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Hey all, I’ve noticed this really nice update where Figma has added UI kits as a library that i can now plug into and you can pull in examples from these design system that are editable but also have components in them. I was wondering whether we have the power to publish our own design systems as a UI kit for our teams and create examples? Thanks

Share a frozen state. Can I share a current development status as a prototype with customers? For internal presentations. They should not see the current work.

Hi everyone, I’ve noticed that the variable mode button in Figma’s UI is different when I open IBM’s Carbon Design System. See? It’s a swatch book instead of the hexagon. Why? What am I missing? Thanks!

Hi everyone, I’m encountering some issues with Figma while working on a slide deck template: When I publish the deck and attempt to use it in a new project, Figma freezes whenever I try to add a slide from the published deck. Additionally, when working within the template deck, if I copy a slide and try to paste it into another deck, the paste operation gets stuck. Has anyone else experienced this? Could there be a specific cause, or is there a workaround to resolve this freezing issue? Thanks in advance for any insights or solutions!

I’m trying to work out how to show 1 of 6 result screens depending on how many correct/incorrect answers in a quiz with 5 questions. What would be the best way to do this? Thanks!

My tools bar is now at the bottom in my Figma. How can i retrieve it back to the top left corner

I’ve been using Figma for several years but suddenly today, I am no longer able to edit my designs. I have to ‘request edit access’ with our administrator (who should be me). Seems like I’ve been hacked but maybe it’s user error. I tried emailing Figma but weirdly they automatically responded and asked me to post here.

With the main component selected I can create all of the properties that I will want instances to have through the Properties Panel as one would expect. Inside of the component when I have a selection of variants that I want to assign a State such as hover, the option to make that selection ceases to exist in the Properties Panel. I can select Boolean properties that I set up on the main component but Variant Properties not so much.

I am new to Figma so I am practicining by uploading emails that I can try to duplicate. However, when I upload the image image that I saved to my computer into Figma, it doesn’t have the laters from the original email. The only layer is the image itself. How can I separate layers from a single image so that I can utilize those images to build out my email in Figma?

I’m working on a UI kit at work (which I unfortunately cannot share) and I am hoping to better understand how to best structure components on Figma so that they do not require significant memory consumption. We are running into problems where our prototypes are loading really slowly and I think this might be because the current way we are building components is very memory intensive. I am hoping to better understand specifics about how Figma loads in components to make better decisions about how to structure the components of the UI Kit. According to a comment in this thread, when you make an instance of a component, Figma loads in the entire variant set of the component. I’m wondering how Figma behaves or loads in components in the following scenarios: If a parent component has a child component with many variants, do all the variants of the child component get loaded in when an instance of the parent component is created? How does Figma load components with an instance swap property

Hi, can we have a Free Starter Team Figma and a paid FigJam Professional on the same account? One-person bootstrapping company. Thanks! 💙

Having trouble to paste Google spreadsheet cells as Stickies in FigJam. They paste as a table. Is this a regression? It used to work. Will I have to rely on Miro to do my work?

Hello, I would like to send a copy of a design from one Figma account to another, basically transferring ownership to the client. Though in the drop-down next to the project name the “Transfer” and “Send a copy” options are greyed out. Does anyone know why these options are not available? Many thanks.

Hello! I would like to know what are the best practices to be able to keep updating the Material Design 3 kit when new versions come out. The questions I haven’t been able to answer are; what if I need two different colors of the outlined button, can I add a variant to the component and still be able to update the kit? What exactly can I change on a component, only color values? can I create a new style and apply it to the button or I have to keep using the same style name and only change the color values, that will be tricky because if the style is used on other components I won’t be able to change it I would need a new style or another style from the kit but if I swap the style can I still updating? Another topic is how do I update the kit when a new version comes out, I got a copy of the file and changed the name my plan is to make the changes I need and then publish the library to use the component on other files, is that plan a good plan? If someone can help me or point me to the

Is it any figma function to get the file size at a given moment in time? This question comes related to the fact that I would like to check, by plugin code, the size of the current figma file before and after detaching some components.

