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Hello, I am a junior UI/UX designer and I would like to know what size the frame in Figma should be for a 13 inch screen?

Is there a way to reset all overrides except ones that I select? For example, let’s say I want to swap in a new Button but I don’t want to reset the character property, I want to preserve what the user has typed in the label text layer. The only method I found in the Plugin API docs is the resetOverrides() does not take any argument. It would be super cool if I could pass in what I don’t want to change e.g. resetOverrides(!node.overrides.character) Here is my WIP code to swap out old components with new ones: // main.ts import { getSelectedInstances } from "../app/utils/getSelectedInstances"; // Adjust the path as necessary // Clear console on reload console.clear(); // Default plugin size const pluginFrameSize = { width: 320, height: 380, }; // Show plugin UI figma.showUI(__html__, pluginFrameSize); // Import the component map import { componentMap } from "../app/data"; // Adjust the path as necessary let componentCount = 0; // Function to swap button components async functio

I work on a product that has a sound library that plays during specific interactions. I built a component with embeded mp4s that had audio in them so people could include sound in their prototypes to better mimic the product experience. I had it all set up and working for me locally at the end of my day today and shared it with my collegues only to get notes that no one could hear it. When I went back a few hours later to double check I found that it no longer worked for me. I checked the history and nothing changed between my work and when I checked back later. What changed? Did Figma re-encode my files, break my project, and REMOVE the sound?

Hi. How are you? When I was trying to merge a branch, I ended up in this weird state where the merging modal was saying that I had “no conflicts” to resolve AND that I should “resolve conflicts before merging”, at the same time. The button to merge was disabled, and there were no actions I could do in the changes as well. The only way out I had, to not lose the changes in my branch (that had some variables as well), was to duplicate as a new file and delete the older one. To make things worse, this has happened again, twice in the last couple of weeks. My question is: Is this some known bug? Is there any clue on what I might be doing wrong to end up in this state? Thanks a lot,

I In Figma, the keyboard shortcuts for sending an item backward or forward are Ctrl + [ and Ctrl + ], respectively. Bringing items to the back or front is done using Ctrl + Shift + [ or Ctrl + Shift + ], respectively. However, the shortcut preview on the right-click panel doesn’t reflect this accurately. Figma, please check.

Looking to create this effect. having a hard time thought I’d ask for help. Thanks.

Help me deal with the mistake. When I transfer a frame from Figma to protopie, it gives an error. How to fix it and what it can be

I was trying to search for a way to create a group in a variable collection using Figma’s API, but wasn’t able to find something. I tried finding it: figma.variables | Plugin API

I’m having lots of issues with prototype links in Figma. I used to work on XD and it was way simpler (which is weird to say, I know). Anyway, I would like to understand what can possible break a prototype link that is shared with clients. For example, If I remove the flow starting point, will the link stop working? (it has happened to me, I think), if I change a frame name, if I rename a file, will these break the links? Basically, how can a shared prototype link be broken or changed so I avoid doing it. Thanks

Hey community! We’ve been facing some challenges when designing in Figma and developing for different screen resolutions, and we’d love to get your thoughts on it! As you know, Figma’s default frame for desktop is set to 1440px width, but we’ve been running into issues when testing the implementation across different devices. I design using 1920px frames for Full HD (1920x1080), but when our developers tested the layouts on MacBook displays, the results were inconsistent. For example, we designed a grid with 17 blocks on 1920px, but when the dev team tested it, they saw 14 blocks on screens. Overall, my designs are fine and based on 12 columns but when they implement it, on some displays it’s broken and on mine and some (Desktop FHD monitors), it’s fine. 20% of desktop users are using FHD and I can’t accept that my designs are the problem and I should design on 1440px. Our questions are: Why does Figma default to 1440px for desktop designs? Should we be designing for 1440px width and

Frame stopped renaming automatically new frames when they are duplicated

I cannot update new ui version of Figma in Question mark icon Change to new ui is not showing; only older version are available Need help I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling; it’s not working can someone share insights regarding this?

Hi all, We have a professional team plan and we are on the latest version but Command+Z does not working approximately 2 weeks. And we get crazy. 😕 How can we fix this?

