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Hello everybody, just starting learning Figma and following the autolayer tutorial. Some how when I apply “Included in lay out” option on the avatars layout it doesn’t work. All the avatars have outside stroke. It’s maybe a bug or what am I doing wrong. Thank you

Hello. I’m looking to use the Plugin API with my Widget? My widget include multiple instances of the widget, each with a dynamic number inside. From reading the docs, it’s recommended that I use the Plugin API to manage the numbers (they will update if widgets are deleted / added). However, I’m completely stuck just creating a bridge between the widget and the plugin API. Does anybody know any resources / sample to see how it looks like (just a simple console.log would do)? Or just at least how to think about creating the bridge.

When you copy and paste a frame (a page layout eg) on the main canvas, it pops it neatly alongside the prev page so you don’t have to effing fiddle with the damn thing and it’s pretty good UX. But if you wrap frames into your godless section feature (which I have loooootttttssss of other beef with), this behaviour suddenly disappears. WHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYY?

my Figma education is expiring but I have not finish my coursera google ux certification?

The Petma tutorial made by Figma shows a folder of pet images that are dragged and dropped into the project. I am not able to find these images. The tutorial is here and @ 12:24 it shows the folder of images that they use. could someone please tell me where I can locate these images so I can follow along with the tutorial? Thank you.

Here is my situation: Main Button component (layout and 3 sizes) → themed Button Component (Colors) → Button Group. The button group also has three sizes, the buttons placed in the Group component are set accordingly. Now when I change a button within the button group to a different color (variant of Themed Button) everything is fine UNTIL I change the size of the button group component then the label is set to default. It doesn’t matter if I set a Property on the label in the Main button component or not. All layers are named correctly (triple checked)

Hey guys, Can I change images and text in layers from Figma templates or SVG files using the Figma API?

Hey Figma team, my Recents tab only show 2 files, it doesn’t show the rest of my files which make it very hard to me to see all on-going projects

I’ve seen a lot of examples where people have built a primitive tokens variable collection of colors. But is that the design element I’d use primitive tokens for? Could be be used for type, spacing, or anything else?

Hi good afternoon, my name is Kiara and I am trying to finish a Capstone 2 at the University of South Florida UXUI BootCamp. I am reaching out because I am having trouble finding a Subscription Dashboard Scenario in Figma Freebies. Do you have a suggestion on where I can find a UI KIT that matches directly with my product. What platform do you recommend, or how to best search for that type of UI KITS? Thank you for your time, and help.

I created a standard dropdown component, with two states open and close. I changed the texts and style in a local instance. When I viewed it in preview/present mode, it is not updated, I am not sure if it is the way I made the component not proper or it is a bug.

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I’m wondering if there is a way to restrict instance swap properties to only components on the same page as the master component. I’ve built a set of icons for a specific purpose which all live on my UI-Icons page. I’ve then created a master icon component that holds an instance of one of the icons and have assigned it “instance swap properties” to be able to swap the contents for any icon on the page, which is great… However, this method seems to allow any component in the entire library to be called into this master icon component, not just icons on the UI-Icons page, which I don’t want collaborators to be able to do – I want this master icon component to only be capable of swapping icons from this set. I know I could get this result by compiling all the icons into a Component Set, but I’d really rather use the instance swap method. So I’m wondering – Is there a way to restrict the swap capability to just the UI-Icons page or even only select components defined by me?

While i was doing halfway, i try to view it on my present mode and realised some of my slide is missing after i connect all my prototypes button. What is the reason that my slide is missing and the present mode is showing black screen? Figma – 1 Oct 24

I am unable to access my Figma account that I made with my school’s email address ever since I graduated. I have a couple of assets and files in there that are important for my research. I was able to retrieve my Canva and Biorender accounts and switch the email to my current email address, so I don’t see why I can’t with Figma. Thank you!

Hi! I need to upgrade user to Professional license, so I have updated my team member from view → Full (paid license). I can see in the billing overall seat list that one user has been added to list. But user is still telling that account is non paid. What could be the issue? Best regards, Martin

I am confused… drag and dropping files with names like image-01-01.jpg, image-01-02.jpg, etc. And Figma just tries to rename them as I add e.g. image-02-01.jpg, and mixes everything so that no number is omitted or something like that. I have .eg. zo1-01.jpg, zo2-01.jpg, etc… and there are like 4 collections like that but as I put those into a file, the naming gets distorted. What is this idiocy? Has anyone seen this behavior?

Hi, I came accros this Figma video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCJsRuH7v9w and it shows the DevMode focus view, is it something yet to come or is it available ? We’re running a pro plan with 2 full design seats, so I expected to find it, but I only see the old “Ready for dev” Am I missing something ? Thanks

The plus icon(or the post creation button as I like to call it.) has fixed slected in prototyping but it still scrolling when I scroll the background page, can someone help me fix it plz?

I want to create a 3D effect with a vector such that in this design, The rightmost point of the vector comes above the container like this I copied the vector and deleted the previous points but this does not make the gradient of the vectors “connect”

I’m running into some trouble and wondering if it’s fixable. I’ve spent a lot of time comparing JPEG exports from Figma vs. other design software. I’m seeing a compression happening that’s very noticeable in JPEGs with no compression. Exporting a frame as JPEG with Figma default options @1 results in a lower quality. I attach 2 screenshots. One from Figma JPEG, no compression, and another one from Photoshop, no compression. Figma export JPEG no compression dimensions 1080 x 1350: The Figma JPEG contains more data, and is a heavier file. But it still results in lower quality render that’s noticeable in the highlights and sharpness. This is particularly bad when uploading to any social media / ad platforms where the point of focus of the creative is a photograph.

I have a team that uses Figma and FigJam. But, its block because needs to paid plan. I need to knw if I buy a professional plan how many people in that file can edit? dose they need paid plan for themselves or they can be free and editing?

Hello Figma Community and Figma Support team, My teammate and I accidentally both signed up for separate Professional plans. We intended to share a team, as I thought having two Professional plans would allow us to collaborate without incurring additional fees for extra design seats. However, I recently received a notification regarding the fee for an additional design seat. I would like to know how we can combine our two accounts into one team to avoid these additional costs. Any advice or guidance on this would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Hi I want to see the changes made by someone, just the changes. Right now when I click that change in the history panel, I see everything and it’s really hard and impossible sometimes to track the changes.