Dear Figma (Yuhki Yamashita)

I have a few suggestions on how to make Figma better for non-designers. These are not advanced AI-based automated UI design features, but rather basic improvements to enhance the user experience of a tool that is the source of truth for some of the best user interfaces designed in the world.

1. Consumption View: Create a user-friendly view for non-coders and non-designers, such as PMs, Marketing, and Leadership. The current experience feels like being in an airplane cockpit with controls at all four edges of the screen.

2. Easier Exploration: Finding specific explorations can be tedious. Implementing a built-in categorization of pages into three categories—Ready, Explorations, and Storyboard—will reduce variability in how organized one designer's workspace is compared to another. Additionally, a simple Hide & Unhide feature would be beneficial for preserving "Graveyard Slides" with useful content.

3. Past Files Accessibility: Identifying past files based on the title and small cover page alone can be challenging. The need to open the file, wait 5–10 seconds for loading, and go through the issues mentioned in point 2 to understand the content is cumbersome. A quick AI-generated wiki on hover over could significantly ease this process.

4. Pasting UX Designs: We often need to send the mockup in chat to team members, add in presentations and documents. The current copy paste behaviour is painful, and unnecessarily long. First, one has to move the cursor at a spot that selects the whole thing, and not some box inside the mockup, then figure out if they want to copy as SVG or as PNG, and then wait 10 seconds for all components to download, and eventually fail because the copied content is too long for the clipboard. Yes, a screengrab is much faster, but it has the background details of the figma canvas though that don't look neat within the white slides, docs. Just give a quick copy to clipboard button instead? next to the title?

5. Some figma designs files are large in size and take a lot of time to load. Figma's canvas is an infinite space, and it generally takes a bit of zooming in, zooming out, looking in right, and down to find where the designer has put their designs. During the loading time the canvas is blank, and appears the file is empty. A simple loading your design message while the designs load can keep the user informed that indeed their files are there. They need not browse page after page of explorations, to find the right design

[6] It's hard to identify what figma links are referring to, when you search in a chat thread. Use a short link in plain english with the name of the project?

These enhancements could benefit content viewers who are not creators or developers, even if this segment isn't the primary business decision-maker and was seemingly never prioritized.

With warm regards,
A Product Manager