News and Updates

Hope you enjoyed hanging out with us for another Release Notes livestream! ​Check out the new features and latest updates we shipped for April! ✨Collapse LayersWe've added a new entry point to the layers panel to quickly collapse all layers. If you have an object selected, all layers will collapse except for the layer tree of your selection. With nothing selected, all layers will collapse! Inline corner radiusAdjusting the corner radius of a shape now requires one less click. After you've set a corner radius, the controls to manipulate the radii will appear inline in the properties panel for faster tweaking when you have an object with corner radius selected. Auto flyouts for effect, fill, and layout gridNow when you add a new effect, fill, or layout grid, Figma will automatically open the settings flyouts so you can quickly select the effect, fill, or grid type you want, saving you a click. File browser updatesWe updated the file browser to create a more consistent and seamless experi

Hope you enjoyed hanging out with us for another Release Notes livestream! ​@Kaitie_Chambers and Sarah Kelley dropped new features and recapped the latest updates we shipped in February! ✨ Keyboard shortcuts for boolean opsWe've added keyboard shortcuts for your favorite boolean operations so you can create custom shapes even faster. Press ⌥⬆ (Mac) or Alt+⬆ (PC) along with with U to unify your selection, S to subtract it, I to intersect it, E to exclude it, and F to flatten it. If you're used to using ⌘E for Flatten, don't worry – it will still work!Figma Slides: now with pluginsInsert an icon, generate a gradient, or time your presentation with one of many plugins, now available in Figma Slides. Diagramming in FigJamDiagramming in FigJam just got more powerful. We introduced:New shapes sidebar for easy browsing, including a new recents section for recently used shapes More shapes for developers Set your stroke color independent of fill color for shapes and sections Movable connector l

🚨 LATEST UPDATE 🚨 Hey everyone! Please note that we’ve decided to postpone the updated Community Forum launch to January 8th to ensure a smooth user experience. Taking this extra time will help us address technical challenges and avoid holiday disruptions. Feel free to continue posting in this topic your feedback and ideas to improve the forum - we will add it to our list for 2025. Our Community Forum is about to get a makeover, and we can’t wait to share it with you. At Figma, we’re always iterating to create spaces where our community can connect and thrive. We’ve been working hard on some updates to deliver an even better experience for everyone here. With the changes we have planned for next year, you’ll enjoy improved search and navigation, plus a fresh, user-friendly design that (we hope) feels vibrant and very Figma. 📝 Important Notes: Downtime & Data: From January 2nd at 5pm ET until January 8th at 10am ET, the forum will be accessible as usual, b

Hello everyone, and welcome to our newly updated Community Forum! 🎉To ensure you have the best experience, take a moment to explore the new features designed to enhance your engagement in the Forum!What’s New in the ForumSimplified Category Structure The forum now features five sections to help you to find easier relevant conversations and resources:
 - News and Updates (Forum News and Guidelines, Product Updates)
 - Get Solutions (Report a Problem, Ask the Community)
 - Share Your Thoughts (Suggest a Feature, Share Your Feedback)
 - Community Corner (Showcase Your Work, Chat and Connect)
 - Archive (Archive) Check out the full category list [here] to explore everything the Forum offers at the moment!

 💡 Pro Tip: Use the homepage’s Quick Links to access the most popular and helpful categories easily.Homepage’s Quick Links Improved Search Finding what you need is now faster and easier! With the new Search Bar, you can quickly locate specific content. For example, when typing a keywor

We are updating our pricing, seats, and billing experience. Here’s what you need to know before changes take effect on March 11, 2025. Product design looks very different today than it did when we first launched Figma in 2016. Multiplayer design was still a novel concept, and features that are now core to our product - auto layout, interactive components, variables, and multi-edit - were just ideas we hoped to one day build. While our features and products have expanded since then, our billing experience hasn’t kept pace. Today, we want to share upcoming changes to our pricing, seats, and billing experience. These changes will take effect starting on March 11, 2025, and will include: Increased pricing for Figma Design Re-architecture of our billing model - we are moving away from user-driven upgrades to giving admins upfront approval over seat upgrades by default More functionality with every seat - all paid seats will include access to FigJam and Figma Slides, making it easier for ev

