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I would like to easily move an element to another frame rather than having to drag and scroll through hundreds of frames and layers to move it to where I’d like. There should be a ‘Move to frame’ in this menu.  

hey Figma fam, so, we’ve been going on about this for ages, but seriously, when are we getting the “lock guides” feature? it’s 2024, and we’re still nudging guides by mistake 🙄 we all know the drill - you’re in the zone, designing away, and then oops, there goes your guide. it’s like playing a game of ‘spot the difference’ trying to get it back in place. super annoying. i mean, how many times do we need to ask, right? it’s a no-brainer feature that would make our lives so much easier. locked guides = no more accidental shifts. simple. let’s give it another shot. maybe if we all shout about it (again), Figma will finally listen and add it to their to-do list. who’s with me? catch ya later! flo

Simplified use caseImagine there’s one component that is the same on iOS and Android but different on Web I create a Platform property with values of iOS, Android and Web In order to allow all selections, I need to have three variants, one for each Platform property value, even though there are only really two variants.This introduces a risk of someone editing the iOS variant and forgetting to make the same change to the android variant since there’s no way to merge these variants together. This is a really simplified use case to illustrate the point, but I am working with components with 9+ properties, each with multiple values. This creates many duplicate variants and makes it really hard to keep track of the duplicates and keep them all in sync.  Please add this! It would really save me time, headache and reduce the number of variants of components.

It is driving me crazy when I follow someone, if I need to zoom to desired level, I loose the follow and I have to follow again. I just want to be able to continue following the user on the desired level of zoom I choose.

Is it possible concatenate variables within another?

Would love to be able to save and apply object styles such as a fill color and stroke color and properties; just like in CSS.

When using the eyedroppper/color picker via the shortcut ‘I’, you can select a color and the RGB value is copied to the clipboard, letting you paste this value to copy the color. (Very nice feature!)See below:  However, when pasting the value from your clipboard, the format is like: RGB 151 71 255. Figma does not recognise this a color when trying to use this value. Please see below, when pasting the RGB value in to a field that expects a colour, the RGB text at the start prevents Figma from recognising the 151 71 255 following it: Existing Process: Pasting the result of the Pick Color tool, automatically includes the text ‘RGB’Result is #BBBBBB or RGB 187 187 187You have to remove the ‘RGB’ yourselfOnce RGB is removed, then Figma will interpret the colorSuggested Process:Pasting the result of the Pick Color tool Figma recognised the 151 71 255 then changed the color to the RGB value provided.

What if you we could easily control the thickness of lines, arrows, and other elements on the board? 😍

Hi all,it would be really REALLY useful to be able to share a link to a screen in a specific state, for example with an overlay opened. We’re writing user stories, and both client and devs need to visualize the exact screen, in a specific state.In that case, with the modal overlay opened.Currently, i can only get a link either to the screen in the design mode (right link to the frame, copy as link to selection) so without any component state or opened overlay, or the link to the global prototype starting point.

At times I can get a buildup of available library updates. Often it’s a mixed bag of complex components and “easy” updates with just some type and colors adjustments. Nothing breaking.In those cases, I can either accept ALL updates available which might break stuff all over a page or document, or accept individual changes one by one (which takes time).Since updates are grouped like commits, why isn’t there a functionality to let me accept, let’s say, a commit with 40 icon updates, along with a color update of some 20 colors… without accepting a few complex component updates? All in all, what’s everyones thoughts on adding another update option?Accept ALL updates Accept a “commit” Accept individual update (part of commit)Would make life much easier. Quick design experiment: 

Recently a new member of our team (who was granted edit privileges) deleted our component library file, which led to a series of issues until I, the admin, realized what had happened and restored the file from trash. However, there was a chance that I never would have realized what happened, or that the user could have gone into the trash and permanently deleted that file, both of which are horrifying outcomes when it means re-creating the design system and all documentation from scratch and then replacing component instances across dozens of files with the new one. It would be FANTASTIC if I, as the admin, could prevent editors from deleting certain files, whether that’s on a per-file basis or with an across-the-board rule like “you can only delete files that belong to you” or “you can’t delete files in this project.” Such an option on all the paid plans and up would definitely help me sleep better at night!

 Using browser version Currently, when I press Control + H, nothing happens. I want it to work the same as when Delete is pressed.  

When inputting text into sticky notes, if the text overflows, the sticky note changes size instead of the text size adjusting to fit.This is unintuitive and results in misshapen sticky notes if there is too much text.In the physical world, a physical sticky note doesn’t change size when I’m writing on it - I have to write smaller to get it to fit.This would be a more intuitive flow when entering text into a sticky note: the text should shrink to maintain the sticky note’s size and aspect ratio.

Please make your products interoperate.

