Hi Figma team,
Every time I convert a FigJam file into Figma Design, the objects look right and lose whatever made them useful in FigJam.
Gradients are the clearest example. They come through visually fine. I can't touch them afterward: no stops, no direction, nothing to edit. Effects like shadows and blur do the same thing. They render, then freeze.
I want converted objects to behave like native Figma Design objects. Editable gradients and effects. Objects I can still move, scale, rotate. Connectors that keep their routing and arrows and stay attached when I drag things around. Groups and components that don't strip out the interactive parts living inside them.
This matters for the work I do: educational diagrams and mind maps, usually packed with connected objects, nested groups, components, gradients. I build the structure and relationships in FigJam. I polish the visuals in Figma Design. Moving a diagram from one to the other means rebuilding half the connections by hand, every time.
I want the conversion to work like a translation between the two file types. Right now it works like an export.
Are you working on this? Or is there a technical reason these properties can't carry over?
Thanks