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Hi, I am not able to find Variables in my properties panel on the right in Figma. What changed?  

I have been using Figma make for a project and its actually been great, but for the last week (started Monday, currently Friday) I have been getting the same error message! I have plenty of credits.  I have installed the app, restarted my router, called my internet people, logged a help desk reqeust and still no luck. I see a few other people have had the same problem, but there was no solution posted, it just started magically ‘working again’… so I’m hoping this post is the bit of magic I need to get cracking on with my project. 👯 

Yesterday, I had a great time experimenting with Figma motion. I made a neat motion poster, but whenever I try to export it as an MP4, a new tab opens and consistently stops loading at 10% with an "Operation is not supported" error. The same issue occurs when exporting to WebM, although GIFs export successfully. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Are there any solutions? What mistakes am I making?

I just graduated college and lost access to my files from my student account. Is there a way I can transfer them to my personal?

I’ve tried updating figma, restarting figma, restarting my device and reinstalling figma, none of that helped— the browser version is stuck on this too.figma browser​​​ fgima desktopI love this app, please help me get it back.

Why has my Figma desktop app suddenly stopped working over the past week? I opened the app one morning and to my surprise, the files kept on loading and loading. Even Figma home doesn’t load. Not a single file is loading and once I shift to Figma home, I am unable to shift back to my files. Attaching screenshots for reference. It works on the browser but the app isn’t functioning at all. Please help.

The new feature to create plugins directly in figma is great, but I want to share these plugins/tools with my team but can’t find a way to do it. Plus, searching for it only leads me to the standard flow to publish plugins, which does not work for in-figma built tools. So, how can I publish a figma made tool with Organization?

So in radian os there are 18 colors, it is a global design system, but if we had to make a variant for each color, lets say, for Front icon, flag, dot indicator, avatar, trail icon, cross, and so and so..there would be, 18colors * 3 sizes * 4 variants * 6 different badges = 1296 badgesI’ve seen in the figma keynote, that pulling just one instance will also pull all other in the component set, so should i make 1296 badges?or do the way i just did here, 3 bases, with each colored icons, avatars and more (the icon library & avatar library are all ready)does it also pull, the main components * base component ?(and i know the picture doesn’t show country flag, but it will be there in future)

Just been playing around with the new Motion feature and it looks pretty good for a beta - however I can’t quite understand how to use Motion for animating states on a component ie. hovers etc.I want an arrow on a button to move when I hover over the button. This currently doesn’t seem possible without using the old school prototype function instead. I would like to use Motion rather so that my developers can export out the relevant motion properties.  If I put the animation on the default component variant then the animation plays regardless.. If I put it on the hover variant then it’s all jumpy due to the prototype tool trying to animate it as well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  Help?  

Hello! there’s one thing I really like using in AfterEffects and other that is Shape Morphing - being able to animate a shape changing into a completely different form by changing it’s vector points. Since I really like Figma, not having to use After Effects is such a game changer. Is there any news or future plans to implement this feature? Thank you!  

I am trying to upload a large file (1GB+), but every time I try, Figma crashes. Unfortunately I am unable to see the file from its original location to edit the file and reduce the file size. Is there any way to fix this? 

I just opened the file I edited last night in Figma and found that it was mysteriously deleted or moved. Could I ask the staff to help me retrieve the file? Here is the link to my file. It's really an important file. Please help me get it back!https://www.figma.com/design/3ujhuyYU0689tCxeSMe2YP/Untitled?node-id=0-1&t=5vAOSGvpks4qruLx-0(Screenshots redacted by the moderator due to PII)

I am writing to express my strong frustration regarding a major usability issue in the current version of Figma. In Dark Mode, ruler-based guides are rendered in a light, desaturated color. When working on white or light-colored frames, these guides become nearly invisible, making precise alignment impossible. Unlike Layout Grids, there is no option to customize the color or opacity of ruler-based guides. This lack of contrast is a significant accessibility failure that negatively impacts design productivity and precision. Telling users to "switch to Layout Grids" is not a solution, as ruler guides serve a completely different purpose for ad-hoc alignment and quick measurements.Please provide a way to customize the color of ruler guides (e.g., via preferences or individual frame settings) to ensure they are visible regardless of the interface theme or the color of the frame being worked on.

Hello Figma Support,I was unexpectedly charged $218.88 for an annual plan renewal today. I was not aware that the subscription would renew automatically, and I did not intend to continue the plan.I have already canceled the subscription immediately after noticing the charge and have not used any paid features or AI credits after the renewal.I kindly request a full refund for this charge and cancellation of the subscription.Thank you for your understanding. I understand your refund policy, but I would kindly ask you to review my case again. The annual renewal charge of $218.88 was unexpected, and I canceled the subscription immediately after noticing the charge. I have not used any paid features or AI credits since the renewal.I have been a Figma user and I respectfully request a one-time exception and a full refund for this unintended renewal.Thank you for your consideration. But again i was not aware of it and it just took all of the money that was on my credit card, please guys try t

I love the idea of figma motion and can see it working in my setup, but the lack of audio is a huge miss for animated with timing and sound. I am sure there is a plan, but do you have any info as to when audio will be introduced? FYI - I tried making a plugin using the agent and it said no to me. :)Thanks in advance!Dan

