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Ai suggestions are turned off in the menubut I’m still getting this every time I copy and paste a text frame 

In Figma, I can create a color variable like Primary/500,but there's no way to create another variable that links to Primary/500 with just a different opacity (e.g., 50%).This becomes a problem when I change the base color — I have to manually update every opacity variation, which is time-consuming and breaks the idea of dynamic design systems.🔧 Feature Request:Allow opacity to be applied on top of existing variables when creating new ones.

Optimize existing functionality to allow direct conversion of existing components into Figma-compliant component-based design source files via screenshots. The current application implements basic functionality, but the output has two main problems: 1) the generated SVG format files do not retain component structure; 2) the official Figma API does not seem to support direct component creation. Please improve the solution to achieve true component-based output while maintaining the existing category layer functionality. 

 I need to do regular bookkeeping throughout the year. Yes, I am in the EU which cares about and requires reciepts for bookkeping.Modern bookeeping platforms in the EU needs reciepts as email attachments to be automatically filed in the customers bookkeeping.Stripe doesn’t seem to support that by default at least for various reasons. This is a struggle as a customer.But I know that the American company livekit.io is an example of SaaS that attaches the reciept as PDF on sendout. Could you at least have it as an opt-in option in the Billing settings please?Thank you,  

SVG is often treated as a simple export format — click “Export as SVG” and move on.In reality, SVG quality depends heavily on how the vector is generated, especially when starting from raster images like PNG or JPG.Over the last months, while working on SVG conversion workflows, I noticed a few recurring issues that designers and developers run into.1. Why raster-to-SVG conversions often look badMost automatic converters try to trace everything: noise gradients shadows anti-aliased edges This results in: overly complex paths huge file sizes SVGs that are hard to edit in Figma The key insight: clean input matters more than the tracing algorithm itself.2. Pre-processing before vectorizationBefore converting to SVG, it helps to:

When publishing a library, I would like an option to shows all nested elements at the top level. OR even better, when in a Figma file when working in the ‘Assets’ tab, I’d like an option in the grid view (in addition to the grid / list) which allows all elements to be displayed on the top level and not display them as nested items.I realize when publishing I can put all elements on the same page in a file and then I will have no nested items for the users in authoring when trying to pull in components. However, this makes the page too massive to work with. I have to break up the pages but when published, this make nested items which I don’t want. I want everything displayed on the top level as its SO MUCH faster for designers to easily pull in components/elements when they don’t constantly have to go back and forth between levels to find the components they need.

Multiple times per week I go to hit CMD + A or CMD + W in regular use and accidentally quit everything. Maybe some people like being able to quit quickly but it’d be nice to have an option to turn on a “Hold CMD + Q to Quit” blocker like Chrome has. Or just a confirmation to quit. 

Just discovered the “Templates and tools” tab and was excited to see if my team could migrate our design file templates to actual Templates. However to my disappointment, Figma seems to only offer this feature for Figjam and Figma Slides.My team uses design file templates to keep our work organized in a consistent way within each file. Right now our process requires having a “Template file” and manually duplicating it whenever we want to set up a new file for a new project. It would be nice if these could be built in Templates that we could access upon creating a new file instead of needing to navigate to the template file and duplicate it. 

WHY CAN’T I ZOOM INTO WHAT’S SELECTED? CTRL+K, NOPE, IT’S GONE. I’M NOT LOOKING FOR SHIFT+2. IF YOU WORK AT FIGMA AND YOU’RE READING THIS: I’VE BEEN A DIEHARD SINCE 2016, WHICH MATTERS NOTHING, BUT I HATE EVERY THING YOU’RE DOING TO THIS SOFTWARE.

Hi, How do we create a team via REST API?  Thanks! 

The plugin api provides the variables in any collection in the correct order, and this order is updated if user reordered variables. But for collections, the api doesn’t provide them in the correct order :→ if a user created Collection1 then created Collection2, then reordered them so that Collection2 is before Collection1, the plugin still gets them by creation order → Collection1 then Collection2. Can this bug be fixed quickly? It would be a great improvements of the api.    

Using string variables as a “CMS” across multiple teams is great to achieve consistency in ux writing/labels etc. If only it was possible to use markup within the variables. Because sometimes i run into a textbox where I want to format part of the string as bold, italic, underline … the usual suspects. With the way string variables are currently set up I can not cover this case with them. Hence, it wold be great if some kind of markup support was added. Marry Christmas ;]

Hi, I would love to have the option to draw with the Marker tool in the android tablet application. I know it is possible on iOS tablets, but it isn’t possible on Android.

