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Nilayan_Bhattacharjee
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Rate my design please

Figma – 14 Feb 24 I don’t know, Is it good ? Looking professional? Please let me know thank you 😊

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11 months ago
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itsnomadicone
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Figma Time Tracking in 2024 - What do you use?

Hello, Do you happen to get so carried away in Figma, that you later on forget how much time did you actually spent designing? 🙂 What time tracking tools and apps do you use to keep an eye of the hours? There are some topics about Figma time tracking here on forum but all of them are outdated, so I was thinking on doing a little brainstorm on what works well in 2024. What are your favorites? A bit of research on my side: There’s this widget with 3.9k users There are tools that automatically track all activity on your computer, including Figma (Memtime for example) There’s a way to check version history in Figma, which lets you to find different save points - therefore get some grasp on the time you’ve been working There are tools that are more in the type of a stopwatch that let you START/STOP recording, however I personally don’t like using them because they distract and disrupt flow What do you guys use?

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11 months ago
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faria_rohail
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Figma plugin not working

Figma plugin not working

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Christia_Spinks
11 months ago
Adam_Mora
Adam_Mora
asked in Ask the Community
Changing Time to PST

Hi Everyone! I live in LA and in the PST or PT time zone. How do I change that on FIGMA so my time and date related activities or on the right time?

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y_toku
Figmate
11 months ago
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Adam27
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Add "Liked" to another page

Hey guys, im just wondering if theres a way to set up if “liked” apear on page. example if i have a page of cards with interactive like/favorite buttons could i get them to apear on another page as a collection. basicly like the amazon function add to wishlist.

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y_toku
Figmate
11 months ago
R_Scott_Randall
R_Scott_Randall
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In the Figma app, it is very hard to see (contrast issue) which tab is selected

In the Figma app, it is very hard to see (contrast issue) which tab is selected

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y_toku
Figmate
11 months ago
Victor_Spencer
Victor_Spencer
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Animated/Interactive control buttons inside interactive carousel component?

I have pagination dots and ⬅️ ➡️ control arrows/buttons below my horizontal carousel. Both the pagination dot group & left-right arrows are their own separate interactive components. Those pagination/control components are set to quickly smart animate 150ms, and the transition between carousel pages is set to gentle 600. The problem is, since activating the carousel’s “change to” next page variant needs to use the control buttons, the carousel’s variants override the nested button component’s interactive variant animations. How can I achieve getting the 150ms button animation to play when clicking the very same button triggers the 600ms animation for the whole carousel page variant?

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y_toku
Figmate
11 months ago
jonloi
jonloi
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Objects over auto-layout not showing in prototype or mirroring

I have a design done with auto-layout. When I place an ‘always-on-top’ icon menu at the bottom of the design over the auto-layout design, it doesn’t show up during preview or mirroring. I use the hold Spacebar to place the icon menu. Is there a way I am supposed to be doing this, to make this show up during preview? Thanks for any feedback

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y_toku
Figmate
11 months ago
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annack
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How to auto resize objects below an accordion menu on prototype?

I’m trying to automatically resize the spacing of a footer below my accordion menu for a mobile site but have been going mad trying to figure it out. I think it may have something to do with auto layout but I am still unsure what to do. If that’s the case, a hint in the right direction as to what to do with the objects would be AMAZING. Thank you!

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11 months ago
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schaps
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Components: Where should each type live?

Help! I am trying to understand best practices for components. I’ve watched a dozen videos, read numerous articles, but still a bit confused. About what? Well, which components live where? I’ve set up different projects for this product to try and keep things organized. Design System Work in Progress (WIP) Review As I understand it, components (like atoms) should live in the design system. We use the WIP Project to hose the Design File, where we design screens, but also create larger organism-components at the top of the file. I am confused about whether this is the best place for these organisms to live? Would it make sense to create a new file inside WIP named “Organisms”, design them in there, and paste instances into the design file? Or, should these organisms be created in the Design System? Any guidance greatly appreciated 🙂

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ahruf
11 months ago
Aleksandra_Che
Aleksandra_Che
asked in Ask the Community
GIF playing continuously across transitions

Hello! Is it possible to have a GIF play continuously across transitions within a prototype? Currently, at each transition, the GIF will restart from the beginning. I want to mimic the idea of a live camera feed and interaction with blended virtual items in an augumented reality app. Thanks in advance!

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11 months ago
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Max16
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One "mother" Design System file to rule them all?

Hi all, So I am in the midst of creating an UX design system consisting of of elements and components without branding so far. Is it possible in Figma to create one “mother” design system file changes/addition in which will update the subsequent “child”(branded differently per client) design system files? Cheers!

