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As a beginner, I am slightly confused, when starting to design is there a general frame size for mobile apps that will look well on android and also iPhone?

Hi Figfam! We’ve been using the “Ready for Dev” status frequently, and the ability to add messages when making changes and compare with previous versions has been super helpful. Our developers were wondering if there’s a way to send automatic notifications (via Slack or email) when a new version is pushed/committed for a screen already marked as “Ready for Dev.” The goal is to alert them automatically when changes are made, so they know to review and compare updates. I checked the plugins and community, but couldn’t find a solution. Is there an endpoint in the Figma API or a possible workaround for this? Thanks!

I have the following code: const components = findComponentsInPage(componentPage); const selectedComponent = components.filter((component) => { return component.name === nameComponent; })[0]; try { console.log('Creating component instance...'); const componentInstance = selectedComponent.instance.createInstance(); selectedComponent has the following interface: interface IComponent { name: string; instance: ComponentNode; } So as you can see, I’m passing the ComponentNode to createInstance() function. However, I get the following error: Any ideas? I’m recovering the ComponentNode from the page.children by their name.

might be a dumb question but i can’t find the clip content setting in the new interface. can you help?

I need to see the hidden scrollable part on prototype, but on dev mode I don’t know how to see the content hidden

Has the possibility to create nested if/else blocks in prototyping been removed? Previously, you could create nested if/else statements by dragging and dropping one if/else into another, but I can’t get that to work anymore. Does anyone have a tip/workaround? Thanks in advance 😃

It’s been ages! Rasmus Andersson has even complained abt it, and he designed the logo! Can we pls fix it??? Is there any work being done about it??

Hi there, is there any working option how to link elements or create any kind of navigation through large FigJam board? It would be great for us to have a block in timeline and some linked description for it somewhere else. Is it possible?

As anyone managed to programmatically obtain Figma member images (like the ones available in FigJam through the stamp tool) and use them in Figma files Thumbnails? In large organizations with thousands of members, it is time consuming to maintain large libraries of people’s avatars, so a native utility would be super helpful. Has anyone in medim / large orgs. solved this differently?

Trying to figure out how to do something like this (playing animations with different delay/timing) on arbitrary lists of similar objects in Figma, w/o creating unique components for each list item or doing a super complex page setup. Is there a good way?

Latest updated Figma App is stop working. I can’t open it!

I’m so thrilled about Figma slides; HOWEVER… i can’t seem to figure out how to turn my slide deck into a slide template that all my teammates can use. i’m referencing this article: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/24290529512471-Create-and-publish-custom-slide-deck-templates it says, " 1. Open the template you want to share. 2. Click Share in the right sidebar to open the Share modal. 3. Click Publish template. If the slide deck is in your drafts, you’ll be prompted to move it to a project." When I click “share”, I don’t see a “publish template” option. Is anyone else having this issue?

I simply want to delete the property “Label Size” on all my variants. I could do this by renaming the layers and removing “Label Size=Sm” but I have hundreds of variants and that would take forever… I can’t right click on the property anywhere.

Can the visual key (light-blue rectangle) of the hot spots from the prototype be turned off? If possible, how do you turn it off?

There used to be a radio button that you could click and it would take someone to the selection immediately after sharing the link. I recently updated my Figma and now the option is just gone.

Hi There… I can’t seem to find theg hyperlink option with the new Figma update.

Before today’s update, you would be able to select text within a comment and press cmd+K to paste a URL, turning the selected text into a hyperlink. As of today, looks like this feature no longer works - hitting cmd+K with the comments open just opens up the “Quick actions” pane. Looking at the Figma learn documentation, this shortcut is still listed so I’m assuming it might be a bug to fix.

My drop down menu keeps going behind other assets no matter what I do. I’ve searched through forums here, and no amount of restacking, or changing clipping has fixed it. I used one of those example pages and inserted it into the nav but even when I take it out of that section by itself it still goes behind all the other assets. Does anyone have any idea why this is?

Whole program has visual bugs. Am I the only one having these problems? Is there any information on when this will finally be fixed?

For the last week, component search has been returning no results across all of our team, and all of our files (whether using the desktop app, or web app). Steps: Open component search (Shift + I) Search for anything “No components” show in results (regardless of search) This does not impact the ability to manually click through folders in the component search panel, or Plugins search, or Widgets search, or Instance Swap search (these all work as expected). This is separate to the search issues we had a month ago with irrelevant results showing up. The search has been unreliable lately. Has anyone experienced something similar, or have a workaround? Thanks!

iPhone 14pro，iOS17

All my drafts are gone. No files appear in Recents either. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Figma mirror is not opening from yesterday night. It says - “Still loading…, Attempting to contact Figma’s server”

Hello, I paid for an annual plan but have been charged extra for the last three months. I didn’t sign up for anything new. I’ve been waiting since last week for a reply, but now my ticket shows an error saying the page can’t be found. Is anything working? Will I keep getting billed without notice and without getting answers?

Font from Google Fonts stopped working in cyrillic, although it had been working before. In latin it still works and is displayed. I used this font in the design, and when I opened Figma the next day, and clicked on the text with this font, it changed to the standard one.