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scott10
scott10
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Masking shortcut isn't working in desktop app on M1 Mac

I keep trying control + command + m, and nothing is happening. Any ideas?

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Scott_Edelstein
2 months ago
Moonsurfx
Moonsurfx
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Strokes not showing on text layers when importing to framer

Please search for existing topics before posting! Press 🔍 at the upper right to search.

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Moonsurfx
2 months ago
Carolina_Vargas
Carolina_Vargas
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Adding animation variant into another animation variant not working

Hi, so I’ve made a typing animation, but I want to add it to another animation variant that I have already done. However, when I add the first typing animation, it does not show up correctly when prototyping. Ok so here is the typing animation already all set up correctly to work (I can’t show the whole variants because it’s really long) I know it is working correctly because when I add to another frame and try to prototype, it shows up correctly like here: But now I want to add to this other variant animation that I already have that is working normally However, when I go to prototype, the typing animation does not show up correctly. The first line does not show up, but the rest is showing normally. Does anyone know how to fix this? or how to do it using maybe jitter or something like that? I’ve tried searching about it but haven’t seen anyone with a problem like this.

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Carolina_Vargas
2 months ago
Thomas_Cramer
Thomas_Cramer
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Pasted Illustrator vector art in Figma is scaled 📏

Hi I have an issue, where my icons are designed in Illustrator. When copying the icon from Illustrator into Figma, the artwork is scaled up. An example from Illustrator (20px X 18px): After pasting into Figma (26.68px X 24px): The funny thing is, that if I create a basic square in Figma sized 16px X 16px, copy it as svg from Figma and paste it in Illustrator, it is still sized 16px X 16px. Then when copying that same square from Illustrator that I just pasted from Figma and paste it back into Figma it is scaled up. I’m aware that I can “just” scale the icon in Figma after placing it, but it is very inconvenient - especially if you have a large icon library designed in Illustrator. Any idea what is causing this? Thanks!

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Oce_BTP
2 months ago
benoit.masse
benoit.masse
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I'm admin and I can't access a file and project

Hi, I’m the admin of pro team. But there is a one project that has a different owner, and one file in it that ask me “request access”. As admin I should be able to have full access to everything no?

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ksn
Figmate
2 months ago
Bard1
Bard1
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Save issues on MacBook

Is this normal for Figma? I want to now save today’s version of my Figma files as version 2. I enter the v2 either in the pop up save window dialog window or in the actual left hand menu title of Figma and then hit save prompting the Save window to open to choose the location where I want to save it. I save to the Cloud yet when I look at the titles in the cloud none of the files have the v2 I added? Never seen that before using a Mac for 24 yrs! EDIT: I realised my Figma app isn’t local to the Mac and that when my internet connection dropped today (the day after posting this comment) the app wouldn’t load? I didn’t realise I need to be connected to wifi to use the Figma app? (End Edit) Why won’t it accept the title change – adding v2 (see red lines on images) to the end of the file name in the left menu or in the save dialog window? Cheers Ps// why when I attached the images just now why did it erase my question in this text box here…?

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ksn
Figmate
2 months ago
Charles_S
Charles_SNew Participant
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Fluid lay-out & controlling order of reactions to resizing

I’m trying to build a responsive / fluid header that mimics flex wrap, pushing elements down, when not enough space. Simple enough, but when I have several nested items also reacting, I don’t know how to control what order things collapse. I want the largest parents to dropdown first, before their children start reacting. I’ve attached a quick screen recording to show how resizing the element results in something different than the desired state in the two static examples below it. I’ve tried to solve this with some min-widths, or setting some elements to hug instead of fill. But this just results in elements overflowing their container instead of wrapping as intended.

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Charles_S
2 months ago
Albina_Zinchenko
Albina_Zinchenko
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Tex moving

“I created a rectangle in Figma and added several text boxes within it. When I expand the main frame, one of the text elements moves downward, while the rest remain in place. How can I resolve this so that the text stays in its position regardless of the frame’s resizing (height)?”