Allow us to change the background color of text (not just the text fill color) to give a highlighter effect that stays with the words that the effect is applied to even when the size/shape of the text box is changed. For example: The above shows two examples of the same ipsum (left and right) where specific words are highlighted. When the size of the text box (the left example) is changed to accommodate a responsive layout

Hello,I’m really excited about being able to use AI to edit our app screens. It would make important stakeholders able to work by their own.However, for now, the results I get are far from being usable.First, despite the announcement, I have no icon related to this… strange.But it’s accessible through the cmd-k menu → “first draft” or “make a change”My first “first draft” was a banger. With only a vague prompt, it created a neat design with nice architecture (better than those of most of designers I’ve worked with ;-) )But as soon as I use the “make a change” menu, which is where the work begins, it’s really bad. Most of the time it doesn’t stick to the selection I gave and change something else. It doesn’t understand some basic command (selecting a menu, I just ask to add 2 entries… it renamed the others and change the colors...).So, am I missing or mis-using something? Do you have similar experiences or much better?Peace

Upon using Figma Sites, one of the first things I noticed was that you can’t nest pages inside other pages or folders to keep related content organized in the sidebar (like /projects, projects/project 01, projects/project 02, etc.). Dividers, which we got last year, definitely helped a bit—but having collapsible folders or nested pages, like with layers, or pages in Framer, would seriously help keep things organized – especially for URLs.

Maybe on confused on how the feature works. If the team is using for ideation and keeping the master branch clean for devs and clients. When it comes time to push elements from a branch to the master file, currently it pushes the entire branch. This is pointless. We don’t want all the ideation, all the options, all the throw away work, just the version that we moved forward with. Currently we need to make a new branch we call “to be merged” and we need to copy just the artboards that are approved into the new branch then merge from there. This feels like to many steps and is complicated on a team of 4 designers. Shouldn’t there be an option to select just the artboards, components, styles, etc that we want to bring forward and leave all the other work in the archived branch incase we need to go back and grab something from it in the future? Pushing everything makes the feature feel useless because you’re either deleting all your ideation or creating “merge” branches to ma

Figma has to be one of the worst pieces of software every created by humans. Seems promising and then the amount of frustration and time you waste using it becomes unimaginable.Mobile app sucks so much and is so slow and sluggish on iOS that I cannot use it for more then 2 minutes before wanting to just delete it off my phone.How can the Figma team be so terrible at their jobs?

This has been mentioned here: Hide layer using variables - #5 by Andreas_Braendhaugen1 Invert boolean variable for layer display - #14 by Desislava_Slavkova Inverted Boolean Property - #2 by drewcovi_usb but those topics are all closed. I am looking for the availability to HIDE a layer when a Boolean variable is TRUE and SHOW it when it is FALSE. So, the inverse of the default/current behavior. I want to do this without using components. Use case: When a variable is true, show one frame. When that same variable is false, show a different frame. I can get basically this by using two different variables:

If a layer has been locked in a Slides file - either by a user on a Full seat, or by the Collab user copying elements or frames across from a Design file, the user on the Collab seat will be unable to edit, unlock or remove the element.Suggest to either allow Collab seat users to also see the layer panel in a Slides file -- OR add an additional “Unlock all layers” when right-clicking a slide.

The Problem: Lost in the Canvas WildernessWhen working on large, sprawling Figma files (especially design systems, deep user flows, or complex prototypes) with hundreds of frames, the canvas becomes a massive workspace.We frequently need to pan or zoom away from our current focus—the frame we are actively designing—to: Reference a component in the design library on the far left. Check colors/styles on the style guide at the bottom. Look at a distant flow branch for context. The pain point: After checking that reference, returning to the active working frame requires slow, tedious, and imprecise manual scrolling/panning, which is a significant flow breaker. This effort grows exponentially with the size of the file.The Proposed Solution: "Go to Working Frame" ShortcutWe need a dedicated keyboard shortcut to instantly snap the viewport b

Hello Figma Community,I’m currently enrolled in the Google UX Design course on Coursera and have been using Figma Education Pro through this program.I received an email asking me to re-verify my student status, so I selected “Bootcamp / Online Program”, but I got the message:“Bootcamp students & educators: You cannot self-verify, you must be verified by your bootcamp. Please reach out to them directly with any questions.”Since Coursera is an online program, not a traditional bootcamp, I don’t have an admin to verify me. Coursera support says I should self-verify, but Figma doesn’t allow it for online students.I want to know: How can online course students like me maintain Education Pro access? Will our accounts automatically downgrade to Starter after Sept 29 if no verif

Hi, I’m wondering if it’s possible in figma slides to continue a video throught different slides. Because even though the videos have the same name they don’t continue in the same timeline. They restart in every slide. I know that in figma design this is possible unabling the reset video state, but I wanted the same functionality in the slides. Any ideas? Thank you!

I am frustrated that this application cannot be used offline! I made a request three years ago, and they mentioned plans to create an offline version. I really dislike web-based apps that always require an internet connection and a login.As a Photoshop user for over 10 years, I handle all my UI, icon, and design work with Photoshop. I don’t see the value in Figma, yet I’ve missed out on a lot of work because many of my new colleagues only use it. They often send me ".fig" files that I cannot open without installing Figma, creating an account, and being online. Figma is a real piece of garbage for me (absolutely no offence)!While I recognise that Figma has some useful basic tools for UI design, I can’t understand why they haven’t developed a standalone offline version.

It would be great if Figma also had Sentence case as Letter Case style! This is extremely useful especially for people outside the US. It would be as simple as just capitalizing the first letter of each period.