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I’ve mentioned two images of two frames, what I actually want is that the 1st frame to appear to when the app is opened and the UI of the second app to be visible when the screen is scrolled. Basically you’ll see a side panel that is what I want to be visible when the screen is scrolled down, Could someone please help me?

Hello, Figma team and community, I’m feeling quite disappointed with the recent update released on November 10th, which introduced the new interface. While the redesign looks great, I noticed that the AI feature is still not available for me. I’ve seen several users already have access to it, and it’s frustrating not being able to use and test this exciting feature. This isn’t the first time updates have taken 1–2 months (or even longer) to roll out fully, and it’s disheartening to experience this delay repeatedly. I really hope Figma can improve the rollout process or at least provide clearer communication on when these features will be available to everyone. Thank you!

Hi! I’m new to Figma/UX/etc. and I’m wondering what the best way to do this is… Essentially, the goal is that when the Add Position Grouping button is pressed, a window appears, and the button moves below the new section. However, if the user clicks the X to delete the section that they’ve added, I need the button to reappear back where it was previously. This is the part I’m stuck on. I’m not sure if I’m overcomplicating things and missing something obvious. Any help is appreciated! 🙂

My rectangle separated into it’s fill and stroke, any way to put it back together? Also how did it even happen?

The fact that the default option in Figma is now that anyone can upgrade themselves into a paid seat without explicit approval from an administrator is completely outrageous and absolute bad practice. I am administrating our Figma team, in which I have currently three full-paid seats assigned to my colleagues. A few weeks ago, I received an email that a person outside of our organization has been upgraded to a full-paid seat; without anyone from our team having approved this. I restricted his access, but still had to pay the bill. Today, this happened again; apparently via the shared link to the board. Finally, I found the option to change the default into viewer-restricted seats. You guys have heard about dark patterns, right? Additionally (even though I am not an expert here), the fact that a person is not explicitly asked to approve a purchase is, as far as I know, against EU law. I previously had a discussion with our accounting team, why we are paying a Figma account for a person

I have a component library of icons, the names all start with an emoji. Example: 📍zoom. When I was searching for it in another file, where this library was activated, there was no results when I searched “zoom”. I had to add the emoji to my search for it to show up. There are other icons that has - or _ in their names, the word after -/_ would work in search. Example: 📍zoom_out, and this icon showed up in the result when I searched “out”, but not “zoom”. Is this a bug?

I currently have a project in my Drafts under a guest account, and I need to transfer it to the admin account of a team so they can publish it as a shared library. Could you guide me on the steps to: Move the project from my Drafts to the team account. Ensure the components are properly set up for publishing as a library?

My After delay animation is not working when i do 1ms timing?

How do I find the Locator plugin?

When I set a variable to show a hidden frame of content and then set a ‘Scroll To’ action so that the page scrolls down to this newly visible content, the scroll doesn’t work. If the frame is manually set to display (true) and I click the button, it scrolls down as expected. I placed the ‘Scroll To’ action after the ‘Set to true’ action to make sure the element was displayed before the scroll command was issued but to no avail. Is this a limitation or have I got things wrong? The ‘Change to’ and ‘Set’ actions are placed in the main component but the ‘Scroll to’ is set at the instance as the main component has no context for the content frame.

Hello everybody, I am searching for a solution to build a image carousel with conditionals. My carousel has also a usual thumbnail navigation to click on and a drag option on the carousel images themself. Is it even possible? Thanks a lot in advance in case someone has a hint for me. 🙌

I’m new-ish to Figma and am trying to wrap my head around using Conditionals while prototyping. I’m re-creating the Jimmy John’s website for practice. Would it be possible to use Conditionals to make the selection dots change from inactive to active based on a menu option being dragged? I know I would need to make some tokens first. I’m not sure how to link them to conditionals but I’m sure I could figure that out. For instance, I would want to set this first menu option you see to “on drag”>conditional and then make the first selector circle set to “active” (as I have an inactive and active state in my “selection dots” component. I have 11 other menu items in this carousel. Other ways of making scrollable image carousels just seem too time-consuming. I’m open to any other creative ideas for this! I hope this makes sense. I’m new to Figma lingo and am trying my best. 🙂 Thanks for reading!

Here is a thing about Figma, that is just blowing my mind. Maybe I miss something, idk, but I haven’t found a solution. Imagine there’s a button (from Material Design 3 Kit) that has its “Fill” set precisely to: "material-theme/state-layers/light/onSurfaceVariant/opacity-0.08" for the “Hovered” variant: However, you cannot copy it. You cannot even copy its name. If you click it, you get Styles Library open. Ctrl-C doesn’t work as well. Now how can one reuse this style somewhere else? Say you need to apply the same style in a custom component. The only way I found so far is to use Styles Library: but there are a few hundreds of styles! It’s insane trying to find a particular style like that. I’m sharing a screencast of how it works in real life: Is there a solution to this? How/when do you plan to address this problem? Can you make the Style Browser more usable?

