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Recently I have been encountering a lot of issues with Figma Prototype. Is it normal? Maybe Figma is working on updates, which is why this is happening. Or I am the only one facing it. My prototype won’t update automatically when I make changes to mockups or components. I have to manually rerun(a restart doesn’t work) the prototype to see changes. The prototype loading is very slow and sometimes it is stuck in loading forever. The issue is faced by other team members as well. Sometimes the cursor goes missing and one has to guess where it is based on the highlights on buttons.

Hi All, I am trying to use a video file in my Figma prototype. I am using a rectangle(shape) and using the “Fill” option to use the video. After few seconds, it is showing messages “the video can’t be uploaded” and “invalid video removed” and then the video layer disappeared. I am using a .mov having 27.9 MB of size. I tried with different .mp4 videos(with different sizes), but, no luck. Can you please help me identify what could be the issue here? How could this be resolved?

Hello! I’m trying to recover the letterSpacing value of a TextNode through PluginAPI. I’ve set some of my TextNodes to have a letterSpacing of 0.16px and others to 0.45px and I want to get that value in my Plugin. However, every TextNode, those which have a modified letterSpacing and those which don’t have this value inside ‘letterSpacing’: letterSpacing: { unit: “PERCENT” value: 1 } Is there any other way of getting letterSpacing? I’ve checked and I’m retrieving the correct nodes.

What are the key considerations for structuring a Figma file that effectively manages a complex design system with numerous components, states, and variants? chatstep bazoocam

Hi ! I’m facing a weird behaviour and wonder wether it’s a bug or something that i’m missing. In the link i’m sharing you can find a triangle which i found in a component library, the shape has rotation value of 0 (both in the UI and in the Figma API with node.rotation) but it’s anchor point (the point which defines the position) is the bottom left corner, instead of the top left corner as usual. You can verify that by typing 0,0 in the x,y coordinate and see the position align on the bottom left corner. I’m not the author of this triangle, so I don’t know how it was made, but it seems that its Y scale was reversed (allowing to turn a classic triangle to an upside down triangle) (edit : indeed, if i create a shape and reverse the scale, it behaves the same way) This would also explain why the y coordinate is inverted and why the x isn’t. But i can’t find any scaleX / scaleY

I Expect Figma to at least do what sketch can!! if I tell it to open an overlay it should always open an overlay not make me spend hours trying to figureout why I cant do a simple action like I can in sketch

I just want to turn off notifications from figma files, not prevent him from accessing figma files. Here’s his comment in my file:Figma – 19 Jul 22

When hovering image/buttons become bigger while other become smaller.

I downloaded the Figma app and placed it in the Applications folder. When I tried to open it, it prompted me to move it to the Applications folder. I tried moving it to other other folders, still the same. I also tried downloading the Figma app to the Downloads folder and then moving it to the Applications folder, but the issue persists. MacBook Pro | Apple M2 | Sonoma 14.5

hi everyone, I would like to change my email address for my account but I can’t seem to do it. this error keeps popping up and I’m not sure what to do next. I’ve reached out to support only to receive the reply below, which is not very helpful: " Thanks for reaching out! It looks like you’re contacting us from a Starter account. Customers on this plan receiv

I have created a component in which a button is to be right-aligned on klick. No matter what I do, it remains left-aligned.

In the past, when a client sent me a Figma file with view permissions only, I was able to download a local copy and then edit my copy of the file, and share it with others. Now I’ve received a Figma file and did the same - saved a local copy, and working in the copy. I can edit it - no problem. But when I try to share it with someone, I get this message: For you to edit files in this organization, your account needs to be upgraded by an admin. Just click Request upgrade, and we’ll send your request to your organization’s admins. Not sure what is happening. Can someone please help explain?

