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Hi everyone, I’ve encountered an issue with Figma’s inner shadow effect not displaying after the latest update. This problem persists both in the desktop application (version 124.0.2) and in the browser version. Previously, I used inner shadows extensively in my designs, but now they seem to be invisible or not rendering correctly. I’ve checked my settings and layers, but the problem persists across different files and projects. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? If so, have you found any workarounds or solutions? Any insights or assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Ale.

Hey, I noticed that the Swap Instance panel in the Design tab takes a lot of time to load. No matter the internet connection (slow or fast) this take ages. Sometimes I need to restart Figma in order to make it work. Some of the libraries, like this one: Phosphor Icons added to the Community, has more than 4,000 components Not sure what is the technical strategy for serving components from the libraries but this is really slowing down my workflow (alongside the new, and messed up, way of not look-up for components among all the libraries).

Hi folks Whenever I try to import photos on Figma frame with the keyboard shorcut Cmd + Shift + K, Notions’s search windows open (Because it has same shortcut) The action takes place in Notion running in background instead active Figma window. Can anybody help?

Hi, Is it possible to set that all the commenters on the file will get an email notification - whether they left 1 comment or 10 ? Or is it possible to “subscribe” to a file to get commet notifications? Thanks, Elior.

Could someone please help me fix these oversized icons? I’ve been using this for a sprint and it is killing my productivity. I’m in Chrome on the web browser. This doesn’t help as I’m not seeing these options.

I’m trying to space out these lines and I notice that they are not spaced equally even though it says it is. The problem seems that the spacing randomly decides whether it will pick from the edge of the line or the centre. I don’t know how to solve this issue. Here’s what I’ve tried: Made sure the strokes are all from the centre, not inside or outside. Made the lines to be Centre,Centre rather than Left, Top I have also tried turning off snap to pixel grid Would appreciate any pointers.

I built a “Content” component to manage all different content types, and the text layers in there all used the same layer name. The “Cell” component is used to contain the instance of the “Content” as a table cell, and by using multiple "Cell"s to create “Table Template - x” component for different scenarios. At last, use “Table Template - x” instance to the actual table designs.

I’m trying to get the border-box to hug the text-box as shown in the bottom of the screenshot. I’ve set the border-box and the text to hug. The border-box has a max-width of 275 px, so the text line-breaks when it goes beyond that size. I just want the to hug the actual text so that I have my 16pt. margins as specified in the auto-layout.

I am musing Material UI and the Material 3 Design Kit for the first time and struggling to understand how to properly use it. I understand the base components and how to use them, but most of them require modifications to fit my needs. For example, I can use Cards on a certain page, but I do not need the image, but I need more buttons (see below) I did this by copying the original component. Is that the proper way to go about modifyi

I have designed a component with a header and a description which collapsable. With the description I have a swap-instance, my plan was to put an accordion within an accordion for sub-level cases but Figma says components can’t contain their own instances. I am using an instance in that case and I want the same instance to be a child but it seems not working. Do you know any work around rather than having +50 variants for managing sub-levels?

Hi everyone, I’m wondering if it’s possible to retrieve information/id about parent nodes from nested instance/child IDs using REST API. Here’s a potential use case: I’m unable to comment on instance nodes because their IDs include a prefix, like I118:1407;843:12786. Although I can manually remove the prefix to comment on it’s parents node 118:1407, it doesn’t seem like the best practice. I know that you can access parent nodes in the Plugin API. Therefore, I’m curious to know if similar functionality is available in the REST API. Thank you!

I am trying to create a detailed view of a list of items. Imagine I have a list of names, and I want to click on the name and to move to a frame that shows me a picture of the person, along with name and age, for instance. I don’t want to create a different frame for every person on the list, but rather populate the “detailed view frame” with data from a DB. Any thoughts on how to do that? Thank you!

Hi all, While I was editing my Figma project, I glanced (for very short period) the crusor of my ex-designer who has no access to the project any more for 4 months. I double checked he has no access to the project. It happended quickly I was not able to capture a screenshot. I checked APIs access I found one for exporting comments and revoked it. Could this happen or it probabily a Figma glitch? Is ther any procesure to follow? Thanks.

So I’ve watched all of the Figma tutorials and advice, and most of it isn’t compatible with the IPad, even the app from the Apple Store sadly doesn’t work ironically. At the moment I am trying my hardest to delete design files and JamBoard that I’ve been using as practices but somehow new ones are popping up and all I want is a clean and neat work cloud; not filled with unused design files and Jamboard. Before you come for me, yes I have read the articles on how to delete files and boards but it still is not working. At this time it’s making me so frustrated that I want to look for something more compatible. The only reason why I haven’t moved on is because my partner is using it. Please help… Also I am not able to download the desktop app at all.

About 30-40% of images I placed in a file aren’t fully loading and showing up as blurry. I’ve restarted my computer, closed my browser, closed the desktop app, pasted to a new page, pasted to a new file… nothing is working. 5 years never ever had an issue like this.

hello, Im student in a university and have claimed Free figma, can i use this figma for commercial thing? thanks!

Hi all! So I know this should be an easy one, but I’m completely stuck: when prototyping, connection nodes link only from components/frames to pages, and not the other way around. Hope the screenshots help clarifying: I’d like the “work” on the navbar to bring me back to the “work section” (on the homepage) but instead it only allows a connection to the whole page. All the elements mentioned above are either components or frames. Same happens everywhere else: unable to link from outside > to a specific place inside the main page/frame.

hello! I am on a team which uses a copy/cut paste process to move components from one file to the next. The problem is sometimes links break and the designer has to relink. Also, when updating one element of the component in a new file (via copy/cute paste) eventually the entire component has become fragmented and scattered throughout several files. This makes it difficult to update projects easily or find the most current iteration. To remedy this, I’ve suggested keeping a type of master component library that uses publishing of the component. The variants can then be transferred to new files and there is one source of truth for the master components. Also, when/if a master component should be moved Figma lets you ‘move to file’ and preserves all the links making copy/cut paste unnecessary. I’d love for a few experienced designers to weigh in on this! Have you found publishing works better than a copy/cut paste aproach when mov

Hi, I logged on to my desktop app this morning to find 3 files displaying the same server error message. I have cleared desktop cache, uninstalled and reinstalled the desktop app, checked deleted items (by me and anyone else) and ofcourse restarted my computer, but have had no success. When I hover it says the file was edited yesterday, and I was not in the office, so have contacted my team to see if anyone has accidentally archived/deleted the file. Can anyone help further? Just waiting on response from Figma support.

Hi, Whenever I make a frame Figma freezes and I have to quit and restart. This is becoming very problematic. Please help!

To create a responsive button in Figma: Use Auto Layout by selecting your text layer and pressing Shift + A. Adjust padding around the text to define the button’s size. Add a fill and customize the button’s appearance as needed. The button will now automatically adjust its width based on the length of the text.

I’m new to Figma and I’ve followed an youtube tutorial and did this but when I go see the prototype animation, the colors are different. I don’t know if something is masking it or any other problems. Help me figure it out please. Thanks Figma – 22 May 24

I have professional plan but can not use dev mode

Hey, I’m on Windows. I almost always use a second screen and I always had this bug (I started using Figma on Windows in January 2024), I’m considering sharing this now. When I put my computer on sleep and wakes it OR when I disconnect and reconnect my second screen IF Figma is in fullscreen on my second screen = I got this below. Then, when I hove