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tank666
2 months ago
Dushyant1
Dushyant1
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Horizontal Sticky Scroll

Hey! I have been trying to do some experiment with the horizontal scroll. Just like we use sticky on top scrolling in case of vertical scroll, I was wondering if we can do the same for horizontal scroll as well, like some elements stick on the right side if we are swiping from left to right. Let me know if you guys have any idea how to do this! Cheers!

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Dushyant1
2 months ago
Prajyot
Prajyot
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Horizontal scrolling in tabs

If I have more than 29 tabs on Figma, I can’t seem to access the ones on the right of the last tab. I have to go home and THEN find the file I was searchin for/working on.

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Prajyot
2 months ago
Mark_Steinruck
Mark_SteinruckNew Member
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Nested icon not displaying correctly in Dev Mode preview

Our design system has an Icon component to help with scaling and icon swapping. The structure is simple, with an icon instance nested within a frame. Variants of the component allow for easy scaling. An engineer recently noticed that when they inspect the Icon component in Dev Mode, clicking the first level displays the default icon instance in the preview window. If the embedded icon was swapped, the only way to see it correctly in the preview window is to double click into the instance. Has anyone found a solution so that clicking the first level of the component will display correctly in the preview.

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Mark_Steinruck
2 months ago
Krzysztof_Kolesnik
Krzysztof_Kolesnik
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Figma extremely laggy

Hello, I have an issue with laggy performance of my prototype. I’m using desktop app mostly. But I experience similar issue on Chrome or even worse. Using or not using smart animate does not change anything. I cleared cache. My memory usage of the file is around 2%. I have only 2 pages with barely few components. When I run my prototype and hover on elements the hover effects are very slow and sometimes stays on the element even when I take the cursor over another element etc. I’ve read several topics describing similar issues and nothing worked for me. In general I am experiencing this issue for a long time already. The problem exists either when I am working on bigger files with many layers, variables etc. and while working on smaller files. Did anyone got rid of such problems? Greetings and thanks for help. Krzysztof

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Gayani_S
Figmate
2 months ago
Ahmet_KAYA
Ahmet_KAYA
asked in Ask the Community
I need help about interactions of buttons

hi, sorry for bothering. I have a page-shifting button group. At home page, they’re in blank state. When hovering, their color (or whatever their look) changes, When clicking, button you clicked changes (if you clicked another button, that button turns back into default look). When clicking home, active button turns back to it’s default state. I want to do that in prototyping, how can I do that?

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Ahmet_KAYA
2 months ago
Jenny_Brecheisen
Jenny_BrecheisenNew Member
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Modes getting mixed up and showing other mode variables when switching between the two

I have 5 themes in my variables collection, sometimes when I switch to theme 3, it shows half of theme 3 and half of theme 4 colors. Why is it getting mixed up? To fix, I can select the frame or object and reapply the same color style and it displays the right theme color that is selected… why are variables so buggy 😦

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Jenny_Brecheisen
2 months ago
Jarek
Jarek
asked in Ask the Community
How to clear “Used variables” that don’t exist in the file anymore?

Hi folks! I used some components from other files in my project, and even though I removed them, I still see some Variables available in the “Page → Modes”. They are not available anywhere else. It doesn’t affect the project; when I select one, change the page, and then return to it, that mode is selected. I checked my file, and nothing leads to the other file anymore – no styles, variables, components, etc. It seems like a bug, and I see some variables pulled from another file, but can I remove it somehow?

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Mikael_Cederbom
2 months ago
Fred_Erick
Fred_Erick
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What are your AI flow to optimise your job?

Hi, as a UI designer I would be interested to know how you use AI in your job live, e.g. for user interface design? Automation would also be very interesting for me. I´m not saying that AI is creating the design but help you with it or do some other jobs like collecting information for your daily news, to give you more time for designing. I was thinking of e.g: Searching for new designs (UI) on the web Search for and compile design and tech news on the web Summarise data / metrics Based on this, also create a LinkedIn post To analyse competitor designs (websites)

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Fred_Erick
2 months ago
Mateusz_Przytula
Mateusz_Przytula
asked in Ask the Community
Issue – updating component instances with newly set variables vs. overrides