WHY if I have, say, 3 frames that are set to “fill”, and I then group and apply an autolayout to that group does it now change those frames to fixed width and the group frame to hug??? SURELY, Figma, the intelligent thing to do would be to keep the selection I originally had, instead of making me click on each effing individual frame and reapply my original choice? I’m spending 10x longer doing anything than I have to. For the love of everything holy, sort it out.

I created a carousel component with multiple cards, the text in the component has no decoration, but when I drag the final component from the Assets tab, I get a strikethrough decoration for all the frame, I may have clicked something by accident that decorated all the text in the frame, how can I undo that please? I can’t do it manually because the frame contains a component with multiple hidden cards (carousel) presentation mode:

Hi, I have created a design system with both dark and light components. However, whenever I drag and drop a light variant component from the library into my work file, it appears as a dark variant. Interestingly, the library thumbnail shows it as a light variant. Can someone please help me on this.

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Since a very recent update, I find handwriting to be totally terrible in FigJam for iPad. Untill a few days ago, handwriting was completely fine and I was using it alot to wireframe and draw up quick user flows. Since very recently, the correction FigJam applies on drawings with my Apple Pencil make it so my handwriting is not readably anymore, totally rendering FigJam useless for what I use it most. Has anyone else encountered this? I can’t find any settings controlling the amount of smoothing/correction done? Really sad to see this loss in functionality!

Hi i’m an student of graphic design in Argentina, we’re using Figma for our group class project. I want to know if can we use the widget of https://userway.org/ in the domain, this page is dadicated to bring more accessibility to your page canching the contrast or typography for dyslexic people. I ask if Figma got an option similar to this. Sorry for my poor english.

Hello! I’ve been having trouble with my horizontal scroll. I’ve been able to do horizontal scrolling on past projects and have been searching for the past 30 mins to no avail trying to figure out why this instance won’t work. Help! Figma Link

When I drag and move objects or scroll layers - Figma file is bugged a bit. (low fps) Idk what to do, my specifications: rtx4070, ryzen 7700x, 32gb memory. File is not overloaded, I think its coz windows is or what…

Hello everyone, I don’t know if I am the only one having this problem. So Apr 24, 2024, I bought an annual plan with 1 designer seat and 0 FigJam seats, for which I paid $144.00. after this next month, I got a bill with $0, which is normal because I have annual. but after that, it started. for upcoming months I was charged 3 times $25 and somehow, out of no ware, when I contacted support, they told me that I have 1 design seat added and 2 FigJam. So I told them I wanted to cancel and they told me how to remove it. After this, I removed my card even from the payment. Then on Aug 25, I was charged $0 because everything was removed and my annual plan was continued. But now on Sep 24, I was charged again $20 😃 and in the Invoice, I see that I was charged for 1 seat and 1 FigJam 😃 Does anyone else have the same problem? I don’t use FigJam and when I was buying annual I unchecked them. I removed my card and why was I charged even, should not they ask me to add a card to con

Hello Figma team & users, (Not sure it’s the right forum thread to post this issue/request) Just a thought I have an issue with assets handling (and rights management, etc…). Assets (images) file uploads are renamed by Figma. (Encoded for safe URLs, security and storage I guess) There is no way (as far as I know) to retrieve/or reconvert to the original file name. So… What do you think of adding an API/UI Field 'originalFileName’ Property? This would really alleviate (our) asset management. Or maybe it’s a private API… linked to plug-ins ? How do image banks or DAM reference their file sharing and rights management? Thanks for your attention

If I have a document with some added GIFs, is there a way to access the original GIFs I uploaded via the REST API? I tried the images (/v1/images/:key) and image fills (/v1/files/:key/images) endpoints, but both of those seem to return PNGs of the first frame of the GIF, not the GIF itself. Thanks!

This repetitive undo is truly awful. We really do need a preference setting to omit ‘object selection’ as part of the undo chain! I’ve been a designer for over 25 years, I’ve used and continue to use so many different applications in my workflow. I’ve seen apps change and develop and it’s amazing what can be done these days. But I have never, ever, come across an app that uses undo in this way. It’s so time consuming, pointless, and confusing as to where you are in the journey. I have a team of designers moving to Figma from XD and they are all baffled by this. Here’s a typical example: I have a nested component with layered items. The component has 3 grouped items in it, each group containing 3 or 4 other layereds items. I move the component across the page, and click down into the nested groups to change the colour of an object. Before changing anything, I decide I actually don’t want to move the component across the page. So to simply get the component back to where it was, I now ha