I always find you answers insightful​   

When using the regular workspace in Figma, I have access to plugins.   Like the QT export plugin. I created a UI using the AI Make tool but the plugins are not avilable in that workspace.   How can I move the UI Created in Make to the regular workspace so I have access to the plugin?   Is taking a screen shot of it and opening it in regular Figma the best option? Thank you.  New to Figma here.  

One approach is to divide responsibilities clearly and use automated testing as much as possible. In our case, midway through the project we reviewed how larger teams work, especially those from a blockchain development company USA perspective, and we adapted some of their processes. Simple things like mandatory peer review, using CI pipelines, and keeping clear documentation made a huge difference even for a small team.

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