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Hi, I’m trying to create a responsive layout for my design and would love some help. As the display size reduces, I want the images to push in towards the centre however at the moment they are just getting cut off the screen (I’ve attached an image to show what I mean). How can I make it the the images cluster more evenly together and dont get pushed off the screen? Thanks for any help 🙂

How to start even with the desktop app? i can see the templates…above left says edit here…but how??? cannot drag and drop it there, cannot choose it! What a waste of money on this shit!

Hi guys! Does anybody know why I don’t have an option to upload my profile picture? I can only use this generic one…

What I want to do is that when i click photos button, it opens the photos carousel and when i click videos it opens the video carousel , i have created functioning carousels that move and now they are within different component sets, however i cannot make the effect where when you click photos it goes to the suitable carousel and likewise, how can this effect be achieved in Figma (also my intention is that the carousels should be in the same position, only switched when pressed the button). So far I’ve tried: Merging the 2 carousels into a component set called comp 11, and connect the button and choose navigate to comp 11 but it only works for top-level frame.

The new Professional Plan update feels like a step back. The interface now resembles Webflow, causing major distractions when working on multiple screens. The new spacing function is unnecessary and hinders workflow. Please revert to the previous version. Also, why do I have to hover over “Auto Layout” to see the frame resolution? This is inconvenient and time-consuming.

Hi there! I feel like when I’m playing with my prototype in the Figma app, the animations framerate is capped to 24 or 30 fps. However, it feels a lot more fluid in the desktop app. Is this behavior deliberate? I wish I would have the same experience on both! My phone is an iPhone 12, so I don’t think the hardware is the issue.

SHAME ON YOU FIGMA AND YOU DARK PATTERN PRICING! After reading this great article (Figma and the cost of collaboration | by Rosie Hoggmascall | Aug, 2024 | UX Collective), I checked to see what I was paying. I was paying for 3 design seats on my personal pro Figma account because I invited 2 people to edit a file a few months ago and I’ve been paying for them every since!! I would have never realized I was being overcharged for nothing if I hadn’t read that article. Those collaborators only worked on one project one time. I was never notified by email or on the Figma app itself. What a disgusting practice just to rake in more money. I can’t wait for Penpot or another software to take over the market because you got greedy and you trick your customers just because you feel like you have no competitors. I was going to recommend you to my current company but definitely not after this. Why would I work with a software that I have to constantly check that they don’t overcharge me? This is t

Hi there! I am trying to create a table that has a sticky row and sticky column. Does anyone know how to do this? I’d like for the whole thing to scroll together. I’ve seen a few people post about this but no answers yet. Let me know if anyone has figured this out!

How can I select an entire path in Figma when using box select isn’t possible? I.E. - A shape/object has multiple independent overlapping shapes/objects. I want to select one of them to separate into it’s own shape. At the moment - I have to either manually click each point AND line on said object while holding shift. The lack of a proper lasso selection tool makes this much more cumbersome. My Figma workflow has taken a huge hit from this for years- so I’m finally taking the time to figure it out but my searches haven’t turned up anything useful. I would love to know what I’m missing here! To recreate this scenario: Duplicate any complex shape. Slightly offset the position of the duplicate. Flatten the two shapes. Separate them again Step 4 takes me WAY more time than is reasonable with my current knowledge. Thanks in advance, and I apologize if I’ve been missing something simple and/or obvious!

I did search, but didn’t know the right things to search to see if an existing thread was available for this. So I have a parent component, a multi-toggle switch, containing three nested components: In the parent component, I can duplicated the nested internal “ToggleSwitches” without incident and the larger, main component, will horizontally scale in accordance (the width is set to “HUG”). See the outline of the larger component for reference. Now if I place an instance of this component anywhere, and do the same thing, duplicate one of the nested components within it, said component will duplicate outside of the parent component: How might I make the whole parent component dynamic, such that I am able to add/remove nested pieces and have it resize appropriately like it does in the parent component? Thanks so much in advance!

Hi all In my portfolio case study I have a link to a figma prototype / flow starting point with settings to view in desktop device. My problem is the prototype opens up with some it cut off and the device off centre. If I close the side bar it rectifies. When I am personally in Figma, playing my prototype I amn aware of the prototype settings - to hide side bar etc… which as far as I can tell has to be reset each time you view your prototype. My problem: For visitors who don’t know figma - they are not going to know how to do this or bother to for that matter. It all opens up off centre which is not a very professional UX look when linking portfolio for job finding. Any tips? Thanks 🙂

I’m struggling with versioning components, or how to replace an existing (master) component with a new / updated version. For example, I’ve made a copy of a library component and worked on it in another file, to leave the library untouched. Now I need to replace the old one with the new one (without breaking connections to all the instances). Does anyone know the best way to do this? (Please let me know if my question isn’t clear enough.) thanks in advance. p.s.: is there a better way of creating a working copy / draft / branch of a component to work on? Should I not be copying a component, and instead just modifying the existing one? (I’m reluctant to do that, for obvious reasons - I don’t want to mess with the published version and break something accidentally. And while Figma does have a Version History, it’s for the entire file, there is no version history for a component as far as I know…)

