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I’m currently working on a fairly large product with an expanding design system (multiple components, variants, and shared libraries).I wanted to ask: How do you manage performance and organization as the design system grows? Do you prefer a single main library or splitting components across multiple libraries? Any tips for keeping components easy to maintain without breaking existing designs? Would love to hear how others are handling this in real-world projects. Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone,Our Figma team got locked because a monthly invoice from January 8 is overdue.The subscription period on the invoice is Jan 8 – Feb 8, and access has been locked since then.If I pay this overdue invoice now: Will the subscription be considered active retroactively from Jan 8? Or will Figma restart the billing period from today (Jan 26)? In other words, will I effectively lose most of this billing period, or does Figma reset the cycle after payment?

We are on an organization plan where the admin setting “Allow links to be shared with anyone outside your organization” is disabled.Because of this, we are unable to share prototype-only links with external users who do not have Figma accounts, even when the intent is view-only and password-protected.Can you please confirm the following: When this org-level setting is disabled, there is no way to share prototype-only links publicly, including password-protected links. There is no team-level, project-level, or file-level exception available for this setting. If this is correct, are there any supported workarounds recommended by Figma for client or stakeholder prototype reviews where users cannot create Figma accounts?

Is there a way to change the invoice date for monthly billing? For example, my renewal date is the 17th, and I want to change it to the 30th.

 Hello, I’m testing Figma Jam for my team’s purposes. We hope to export the elements and relationships of a mind map to a CSV. Unfortunately, the CSV option in the export selection list is disabled, and I cannot find any help to address this.Is anyone familiar with the issue?

I was using the free version of Figma and was able to access Figma Design Tools in the Slides section until this morning. Later today, I decided to pay for a Collab Seat to get access to more features within the software, and I noticed that I lost access to Figma Design Tools. Is this normal?

Hi, I have a collection of objects like:collection of objectshow can I edit multiple objects as one so I get the following:desired resultI still want these objects to stay editable individually later after doing that.

Hello Figma Community,I’m currently a design student and I was re-verifying my student education plan because of the new update and features but when I tried to re-verify my account, my ending screen would beVerification Limit ExceededWe're glad you're enthusiastic, but it looks like you've already redeemed or attempted to redeem this offer.I don’t know if my re-verification went through because before it would say “we’re having troubles please verify later” so I tried it a couple of days later and got the “verification limit exceeded” screen. If anyone knows a solution that would be amazing! Thanks!

Hi! I’m trying to create a grid-style wallpaper in Figma.I designed a single square tile and exported it as a PNG. My goal is to use this image to fill a larger rectangle with a repeating pattern (tiled multiple times at the original size).Here’s what I’ve tried so far: I created a rectangle and, in the Fill section, changed the fill type to Image and selected my PNG. However, this results in the image being scaled up so that only one large square appears inside the rectangle instead of repeating. I also tried setting the fill type to Pattern, but when I click Select source, nothing happens and I’m unable to choose the image. Is there a way to make an image repeat automatically as a tiled pattern in Figma without manually duplicating the image? If this isn’t supported natively, are there recommended workarounds or plugins?Thanks in advance!

Hello!  I’m having trouble with the preview functionality, as it is stuck in a square aspect ratio, displaying a section of the total screen. Even when I click fill screen, it is still showing the same thing, only larger. Please see images below. Any help is most welcome!  

I hope I’m phrasing my question correctly. How do I reset a button to it's default instance in the preview? I want it to go to it's default instance by clicking outside it, but I don't know how to do it. Like when you click a search bar & the cursor blinks & the bar stays highlighted until you click anywhere else beside it. Any suggestions would be very helpful, thank you.

Is there any free plugin for image replace, so we can change the images at a time?

Hi everyone! I’m redesigning an existing live website (https://buscadordeestatuss.mx/) and trying to decide the most efficient way to bring the current UI into Figma as a baseline for iteration, not as a final or perfect replica.From your experience:Do website-to-Figma import tools provide enough structural and content fidelity to be useful for redesign work?Where do these tools usually fall apart (text hierarchy, spacing, reusable patterns, responsiveness)?For a content-heavy, SEO-driven site, is importing and refactoring faster than rebuilding from screenshots with Auto Layout and components?I’m mainly looking to preserve content structure and intent, while improving clarity, hierarchy, and maintainability in Figma.Would love to hear what’s worked (or failed) for you in similar projects. Thanks!

