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What is your pain with Figma workflow that you would me love to solve I will build a free application, mention you in credits Thanks in Advance

I’d love for there to be a way, when working with overlays/modals, to be able to close the overlay so that when it closes, the screen revealed upon closing is different from the original parent screen. For example, on mobile I have a bottom sheet menu from which I can select an icon that allows me to navigate to a new page. This isn’t the same as swapping overlays or navigating within overlays. It’s that an action from the overlay results in the parent screen (screen under the overlay) changing. I’m able to do this with Smart Animate with just the menu component, but when I want there to be a dark background to overlay the parent screen, that messes the animation up and the behavior isn’t as one would expect. The animation with the overlay feature is perfect, except that I can’t control which screen the overlay closes on to.

Looking for an API endpoint to see when a user is editing a doc vs reading a doc.  Something like ‘last edit’ behavior in events log.  Unable to see this in API, hoping others are needing a feature like this. 

We sometimes link component to another component in another page.On desktop app, it will be very convenient if we can go back to previous page instead of having to look for the figma page we came from manually.

Hey Celine,I noticed the 9/25 update, “Copy Make previews as design layers.” It’s great that we can now bring content generated in Figma Make into Figma Design for further editing. However, after trying it I ran into an issue:Content produced by Figma Make includes interactive behaviors—for example, clicking a dropdown to reveal its menu. After importing into Figma Design, those interactions are no longer present.Please see the attached images: both the date picker and the dropdown are static (not clickable), with no interaction. Similar interactive effects are missing in other places as well.Could you please continue improving this functionality? Thank you very much!Best wishes! 

Apple's Universal Linking implementation is a robust and easy to implement way to open Mac Apps instead of their Web App counterparts.It's absolutely annoying to open a Figma link from any other tool and having to first open Chrome + a new Tab that will have to be manually closed when we already have an alternative that works so well. Please consider adding Universal Links to Figma.Here are the blueprints from Apple:https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/supporting-universal-links-in-your-app

It would be great to have a quick way to copy the hex codes of the library colours. At the moment it’s three steps (click the colour > filter icon > copy hex code. Be great if it could be one click, especially with having to check colours for accessibility regularly.

please give me a shortcut to copy variable color, I literally have to hit the “Detach Variable” just to get the damn hex code then hit Ctrl-Z  

I find it really frustrating to have to either hold the space button or toggle between the hand tool to move around on my board. Can you please include an option to let us hold the right mouse button to hover and move around on the board?

When I create a template, the template should CLEAR the conversation thread for all users, including me, the owner. When creating a template, it would be nice to have a checkbox where I could say “clear conversation thread for everyone”.

When using Figma slides I have to go back to a Figma doc to edit vector graphic elements, otherwise the graphics get messed up when editing in Figma Slides. 

Videos can autoplay once you’re on a slide instantly but doing multiple elements that sequentially animate seems to require two clicks to get the first element to animate and trigger the rest. It makes it tricky for presenting to know which slides are one click and which are two clicks. Please make it possible for first image element on page to auto appear (without using smart animate) and trigger the rest of the elements. 

My prototypes have a lot of animations which my Macbook Pro has no problem rendering when I present from my computer; however, many of my non-designer colleagues don’t have the same luxury of a good graphics card on their computers, causing my prototype to run very slowly when they ‘re demoing my prototype to other teams.  Rather than maintain two prototypes or worse, manually disable the transitions I set for my prototype and undo all the work I did so that it’s playable by under powered computers, it would be helpful to have a setting in presenter mode to toggle animations on and off. A good example would be like modern video game consoles having performance and fidelity modes. The former optimizes frame rate at the cost of fidelity, where the latter optimizes for resolution with a fixed lower frame rate. In the context of Figma, all animated transitions could be toggled to play as “instant” in “Performance” mode but could be easily turned back on to see the prototype as it was fully

My team needs to review all UI copy. That copy goes into a library so we can be consistent across the product. I’m trying to review and update the copy in Figma Make. However, it’s impossible to extract the reviewed copy so I can add it to the library. A separate file in code view would not only make it easier to review and make sure we haven’t missed anything (even if we then have to update the .tsx file also) but also have that record.

