Rolling out: Projects become folders 📂 ✨

Thank you!

It is amazing! 😍

Amazing sir😍

​@Tom Reem 

How about folders for page organisation in Figma design so I don’t have to do silly stuff like this👇

Is the infamous ‘Sort by’ dropdown bug fixed with this rollout?

Hi Figma team,

First of all, I really appreciate the introduction of nested folders. This has been a feature many of us have been waiting for, and it makes organizing larger workspaces much easier.

One thing that currently feels inconsistent is the visual representation of Parent Folders (the folders that replaced the previous Projects level).

Compared to the previous Project view, Parent Folders are now very small and do not provide any visual preview. This makes it harder to quickly distinguish between different areas of a workspace, especially in larger teams with many brands, products, or clients.

A solution could be to introduce Folder Covers / Previews, similar to how tools like Notion handle databases and pages. For example:

• Allow users to choose a cover image for a Parent Folder
• Use an automatic preview from a selected file inside the folder
• Provide a larger card-style view option for Parent Folders

Once you are inside a Parent Folder, I think the current structure works very well. At that point, users already know where they are and mainly need a way to group and organize individual files. The bigger challenge is the first-level overview and quickly identifying the right area of a workspace.

A more visual approach for Parent Folders would make large workspaces feel much easier to navigate and would improve the experience for teams managing many projects or brands.

Thanks for considering this!

I know that in the grand scheme of things, this isn’t a big deal, but for a company that organises its’ folders in Figma using a numbered system, it’s driving me utterly mad.

Projects and teams in Figma have filters available on them for ordering by either last modified or alphabetical, with the default being last modified. Our folder structure is labelled numerically - ‘01. Exploration’, ‘02. In Design’, ‘03. In Development’ - so last modified isn’t really any good for us.

I change the sort to be alphabetical, but every time I leave a folder and come back, it resets itself to last modified and I have to do it all over again. I’m back and forth in folders a lot, and having to do this over and over... 

Please please PLEASE is it possible for Figma to remember the setting you put on something?

[Moderator note: This post was merged from Figma folder filters into Rolling out: Projects become folders on 10-Aug-2026.]

Please bring back the preview cards with files inside each folder. I recognized folders more quickly via these preview thumbnails

But overall that’s a nice idea

The differences between the different folders colors are barely noticeable 

Can you tell which one of these is purple at first glance ? 

Very much agree with this. For me it’s become instantly harder to find a folder / project at a glance using only the text labels. I also can’t jump directly to one of the most recent files inside a folder or project anymore which was probably my most used feature of the old projects view — now this requires an extra click (and a long wait on the folder to load it’s contents).

The folder colours feature does make me feel a little colour blind, not sure this is a particularly helpful feature as it is? Setting an emoji / icon or something might be a more accessible differentiating feature perhaps?

Overall it’s a very welcome and long-awaited change. But can the whole ui works align to existing folder-organizing solutions such as google drive or dropbox? Eg:

1. Right click on blank space to open a context menu, which lets you select to create a new folder or file
2. The folder color is barely noticeable, please add more contrast to the color options
3. Provides more flexible file layout options. Current layout is wasting a lot of space. Something similar to macos finder layout will be nice

Like others, I am finding it harder now to recognize what I need at a glance without the visual reference. The folder colors are not really helpful. Option for a thumbnail would go a long way. 

Bring back the visuals!

I just opened my All folders section and was genuinely shocked by the new view.

I rely on visual navigation to spot projects at a glance. I often need to jump back into an older project, and I've designed my project covers specifically to make them easy to find this way.

I almost never take the time to write feedback or reviews, but this one deserves it.

Unfortunately, this is a deliberate “feature”, not a bug.

As for the new folders, they’re slightly better than using a kiosk menu. Don’t diss the folder colors, they probably spent a long time deliberating those. I’m really looking forward to the return of thumbnails in 2028 and multi-selecting folders by Config 2029.

Hello!

We are also unpleasantly surprised with the new update, the thumbnails helped so much to locate the right project/ folder. Now they all look the same and one needs to read through them all to find the correct one. Needless to say, also remember what was the name of the folder. Please, bring back thumbnails - Figma is for visual minds 😥

Best Regards

Elizabete 

Hi everyone, its great to see Figma taking the right step in launching folders, i also created a plugin that allows you store and reuse your Figma file page structures so you can reuse them. :)

Here’s a link to the Plugin:https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1604649360345670631/pageset

Nested folders are great, but please bring back the thumbnails. We specifically design covers to facilitate quick visual scanning. Right now, the search process has slowed down significantly. Thank you.

The folders are amazing! would be even better if we can have the subfolders of a particular folder also in the sidebar (when you starred them ofcourse). with the view that you standard only see main folders, and have the opportunity to expand the main folders to see the subfolders immediately (now you have to click the “main” folder to see the subfolders).

I would be great if folders could be pinned like files. In our case we created the “Projects” folder containing all current projects and an “Archive” folder. Pinning the archive folder to the top would stop moving up and down with filter “Last Modified” when projects get added, modified or archived.

My god, you messed up our permissions with this update... A lot!

I understand that permissions can be given at team/folder/file level, and that’s great, but in the migration, all our folders were updated with individual access rights to individual users, making it very hard to manage/re-invite, etc. We need t go in each folder and individually remove people and re-invite them to the team.

To clean up sharing/permissions, we’d need:

• People Settings: for every user,  list all the files and folders they’ve been given view AND edit access to, and edit in bulk. the current edit access should list all files they have access to, the ability to change/delete the access, in bulk.

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  Share panel: the ability to edit the existing collaborators in bulk 

  

   

  Thanks!

File sorting in folders doesn’t persist, it always default back to Last Modified. 

LOVE nesting folders so thank you so much...BUT glancability has been reduced to basically nothing now that there are no previews, no covers, only a repetition of folders. Might as well only serve the list view  instead of having to read a wide screen of [FOLDER ICON] [Name] over and over. You can imagine your user base is filled with visual-first people, so no option for dramatic folder differentiation is a strange choice. 🫶✨

The new Folder REST APIs doesn't work with personal access tokens, I am getting 404 on valid requests.

Previously I was doing GET /v1/teams/:team_id/projects, then GET /v1/projects/:project_id/files. This still works correctly with an older PAT containing projects:read.
After Projects were renamed to Folders, for newly generated PATs I select folders:read permission instead, as projects:read was removed from the UI. The new endpoints—GET /v2/teams/:team_id/folders and GET /v2/folders/:folder_id/files—both return 404 Not found.
This leaves new tokens with no working way to discover files in a team.

It broke our workflow completely, is there a chance this issue will be resolved soon?

It completely broke our workflow, and on top of that, the token expired right after the update. We’re in hell…
I hope the error is known and will be fixed.

I appreciate the addition of folders, but please consider the following:

• Let me right-click to add a folder
• Bring back thumbnails / glancability