Hello everyone,I am pretty new to Figma prototyping and have only done basic transitions between pages. I’m working on a case study right now for a redesign, and I want to add more advanced prototyping, but I have no idea where to begin.In my Flow 1, there is the top text field and then the search classes button. If the text field is empty and the user tries to press the search button, I want an overlay of Frame 13, where the field turns red to indicate that it is empty. If the user presses on the empty text field, Frame 15 will overlay over it, meaning that there is a search query in it. Once there is something in the text field, the user can press search classes and it will take them to the next screen. Does anyone know where I can start or if there are any tutorials similar to this prototype?Thank you!!!!

Hello, I am not a designer nor am I a programmer.   I am trying, after not finding someone to help me get my site launched, to navigate figma.  I want to bring in my website pages to do the design work.  I can’t find anything on this, we’ve installed the plug in.   Any ideas would be hugely appreciated. 

Has any one tried using Claude Cowork with Figma yet, and how did it work for you? Have you had issues with it making changes where it shouldn’t, and any ideas on how to mitigate that? Any experience to share is appreciated - thank you! 

Hello all,I’ve found this beautiful file in Figma community, I imported it in my project by following the instructions and it work great.The file is helping to build a form with inputs that are working realistically in a protoype.Each input of the form is created by adding a new mode (5 inputs = 5 modes).However since the original file is created with only 3 modes, it looks like that I am able to make it work only till 3 inputs on my file as well. It doesn’t matter how many modes I will add in my variables.The solution would be to change the variables mode as soon as I import the component in my file, but it’s not possible. The solution that seems to work is to manually review ALL the instances in order to reconnect them w

Hi Community,We’re experiencing an issue with Figma variables after exporting design tokens via Token Studio and would appreciate your help.Setup: We maintain all our design tokens in a Google Sheet. This sheet is connected to Token Studio, and we regularly push and pull changes between the sheet and Token Studio. We then export these tokens from Token Studio to Figma as variables (and styles). Problem:After exporting, many variables or styles in Figma appear as broken (showing a question mark icon).Although the variables still exist, their values are not correctly resolved.To fix this, we currently have to manually remap the variables or styles each time in Figma in order to see the updated values. This happens repeatedly after exports, which makes maintaining tokens quite difficult.Expected behavior:

I am currently evaluating how Figma can integrate with LLMs like Claude Code for codebase auditing. While I’ve seen demonstrations of AI generating code from visual snapshots, my primary use case is reverse-validation: I have a pre-existing codebase and highly complex flow charts built within Figma that act as the visual blueprint for that logic. Does Figma support - either through the MCP (Model Context Protocol) server or Code Connect - allowing an AI to programmatically parse my prototyping links, layer hierarchy, and flow logic to verify if the actual code implementation accurately reflects the designed user journey? I’d like to understand if your current tools allow for this level of bidirectional logical assessment rather than just visual UI generation.Ive attached an example photo (this would be 25 times longer in reality so wondering if say claude code has the ability to understand this !) - thanks very much

Hi Xiaomi users! We’re aware of an issue that means you may not be able to sign in, we’re working on a long term fix, but in the meantime here is a workaround. Long press on the Figma App icon and select ‘App info’ Select ‘Other permissions’ from the menu Ensure ‘Display pop-up windows while running in the background’ is set to ‘Always allow’ You should now be able to successfully log in Here’s a walkthrough video

Hi,I previously had a Figma account verified with the Education plan using my university email. Due to a technical issue, I had to delete that account.I created a new Figma account with the same institutional email and re-verified my student status through SheerID, but the system keeps saying that the Education plan has already been redeemed.Since the original verified account no longer exists, this issue can’t be resolved by SheerID alone and requires a manual reset on Figma’s side.Could a moderator or support agent please help escalate this or advise on restoring the Education plan to my current account?Thank you.

 As you can see from my screen record, I have two images, both in the form of png. But I cannot figure out why the two would behave differently even though I haven’t messed around with the settings, and I want to know how to get consistent behavior, specifically I want both of my images to act like the second image where the image will follow and adjust with the size and not get cropped or zoomed in.

I've been having a very weird issue in Figma recently. When trying to move objects in a Frame it blocks me for some reason, but it does let me move around a couple of objects on the top. Objects outside of this frame are able to be moved freely. And if I move the order in the layers section then it works (the frame has auto layout on).Does anyone know why this is happening and how to resolve this issue? https://imgur.com/a/PKxFTs2

Hi,I'm a newbie with Figma and need help figuring out why my site is displaying differently online versus what it shows me in the view option in Figma Sites. The first screenshot is how Figma Sites shows me how it will look. It has already been published, so it is updated. The second screenshot is how it actually looks online. It adds a bunch of white space to the right. Instead of extending it across the screen. How can I fix this? Thank you for your help in advance.

I'm thinking about building my portfolio using Figma Sites, but before I start, I wanted to ask: does Figma allow you to password-protect specific pages or projects? I’d like to make some sections private or only accessible to certain people.