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Hi, Shortcuts are great but not enough. I’d like to share an idea for improving the editing experience in Figma.This concept is inspired by Windows Explorer. When you press Alt + Space, a context menu appears, and some shortcuts are underlined for quick access: A similar approach could be implemented in Figma. For instance, pressing Alt (or Option on Mac) could underline available shortcuts, like this: This would provide a more intuitive navigation experience and reduce the learning curve for users.Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!Best regards,

Steps to reproduce Click to add an “Open overlay” interaction. Two options will be shown: Close when clicking outside Add background behind overlay (see screenshot in the end) Existing functionality: “Add background” only has the option to add a color. Desired functionality: “Add background” also allows to add a blur effect to the layer on the background. Possible workaround Suppose Frame1 contains the overlay content Put Frame1 inside Frame0 Resize Frame0 to take the full size of the screen Make it so that “Open overlay” targets Frame0 instead of Frame1 Manually position Frame1 (the overlay content) inside Frame0 (the overlay) Add the desired background color and blur to Frame0 Problems with workaround The “Close when clicking outside” functionality is lost since Frame0 takes up the whole screen. Manually adding an on-click “Close overlay” interaction to Frame0 would not work as intended. This is because the entire Frame0 would respond to the click, not just the part

I’d like to request enabling plugins in prototype mode. I’ve been working on a plugin called Punchcut Audio Player that allows users to prototype audio in design mode, and we’ve received numerous requests to extend its functionality to prototype mode as well. Prototypes are becoming more than a click-through of screens. We’re using them as story-telling tools, interactive exercises for user research, and demonstrations of multisensory/multidevice systems. With the addition of variables, prototypes could evolve even further. Given the current limitations of prototypes, my team is looking to other tools and workarounds to keep up with our changing prototyping needs, but we do want to stay within Figma. Over the past 2 years, it looks like others have been requesting features that would be solved by this as well: Audio In A Prototype Voice Prototyping On Figma Give Us A Way To Snapshot Prototypes And Send Snapshot Links Bringing Automated Testing To Figma Prototypes Communicating Between

It would be great to have a way to store a ‘File’ or link to a file directly in the file system. This way, when organizing projects you can place a  Figma ‘File’ into a folder that would link directly link to a Figma project. This would enable ‘storing’ files in a standard workflow. This way, we say “You will find all project files in the project folder” 

Our team would like a feature where we can add a title to the layers panel without that title being an actual page a designer can click into. Is there a feature that exists like this already? In the screenshot I’ve attached you see where “components” page is? We don’t want that to be a page but rather just a title that a person cannot click into. Please let me know if more clarification is needed.

Just as there were requests for horizontal scrollability of the left menu, and the somewhat expandable right pane of tools. I need the libraries pane that appears while applying colors and such to be expandable or horizontally scrollable - or at the very least, hovering shows me the full name, like in the main tool pane to it’s right.In my use case, I’m creating a design system, and the naming conventions of those can become relatively long and the most specific detail in the name is at the end (e.g., hover, focus, default, etc)(Unless someone knows a way to see this)An image showing the problem:  

Current music is repeating. I get boring after listening in 30 minutes and open some lo-fi hip hop stream. Really want to use FigJam music. Please, add more tracks or direct audio stream from SOME lo-fi music stream. Sincerely, Mikhail.

Hello. My company uses Figma embeds in our design system website and this website also functions as a development environment similar to Storybook. When we are developing on our local machines, the Figma embed dumps a bunch of output to the developer console which I think is inappropriate and very distracting. Is there currently a way to disable this output? Here’s a screenshot of what I’m talking about: Looking at the logs, it appears that the Figma dev team is using an abstraction around the window.console method. If that is true, I imagine it’d be easy to support a flag that can be passed via query param on the iframe src URL to disable debug output: https://www.figma.com/embed?embed_host=share&url=ourFigmaUrl&disableConsole=1 Then in your abstraction you’d look to see if that parameter was truthy and if so skip logging (would probably want to just grab that param once and store it as a global variable or similar on page load for performance reasons). Another option is to

From what I understand, currently there is no way to programmatically update the widget to the latest version when users interact with the widget. Users do not know that there is a new version, and the current version they use is old. They can manually right click each widget and see if under Widgets menu, there is Update to latest version option.It would be great to have updateToLatestVersion() or checkIfLatestVersion() so, the widget can prompt them to update.

Describe the problem your experiencing and how your idea helps solve this Every time I enable Auto Layout (AL), the detail setting is set to Hug Contents. I realize that in some cases, it makes sense, but not always. We use the fixed width/height quite often, and changing it manually every time to fixed is pretty annoying. Probably introduce a user setting for default AL behaviour or remember the last setting used. Meaning that if I used Fixed the last time, it would be the initial setting next time I enable AL. Add as much context as possible (screenshots, Figma files, mockups, etc.) AL is a versatile tool, and more flexibility would make it even more user-friendly. Ask questions to bring the community into the conversation (e.g. Does anyone else experience this? Is anyone using a plugin or workaround to help solve this?, etc.

why is there not a link to access open support tickets so that you can see when theres a response instead of having to check your email? its extremely frustrating having to comb through emails looking for responses from support, i feel like it would make things a lot easier and quicker if there was a way to view support tickets through our accounts [like in a chat/inbox] instead of through email. the ai chat feature will let you submit support tickets but once you submit it and close out of the chat its GONE. when you go back to reopen the chat window it just resets to the initial ai response, but if you chat with ai and close the window and go to reopen it the chat is still active. i feel like it also do that when contacting support, otherwise why even offer to contact support through the chat feature? 

