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Hi! It’s my first topic here :)I have a question about figma and it’s system requirements because I plan on investing into a new PC (windows) and I want to ensure it’s future proof and the specs I pick fit Figma’s needs.My current pain point is that I see a ton of lag on a 16GB RAM PC with moderate-level CPU. It’s a $800 type of budget pc that is 2 years old.And I need to know basically the following: On a 4k screen, to keep figma smoothly running with large files (50+ components, 20+ frames per page, 100+ variables etc) what do I need:Minimim RAM for smooth running; Is 64GB plenty even for the next 5 years of updates and features? What in the CPU does figma care about What in the GPU does figma care about, to what extend? Is it VRAM? Is there anything else?Of course I understand about keeping drivers up to date, working on the desktop app and so on.Thank you!

I am unable to fathom what am I getting on top of what I already was to justify a 33% price hike. Please help me understand?

When viewing a file and clicking the “Main” dropdown in the top left corner of the thumbnail, you'll see a preview of some branches you've creates-but not all of them. To view the full list, you need to go to the “See all branches” menu. Which branches are included in this preview? Are they the most recently created ones? Does it only show the branches from the last 30 days? 

I’m currently creating a design system and when it comes to icons, i’m not sure what do to regarding the frames for the icons and padding inside it. Google Material UI recommends to have 24x24px frames for the icons and that you add padding so that your icon is 20x20px inside the frame. But that seems weird to me, if i do that, my paddings are going

Before when I had an object selected and hovered over another, it told me the distance between them in pixels. Since the new update, I have to go into Dev mode to see this. How can I see the distance between objects in design more?

Hey everyone, I have a friend who is new to Figma and I was going to recommend to them to check out this resource on learning how to best utilize the tool. But then it got me thinking there might be more additional resources to recommend.  So if you’re a Figma expert, what resources do you recommend? Looking forward to seeing your recs! 

Hello, Figma Community! I’m exploring the process of duplicating an existing library within my team and have several questions about how this impacts both the original and the duplicated libraries. I appreciate any insights or experiences you can share! Notifications to Team: When I duplicate a library, does the team receive any notification about this new duplicate? Connection Between Original and Duplicated Libraries: After publishing the duplicated library, is there any link or connection back to the original library? In other words, does the duplication process create any dependencies or ties between the two? Impact on the Original Library: By duplicating a library, is there any risk of altering or damaging the original library in any way? Preservation of Library Elements: Does duplicating a library ensure that all variants, functions, and components from the origin

Is there anyway I can recover those files?

Привет! Не могу зайти в приложение на десктопе. Когда открываю, в браузере не появляется вкладка для логина в приложении. Впн включала, компьютер перезапускала Пишет Go to Browser to complete login Go back and try again нажимала И все….

I’ve already fixed typo of a color style variable name from Bg-Reverse-A00 to Bg-Reverse-A100 But still got old JSON data:```bash curl -H "X-Figma-Token: <my-token>" "https://api.figma.com/v1/files/<my-file-id>/styles"``` I tried to suffix the URL with “?timestamp=random_number” but still got the same old data.

Здравствуйте. Не заходила в фигму пару месяцев. Зашла на днях, а не могу редактировать свой макет и перейти из вкладки Properties во кладку Design. Что делать?????

Is there a way to write things out to a local file through the plugin? I would like to read through figma file, extract the necessary information that I am looking for, and then write that out into a local file in the format of json / csv. I was looking into some external libs like fs for typescript. But I am running into issues trying to do that.  Anyone can give some pointers on how I can write things out to a local file?

