Rolling out: Projects become folders 📂 ✨

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!