When a coworker is presenting their design work and I’m following them in the file, the UI automatically minimizes the sidebars. This makes sense to me, but I’d really like to see what page we’re on in the minimized version of the left sidebar (screenshot below), rather than simply the name of the file. Our files typically have a lot of pages, and I’d like to see where I am while I’m following another user.It would also be beneficial to be able to switch between pages while the UI is minimized. I’m often working on one page while occasionally referencing another. If I’m working with the UI minimized and I need to look at designs on another page, I have to first expand the UI before I can click on the page I want to go to. It’d be great to be able to see the name of the page in the minimized UI, click it, and get a dropdown menu of the pages in the file that I can use to navigate between them. 

I have been documenting our design system best practice in Confluence. I would like to embed the Component Playground into the doc. This would allow people to preview the ui within the doc.

The way the web works is that elements nested within a parent element will inherit the font-family defined in the parent unless explicitly set on the nested element.It would be a really useful feature in Figma to allows something similar where you can define a font family for a frame so that all the text elements inside inherit that font-family, so if the font-family needs to be updated you don’t need to change the font-family for every text element within the frame. However, the nested text elements with a font-family explicitly set would remain unaffected.You could also do something similar with text styles where a text style can inherit from a parent text style so you can make more broad font-updates to your text styled without having to change each one individually.

Event listeners could improve prototypes efficiency and limit the number of workaround to replicate common interactions on websites. OnScrollUp OnScrollDown (left or right as well for Horizontal scroll with an offset value) E.G : Menu expanding on scrolling up. Right now this is almost impossible to simulate, while being a pretty common thing. (i mean yes, with increasing a number variable or decreasing it and check the previous result, which asks for a lot of onMouseEnter and possibly deactivating other interactions). It would be great to listen when user is going up or down the page. OnView (with offset trigger and possibly onLeave) For example we have a page with sticky elements, like filters, that need to disappear when the footer enters the visible area of our prototype. As of now, we need onMouseEnter interaction to change visible state with booleans. This is a problem, because people won’t be able to see these interactions when on mobile. So triggering a bloc when it is onVi

I am coming from google slides - i am often going into presentation mode during building a deck to check the slide i have just designed. Going into presentation mode has a lot of friction: 1. shortcut is weird, why not cmd+enter like google slides (current shortcut collides with something on my browser​​​​​​​2.starting presentation is alway a two click action because of the presentation type menu ; presenting with notes is much less often used (can u hide it behind a “more actions” menu? Just some initial thoughts after heavy using for 1 day - would help me a lot.   

I’ve been noticing that my images no longer are showing the little dropdown in the asset panel that gives you the option to download the source image. Is that a bug/setting or is that functionality being removed?

The developers and I are currently refining our handover process. I discovered, that for the VSCode Figma plugin the Feature “Focus mode” is available and was wondering why I wasn’t able to access it. I found out that it’s only available on the organization plan and above.Since I know that the huge canvas is overwhelming (even if it’s structured in sections) this feature would make the handover process way easier and is a huge benefit for developers, regardless the team size. It also saves time for designers, as they don’t have to invest as much time in neatlessly structuring the file and explaining the structure in detail to devs.We are just a small team of three and won’t be growing soon, therefore upgrading to another plan does not make sense for us.Is there any chance this will be available for the professional plan as well?

I am making a prototype game UI for a studio. This sometimes forces me to create scenarios that are not common to classic web or mobile app usage.In this particular scenario I am making a Diablo-like type of mouseover. In short, when mouse is over an item, its description tooltip appears and when mouse leaves the tooltip disappears. Pretty standard. There’s an extra bit that the moused over object needs to be clickable. I am unable to achieve that with current Figma tools so I am dropping this simple idea for overlays to improve tooltip making. First, let me describe the solutions I already tried and their downsides:I am making a button component that has three variants: normal, hovered and pressed. The hovered variant is displayed while hovering. Within that variant I create a frame which acts as a tooltip and appears right beside the variant as its integral part. Downsides: When the component is placed on any canvas, the tooltip within hovered variant is subject to z-depth, meaning i

Hi I want to keep ("Preferences" > "Snap to pixel grid") enabled, while being able to:Center a shape with perfect precision. Freely move a shape while snapping to pixel grid when possible. Disabling ("Preferences" > "Snap to pixel grid") can be useful when trying to perfectly center a shape inside another. Examples:https://forum.figma.com/ask-the-community-7/why-it-doesn-t-align-in-the-center-properly-9206 https://forum.figma.com/ask-the-community-7/perfectly-centering-22683 Having ("Preferences" > "Snap to pixel grid") enabled by default can cause issues for beginners. Having it enable can be useful too. So, in order to have “Center a shape with perfect precision.” and “Freely move a shape.” we shouldn’t lose the ("Preferences" > "Snap to pixel grid") feature. I think the best solution would be to implement this feature, so all of these needs and issues can be resolved. Let’s say a new option is added for this, as a result:(“Position” > “Align horizontal centers”) butto

Hello,I worked on renaming the variables of our Design System. This was done on a branch, and despite the change in the naming convention, I was careful to rename and not delete the variables in order to not lose the relation.Since some of these variables were previously implemented by the Dev Team it is important for us to track which variables have been changed and what was the original name.I thought you could see the previous name while merging, but no, it only show the change of color value.Where can I see the matching between the old and the new name ?