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Im struggling to find any decent specifics about what spec is best to use. Would either of these laptops suffice or be overkill? Im not doing any 3D modelling etc but just lots of wireframes, hi-fid mockups and screen recordingsMacBook Pro (M4 Pro, 2024) 16 inch with 14-core CPU and 20-core GPU, 24GB Unified Memory, 512GB SSDOrApple MacBook Pro 14”, M4 Max Processor, 36GB RAM, 1TB SSD

My design is getting really big and slow, so I am looking for the most efficiënt way to create hover states on components.  I have a bunch of pretty big/complex components that represent a conveyor track in my design. They include shapes, shadows, text (sizes), icons, etc. When the user hovers over them they get a different color to indicate that they are selectable, similar to a button.I now have a normal state, and a hover state that is exactly the same, only with a semi-transparent hover shape in a different color on top of it. I do not really like this approach, as I have to maintain both states if an icon or something changes, and it feels dump to just have the whole thing duplicated. I am also thinking my components have double the amount of shapes they really need, causing additional slow-down.  I was thinking of extracting everything in a track part component into a ‘base shape’ component and include that in both states, but I am not sure this will actually help (it's a lot of

I can’t seem to disable spell check no matter what I do, enabling it does not remove these red underlines either.My version of Figma is 125.2.3 on Windows, and there are no updates. I have also disabled all native spelling correction in Windows.  

Hello Figma Team,I waited for a long time for my account to be active with Figma AI. Please open access for my account soon. Thank you for your work. Best regards, 

Currently the deleted node only returns id and type, there’re no other properties about it. I understand that since it’s been deleted so figma may decided not to keep those useless data. But is there a way I can achieve those properties like it’s a normal/undeleted node?

I received a notification email stating that my Figma Education Plan is about to expire. Currently, I am attending a bootcamp , so I would like to extend my education plan. However, I am unable to renew it due to the following error message: "You’ve already used up your free access to the Figma Education plan."I've already sent email to both support@figma.com and education@figma.com but haven’t received any responses. What should I do now as my education play will expire in 2 days? 

I have tried many community interactive text field components but when I share prototype links with user test participants, the experience is extremely poor and they most often break or don't work correctly. Is there an official or recommended interactive text field plug-in / component that can be used successfully in prototypes?

HII am struggling to learn autolayout and heard from a Figma pro that it isn’t necessary for the end result. Is this correct? If not, how much worse will the end result be without autolayout? 

I’m creating a Figma plugin that automatically generates SVG icon components by reading their content from a JSON file.When I create a component with variants using the Figma app UI, the component name is shown by default. I’m attaching an image for clarity — in it, “album 1” is the component name, which appears automatically. Also, the purple border is added by default. I’m trying to replicate the same behaviour when creating components using the API.I was able to reproduce the purple border, but I haven’t found a way to make the component name visible, like it is when created manually through the UI. Here’s an extract of the code I’m using:const mainFrame = figma.createFrame();// .... //// code to customize the mainFrame //// Group icons by name to find variationsconst iconGroups = new Map<string, IconData[]>();// code to group variations of the same icon //for (const [name, icons] of iconGroups) { // Create a display grid for this icon's variations const displayGrid = figma.

I found figma today, and i think this may be a useful tool, so I saw that figma offers students free access, but my school is not listed in their list. Can I still somehow get verified for student plan? Greetings Chris

Hello! I’m trying to make my prototype trigger an action when the user presses “SHIFT” not a combination of “Shift + letter”. Just the SHIFT button.I’m not able to get it to register just SHIFT on its own. Is there a way to do this? Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you

I created a component in File A, and am pasting an instance into File B. When I paste the instance, it displays correctly (as shown on the right) but when it is clicked into, it distorts into the image on the left.The even stranger thing seems to be, it is only affecting me. My teammates shared their Figma screen with me and both instances appear like the right. They can paste from File A into File B with no issue, and the instances do not distort when clicked into.Is this a bug, and is there a fix? I’ve already tried reloading the files themselves and restarting Figma + my computer.

