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Currently if I want to change the variable mode in prototyping, it applies the mode change to ALL visible objects that contain that mode. The problem with this is that on the canvas variable modes are not applied universally but on a per-object instance… or parent + child-inheritance. Mode changes should apply the same way regardless of whether I’m on canvas working or making actions change them in prototyping. Also, please do not suggest using variants. I know that would work, but I’d much rather use variables and have them act consistently rather than try juggle both and then also waste anymore memory than I have to. Here’s a couple of GIFs showing what I mean : How mode changes work on the canvas =😎 How it works in prototyping = 💩

I’ve started a new job as a researcher and am so used to using miro for interview note-taking. They’re using FigJam for this and I’ve found it really clunky when trying to take notes quickly. I want to be able to be writing a note and then press TAB to create a new post it note, same colour the sits next to it. It’s too much effort to drag a new one into the right place and then start typing. I’ve missed what they’ve said in that time. Thanks!

Hi @Junko3, I just came across this thread as my organization ran into the same limit. The problem is, the font in question is the latest version of Apple’s “SF Pro” font, which exceeds 20MB. SF Pro contains all SF Symbols, and we have used the font for the last several years to back the iOS portion of our library’s icon system. Now we can’t access any of the new symbols in SF Symbols version 6 in Figma. Neither of the two proposed solutions would work for us. Due to IT restrictions at our organization, local installation isn’t an option, nor is cutting down the font itself (I’m not the font’s author and font editing software is unavailable to me here). The only workaround I can use is to assign one of the other San Francisco fonts (SF Compact, SF Display, SF Text, or even various weights of SF Pro italics), because these different styles affect standard letter forms but not SF Symbols. Still, it’s a weird hack. Ideally the size limit on fonts would be raised or eliminated—or maybe you

Hi! I would like it to be possible to set limits to numerical value variables, such as a max and min number (like when I use it to make shopping carts I would easily like to be able to just set it up in a way that the value for variable “in_cart” cannot go below 0. Additionally it would be nice if you could define the limits to round off on variables, such as round to max 2 decimals or even to be able to set an integer variable, meaning that it needs to round the variable calculation always up to an integer. The second idea is not that common of a use case, but I think the first one is definitely.

Dear Figma Team, I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to request the addition of the Kazakh language to Figma’s AI Translation feature. Currently, this tool is extremely useful for translating text within designs, but it does not support Kazakh, which limits its functionality for users in Kazakhstan. Kazakh is the state language of Kazakhstan and is widely used in design projects across the country. Adding Kazakh to the AI Translation feature would be incredibly beneficial for local designers, making it easier to create designs in multiple languages and improving collaboration with clients and teams. Thank you for considering this request. I believe this addition would make Figma even more inclusive and valuable for a growing community of users in Kazakhstan. Please feel free to contact me if you need further input or details. Best regards,Anel

It’d be great to have a SOLO button by the layer name (next to the visibility and lock buttons) — similar to the one in After Effects. It would turn off the visibility of all layers except for the selected one. There would also be an option to solo more than one layer. Currently, if I want to quickly view a single isolated element in a complex frame with many elements, I have to turn off all the others manually. Then, I need to turn them back on again. Unless there’s another way to achieve this that I’m not aware of?

I still consider myself a newbie in Figma (this is a caveat), though I’ve had a chance to play around with it. My hope in using Figma is that it will make it easier and quicker for those collaborating with designers - mainly PMs, Devs, and QA, to find the designs they are looking for. Coming from Invision, it was a pretty bad experience (sorry Invision), and after checking out Figma and other potential solutions out there, I was sold on Figma (for many reasons), and pitched it to my client. Now we are going in. An important contextual aspect of this topic, is the fact that many, if not most doing software development these days, follow some flavor of agile development - so think epics, stories/tasks, and sprints, for example. So the challenge here is, how to best match up the agile development process, to how everything in the Figma design space is organized, so that designs are quick and easy to find, not just for the figma designers. I was hoping to leverage Figma’s rich organization

Just now I tried to use the common ctrl/cmd + K shortcut to insert a link to the selected text. To my surprise the keyboard shortcut changed to something else (don’t remember to what, don’t care). The ctrl/cmd+k key combination is common and vastly used in text editors, desktop apps, and web apps. I know only 2 apps that does not comply with this de facto standard: Slack and now Figma. It would be great if you consider using commonly used standards.

It would be nice to have an ability to mark a page inside a project as archived. This is for anyone who accesses the project to understand that the page was archived and should not be considered. However, there’s still a value of keeping these pages in the project to have a reference to a different design directions considered in the past of removed features. An archived page is in a read only mode. It cannot be edited or commented on. It also is somehow marked as archived in the Figma UI. Today I usually create an empty page with the title “Archive” and everything below it is considered archived but it is not a standard way of working with archived-but-still-useful pages.