Is it just me, or is it a nightmare figuring out organizational plan-settings in Figma? I feel like there is so many things that could be improved.

Running pretty much any asynchronous code will result in the error: Uncaught (in promise) RuntimeError: function signature mismatch Is my env setup wrong? I’ve gone through three brand new project setups and get this error every time. Has anyone else faced this issue? For context: I have an async function at the root of my project plugin code, even running await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 1000)); will result in the error. As far as I can tell the code will keep running, as long as it doesn’t rely on the asynchronous piece. The error will only happen on the return from the await-ed funciton. Please advise.

Hi all, I am aware package.json’s license property that talks about how should the plugin/package is permitted to be used etc. However i am curious how to add license attributions to any open source packages that were used while building/developing/bundling a plugin. I didn’t not see a predescribed way to do it for plugin. Can anyone suggest please? Thank you Sandeep Pr

Hi there community! I searched for this stuff, but found only an old thread with no resolution. I need to show a large table for an enterprise ui. It needs to have fixed top row and fixed first column something like freeze panes in excel. So first column needs to scroll vertically with the content, and not scroll horizontally, but stay in front instead, while the top row needs to scroll horizontally along with the content, but not scroll vertically, just stay on top instead. This thread is close: How to prototype tables with fixed columns on edges and horizontal scroll on the mid section? Ask the community Hey @Pavel_Kiselev,Thanks for the demo. Could you share me the shadows value for the left and right (sticky) columns, or the design file ? My sticky columns is looking a bit off due to the effects of shadows. [All] But it lacks vertical scrolling, so it’s only half the solution.

I have a component with a lot of variants, issue is that the order of variants does not match the order on the component. I know you can arrange the order of variantions on component with drag and drop, which I did, but it appears in wrong order on the instance’s dropdown.

Hello, I am new to FIGMA, I am looking for a way to send an event from the FIGMA prototype to the parent window which renders the FIGMA prototype when a user clicks on a particular button(Submit/Done/Complete) from the last screen/design on the FIGMA prototype. Is this possible? if yes, Please do let me know the steps for implementing it

(newbie in Figma): I mean… It should be that way… The text should stay in the Auto layout container… “I´ve tried everything” which is or I guess is a lie, otherwise it would work without overlapping, right? The text goes beyond the Auto Layout Frame… But this should not work like that🫠 Is this just a bug? How can I fix this?

Hi together we are facing a strange behaviour regarding the Figma API Endpoint /v1/images We are fetching some images but sometimes it happens that we get an API response with an empty data field, but no additional error like “to many request” or similar. Is there any know issue or limitation?

Hey everyone! I’m working on a design system and encountered an issue with preferred instances. For example, I have a list row component that contains left and right side content. For each side, I’ve created and linked some child components, using an underscore (_) symbol for naming. After publishing my library and inserting the component in another file, I’m unable to find the preferred instances. The dropdown opens and shows the entire list by default, but navigating through the folders doesn’t display anything specific. My goal is to make only the main components visible in the ‘Assets’ panel, not their individual parts. I assumed that if these “child” parts are hidden when publishing but set as preferred instances, they would still appear in the component property swaps. Is this approach incorrect?

I use Figma to design multiple applications and products, and sometimes I need to replicate the same frames or pages across different files. My idea is to add a feature that allows linking frames across files. This way, when I make edits to a specific frame in one file, the changes automatically reflect in a corresponding frame in another file. Additionally, I think it would be very helpful to have update options, so I can choose whether updates happen automatically or if I need to confirm (approve) them first. An extra option for manual sync could also be beneficial, allowing me to select when to sync the frames, especially when I’m making large adjustments to a project and prefer not to update linked frames immediately." Expected Benefits: Saves time and effort on multi-file projects. Ensures consistent design across different files. Provides flexibility in choosing when and how updates are applied to linked frames. Additional Notes “This feature would add immense value to UI/UX de