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With a pro account, I work on the same library every week. As a result, I have to push and update a lot. So all my dependencies files are often synced. Why is Figma offering me an update from two years ago? @Gayani_S ?

Hi all, I’m 2 weeks in learning Figma so bear with me, I just finished designing a home page with prototypes and all. It was approved and I got the go to make the thing responsive for tablet and mobile. I tried to educate myself as much as I could on auto layout, constraints and all, but it seems like when I create a component that has instances and I put them into a auto layout, it doesn’t work as it should. It seems like if I want to use the same prototyped animation for desktop, tablet and mobile I need to recreate that prototype for each version? It seems like too much work. My example is: I Created a slideshow for the showcase section of the website. My slideshow is made of 5 images inside a auto layout, inside a frame that are turned into a component. The frame acts as a clipping mask to show only one picture at a time. I then created variants of this component showing different pictures each time. The prototype is set on a delay, and auto animates to switch picture automatically

I resurrect this topic from another user that was closed without any response. For example: Using the Fill option for the image, the image will be center aligned when the container size changes. I need the image still fill the width of the container, but align to the top of the image, instead of the center. Crop doesn’t work, bc it will scratch the image only on the X-axis. The container can get wider, but the height is fixed. I tried different way (change the image to scale, auto layout, etc) and couldn’t find a way to achieve this. Anyone knows a trick? Or this is something Figma cannot do at the moment? Thanks!

I expect to have two drag interactions which go to the left and right for a carousel. Unfortunately, only one direction works (to the right side). Is it a bug? Or how can I fix it?

I want to showcase my design system in a presentation, but preparing slices, exporting them, and importing them into slides is a cumbersome process. It would be amazing if I could set a slice, for example, 810x810, and directly target that slice in a Figma slide. This way, I could pull it through seamlessly into the slide. Additionally, having the ability to zoom, rotate, and adjust the slice directly within the slide would make it much easier to perfect the content.

I use the desktop app–my team and I post Figma links in Slack. I would like to be able to open them directly in the desktop app, but I can’t. Direct as in not going through a browser first. I have Bumpr (link opener utility), but I can’t designate Figma as a “browser”. Current flow: I click the link in Slack “Opening this in desktop app” page opens in Chrome File opens in desktop app I would like to get rid of #2. It feels super clunky, leads to #3 not always showing me the correct page/screen, and leaves a tab in Chrome that other than reloading to fix a step #3 failure, has no long-term purpose. Does the Slack plugin allow #2 to be skipped? I can’t test this because I’m not the Slack admin.

How do you scroll around your Figma canvas with a normal scroll-wheel mouse? I use a Magic Mouse for Figma work. That means I can scroll in any direction with a single finger on the top of the mouse, which is super convenient. For ergonomic reasons I am moving to a larger mouse. Are there mouses other than Apple’s that have the touch surface on them? If not I guess I’m transitioning to a scroll wheel. How do you navigate the canvas with a scroll wheel? Having to hold a modifier key to enter or change modes feels like it’ll be clumsy after the easy one-finger movement of the Magic Mouse.

I have card components which use smadows in Light mode, but can I disable them in Dark mode using Variables? Can’t figure it out. Thanks 🙂

Hello everyone! About a month ago i noticed that Figma cant see the new fonts, then i decided to go to another program to finish my work, thinking that Figma (after the big upgrade) needs a time to detect the new font files. Now i am in the situation when i cant work without Figma. I spent about 4 hours reading the forum and useless articles in case i can find the solution. And no! The problem is still here. I tried: Install and uninstall Figma Desktop Install and uninstall Figma Font Installer Restart my macbook Tried to work from browser (nothing changed, no fonts) Troubleshoot/clear cache (OF COURSE!) I even have tried to put the font in Figma with mac os console I am loosing my hope to solve this naughty small problem. How can i fix this? Any ideas? MacOS 15.0 Sequoia (24A335) Figma Desktop App version 124.6.2

Hi there, I’m currently experimenting with scrolling content on a page, specifically using a scroll bar. I’ve followed some tutorials, and while the basic functionality is working, there are a few issues I haven’t been able to resolve: I’ve added a hover action to the scroll bar button, but it doesn’t seem to stay active while scrolling - I’ve tried this using both ‘change to’ and also by setting each state as a true / false variant - neither seems to give the desired effect. When releasing the scroll button mid-scroll, the content jumps to the top or bottom instead of stopping in-situ, which would be the expected behaviour of a scroll bar for the user. Any help on any of the points would be greatly appreciated! I’m still early in my learning journey, so any guidance would be really helpful. I’ve attached the Figma file I’m working on, and I’ve tried to name everything clearly and logically. Thanks so much! scroll-test.fig (51.0 KB)

As a basic example, I’m trying to create a Cover page and set that page as the Figma.currentPage. However, in the console.log of the currentPage, it still show as “Page 1” instead of “Cover”. The actual Figma app does switch to the “Cover” page, but I don’t understand why console.log is showing “Page 1” instead of “Cover” as the currentPage. This is causing frames I want to create on the “Cover” page to be created on “Page 1” instead. What am I missing to ensure that Figma has successfully set currentPage to “Cover” before I create frames? Or is there a way to create frames directly on the “Cover” page without having to set it as the currentPage?

