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I am in the process of creating a design system. I have created the local variables having a section for primitives, than another section for tokens. All is working great, but when I pull other components from our legacy design system, it keeps adding these and random names to the variables when I click the apply variable mode icon.The image shows the legacy design system as DI Design system, and also Experiment which is a Figma file I am playing with.Its quite irritating as I am trying to keep this file really simple.I can remove these additional items by deleting the components and I am left with item ‘Created in this file’ with the sub item titled ‘Tokens’Can anyone recommend a solution here or alternative way of doing this.The reason I am doing this I want to organise our colours semantically as tokens, the legacy design system is a mess that I inherited. Thanks in advance.  

Hello, I’m facing some difficulty with my prototype as the text edits I made to a specific variant are not showing up in the prototype. Instead, the text reflects that of the main component. This variant of a component is nested in another component’s variant, and when the prototype starts the normal flow of going from the default state of this parent component to the state where the child component is viewable, the child component’s content reflects the main component instead of the version I edited.  Only if I start from the second or third variant state does the child component reflect my edits.I’m not sure if I’m explaining this well but I’d be more than happy to answer any questions and am thankful for any help!  Link to Figma File what the preview/prototype currently displays (aka main component)what should be displayed (aka edited instance) 

Is it advisable to manage multiple features within a single Figma file, for example, it will have hundred of pages and thousand of artboards. Will Figma experience performance issues if multiple designers work on the same file simultaneously? How does this approach affect version control when multiple designers are working on the same file?

in a table footer, I use constraints to keep pagination right and other text left. but onDrag to a more narrow width, I want the pagination to wrap under the text. i don’t think there is a way to do this right?

I can't select the "Change to" function in interactions - it's greyed out.I'd like to make the text rotate in a circle - does anyone know how to do this in Figma?Also, I'm wondering how best to export my newsletter banner with the animation. Are there any best practices to ensure high quality?I'm looking forward to hearing your suggestions and am grateful for your help! 😊

how to store string variable value in number variable in figmaIf there is a string variable named "value" on which i am storing number value, now i want to store this digit in a number variable, how can it be done?

Hi What happens to shared files after cancellation of Pro subscription ?Are the shared files still available for viewers ?Thanks and best regards,2W

Hello,Does anyone know why Figma no longer lets me edit a design that was shared with me?I still have editing permission. Do you know what I can do?

In some of my Figma files that are linked to our design system, while writing in Arabic using font tokens, after a while, the text disappears, and the only solution that solves this is to double-click on each and every text to make it appear again! In a large file that is all in Arabic, it looks like the attached screen, and this solution is time-consuming, especially since it happens again the next day. Attached are Arabic vs. English screens.

I made a video for my plugin to help people sync clickup and figma, but it’s not letitng me upload. Not sure if the problem is the format, length or other as no error messages appear. it just doesn’t do anything. My video is MP4, 32MB, it is around 3 min long cuz it’s a demo of the full plugin.Is there any documentation we can check to see what the requirements are?

Hello, Scenario - I’m attempting to create a mobile prototype with a scrollable secondary navigation, the secondary navigation should preserve its horizontal scroll position after an on click interaction Problem - My prototype will not preserve horizontal scroll position when changing variants with the on click interaction. Image of menu -ImgBB Here is a link my prototype - Figma Thank you for your help

See video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q2l_K3N8R9grxH-dpBxkcROjJICCa0JI/view?usp=sharing I’m using the Material Symbols plug-in to put together some icons and suddenly the last handful of them have disappeared visually. The components are still there, as I can see it them in the layers panel as well as click/drag on the invisible group of it. Adjusting the icon’s parameters in the right panel doesn’t do anything. Even moving i off the frame doesn’t do anything. I have  tried refreshing the app, the browser, and even restarted my entire system.What’s going on?? Is this a plugin issue?

In Windows 11, if I have the Figma desktop app minimized in the taskbar, if I try to click the taskbar item to maximize it, it will flash a very quick white screen before rendering Figma’s contents in the app. This is even more noticeable if you have min/max animations turned off in windows. How do we fix this?

Hi there, I’m on the latest Figma version. I’ve added some new variables in the team’s UI Library which sits under the Design System space. There are three collections inside this UI Library called: Theme Master, Colors and Spacing. I have another Figma design file sitting in its own project space, and I’ve imported the UI Library into this design file. But I can only see a portion of the variables from the UI Library (about a quarter only). We have Enterprise license. Questions Does anyone have the same issue, and do you have a workaround this? Must both the UI Library and the design files be in the same team space?

