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Kate_Garrigan1
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March 26, 2025
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Bring Back List View for Your Files

  • March 26, 2025
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I saw the update, “We updated the file browser to create a more consistent and seamless experience as you use Figma products.”

I have too many files in projects -- I need the List View to skim them fast. This change does not make a more consistent and seamless experience, it’s slowing me down and making it much harder to find the files I need. Please bring this back, this is impeding my ability to find things.

Is there a plugin I can use to get my list view back?

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Best answer by Robert_Bye

Hey everyone – I’m a PM at Figma and really appreciate the feedback here! We’ve re-enabled list view for everyone and you should be able to see this once you refresh the page.

Let me know if you are still seeing any issues, and please let me know your thoughts on the other changes in the file browser.

Thanks again for the passionate feedback, we always love hearing your thoughts!

27 replies

New Member
March 26, 2025

100% what OP mentioned.

This update is plain dumb. You want to improve the cards view - fine. Removing list view entirely is a huge downgrade for teams that work with big projects and plenty of files. 

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. 

Thanks

Hadasa
New Member
March 26, 2025

Agreed. The way files are viewed should be up to the user, removing one option completely doesn't make it better.

Please bring it back.

Andrew73
New Member
March 26, 2025

Это самое тупое обновление которое только можно было выпустить, верните списочный вид карточек

Koen_Holleboom
New Member
March 26, 2025

This is truly stupid. Having 50+ projects without the list view is unworkable. 

Whoever thought of this does not understand working in an enterprise environment nor in a volatile agency. Neither do they understand how list-skimming works in general → Leaving users with a huge cognitive load to skim through a visual-heavy view to get to their goals. 


Interesting choice for a UX tool to take the control of the view-options out of the hands of the user…

“Mildly infuriating” 

RobertLindell
New Member
March 26, 2025

I agree 100%. This is such a bad implementation. Organising your files by name doesnt even make sense anymore because of this change. Please bring back list view. I have 30+ projects ordered by date and name and the thumbnail overview is bad.

angela.ogbuihi
New Member
March 26, 2025

🤯

David Payne
New Member
March 26, 2025

As stated above, this update is just a BAD idea!!! I NEED the list view, it’s how I find older files by date… BRING BACK THE LIST VIEW ASAP!!!   It was crazy to remove this tool…. if someone doesn’t use it fine, but a LOT of us do use it…. it is NECESSARY!!  BRING IT BACK!!!!!

Robert16
New Participant
March 26, 2025

This is an absolute mess. I work in an enterprise environment with multiple teams and hundreds of files. I seriously need a list view to find the right files fast. Card view simply doesn’t cut it. Please bring it back.

Anton28
New Member
March 26, 2025

Agree with all the comments above. When working with big volumes of files it's impossible to navigate in a thumbnail view. All of our files use Jira issue number in the beginning of the file names, making its easy to search and navigate in list view. Please return the feature back, I can't imagine what would be the reason for removing it in the first place.

Christopher_Gibson
New Participant
March 26, 2025

Another +1 for “please return this feature.”