I can't find a file in my Figma account, I looked for it in the various folders and also in the trash section but I can't find it. I have the link to this file but when I open it I get the message that the file may have been deleted, moved or inaccessible. How can I find out what happened to this file? This is his link, Thank you for your attention https://www.figma.com/design/DVGPAMvWD3E003BKKHV8vL/Landing-page-Parrella?node-id=0-1&t=iyyBIQW7tRzu6yo1-1

It just doesn’t return results. Generally, Figma been running sooooo slow. Constantly needing to reload pages/files each time you focus on the file… Then there are the conectivity issues (failing to save to cloud)… What a mess.

On Friday I spent a great deal of care creating a system of variables and applying it to new frames. When I open the file today I can see the created frames, and the correct values applied to an object’s properties, but it’s not referring the variable. The value is greyed out, and when I open the variables panel, there’s one collection of variables I had from before, but not the one I created on Friday. I tried restoring older versions, but the issue remains. I tried opening it in the browser, but the issue remains. Any help to shed a light on this will be so appreciated!

I’m designing and SaaS dashboard, and I’m trying to fill a bit of space between a header and a another section within an auto layout, but for some reason i cant select 'fill container" for the height. I can do it for width, but not the height. Is there something I’m missing to understand the properties behind fill container for height?

The top picture is from Figma and the bottom is from Android Studio. We also have same issue on iOS.Is there a way to ensure that Figma is closer to how the font is rendered in the app? Right now we are going to have alot of issues with padding both between the text boxes and also top and bottom in general. We have tried to “Vertical trim” to “Set cap height to baseline”, but that does not work either because the descenders are not in the text frame.Thank you :)

Hi other users,At our firm we have a Figma enterprise plan. Due to lesser designers and developers, we are no longer in need of an enterprise plan and want to change it into an organization plan. However, how do you do that? I’m walking straight into a dead end every time, cannot find any information about it (except for upgrading plans) and get no respons from Figma. So I am kind of desperate at the moment. Does any of you know how to do this or have done this before? I would like to hear from you!Thanks in advance, EstherPS If someone from Figma is reading along, you can still contact me to help me get this done. ;-)

We used to have Minimize/Expand UI menu options on the Figma desktop app. Why was this removed? It's most flexible when there are options we can customize with other keyboard shortcuts. Every user is different, and customization maximizes productivity.Was there a specific reason this was removed? Can this menu option be brought back? It's currently present in the Figma menu inside the web app but not in the desktop menu options. This makes it impossible to have access to that function and assign other keyboard shortcuts.Please bring this back to regain user customization. Having a web-based app already has its limitations, and the little custom things that can actually be accessible are being removed. :( ​@Figma_Desktop  

Does Figma support restricting access to specified IP addresses?

Hi, I’ve tried to search this, but couldn’t quite find what I was after. I have created a component, and it has 14 variants. The options I can see is that they can follow each other vertically or horizontally, but not both. At the moment all I can get it to do is go horizontally forever, or vertically forever. Is there are way to create the variants to start new rows basically - be it horizontally or vertically? I know this is probably user error, so please help! Thanks in advance 🙂

I've recently visit some AI generation sites that it's possible to generate the contents of a Figma directly into my clipboard, allowing me to paste directly into the Figma.I'm curious as to how this is accomplished, and I'd like to use this approach on my own site as well.

After leaving the company, I cancelled the account【crystalsha@aldelo.com】, which made it impossible for me to log in to this account.How can I change the email address so that my account can be used normally

How can I change the username in the Figma forum or if that’s not possible delete the account and recreate it with the right username?

Hi! I’ve skimmed through the hyphenation-related threads on the forum, but since they contain very few comments, I’m kinda wondering how other professionals tackle the lack of proper hyphenation settings in Figma? I’m aware of the Nisa App, and judging from the reviews it probably is worth it, but plugins by their nature have some downsides compared to native functions in figma.Do y’all use plug-ins for this, do you do it manually, like adding hyphens where needed and keeping track of them not jumping around if there is some late-stage re-formatting happening; do youuse another application like Illustrator and then re-paste it your figma layout? Or are there solutions to this that I’m not aware of? It really is beyond me on so many levels how hyphenation (which even exists in CSS since way back) has not yet been implemented into Figma proper ( I started looking into it like 3+ years ago), but I figure most must have found some workaround, so just curious how y’all go about it.