I’d like to scale text visually to 75% or 50% without it changing the font size / text style. Is that possible? I have a standard set of variables and text styles (multiple headings, paragraphs, etc) for most of my project, but in a few cases, I need to apply them at different scales... like for a small banner ad. The styles are still syntactically “Heading 1” and “Paragraph” lets say, but at 75%. There may be a variety of scales, so I thought it would get out of control to duplicate text styles at a percentage.

Would love if Figma could compile best practices for optimizing the load speed of prototypes. Answering: What choices to make or not make so that prototypes load as quickly as possible?So I’d love to know from the community:What best practices have you found that help prototypes load quicker?  What causes prototypes to load slower that should be avoided?For reference: I have a 19-page desktop prototype that is component-heavy that I will be using for a usability test this week. It’s a set of 10 rows that expand and collapse, revealing a very data-heavy component-heavy layout so I’ve replaced those with straight pngs in hopes that would help.The header and rows of the  prototype references components from a robust design system library, components from a specific design file and in-file components. Variables for colors, mainly just regular font styles versus variables. Clicking certain buttons can be slow to change the display (clicking to another page, changing the button, row, or head

Hi all, Is it possible to resize the bounding box of a component without resizing the contents? I can see the option Resize to Fit but can’t find a manual option to drag?

I have a shared library that houses a number of frequently used colors as well as separate design files that utilize them. I recently updated several of the color values; however, the components that reference these values still appear to be showing the old colors. Restarting my Wifi, computer, and Figma as well as closing, reopening, or even duplicating the file has no effect. The only thing that seems to fix it is clicking the color name in the Fill panel and clicking the color name (that is already selected). Obviously this solution isn’t scalable when you have a large amount of colors and components that need updating. Can anyone please suggest a way to ensure the latest colors are displayed throughout the file automatically without requiring manually updating each instance? Thanks in advance!

Given a button component with some variants for color: … and given a popover-button component with the button component nested into it: I have some instances of the popover-button, for which I would like to override the variant-property for color (in the main component, the variant-property is set to black). For the current variant of the popover-button, this setup is fine. However, when the variant property of the popover-button is switched, it reverts to the initial variant property value of the nested button-component, the way it is defined in the main component. My override for variant property value for this nested button-component is ignored. My question would be: how can I make sure that a component’s instance respects the overridden nested component instance’ variant property override across parent component instance variants? An excerpt (copy) of my design system can be found here, so it is clear how I have set things up:Figma – 13 May 24

Hi all, I was wondering if it’s possible to change components with the light and dark mode feature. The use case is in my site navigation I want to change the brand logo to the correct version depending on whether the designs are in light or dark mode. I know I could just change it in the properties panel but it would be nice to have it automated so other designers get the correct logo with limited brand knowledge. Any thoughts or help appreciated James

I’m trying to build a scalable and flexible form field input component, made out of the subcomponents (background, labels, right icon, left icon) so I can change the states between default, focused, and error. I’ve built these, but no matter what settings I have applied on the subcomponent “background” (position: scale / R &T; auto layout: hug - I cannot fill container as there is no parent container to fill) when I incorporate it into a core component, the “background” subcomponent’s width cannot be changed.  What is going wrong here? 

Hello, I lost an important file. This document records all my work and is very important to me. I was able to use it yesterday, but today I found that I could not open it and it showed 404. At the same time, this recent file was not shown in the recent deletions.Request: I hope you can help me recover these files. Thank you very much for the help of the figma team.

I am a student starting to use Figma to create some html to learn while helping the community by creating some data entry forms for charity. I created the account yesterday but am unable to try this out. Should the school have an education plan that covers Figma for this?

Is there a way I can turn a normal autolayout textbox frames into an component Instance, without having to copy the component and replace existing texts one by one. For example I have multiple mobile pages that is not linked to a component as below, is there a way to click all the text boxes and link it into becoming a component instance?  

I’m running into a frustrating issue with our design system in Figma and could use some help figuring out what’s going wrong. Here’s the situation:We have a component from an older version of our design system, and recently we updated its structure (e.g., layer organization, etc.). After publishing the updated library, the changes aren’t reflecting in another file that uses this component. The structure in that file stays stuck on the old version, and the only fix we’ve found is to manually swap the component from the library again. On top of that, variables tied to the component aren’t updating either—we keep getting an error saying “Library needs to be republished” to reflect the mode, even though we’ve already republished everything.Our setup looks like this:Variables are defined in one file. Components are in a separate file. We updated both the variables and component structure, then republished the library.I’d love to know:Why aren’t these updates syncing automatically across fil