Hi there, The Dev Mode team are looking into the problems some people are having while trying to get started with the VS Code extension, and hope to have updates out soon, but for now have asked us to share the following tips: The extension is not currently compatible with VS Code Insiders though we’re hoping to have support for this soon. For now we suggest use the regular VS Code version if you’d like to use Figma for VS Code: Download Visual Studio Code - Mac, Linux, Windows If you are are stuck in a loop of VS Code asking you to “Accept terms and conditions” please log into VS Code before connecting in Figma. You can log in to the VS Code extension by: Clicking the Figma icon in the sidebar of VS Code Clicking “Log In” and following the instructions You can then click “Open in VS Code” in Figma however, you may need to accept our Terms of Use to allow VSCode to connect. In order to accept the Terms of Service, you’ll need to click “Next” in the Dev Mode modal. Once we have

☀️ This morning, @Ana_Boyer, Josh Ferrell, and @Ryhan_Hassan shared in a livestream how Figma evolved from its first set of design tokens into a full system using Figma variables as our source of truth! 🙌

We’re thrilled to share the Oct '24 Release Notes Livestream! Discover the latest features launching this October 🚢 See changes to variables in branch reviewx.com

You can now organize your pages any way you want: Turn a page into a page divider with hyphens, en/em dashes, asterisks, or spaces Hold shift to select multiple pages and move them around twitter.com

For users on a Starter or Professional team, we’re relocating where your drafts live. Starting this week, you’ll be asked to move your drafts into a team space. If you’re on a Starter or Pro team, here’s what to expect: Your drafts are now in a space called “Drafts to move.” You can move your drafts at once into the appropriate teams—or create a free Starter team for all your drafts. When you move your drafts to a team, they will still be private. You will still be able to create and edit drafts free of charge. You may not see this prompt immediately, as we’ll be rolling out this update over the next few days. Check out the video, below, for a walk-through of this update. Changes to Drafts You can read more about this change here on our blog and in our help center

We debuted our first Release Notes livestream on October 1st. @miggi and @Kaitie_Chambers dropped all of the new features and recapped everything we shipped in September! 🚀 New Apple and Google device frames in Figma If you haven’t gotten that new iPhone 16 yet, don’t worry, we have the next best thing: new device frames for recent iPhones, Apple Watches, and Android phones. x.com New FigJam shape picker We made finding shapes easier: Search for a specific shape by name. Toggle through shapes with tab and arrow keys We also give the shapes you use most the VIP treatment by prioritizing them to the top of the shape selector. Sort stickies in FigJam by color, author, stamp count, or stamp type Need help synthesizing a brainstorm? You can now sort stickies in FigJam by color, author, stamp count, or stamp type. Just select the stickies you want sorted > Organize > Sort stickies by > then select the category you want them sorted by. Custom team slide deck templates now

You asked—we listened! 🎉 We shipped 10 updates to Figma Slides in 10 days based on your feedback: Layers panel in grid mode: adjust layers in slide mode and grid mode. x.com

Figma has a number of features under development that are available to users in beta. In this article, find out which beta features are available, what they are, their beta types, and how to access each one. Beta types refer to the level of access. These include: Beta / Open beta: All Figma users can join the beta Closed beta: Only users who receive an invite can join the beta Limited beta: The beta is available to all Figma users, but is limited to a certain number of beta users Figma Slides open beta Figma Slides is the first presentation tool built for designers and their teammates. Figma Slides pairs the power and precision of Figma Design with easy-to-use presentation tools to bring your narrative to life and drive alignment. Learn more about Figma Slides → AI tools in Figma Design limited beta With Figma AI, unblock your creativity. Get started faster, find what you’re looking for, and stay in the flow. Use AI tools in Figma Design to: Make designs: Generate styling and layou

LET’S TALK ABOUT THE NEW FEATURES WE ANNOUNCED AT CONFIG 2024! 🎉 Figma AI ✨ Explore different ways to express your vision, find the inspiration you need from your team’s work, and get the tedious tasks done fast so you can take your designs to new heights. AI tools in Figma Design can be found in the Actions menu in the toolbar. Use AI tools in Figma to: Make designs: Transform ideas into editable designs in a couple of minutes. This helps you explore a wider range of design possibilities and iterations quickly, and reduces the amount of effort needed to manually create early explorations from scratch. Find assets and designs: Use images and designs to search for similar designs and components made by your team or organization. Find the components you need from the Assets tab without having to memorize their names. Rename layers: Organize your file by giving all your layers meaningful names with a click. Make prototypes: Quickly turn your mocks into an interactive proto

