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Tom Reem
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Tom Reem
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August 3, 2026

Rolling out: Projects become folders 📂 ✨

  • August 3, 2026
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Hi Figma Forum — we rolled out some changes that will make organizing team files more flexible and intuitive.

A Figma workspace organized with nested folders.

As more work happens in Figma, files can get harder to find. In the coming weeks, we’ll introduce folders, so you can structure files to mirror the ways your teams work.

Here’s what’s changed:

  • Projects become folders. All files in Teams will live in folders. Any previous reference to Projects in the UI will be renamed to Folders.
  • Subfolders and colors. Nest folders and assign folders colors to create hierarchy.
  • Simpler sharing. Subfolders inherit access from the folder above it by default, or you can limit access to specific people.

What’s not changing:

  • Workspaces and teams — these structures will stay exactly the same as before.
  • Who can access folders — the same people who had access to the project before have access to the folder now. This includes Connected projects, now called Connected folders.
  • Creating, moving, and sharing folders — the same ways and places apply as they did with projects.
  • API keys — these will continue to work as before.

✅ Thank you for your questions and feedback!

​@Jillian_Latimer and ​@Ethan Adams from the product team were here on Monday, August 17, 2026, between noon and 1pm PDT / 3pm and 4pm EDT to answer your questions about the rollout. This thread is now closed to new questions for the product team — thanks to everyone who weighed in!

Learn more about what’s changing specific to your plan type here: Updates to Figma’s file management.

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    Pinned Reply By Tom Reem

    Hi again, everyone!

    Thanks for all the questions and feedback as we rolled out these changes to file management, and shoutout to ​@Ethan Adams, ​@Jillian_Latimer, and the team for jumping in. This thread is now closed to new questions. ✅ Here's what came up during this discussion and where things stand.

    👀 Making folders easier to scan. A lot of you navigate visually and many of you design covers specifically so the right project jumps out. You'd like that same quick recognition in the new folder view. The suggestions here included: custom folder covers, automatic previews pulled from a file inside, a larger card view for top-level folders. It's the single most common piece of feedback since folders shipped, and the team is working on an improvement. No timeline to share yet.

    🎨 Folder colors and contrast. Colors are a good start for visually differentiating files, but a number of you ask for more visually distinct colors, plus non-color cues like emoji or icons that work regardless of how you see color. This is folded into the same work above.

    🗂️ Sort order resetting. This matters most if you organize numerically (e.g. 01. Exploration, 02. In Design). Context worth having: The team has tried persistent sort before and heard just as strongly from people who found it disruptive, so today's behavior is a deliberate call rather than a bug. We're watching to see whether sentiment has shifted.

    🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 All other asks, logged. Features like right-clicking on empty space to create a folder or file, expanding starred folders in the sidebar, pinning folders so an archive stays put, denser layout options, and reusing page structures — we hear you.

    Want more context?

    Keep it coming. This thread is closed, but the conversation isn't. More feedback or suggestions → Share Your Feedback. Something to fix → Report a Problem or Support. We'll keep looping in the right teams.

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    furax75
    furax75
    New Member
    August 14, 2026

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

     

      Allie_Goodson
      Allie_Goodson
      New Participant
      August 14, 2026

      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. 🫶✨

        Arthur
        Arthur
        New Participant
        August 16, 2026

        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?

          mobile_dev
          mobile_dev
          New Member
          August 17, 2026

          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.

            Kenneth-SG
            Kenneth-SG
            New Member
            August 17, 2026

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

            • Let me right-click to add a folder
            • Bring back thumbnails / glancability
              Ethan Adams
              Figmate
              Ethan Adams
              Figmate
              August 17, 2026

              Hello! - Ethan here from the Figma engineering team. Thank you everyone for the feedback! Starting my replies below…. 👇

                Ethan Adams
                Figmate
                Ethan Adams
                Figmate
                August 17, 2026

                 ​@Tim_hfg1 , ​@Irine , ​@Apolline , ​@MattFannin , ​@Palarre, ​@ToddB , ​@Alejandro Mejias , ​@Elizabete Avotina , ​@Natalia Lavrinchik , ​@Allie_Goodson ,  ​@Kenneth-SG 

                 

                Thanks to everyone who shared specifics on how we can improve the scannability of folders, specifically with folder previews. As you see from the number of folks above, scannability has been the  single most common piece of feedback we've heard since folders shipped. We are working on an improvement here!

                 

                  Ethan Adams
                  Figmate
                  Ethan Adams
                  Figmate
                  August 17, 2026

                  ​@Ara_Garabedian 
                   

                  I hear you! Improving in-file organization is a common ask. It's on our radar, but not planned as of now.

                   

                    Ethan Adams
                    Figmate
                    Ethan Adams
                    Figmate
                    August 17, 2026

                    > ​@Margot_Gabel , ​@Angel Martin , ​@furax75 

                     

                    Likely isn’t the answer you’re hoping for, but yes, the choice to make sort order not persist was intentional. We’ve experimented with making sort order persistent in the past, and heard loud feedback from folks on with the opposite opinion - that this was disruptive to their way of working. We’ll see if sentiment shifts here!

                     

                      Ethan Adams
                      Figmate
                      Ethan Adams
                      Figmate
                      August 17, 2026

                      ​@Palarre, ​@Kenneth-SG 
                       

                      Good idea, Palarre and Kenneth—right-click to create a new folder/file would be quite reasonable!. I’ll take it back to the team for consideration.

                       

                       

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