Hi — I'm on a Student/Education plan (Full seat) and I'm hitting a rate limit on the Figma MCP server (Dev Mode plugin API) where figma.loadFontAsync() calls hang indefinitely and never resolve, even after fully quitting and restarting the Figma desktop app. Sync operations (creating shapes, no font loading) still work fine, so this is specific to the MCP tool-call quota, not a general outage.Your rate-limits documentation (developers.figma.com/docs/figma-mcp-server/rate-limits-access/) lists quotas for Starter (6 calls/month), Organization Full/Dev seats (200 calls/day), and Enterprise (600 calls/day) — but doesn't mention Education/Student plans at all.Could you tell me:What MCP tool-call quota applies to a Student plan Full seat? Is the reset window daily, monthly, or something else? When will my limit reset?Good question to ask — and honestly, this is important: we never received an explicit rate-limit error message. Every single call — including the ones that failed — returned the

Commands and settings not working in the slack bot. Slack version Version 4.50.14373a6965fa39af05fd6ab515794b9b874b399aedd@1782743559 (Production). MacOS 26.4 (25E246) 

So, in principle, if an instance is inside of another component, changing the variant causes the text to reset back to the text of the master component. This also happens with other properties of the instance, e.g. if you set some booleans up they will be reset to how they were set in the master component once the variant is changed via variable. Here’s a screenshot of what I mean: and here’s the link to the file to mess around with. (So, this issue might be similar (or even basically the same) as discussed here: Change to on instance not keeping text change but frankly I haven’t had the patience to look into OPs setup 😅 I tried to break the issue down to the most bare-bones that I could in the file I provided (also to see if the issue has anything to do with my components or just is a bug) If anyone has found a workaround do let me know 🙏 (and yes, I do need the instance within another instance; it’s a button inside a form layout that I want to reuse (and many other

Hello,I’m a designer, I don’t need AI doing my work and nagging me constantly in the interface. It doesn’t work, it’s useless and I don’t want it.It’s relentlessly pushed in the interface at each update, more and more aggressively (i just had to disable AI agent on the canvas for being bale to work) .I don’t want any of these “features”.What can I do?Note: I already disabled the AI training.

I want to request a review of AI credits used during repeated troubleshooting on my project. I ran into the same tab navigation issue multiple times, and each time I was given several different “fixed” responses that did not resolve the problem. In these attempts, the assistant repeatedly identified different causes, said the issue was corrected, and had me retry, but the tabs still did not work. The working solution only came after I said I was frustrated and felt my credits were being wasted, at which point the assistant switched to the simplest direct onclick approach and it finally worked. This was not isolated to one incident; the same pattern happened multiple times where adding to the database broke other functionality and led to extended back-and-forth troubleshooting that consumed additional credits.

Hi everyone,I’m running into an issue with the new Figma UI released around July 2026.In the desktop app / new UI, I’m trying to link a layer’s visibility to a Boolean component property inside a component, the same way we used to do before.The problem is that when I select the layer and go to Appearance, I don’t see any option to bind the visibility to a component property anymore.The only option I get is “Apply variable…”, which lets me link the visibility to a document variable, but not to a component property.I created the Boolean property on the parent component correctly, and I tested different cases: selecting a layer, a group, a nested instance, etc. Nothing appears in the new UI.However, when I switched to the web version, which still seems to use the old UI, I was able to do it without any issue.So my question is:Has anyone found where this option moved in the new UI? Or is this currently broken / removed from the desktop app?I’ve attached screenshots showing the difference b

I met an issue with Figma MCP when using Slots.Elements inside a Slot become unreadable or return as invalid nodes in MCP.I tested multiple cases and found that: With Slot → MCP cannot read the node. Without Slot → MCP reads the same node correctly. This seems specifically related to Slot components.ExpectedMCP should read nodes inside Slots normally.ActualNodes inside Slots become invalid or unreadable.Screenshots Image 1 & 2: Node becomes invalid inside Slot. Image 3, 4 & 5: MCP works correctly after removing the Slot. Image 1MCP can not readImage 2Claude code response - can not readImage 3MCP can readImage 4MCP can readImage 5 Claude code response - readable 

Hi everyone,I’m working on a very specific requirement for an LCD screen prototype and I’m running into an issue with Figma exports.Here’s the context:I have frames sized 100 × 42 pixels. The goal is to export this frame pixel-perfect, because it will be displayed on a physical LCD screen of this resolution (not sure about the DPI but does it matter). It is meant to be a display test, all screens will be then coded on a framework for HMIs called emWIN, but we need to make sure the designs fit first.) The LCD only supports pure black or pure white pixels (no grayscale, no anti-aliasing). Every time I export from Figma (PNG or JPEG), the image gets blurred or anti-aliased, introducing grayscale pixels and round corners instead of sharp black and white. SVG is not an option because the final format must be flat rasterized pixels, not vector.Here are screenshots of my frames:Here is how they are exported by Figma in pngs: When magnified, we can clearly see this is blurred: The problem is t

I have given some prompt to create a Saas Platform and super admin as it consumed the credits and didnt make the screens that was supposed to be created Figma make link- [file link redacted by forum moderator to remove PII] 

Hey all,I’ve been diving into Figma Motion recently and wanted to see if anyone else is experiencing the same friction with timeline animations.Whenever I animate Position, Scale, or Appearance (like Opacity) from A to B, and then later to C, the plugin automatically applies continuous interpolation. It completely skips waiting at point B and just smoothly transitions through the whole timeline.My current workaround: I've been forcing a "hold" by dropping two identical keyframes side-by-side to trap the value and make it pause.My questions for the community: Who else has noticed this default behavior? Is there a cleaner fix, like a shortcut to toggle interpolation to "Step" or "Hold"? Thanks in advance for any tips!