Figma doesn’t keep the original file names for image fills in the UI. However, there used to be a workaround for by getting the file name in Inspect > CSS code in background property. As recently, Figma stopped showing original image filenames even in the generated CSS code, I was looking into API to see if the original image names are preserved anywhere. I couldn’t find the original filename on any of the endpoint JSON. Perhaps I’m missing something or is this info isn’t anywhere in the API?

When i create a link to indesign from Figma and press it, there is a message: Either this file doesn’t exist or you don’t have permission to view it. Ask the file owner to verify the link and/or update permissions. what could i do?

Any ideas which helps designer to make unique and useful design for clients

I know, very specific title but, here’s what I want to achieve and don’t want to use excessive screens for my prototype: I have a list of cards. Each card is a variant with some properties of the same instance, say “title” and “description” to it. I want click each of these instance to open an overlay that also changes depending on what i clicked. in simple words, i want the popup to restate parts of the thing i clicked on. However, all these clickable instances are the Hover state of their element. I could manually make them each change some variable if they were on my canvas as that hover state, but they’re not, they’re default states, and only have that interaction of click to open overlay when they’re hovered. This means I can’t even manually make each instance in my demo change variables to what it is before showing the overlay, as they’re not editable for me.

-2 I want to build up an ontology in Protégé and connect it with Figma prototypes. My purpose is to build up an adaptive UX design using an ontology. Is this feasible? I have no knowledge where I should start. What are the tools, plugins and APIs I should use? Please be kind to explain me the process. I built up the ontology and Figma prototypes are ready. I want to integrate them together and I want the Figma prototypes to behave and response to the ontology I built.

We had two separate branches, each corresponding to a different task, but both making changes to the same section - the main page of the website. We merged the first branch into the main branch, incorporating its changes into the main content file. We then continued working on the second branch. When we attempt to merge this second branch, we encounter conflicts between the main file and the second branch. If we accept the changes from the main file, it overwrites everything we worked on in the second branch. However, we want to update everything except the parts we worked on in the second branch.

I am trying to set up a prototype so that clicking on an element in one frame will open another frame (in the same file, same page) as a new tab when the prototype runs.

Hello, there! { "type": "GRADIENT_LINEAR", "visible": true, "opacity": 1, "blendMode": "NORMAL", "gradientStops": [ { "color": { "r": 0.9468026161193848, "g": 0.7801758050918579, "b": 1, "a": 1 }, "position": 0 }, { "color": { "r": 1, "g": 0.8026315569877625, "b": 0.7916666865348816, "a": 1 }, "position": 1 } ], "gradientTransform": [ [0.02942134626209736, 2.29868745803833, -0.01471067313104868], [153.8611602783203, -179.4796142578125, -76.43058013916016] ] } and I want to generate css code which is in Inspect tab background: linear-gradient(179.27deg, #F1C7FF 0.63%, #FFCDCA 43.59%); how can i get these percentage? thanks!!

Here I have a timer using variables that counts up. When I click on present mode the font changes and the timer font seems low quality. In the main component I do have the same font as in the instance but in present mode there is a different one, how can I fix that? Thank you all.

Having a really weird issue when viewing a prototype, the flow points me and my team are making to match our research interview guides are simply not showing. This seems to only affect when viewing in browser with the share link. Viewing a prototype in the native app and in a tab seems to work just fine. We have the first flow point, then nothing below. This is making our research a bit harder because of the need for us to be able to reset complex interactions back to our designated flow point. Anyone else hitting this issue? if so how have you fixed?

Hi! I’m looking to give non-design stakeholders access to analytics and notifications of a community file I publish. Giving the view access doesn’t seem to do the trick. Can someone clarify who gets notified when a community file gets duplicated? If it’s only writers of the file, is there a workaround so that they don’t need publish something to the file but can still access the notifications?

Just wondering is anyone using the PrimeOne Figma file and how they are finding it.PrimeFaces – 26 Jul 22

I publish the plugin to Figma successfully, then I make some changes, I can find “publish new version” next to the plugin, but for the scond time to update the plugin, I can’t find “publish new version” option anymore. Any one can help?