In my files I have some core mobile designs, and then I usually have a section that points out changes when it gets to tablet size. Or, there could be sections that have background information in them that isn’t needed to view all the time. It would be nice to be able to collapse/expand sections so that upon first view of a page it’s not super cluttered. And then, should you need to expand the sections, you can

Good morning ! Given that we can put keywords in a description for each variant, is it possible to display the variants directly in the asset list, in relation to the words entered and present in the description? Because currently if we enter a description in each variant of a component, when we type a search with words present in a description of a variant, it only displays the main component directly and not the direct variant. Thx you !

Use case: I have a product card with a main image and a row of color swatches underneath it. Right now, clicking a swatch updates the product image to the correct color via setting a string variable (e.g. on click, set variable to “Product_Blue”). It also give the swatch a black stroke indicating it’s the selected color. So far so good. I would like to add functionality where it updates the product image while hovering but then resets it when the mouse moves away. This is currently impossible, as the variable reassignment sticks. This thread suggests using mouse enter/mouse exit, but this doesn’t work in my example because there are as many possible mouse exit variables as there are swatches (how would we know which swatch was selected before hovering over another?) So, I’m proposing that there be a way to set the value of a set variable action to “default”, AKA whatever value is stored in your local variables. Thanks 🙂

I keep stummbling across the same weird UX when you copy/paste a child frame and it pastes outside the parent frame (only occurs when there is one child in parent frame to begin with) - for context I’m using auto-layout.

In my company we work with a lot of sheets, so we created components with what Figma can offer as functionnalities, but they are very limited and absolutely not flexible. So we have to break the connection in order to adapt the content. It would be amazing if Figma released a function “sheet” to create sheets easily: insert/delete column insert/delete row merge cells … etc Just like in an excel for exemple

Hey everyone, I’m writing to suggest a feature that would significantly improve the flexibility of Figma’s text styles. Currently, once a text style is applied, it’s not possible to modify certain settings like letter case, number style, letterforms, and styling sets. This limitation can be quite inconvenient, especially when working with complex typographic layouts or tables. It would be incredibly helpful if we could adjust these settings directly within the applied text style. This would save time and effort, and allow for more precise typographic control. TL;DR: Allow changes to Details tab settings within applied text styles.

Would love for Code Connect to support Angular dev to speed up our process

The blue interaction box is helpful for prompting which elements can be clicked in a prototype. All components with interactive states, even just hovers, now have blue interaction boxes - even when they don’t really do anything useful like navigating or launching a modal. I’d like some level of control over which variant interactions are visually prompted, or some smart defaults (which Figma is awesome at, thanks team!)

I think this might be a bug. Currently, there is no way to see the description defined for a variable inside of a collection when viewing variables in the Color panel. This makes it difficult to determine which variable to use when a team has a large collection. Please show a tooltip on hover, similar to how Styles behave on hover. Only way to see the description is by going into the Variables settings where the collection is published from

It would be useful to have a way to see all files within a team (across all projects), including owner info multi-select and transfer ownership in bulk This would allow to quickly see and fix ownership issues, which currently has to be done on a per-file basis (and requires to check all files to find issues to begin with)

I understand the idea behind reorganizing the action bar and making the component settings appear first in the list of actions. Still, it really annoys me that position control changes place every time. I need to make an effort to find it whenever I change the element selection. So I think that allowing users to customize the location of different actions in the right action bar will be useful. This allows you to organize the list as you prefer, making it easier to utilize in future tasks.

Hi everyone! If I am in “presentation mode” and I notice that there are problems on a particular page, I have to go and look it up on the template to fix it. It would be interesting if the cursor we have in the presentation could represent where we are even when we go back to the worksheet. So that we don’t have to look for the page, but know where we are! It would make the work much easier!

Hello! Is there a way to cache a prototype thats embedded in Slides, when presenting? Let’s say I present in slides, click each slide that has a prototype, and load it, and return to the start of my slides. When going back to each slide with a prototype, it has to reload. Instead, can we cache the prototype, once you click it, and if we need to update the iFrame to pull in changes, we can by like some button in slide that says “Update to latest” or something? 🙏

Would be great to give the Updating Assets alert a greater visual contrast as in dark theme, it’s hard to see it appearing.

Hate to say it but wow for a design company the Figma UX is tragic. Just realized that after 2 years of using it one of the docs we have been using is in my “personal” account apparently, and our company account billing stopped? That account is now “locked” So I wanted to find what card it was billing against and… there is NO WAY I can find to figure out how it used to be billing. The ONLY thing I can find after far too much time trying to figure it out is to just add a new payment method?? Seriously. Too painful to even bother at this point. I’ll just stick with the free account until I feel more like dealing with this awful UX.