Hello everyone 🙂 1 year later, I think I’m experiencing exactly the same issues as those mentioned in these topics: Resolved: Overrides not preserved when library is pushed Ask the community Hi there, I have a Design Library file in which I use to make changes to the master. I then push these to my Project file. I have never experienced issues before with pushing out changes to the project file, overrides have been preserved. However, today I am experiencing an issue where my overrides in the Project file are being wiped upon updating the library. Example steps: Library has an ‘icon’ component with lots of different icons as variants. These are all coloured red in the library f… Modifying Component Resets Overrides on Instances of that Component Ask the community Hmm alright can you reach out directly to support@figma.com. We’ll ideally need to take a look at the files to see why this might still be happening. I

Hi folks! I cannot find a way to switch variant on checkbox/switch change. Any ideas?

I’m currently working on a flexible layout in Figma that not only leverages breakpoints but also adapts fluidly to the screen size. To achieve this, I’ve been experimenting with an auto-layout setup that includes wrapping, combined with min and max width and the “Breakpoints” plugin. However, I’ve encountered a challenge: when there isn’t a clear breakpoint “jump,” some elements set to fill container tend to stretch and occupy entire rows, disrupting the layout. I’ve included an example below to illustrate the issue. Have you ever come across this problem, and if so, do you have any suggestions or workarounds? Thanks in advance for your help! LINK OF THE EXAMPLE: CleanShot 2024-11-16 at 10.24.22 · CleanShot Cloud

I’m a Figma tutor and get asked about icon best practices a LOT. I made this cheat sheet for my students and thought some designers here might find it helpful as well! Icons are a foundational part of any design system. They’re tiny, language-independent, symbols that help us understand and navigate digital products. Each one acts as a small building block to create bigger, more complex components. In this article, we’ll go over how to set up your icons, use them in designs, and hand them off for development. Before we get started, let’s go over the different types of icons. Actionable icons: These icons are clickable and can trigger an action. They can open something, close something, or navigate the user to a new location. Informational icons: These icons are not clickable. They describe or highlight information the user needs to know. They can replace text, add emphasis, or make a design more accessible. Setting up icons Create an organized, consistent set of icons before you s

I have created some thumbnails but Figma refuses to export all selected frames, instead, opting to export only 2.

I’ve set up a large table of variables with different modes. These have all been connected to hundreds of components. Unfortunately, I’m just now realizing that my default mode (aka, first column of variable table) actually needs to be another mode in my table. Really want a way to drag and drop the variable columns so that I can set a new default mode… Any ideas? Thanks! Need “Moda Health + Delta Dental” to be positioned in first column, so that this mode becomes new default.

I’m using component properties in my plugin, and trying to match user provided string values to variant and boolean types. For boolean types is simple, I can take the string do lowerCase() for ease of use for the user so its not case sensitive. And the provide a map of keywords for truthy values and keywords for falsy values. So the user can enter YES, NO, true, false, 1, 0, whatever they desire. The thing is that users sometimes map VARIANT property values to strings similar to these keyword mappings, but VARIANT properties ARE case sensitive, and need to match exactly expected variant options or it throws an error. But for the user, if you create a variant propery with two options, one Yes and the other one No, you can create a VARIANT property that looks like a BOOLEAN property, but it keeps the VARIANT property type. And the values themselves for the behaviour to occur are not case sensitive. Like “Yes” and “no” seem to work just fine. But setting a value for a VARIANT type propert

Hello, as far as I know activity log is available on paid. So after I subscription, the activity log will record from the time I paid the fee or all previous ?

Hello all, I am trying to figure out how to do this sub nav hover effect here (https://www.arsenal.com/). Default colour is white, on hover the colour stays the same with the bottom bar but all the other items change to grey. I’m trying figure out who to make all the other items grey out like the example.

Hi I logged a ticket but it asked me to raise a question in this forum. Please can you advise under separate cover when our Educational License will expire and what the steps are to renew? Thanks

I’m sorry but I don’t see why ANYONE would ever use Figma. I’ve been creating multi-media, design and content since 1994. I’ve used some bad apps in my time but Figma is by far the worst. Surely the designers and programmers SHOULS USE THEIR OWN APP. If so Figma could never ended up such a disaster. Anyway, why am I no longer able to edit my own files. Ive never created a team and never want to. Before the recent update everything worked, now nothing. I’ve sent a request to edit but no surprise I’m not received an email or notification. Also, the entire login via browser is a completely unnecessary step, GET RID OF IT. end of rant. Matt

I have a file with only variables, which is connected to the code of our site, and feeds the DS file which is another one. So, for me to make changes to the Variables file, i need to create a branch to not block the dev team if i mess up something, but when i update the branch with the last changes from the main file, is not bringing me those changes. I removed a group of variables from the main file and i’m still seeing them on the branch after updating. Now i’m wondering if the branches are a good solution for my team since the file only has variables, and if i can’t bring the updates from the variables from the main file, i’m gonna have to copy paste (yay that we have that now) from the branch to the main file. Is this a bug or limitation from branches? or am i doing something wrong?