You asked for them, & now, tables for FigJam are here! Learn all about tables in FigJam here:Figma

Typography variables now include scoping, a follow up from Framework Scoping a variable allows you to limit which properties it can be applied to. This gives you better control over where the variable can be used and cuts out the guesswork when designing. For example, if you scope a number variable to font size, you’ll only be able to apply the variable to font size. x.com We’ve clarified the mechanics of copying and pasting an object bound to local variables No longer automatically populating a file with local variables by default unless a user specifies Introducing an interstitial tooltip (B) that requires the user to confirm before bringing along any local variables. Check out the Variables Playground file → https://figma.bot/VariablesPlayground

On the Enterprise plan, workspace admins can now brand the workspaces they manage to reflect their group by adding custom icons to workspaces. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?title=Add%20custom%20icons%20to%20workspaces

We’re excited to announce that we’ve made FigJam compatible with screen readers. Users that rely on screen reader technology can now interact with FigJam boards by: reading out content, including board hierarchy, shapes with text, stickies, tables, and image alt text moving focus around the canvas and into different menus creating and editing content, such as any editable text or comments using a screen reader or keyboard shortcuts You can read more about which actions are supported via screen reader in our Help Center. This is our first iteration in making FigJam more inclusive from an accessibility standpoint, and we’d love to learn more about how we can improve upon this work. Please leave comments below about your experience using FigJam with a screen reader, improvements we can make, and what you’d like to see us tackle next to make FigJam a place where everyone can jam together!

Monthly payout statements are now available in your Community profile. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?title=Download%20Payout%20Statements%20in%20Community

Figma just dropped Code Connect to help map more closely to code, Variables is out of beta(adding typography and gradients), and more! 🎉 Code Connect Beta: Code Connect is a tool for design systems teams to bring component code directly into Dev Mode. Now, when developers inspect a component, they can see production-ready code snippets from your library. Currently in Beta Enterprise or Organization plans only To learn more, check out the help center article here! twitter.com Library Analytics API Beta: Now, your team can access Figma library data outside of the app, so you can organize the data based on your organization’s needs. This will include component insertion, detachment, and instance data, as well as team and file-level breakdowns. Enterprise plans only To learn more, check out the help center article here!

Introducing a simpler way to edit multiple objects! 🎉 Now you can: Select matching layers faster Accurately resize and align objects to their frames Batch edit text boxes across frames Easily make changes across all variants in a component set and so much more!

🆕 Make your best design ideas feel real, faster with 15+ updates to prototyping, along with other new features in Figma that will help you simplify your workflows! See below for the full list and check out our Help Center articles to have more information. ✨ Device Frames ✨ The inline viewer now shows mobile prototypes in a draggable, resizable device frame (iPhone, iPad, Watch, etc). Learn more: Set prototype device and background settings and Play your prototypes ✨ Editing Speed Improvements ✨ Copy and Paste / Delete Noodles: When noodles are selected, a user can copy and paste the noodle (and the associated interaction) to a different element. They can also delete the noodle (and the associated interaction). Learn more Drag to delete starting point: By dragging the “flow label” outside of the frame, a user can quickly delete it. Learn more Disable shortcuts: Turning off “Enable Figma Shortcuts” now disables all shortcuts on a prototype (not ju

Starting today, Figma Enterprise customers have the option to host key parts of their Figma and FigJam files in the EU. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?title=Host%20Figma%20and%20FigJam%20files%20in%20the%20EU

Now you can map out more detailed processes without sacrificing polish with our latest diagramming improvements. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?title=Build%20polished%20flowcharts%20faster%20and%20with%20new%20icons%20and%20shapes

The quickest way to get the best content from Figma is Shortcut, our newly redesigned blog. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?title=Introducing%20Shortcut%2C%20Figma%27s%20new%20blog