I do not like it at all! Super unpractical, now it takes longer to work with Figma. Side panels floating and it make me nerves. Please give options to go back to old ui. Really it bothers me too much, I newer write anything like this but this update…killing me slowly 😭

Hello everyone, I’m currently busy testing Figma slides and so far I’m thrilled. When I go into presentation mode (app, not browser), I still see the Figma UI, especially the tabs at the top, the viewers as well as I don’t want to be distracted by the tabs at the top. Is there any way to hide these somehow? All the best! Tony

Please search for existing topics before posting! Press 🔍 at the upper right to search. I have followed below doc to setup the ADFS: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/360048269533-Set-up-SAML-SSO-for-ADFS But I have met the error: You found a bug! We’re really sorry about this. The issue has been logged, and we’ll fix it soon.

Hello there, I am trying to use the TeleportHQ plugin for my Figma project, but whenever I click “Export as new project” and selecting my work, I get an error that says “Could not create project. Try again please”. I would really like to use this plugin for my website, but the problem seems unsolvable. I would love some help 🙂 More information: I am using Figma premium and I have tried on both the desktop and the web browser Figma version. Thanks

Why do all the clickable elements of Figma’s right menus NOT change the mouse pointer to a hand? It’s default, standard, expected behaviour. The hand mouse pointer indicates clickability, it would give some feedback that something is clickable if the mouse pointer showed the hand variety. (EDIT: I just upgraded and saw that hover effects are finally more liberally used than previously was the case. At least that has improved.) Minimalistic might appear cool, but please, not at the expense of usability. Especially given that this is a UX tool!

Do students have to register for my team in order to use my figjams? I just came to FigJam since Jamboard is being closed down and I’m trying to get used to using it. I used to be able to post a link on my Canvas page and the students could open it up and use it. I would prefer to do that without having them sign up for my team FigJam. Sometimes, I don’t want one class to see the link until I start using it in class. For example, if I’m asking them to brainstorm evidence to support a thesis, I don’t want them opening up what an earlier class did and seeing their answers. Can I just have a link that I share with them at the right time without their joining my team?

Dear all, I am new to Figma, I have done pretty good by creating variable based prototypes however I am stuck in creating responsive design that should work on each screen size, I have created responsive components for Desktop version and they are responsive till screen size changes to 1100-900px however for tablet and mobile size, will I have to create separate components or I can use wrap property to create one responsive component but when I set the out Frame to Fixed width and wrap and its childs to fill container and gives it min width of 800px, they do not wrap and get a messed up layout? what is the best way to design responsive page that works for each screen sizes? Any plugins to help me achieve this? Should I switch to html and css to create responsive designs? I will be thankful for your guidance.

I can’t find my Ipad (9th gen, 2160 x 1620 px) as a prototype device. When I use Figma mirror (my designs are created 2160 x 1620 px), I can see them on my ipad perfectly, as they should be. But I can’t on my computer (preview), what is the way my client will see and critique it. Is there any way to still do this without scaling all my designs? Thank you

Its sometimes hard to make these forums posts useful because Figma changes happen randomly with no warning, sometimes its hard to clock exactly what the change has been because they’re so subtle, sometimes it appears to be a bug but is actually just a deliberate change. Its also impossible to go back and check how things worked in previous version - which can make it hard to describe exactly what the problem is. You eventually get used to these changes but still feel you’ve been slowed down for no real reason - and forum posts go unreplied to. Latest thing is the way that rearranging (via drag and drop) works in auto layout. Theres something ‘smoother’ and less ‘clicky’ about it - its harder to see exactly where an element is going to land when you’re rearranging, the blue line that denotes that seems to only appear when you’re moving it with its parent frame and not from one frame to another. The priority seems to have been making it more WYSIWYG style, trying to give us an exact repr

Hello Folks! Resizing does not appear when I click auto layout. Do you know how to fix it?

When I try to open a shared project or an old project, I only see a dark grey background. Also, when I open a new project, the same dark grey background appears. What should I do?

The client has created an interactive presentation as a prototype in Figma. This prototype is currently shared using Figma’s free plan. The client wants to share a direct link to this prototype with various people. Is there a limit on the number of people who can access the prototype via the link? Will there be any additional charges for each person accessing the prototype?

When I drag a PDF file into FigJam, it used to work quickly. Now, a pop-up asks for the source of the PDF (e.g., Miro, Lucid, etc.) every time, which significantly slows down my workflow and is very frustrating. Is this a temporary data insight collection or will this remain in FigJam?