  As an active Figma user, I would appreciate it if you could enable the AI ​​feature for me."Also, AI features are not available in the team settings and I can't enable or disable them"  Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I exported my design files from previous team, and I want to upload the file to my personal workspace, the file loads for a while, during the loading I see the file created in my workspace and I get this error message. After closing the popup, when I open the file, there are no assets, only empty artboards.I that file I used few videos, but mostly there where designs/assets that were created in figma. Is anyone familiar with this issue? How it can be fixed? HELP 😭

Hello,When prototyping, the top of my frame is hidden behind the phones camera (see picture). Is there a way to avoid this from happening or do I have make my top bars lower? Would be so appriciated if someone could help me.Wishing you a great day!Kind regards,Jacob

I support faculty staff and students at our university, so I would like to apply for the education plan as an administrator.  I do not teach, so I do not have a syllabus.  The form is not allowing me to submit the form unless I attach a syllabus.  The form gives you the option to apply as an administrator, but administrators do not a syllabus.  How should I apply?   Thanks, Aaron

I educate classes in Figma and before the summer they could apply for an education plan using their private e-mails. Since they’ll be graduating it’s better if they keep everything on the account that they’ll be using later on - after school. But now it asks for a school mail, is there any way around this now?

Does anyone know why Segoe UI Regular sizes might be greyed out and not working on a Mac? Issue: I’ve never had this problem in the past, but as of two days ago the font Segoe UI regular and semi-bold are not working in my files. The other weights seem to work fine and I have the option to change their sizes etc. Other things worth noting: (A) this happens in both the desktop and web versions of my files (B) It happens on existing and new files © I can use the font in other applications such as Word/Powerpoint etc (D) Co-workers don’t have this problem when they edit my files. What I’ve tried so far: (1) I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled the Segoe font family. I’ve downloaded from two different MSFT domains to make sure it wasn’t the downloaded files that were the problem (2) I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled Figma desktop. (3) I’ve rebooted Figma, my machine etc (2) I’ve ran the Mac OS font va

My Figma Black is not Black (it’s black in other applications) – any suggestions gratefully received.

I had personal setbacks that caused my graduation to be delayed. My education plan has expired -- I transfered the projects I was working on onto a starter team but I am not sure if I am going to be able to continue to work on them after my education plan expires 

Since one of the most recent updates, text layers no longer update without restarting the entire prototype from scratch. For instance, I have a button that says “Save” and change the text to “Update”. Then I look at the prototype and the button text says “U” and not the entire text I added. Refreshing does nothing. I have to close and relaunch it to see the text change. This is across all component instances and is specific to text.I’m convinced Figma doesn’t do QA work sometimes. Every prototype has this problem now. I don’t want to “reset” Figma app for the 100th time either.

I prefer to use a limited design where I can see fonts, colors, size and so on. It seems that I have changed my settings and now “Prottype” TAB is installed…. I woud like to go back to previous settings - to “Properties type”. 

In my design system, I wanna provide a couple of components that act as containers, e.g., Popover. So, the Figma-user / design system consumer can put inside whatever it needs (img, text…). I don’t want to be too specific & restrictive here. Currently, the components in Figma act more as closed constructs: All the options we want to provide have to be designed in advance as variants, variables, etc. This is cool for consistency, but it is super rigid for a custom content that can’t be foreseen. The only way I could provide some flexibility is by suggesting the Figma designer to detach the component instance and then put the custom content inside. Any thoughts, workarounds, plugins, coming Figma features?

Hi everyone,I would like to update my portfolio and that's where Figma Slides comes into play. My thoughts are to rebuild my new portfolio in the tool. Previously I have always used Indesign, but I find it too static. Slides offers me a larger playing field and I think the animation function is great. Now my question is, if I create a presentation in Slides with small animations, will these also be included in the export as a PDF and if not, will the default state be displayed in the PDF or how does it behave?In Indesign I can export an interactive PDF. There I can then integrate smaller animations such as hover on the button etc.. How is it with Figma Slides, because when I export I cannot choose between PDF and interactive PDF.Looking forward to your feedback.

hello, it would be very much appreciated if it was possible to apply numeric variables to the x & y position of absolute positioned elements within components. Here is the case i am working on: While everything is completely tokenized and adjusts to different screen densities, i cannot apply the positioning tokens to the design defining the absolute positioning of the dropdown -list flyout. As you can see the dis