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I am an interaction designer and I primarily use Figma as my design tool. Recently, I’ve encountered an issue where the Figma resource function fails to retrieve all results. For instance, after adding the Material Design icon Library to Design File A, searching for “Arrow” in the Library’s Assets section yields over 100 relevant results. However, searching in the resource section of Design File A only shows 10 results, which is quite perplexing. The Material Design icon has already been published.

I’ve been watching a lot of tutorials to fully grasp Fill / Hug / Fixed for cards and multiple elements in one group. When I’m building the elements separately, they seem to behave find and responsive as I’ve intended, however they start breaking down as the group gets bigger, and I’m sure I’m setting something wrong… just don’t know exactly what For example, in this Figma file there’s a card design I’m struggling with. I want to achieve what’s on the “mobile design” frame without adjusting anything but simply shrinking the container down, but I can never seem to be able to achieve it 😦 Please help me and let me know what I’m doing wrong!

Hey all, My team have been using the Figma API to retrieve Library Analytics - Mainly the ‘GET usages analytics’ (https://www.figma.com/developers/api#get-library-analytics-usages). For context, we are looking to get data/analytics on what components a team has used. For example: Team A is using Component X and Y Team B is using Component Z Are we currently able to get this data? Would like to confirm if this is something that the Figma API will allow us to retrieve. Thanks!

I have two different color libraries that I’m distributing within our design system library. Is there a way to manage the order of libraries? One is more important and is our main design system; the other is pulling from mapping tools and not within our system and I’d love the primary design system color library to appear first. I’ve tried a few things—changing alpha naming, turning styles on and off in varying orders—but nothing has worked.

The libraries panel includes design tokens followed by color styles. However, I want to have color styles appear at the top. Could someone provide guidance on how to rearrange the order of design tokens and color styles?

Any suggestions, link to tutorials how to add show more link/button for truncated text (like in image). How does it fits in the auto layout?

As you can see I can select the component, and move it with the x / y input, but I don’t get a selection highlight and grab it with my mouse. can’t double click into the component either. It was working fine yesterday so I’m not sure what the issue is. figma file

I have 360 variants (120 x 3 Sizes S, M, L) in my button component. There is an instance of the badge component in each of them. Now, I want to select only the badge instances in the size M. I managed to select all M size variants. But how to select the instances “badge” within?

I have created UI version of the page for client. I have autolayouts and the whole design system is in place. I cannot connect logos to URL links. I tried cmd K (I have MAC). but nothing works. I have a “link” icon visible only on texts. Can you help me? Cheers, Asia

I am developing an ERP System with many interconnected components, causing the editing process to be very slow. Even the prototype is too slow, and I keep running into memory issues. I thought about separating everything into different files, but with over 20 modules, dividing them into 2-3 files each would become very messy. Will the paid version provide any additional resources or benefits for this issue?

Hello Figma Team, Thank you for all your efforts in continuously improving Figma. I am writing to inquire about the possibility of obtaining early access to your new AI update. As a UX instructor at Udacity, a product design instructor at the Tech4Dev organization funded by the United Nations and Microsoft, and a YouTuber, having early access would greatly benefit my students and audience. It would enable me to provide them with firsthand insights and a better understanding of the new features. Your efforts in advancing design tools are greatly appreciated, and I am eager to share this innovation with my community. Thank you so much for considering my request. Best regards, Mona

I must be missing something obvious. I have created a triangle (using polygon tool) and it’s not centered in its frame. I cannot find which setting to use to center it and it’s messing up my auto-layouts… In the image above I would like it to be vertically centered instead of laying on the bottom border of the frame.

Suppose the Figma project admin (the designer) shared access to her project with three people (the project customer, the developer, and the business consultant). In that case, if the developer wants dev mode, can the designer only buy the dev mode seat for him without buying the dev mode seat for all the people she shared access to the project with? I mean, 12$ is better than 48$/month, isn’t it? Thanks!

I am a student. I create a new FigJam file. But I can’t find any button to create a new page.

I seem to have a user specific edge case where I cannot see the comments on our files, including the ones I add to the file. It may be related to the fact that I use the iPad app sometimes? That’s the only thing that comes to mind. While troubleshooting, we did the following: try hide/unhide comments try to reset user from admin side try to create a new user look for other cases in this forum to no avail

I’m looking to upgrade my current Professional Team plan, which i subscribed to in April, to the Organization plan and add two more seats. Please let me know the cost and how the pricing adjustment for the current plan will be handled?

Hi I created a Figma jam board last months and spent many hours on it. I haven’t logged in for a few weeks as been busy. I have logged in yesterday and the file is nowhere to be seen. I tried drafts and deleted files but I can’t find it anywhere. Can anyone help? Thanks

Hello, As a title say - Figma is logging me out without any reason or error showed. I’m using browser(Google Chrome) version. I’ve been struggling with this since the weekend I think. Anyone having same issue?

I’ve discovered that if you create collections and up to 40 modes in a Figma Enterprise account, you can still use these modes in a free account (e.g., an agency account) even if the components were created in the enterprise account. I haven’t upgraded to enterprise yet, but I’ve tested this with the 4 modes available in the Pro tier, and it works. My question is: if I upgrade to enterprise and create more than 4 modes, will I still be able to use all 40 modes in a free account, even if I can’t create them there? Has anyone tried this yet? Edit: You’re copying the component from the enterprise file into the free file.

I’d love to be able to select 5 text fields and update them all to the same thing, without clicking into them individually. This is something that chews up a lot of my time when it comes to product or copy teams sending text updates.

Hi, there is a problem with one of our illustrations. At the moment we added the illustration as a PNG, because with SVG there are some error. I added the image. The line must be dashed. But when we add the SVG image, the line is solid. This is only the case with Figma. Everywhere else the illustration is displayed correctly. Thanks!

I am trying to create interactions for a form. I have created all the possible state variables for the input fields and dropdowns, but I am unable to show the actual data in the form. I can only add the value in the master component. How can I make the form interactive, like in XD, so that I don’t need to copy the main component and create numerous instances? It is making my file bulky

Hi everyone, I followed the exact steps in this Figma tutorial to create a plugin on my own. I made changes to the “code.ts” file, but my plugin didn’t update the effects. The details: I made changes to the “code.ts” file by replacing “Figma.createRectangle()” with “Figma.createEllipse()”. I relaunched the plugin on Figma, but the plugin still created rectangles rather than ellipses. If I made the same change to the “code.js” file, I was able to update the plugin effects. I have tried the following: Restart my desktop, relaunch vs code, relaunch Figma Ensure that I Install everything as required: vs code, node.js, npm, TypeScript, typings, (and verify all installation) Select “Select Command Prompt” under “terminal select default profile” Select “tsc:watch-tsconfig.json.”

I’ve got a layout with a standard file upload area. This file upload is a component with 3 variants - default, a box with a spinner (which is a separate component - a spinner taken from the free animation kit in community), and a final ‘done’ state. Right now, when the user clicks the box, an overlay appears, and a button is chosen. This closes the overlay, changes some variables including one that changes the Upload area to the ‘loading’ spinner variant. My problem is, the spinner animation doesn’t work. If I click the upload area again, to reopen my overlay and I re-click the button, then the animation works. I don’t know if there’s some limitation here in Figma, but maybe someone’s run into this, and has a solution.

I have completed “Beginner 4: Prepare for handoff” but when I tested for “View Mode” the “Inspect” tab is not appearing on the Right Bar. At the moment I am inspecting the application and dose not have a license. Dose that make the difference?