Hey there Figma folks! I recently stumbled upon something that seems to be a bug (or a feature?) when updating library components inside design files. I have updated the design system library to include variables in places where there were none set previously or where the color styles were used. One of the update included tokenizing the icon set with predefined variables for icon sizes (i.e. Medium = 24px for width and height). Before the update, those same icons had also default size set to 24px but as a custom input, not a variable. After publishing those changes I got multiple reports from the community within my org that Figma ignored the overrides set previously by designers in their local files and forced the default new instance for all icons to have this Medium variable set for width and height. I understand the reason behind this but it seems to me like a a different behavior than it normally is when you update instances of your components (no matter if these are instances of

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Mateusz_Przytula
2 months ago
Matteo_Reggi
Matteo_Reggi
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How can I use a library/design system from another space and organization? But stay on my figma to do exploration and WIP designs?

Hello Do you guys know how can I use a library/design system from another Figma organization? But stay on my Figma to do exploration and WIP designs?

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Matteo_Reggi
2 months ago
Antonio21
Antonio21
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Hovering on component changes property on all istances

Hello community, I’ve just creted my first Figma design and I get an unexpected behavior on a component. I’ve created a card component to showcase company services. The card layout is the following: The “Scopri di più” button is an istance of another component and it’s set to revert its colors when hovered. Problem is: when hovering on the “Scopri di più” button, all istances of the button within the same component and its istances are reverting to the hover state. This is not happening for the instances of the same button OUTSIDE the card components. All interactions seems to be correctly set, so I can’t really understand how to solve. Here’s the link to the Figma file: Figma file Thank you for support.

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Antonio21
2 months ago
Maria49
Maria49
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Animate on Scroll

Hi everyone. I am trying to create a prototype on Figma where you have this kind of indicator as shown here. and it animates every time the user scrolls down. https://www.krissrealestate.com/ Is that possible on Figma? I could only do something similar with After delay interaction. Thanks a lot

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Maria49
2 months ago
Liz_Faust
Liz_Faust
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How to get Figma interactions and variants onto Wix?

Hi All! I am completely new to Figma and I designed a website homepage that has 49 different variants based on mouse hover interactions. I got everything up a runnign however I cannot find a clear answer on how I get the Figma deisgn to an actual website. I’ve tried the following plugins: Figma to Wix, Zeplin, Anima, TeleportHQ, Figma to HTML and CSSSiter.io Perhaps I’m not using to right keywords to try to answer this but in short, I want to get my design and interactions (the component and all 49 variants) onto the site.

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Pierrick
2 months ago
Phil_815
Phil_815
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Proper way to save exports on the computer

Hi, is there a proper or good way to save exported content on the computer? I have seen there is the exportAsync function, but that only packages the content into a variable without starting a download. I found one method in the export zip plugin, but it feels unnecessarily complex and a bit hacky as well by starting a download via a html element. Also, the createObjectURL() seem to make trouble, when I tried it on a quick run. That’s the method used by the export zip plugin: zip.generateAsync({ type: 'blob' }) .then((content: Blob) => { const blobURL = window.URL.createObjectURL(content); const link = document.createElement('a'); link.className = 'button button--primary'; link.href = blobURL; link.download = "export.zip" link.click() link.setAttribute('download', name + '.zip'); resolve(); }); Thank you all for helping. 🙂

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Phil_815
2 months ago
Hung_luu_manh
Hung_luu_manh
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How did that happen?

Recently im working on dark and light theme system, and something happen(video uploaded). I don’t know it is a bug or not, but it make the file cant switch from light to dark theme. Anyone have same problem?

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Gleb
2 months ago
Kick_Outreach
Kick_Outreach
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Verification required to edit education team file

Hi I am working with a freelancer and he said that I have access to edit. But I keep getting this warning and I am not an educator or anything related to school. How do I fix this?

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Gleb
2 months ago
Anh_Dan
Anh_Dan
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Is there any API/SDK to parse Figma file for UI component?

Hi all, I want to develop an app that takes a Figma design file as input, then convert all UI component to HTML code. To do that, I need to be able to parse the Figma first. Is there any API or SDK to do that? Thanks!

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tank666
2 months ago
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