While working with complex prototypes, I see the following features are missing: Management of a local database for components. Copy/paste of created components (e.g., File.tsx) between pages. See all created pages and easily navigate between them. Identify where an element is a component versus hardcoded with the same appearance. Configure component properties.

I wish I could zoom the Figma UI without also zooming the canvas. That is all.

Hey there! 👋 It always has bothered me that Figma’s general UI is slightly too tiny / has very small font sizes and I hoped that View>Interface Scale would solve this issue. Figma’s small font size and icon size make it quite difficult to navigate through the app without having hawk eyes. Sometimes elements (especially in Effects menu) are small click targets. Scaling the Interface up seems like a good idea to counter this and improve readability and clickability. Unfortunately at this rate, it’s not a real solution for me. It is pretty much useless to me since it also scales your designs / the canvas. I’d like to scale the UI (Sidebars, Top Bar) only and keep my design canvas untouched to remain at an actual 100% scale. The current behaviour doesn’t make much sense to me. If I’m designing for example a screen at 1920px width I’d like to see an actual 1920px screen. My work depends on the canvas representing the pixels at 1:1 / @1x scale. Sure, a workaround could be to view

Not sure why it still doesn’t exist but another +1 to darkmode or background color picker for the figjam canvas - literally having to use other tools because of this simple feature - I dont’ want to have to use a plugin for this

So If text overflows from one, it can show up in another textbox. This would be useful for two-column/grid composition and responsive layouts.

Hi Figma Team, I would love to have an option to collapse variable groups in the variable modal. Problem: Every time I’m opening the variable modal, each group is being expanded. Having a lot of component tokens as variables, this means either: Collapsing each group manually, until I get to the desired variable group. Or scrolling a looong way down until I reach the desired variable group. Solution: A) By default variable groups should be collapsed, not expanded B) A shortcut to collapse all groups

The absent ability to add a master slide, page numeration and even components inside Figma Slides is a reason why my clients could refuse to make a transit from power point to Figma slides. And it is upsetting.

I know this issue has been raised many times here in the forums but I’m raising it again as I believe it is an important issue that needs to be addressed. And the fix for this issue would be very easy for Figma to implement. I consistently run into issues where colleagues will click on my avatar in Figma and follow me around the canvas and then leave it on for the whole day. Figma doesn’t even alert the user that they are being followed around the canvas which is incredibly frustrating. And there is no way to remove people from following your cursor around a Figma document. Previously, I could quit Figma and it would remove any followers but even after opening Figma again, the followers are still following me around the canvas. All I’m proposing is a small feature that would give users the ability to either “accept” or “decline” followers in a Figma document along with the ability to  “Allow any user to follow” for the instances where you are presenting to large groups of people and yo

Since a recent release we can already do some text style overrides. While maintaining the connection to a text style we can bold, italic and underline by using keyboard shortcuts. Example in UI where I made a part bold: Is there any change we can get the same feature for subscript and superscript? This would enable us to maintain the text style, while entering formulas like: Currently I have to disconnect the text style and then change the position. Which also isn’t the easiest feature to find. This probably also requires putting making something sub- or superscript under some kind of keyboard shortcut, it currently isn’t: Note that there is no problem using m³ for example, because I can just enter these as characters using my compose key (on Linux).

Proponho a implementação de suporte a Markdown nas propriedades de texto dos componentes no Figma. Essa funcionalidade permitiria aplicar formatação tipográfica de forma declarativa e padronizada diretamente no conteúdo textual (ex.: **bold**, _italic_, # Heading). Além de reduzir a dependência de estilos manuais, isso facilitaria a prototipagem de conteúdos dinâmicos e a integração com sistemas de design tokens. O parser de Markdown poderia ser implementado como uma camada de pré-processamento antes da renderização, garantindo consistência entre documentação, prototipação e handoff para engenharia.

Hello, I am new to Figma but could not notice how difficult it is to navigate.Everything is so tiny and so difficult to move around and enlarge.Seems like UX is not the strong side of Figma. Thanks.