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Pavel_Kiselev
11 months ago
Yagnik_Jadav
Yagnik_Jadav
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External API Rest API call not working

When we make external api service call to generate token or post data getting origin null error. I understand there is article how to make 3rd party api call but it not that clear to implement. Also, this error is not only for generating token but if we pass token directly still getting same error for all api call. Any idea how can we fix it? We using 3rd party API and don’t have control change CORS. Regards Yagnik

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Yagnik_Jadav
11 months ago
tokendan
tokendan
asked in Ask the Community
Ready for dev tag persists in page name after merge

Hey there, I’ve noticed a bug. Scenario: A master/main branch has a section marked as ready for dev, but the branch you’re merging into it has removed it. I’ve resolve the conflicts (choosing the branch in all of them) I merged the branch into the master As a result my page names show the “ready for dev” indicator icons, but there are no sections within the page marked as ready for dev. Switching into Dev-mode also confirms that no sections are marked as ready for dev. Would anyone mind helping me remove them please?

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tokendan
11 months ago
Jordan_Gardiner
Jordan_Gardiner
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CTRL + ALT + UP/DOWN not working as it used to

I use ctrl + alt + up/down to rearrange items in an auto-layout, and to move them up/down the layer list. However, now recently it has also started changing the height. ctrl + alt + up increases the height by 1px, as well as rearranges the item. Is this a bug, a new setting or something else?

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11 months ago
Marcel_Tuchner
Marcel_Tuchner
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[Bug] Label reset when Button is used in another Component

Might be similar to: Boolean properties are reset when updating the master component Resolved: Overrides not preserved when library is pushed - #147 by Gaetan_Masson But in my case it can be reproduce in a very very small context e.g. a draft thus it is not resolved (at least not for my situation). I have a button component (created via cascading component style - link to an article of this style is within my draft) When using the Button anywhere in my project all is fine, but when I use it within another component the hover interaction resets the label value, thus instead of showing e.g. “Add to Basket” it shows “Button” while hovering. To understand the Problem or to see the issue I created a draft where everything can be inspected. The issue is critical within our project since the component where we have this behaviour is critical for the application (and thus critical for many usability tests that have been planned) Here the link to my Draft. Bug reproduction I hope anyone has a

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Marcel_Tuchner
11 months ago
Abhishek_Thakur
Abhishek_Thakur
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How to make main frame (artboard) auto resize while having functional accordion component set inside?

While presenting the prototype, How can we use auto layout to resize the main frame (Page) or the main artboard automatically, which contains a fully functional accordion component set having large n different body content sizes? Also, I want to keep the header stuck to the top, which is not happening if I make the whole frame auto layout.

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11 months ago
Brooke2
Brooke2
asked in Ask the Community
Nested Component not visible after using absolute position

I am trying to nest one component within another in Figma, but i’m experiencing an issue where the content of the nested component isn’t visible after I moved it with absolute position. I’ve seen this method used a lot when building components and have done it myself before. Does anyone know why it’s not showing up? It is clearly nested and I can see the purple bounding box. I’ve tried moving it to the front or rearranging the layers and it still appears to be hidden. Help!

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Marta9
11 months ago
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Costanza_Morbidelli_Rio
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Change all variants changing the master component

Hello, I would like to know if is possible to change all the variants in one time changing the main component.

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Raphael_M
11 months ago
Sergejs
Sergejs
asked in Ask the Community
Website name change

Please change name from “Figma” to “Sigma” 🙏 🙏 🙏

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Sergejs
11 months ago
Lewis_Healey
Lewis_Healey
asked in Ask the Community
Is there a way I can tell if the instance has come from another Figma org?

Someone has copied an instance from another Figma org files that we don’t have access to and the codegen is providing a 403, any thoughts how I can solve this?

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Lewis_Healey
11 months ago
Saifullah_khan
Saifullah_khan
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How to replace all local components with published one?

I recently subscribed to a Figma paid plan and organized my design into separate files. For the mobile design, I created a new file. Subsequently, I made a third file and transferred all components from the initial file to create an ‘assets’ file. After publishing these files, I expected the web file to automatically update and use the published components, but it seems to be using the local components instead. I also deleted my local components in the hope that my file would automatically fetch the published components, but unfortunately, that didn’t happen. I aim to have my web file dynamically reflect changes made in the assets file to streamline the update process. This is my first time using the paid version of Figma, and I’d appreciate guidance on achieving this synchronization between files.

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y_toku
Figmate
11 months ago
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Emily39
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Is there a way to force Outlook to open Figma in the App instead of Web browser?

Every time I get a notification in Outlook from Figma, if I click the link it takes me to the browser instead of the app. Is there a way to force send me to the app? TIA!

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y_toku
Figmate
11 months ago
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JUNAID_IMDAD
asked in Ask the Community
Fully functional prototype

Is it necessary to have fully functional prototype of an app? If I have prototyped all necessary ways of navigating through the app, but not all, is it a wrong approach? For example if we have some things on a screen that perform same action but have different values, does it make sense to prototype all of those things on each screen, even though they have same behaviour? Isn’t it a waste of time? Please help!!

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kdme
11 months ago
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christian11
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Knockout outline of text from text behind it

I know I can knock out the outline of text from an image or object by using the “subtract selection”. But is there any way to make it so the outline will just be removed from the text behind it? the only workaround I’ve found so far is to: Export the text layer behind as a PNG and inserting it again → Then making a dublicate of the text, removing fill and making a stroke → then using the “subtract selection” → and finally inserting the text with fill again.

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11 months ago
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