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Hey everyone. Im trying to create a home page for my site that as I scroll, the interactive components will expand out. This is the website I’m basing it on, https://www.williamlachance.com/ I’m not sure if this is possible because in the interactions, there’s no option to like change something on scroll. I tried have an empty rectangle span the screen that would set a variable to true and then have my component do an if statement that would activate changeTo if the variable was true. I couldn’t get that to work though

Hi Community, Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question. Our project team has various instances of Figma, and the desktop software layout differs between users on a Mac vs. a PC. Also, some settings are in different locations. This has become an issue when sharing files and in training. Does anyone else have this issue? Do you know a solution, please? Thanks.

Hello, could anyone help me figure out why I have some of my images in SharePoint with a dark square covering the whole image and the <> showing on the layer? I would appreciate any help on this matter 🙂

Всем привет! Не могу разобраться с новой версией для презентаций. У меня не активна кнопка на переключение режима Design, чтобы управлять слоями. Подскажите, пожалуйста что не так. Может быть дело в том, что я работаю на бесплатной версии?

Hi everyone, I’m an educator in a UX program at an academic college, (where I was also a student). I’ve been using Figma’s Education plan for a while now, and my plan is set to expire in 10 days. When I tried to renew it, I was prompted to sign up with my academic email. Here’s the thing: both our program head and I, as a student and now as an educator, have always used our personal emails for the Figma Education plan. This was done to ensure we could continue working on projects after finishing school. Now, I’m facing issues with renewing because of this switch to academic email registration. Has anyone else faced this issue or knows how I can resolve it while still using my personal email? Thanks for your help!

I logged in into Figma with an old account and tried to switch the UI to the new update. It seems the only changes that happened was the toolbar. Property panels and Layers panel seem unchanged, does anyone know if it could be a bug?

Looking to install Figma on work laptops but it needs to work behind a proxy

I understand that color is not part of the text style definition in Figma, but is there a plugin that associates colors with text styles? None of the supposed advantages of omitting color from the type style spec apply to our workgroup. We have an established design system that we work with. It uses nine colors. There is virtually no tweaking of the text styles and there are no styles that exist simply because the color is different from another style. But now, what was a one-step process (apply the style) is a two-step-process (apply the style and then the color), and we have to worry about remembering what colors go with what styles and whether people across the team are applying them consistently, or remembering to apply the color at all. Including the color in the style def should at least be an option.

I have submitted a ticket, but am posting here for further communication. Our enterprise is not receiving emails from Figma. This includes new user verification, comment notifications, additions to files, etc. We have checked spam, junk, and quarantine and are not seeing anything. I am posting here because without email, I have no other way to communicate with Figma. Even when I submitted the ticket, I did not receive any confirmation email. If someone could please assist here, I would appreciate it. Thank you!

We have two themes dark and light. However, for me I am getting the dark theme as light theme and the light theme is missing just for me. My colleague is not facing this issue, his file is working fine. I have the latest version of Figma, I updated after the issue. I restarted my system as well.

I’ve renamed my collections - and after I publish the library with variables and accept the updates in my component library, the collection names are not being updated in the side panel. 😦

I set up a group of components as follows: An icon component, which is given an icon type and different sizes (the line thicknesses change according to each size). A list item component (and others) that receive this icon component. A card or more complex elements that receive this list item. In this last component (3), the icon type must change depending on the list item, but in the list item component (2) there is only one generic icon (1), to assemble the structure. My problem is: When, for whatever reason, I want to change the size variant of the icon component (1) within the list item component (2), the card component (3) loses all its overrides! I made a video to illustrate it better but I Figma won’t let me upload it. Does anyone knows how to solve it?

I couldn’t find any topics addressing this issue, so I’m reaching out for help. I’ve set up my variables in the shadow properties but they aren’t working with the auto-switcher light/dark mode. Has anyone else experienced this problem or know how to resolve it?

I receive Figma files from clients that are linked to their own libraries. They’ve sent their design file but not the libraries files. They also haven’t provided access to their libraries (they no longer work with the company that created the components) Am I able to create a new library from the components in the existing Figma file? Will that break the variables? I’m hoping I don’t have to detach everything and rebuild. Ty

Very important files for my company suddenly disappeared from Figma. I’m pretty sure they weren’t deleted, they’re not in Drafts > Deleted. I tried looking into member activities, but also don’t see any references to these files anymore. Previously shared links to these files no longer work. Any help in recovering these files will be greatly appreciated.

Can I Use Figma for Printing like Banner etc. Thanks

I already read this post but it doesn’t fix my problem, I don’t use a Mac, and the photos are good even before importing to Figma. Here are my screenshots

What would be the best workflow to use interactive polls in a live presentation? Giving a presentation to an audience of several people, I like to receive live feedback. Now it seems the presentation link need to be shared with the audience, a user needs to create a Figma account in order to interact and needs to manually scroll through the presentation on hers/his device to find the correct slide. The concept seems nice, but is not as seamless as it should be. If there would be an integrated solution like Mentimeter or Slido, it would be a real benefit.

I have several larger component cards I created and now I need to add a new field to it that is also a component itself but every time I try to add the new component frame to the existing component frame it will not allow me to do so. I even try to drop it in using the layers panel and that doesn’t work. I want to keep the new smaller component separate because I want to add this field to several different larger component cards so that I can update just the small component and it updates across multiple component cards. Is this possible?

Hey, I tried everything possible to get the new Figma updates installed, but after the installation, I’m unable to access any new features. Operatin system: macOS

For some reason, the text function in both Design and FigJam suddenly stopped working. I can’t seem to edit and write any text nor even change the font styles. Please Help! It’s interrupting my workflow

After the updates, switching colors for me is a pain, as now it does not keep “All Libraries” as a default view anymore, every time I switch a color I have to select → choose a library or local or All libraries… It is such a pain. What is going on? Is there a way to keep All libraries open at all times? I would assume it should remember the last selection, but no, it’s based on the color that was on it in the first place. Tbh, such a change in UX should really be considered better, I wonder which genius thought it was a better idea to limit user’s view to only 1 library by default… 🫠

I created a top nav (frame) and am using it as a component since there are onHover dropdowns. I now need to add an overlay for another frame(search). However for some reason this doesnt seem to be working on any of the pages. First i thought it was a “component cannot open another component as an overlay” issue but no this is just not working? I cannot figure anything and am at my wits end. attached an image should show you what im talking about (Last one shows the clicks available)

We’ve made a component for the thumbnail, but it seems that I can’t set it directly as a thumbnail. I need to place inside a group. See: Is there another way?

I’m currently facing an issue with our team access. It appears that our team has been locked because we’ve reached the limits of our current Starter Plan, after the recent subscription plan changes. As a result, I am unable to make any further changes. Could anyone please provide more details on this and guide me on how we can resolve the issue or upgrade to an appropriate plan? Your assistance in addressing this matter at the earliest would be greatly appreciated.