This is MUCH needed. Our libraries contain already established typography and color styles that we use throughout our product and branding. Being able to link these styles with Slides presentations would GREATLY help our marketing and sales presentations look polished. The sales and marketing teams could focus more on the content and the branding and design teams can spend less time we styling everything once the presentation is done. Yes, components in libraries are not necessarily helpful here, but color/type styles/variables are critical.

AI: No, thank you. Design Kits: Are Apple and Google committed to keeping these up to date? And what was wrong with Community members making these? Figma Slides I have yet to use, let alone trying to convince my non-Figma coworkers that make presentations to use Still using the old UI as UI3 frustrated me Dev Mode Pricing is still too ridiculous to recommend Auto Layout feels the same as before Config 2024I see so many upvoted suggestions on these forums that just get ignored. 2024 felt like a totally lost year for Figma.

I have local components that I want to send to a library and moving them is absolutely unreliable. I published the local file so that Figma recognizes it as a library (since the moving doesn't work otherwise), and after moving and publishing the changes the instances still broke down, I had to revert versions in both files and now the panel that should pop up whenever I try moving the components (again) just won't appear.

This is probably more of a fringe scenario, but it would be nice to be able to change the day on which a recurring Figma subscription is processed.Our Accounts Payable team requires all expenses up to the 20th of each month be included with monthly credit card reconciliation, due for submission on the 26th. Our Figma subscription is processed on the 20th, but it often doesn't post to our expense management system until the 25th or 26th. If we could change this to process earlier in the month, we'd have more flexibility over submitting our report each month—without needing to hover over our expense management system on the 25th and 26th to see if the charge posted. According to the Support team, we purchased an annual subscription on the 20th of the month. From the date the plan is purchased, any seats used outside of what the annual plan covers are charged on the 20th of each month.I recognize this isn’t a Figma problem, but being able to change this billing date would help us manage t

I would love to be able to toggle on the ability to show hidden elements in the side bar when fusing ‘Find’ and ‘Find & replace.’It would be especially useful when trying to do file tidy up.Thanks!

I need variable for corner smoothing !

The wrap function for auto layout has been a great addition but I keep hitting a wall when trying to illustrate expectations of alignment/stretch of wrapped items as the width of container/screen/viewport changes.An example is with cards containing content of different length. Expectation: card containers should stretch to fill vertical gaps in grid so they all share the height of element with most content (as it works with CSS grid or the align-items: stretch of Flexbox)Current behaviour: I am limited to choosing between fixed-height or hug contents for the cards. Result: card heights cannot dynamically adapt and I am have to write extensive documentation for devs and cannot freely create prototypes using dynamic content.Am I missing something?  

Name speaks for itself, whenever I switch from “custom” to “libraries” when choosing colours I would love the search to be immediately active as I have hundreds of variables to choose from. I constantly start typing immediately and end up going to different tools that I did not intend to. Is that too much to ask? Secondly, why is custom the first option? Don’t we all use libraries more?

When you create a new file, it is automatically assigned a background color to the canvas depending on the selected theme. This ensures that you have the right background color for the selected theme. However, if you use “Theme = System Theme” as I do, the color of the graphical user interface will change but not that of the canvas. Therefor it would be nice to have the option to change background color of the canvas automatically depending on current theme

In design mode, components bubble up properties from inner sub-components. This makes components much easier to interact with.  In dev mode, the behavior is different. You only see the currently-selected component’s properties, and have to drill in to any sub-components to see their properties.  It would be really nice to have the same behavior for both (bubbling up properties) so developers could see all the properties set on the parent on down to any smaller atoms. 

I have a template design file I use as starting point for many designs. Let me copy the template design and paste it into the folder were I’ll be keeping the new design. Right now the workflow onerous. “Duplicate” the file then “Move file…” using the popup that does not let users browse folders.

When i hit CTRL-I the component window pops up as usual but sadly, after the last updates it is bloated with stuff that i don’t need nor want. When i lock in the option “Local assets only” it resets this option everytime i hit CTRL-I again. Generally speaking, the idea of integrating external libraries is not the best idea in my opinion It bloats the once so intuitiv and fluid application and makes it just slow. No real corporation will use these proprietary libraries nonetheless. But that’s just my 2 Cents here, still a nice product and no alternative in sight.

In light of all the recent issues with Material Theme Builder, I’m just now realizing that Figma Partner plugins do not have commenting available/turned on in Figma Community files. If I had known of the issues others were having with this particular plugin, it may have given me pause prior to incorporating it into my file. For the benefit and awareness of Figma users, commenting should be turned on for all plugin resources within the community.

What if we had Background Blur effect feature in Prototype Interaction Popup Which would like this: I needed background blur behind the popup dialog, and it seems like I can’t do it. Tell me this can be done differently beside pointing whole one screen to another. #Original