Hey everyone 👋. I’m pretty new to Figma plugin development and I’ve hit a wall. I’m working on a plugin where the main task is processing nodes when the user selects them. The problem? Figma freezes for a while when it runs, and it’s driving me nuts. Here’s the deal: The processing is all in the code.ts file because I need access to all the node properties. I haven’t moved anything to the ui since it doesn’t give me what I need. I tried using a Web Worker to handle some of the heavy lifting, but realized code.ts doesn’t support Web APIs, so that plan flopped. Right now, I’m using a Promise.all to process everything asynchronously and skipping invisible nodes to lighten the load. It helps a bit, but it’s still not enough to stop Figma from freezing. The big bottleneck is one function doing all the work, and it’s just too slow. So here’s what I’m wondering: how can I handle this kind of async processing better without locking up Figma? Also, is there a way to show some kind of

I do the actions as the image describe, but it connot work. but before these day it work fine for me ! anyone else know what’d happened ?

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i know this doesnt seem like much but sometimes i have a links to reference content and posts from social media

Hello. I’m simply trying to center align two lines. There are no snap to grids or anything like that on and it will not align properly. PLEASE HELP thank you!

In the old UI, it was here: In the new UI, a button that looks similar in the “Appearance” group (which has no tooltip) just brings up a list of variables. I’m probably looking right at it, but I don’t see it. Not sure what applying a variable here would even do.

Since the latest variable update, the way to add a property to a bunch of variables in my component has become alot more complex. Now i can’t select multiple and add in a property but i find i have to rename it in my layers panel for the option to show up in the properties panel, and then apply that property to all the other ones. Unsure if related to the variable update, but now when i go back into my projects i find parts of my designs are literally blank until i double click the component then it refreshes and comes back? it’s very strange. Also moving the ‘go to main component’ button has been really annoying as now i have to right click to go back when i used to just be able to click the shortcut button. If there was a way to customise my shortcuts that would be ideal.

After I import Figma UI Kit all I see is grey boxes in Canvas App. What am I missing? ImgBB

I am a plug-in developer. Recently, I have observed that the growth rate of my plug-in users has dropped significantly. At first, I thought it was an isolated case. When I observed the data of some other popular plug-ins, I found that this was an overall change. All plug-ins are like this, but the degree of change is different. And I noticed that the growth rate of my plug-in’s loved has not only not dropped, but has even grown faster than before. I think it should be that Figma has changed the way it counts the number of users. In the past, you only needed to start the plug-in to be counted as a user, but now, users need to reach a certain level of activity in the plug-in to be counted? This is originally a more reasonable way of counting, which can effectively filter out invalid users. But this is unfair and devastating to new plug-ins. No matter what Figma’s original intention was to update the statistical rules, for users, the number of plug-in users is still the most important ind

Hello! I recently successfully verified myself as a student to get access to a professional plan. However, when browsing through my account, I couldn’t find a certain place in which I could verify my account status as a student, nor I can find how to check for how long it will last. I know that I can now create new professional workspaces, as well as upgrade my free one. However, before updating my workspace, I’d like to know if there’s a way to keep track of not only when and how it expires, but also if there’s anything I have to be aware of when/if it downgrade back to a free space (such as members losing access to files, or anything that could reorganize my files and projects in an unexpected way). Thank you from advance 🙂

저는 I am using a pro account and have full access privileges. I followed the manual exactly to enable the AI features. However, the AI button is not visible on my screen. What could be the reason for this?

Why do I have a confetti animation when I press the shortcut to copy properties - ctrl+alt+c, confetti appears on the screen, but the properties are not copied, it’s annoying. Someone had this before? Help…

bitch I just can’t fucking stand it anymore, do the Figma developers even use Figma or not? why do you constantly ruin something that works fine, why should I automatically activate search when switching to dev mode? just stupidly why? have you ever asked yourself this question? now when I need to exit dev mode, I need to make some extra click every time so as not to activate input, which is absolutely useless there, to exit dev mode, get to work already, you get paid for this…

I had a Figma Organization account when we had enough number of teams. But now we have shrink down our team number and currently we only require Professional plan. So, is it possible to downgrade from Organization plan to a Professional Plan? Does anyone knows how to downgrade the Organization plan? Has anyone got any leads regarding this, gone through the Support team, and was successful at downgrading an existing plan?