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Continuing the discussion from Dynamic number of nested component instances: I have components that might include a number of instances of another component, e.g., rows or columns in a table, options in a select/dropdown, etc. To accomplish this, I have to either create a separate variant for each potential number of nested instances, or create the component with the maximum possible number of nested instances and make the instances hide-able. Neither is optimal—the first could lead to a crazy number of variants, and the second could result in a large number of hidden layers, which hits performance pretty hard. It would be great to be able to specify a component instance to be nested in a “parent” component then allow an arbitrary number of the nested “child” instances in instances of the parent component.

Hello Figma! I’m trying to design a component for an API reference documentation (see image below). This component needs to contain instances of itself, but that’s not allowed by Figma. Could you add this option and perhaps have a number to set the max possible repetitions (to avoid the “infinite” issue)?

Currently everything is mixed up in the notification panel, which is especially hard if you are an admin as well as a designer one or many projects: Comments in Figma files for all teams View / Edit permission requests to files License upgrade requests … Adding filters for those categories would help a lot: Comments (by team) Permission requests License upgrade requests …

Minimal UI is awesome! I love how clean it makes my workspace, with fewer distractions. I would love the ability to see a minimal version of my pages and layers when I select an object. Instead of only showing controls on the right panel, please also display a simplified version of the left panel. I often switch layers or pages, so being able to quickly change them after selecting an object would be very useful. I would love to use this mode more as it significantly increases my productivity, but right now it’s very hard to do so.

It would be nice to be able to change a shape without having to start over or use vector. e.g: I i decide to draw a circle, however when I add my content I realise that The content is too much for the drawn, I would like the option to click on that shape and change it to a different shape that addresses my content / copy.

When you click on a component set, the UI will show you which properties are being used and which ones are not. When one isn’t being used it shows an exclamation point. This allows the user to clean up the properties without guesswork. I would love to see something like this for Local Variables. As a bonus, I would love to be able to see all of the places a local variable is being used. That way instead of opening each layer, and hunting for a tag, I could maybe see a list of where it’s applied. Like when you use the search function. 😉

Our developers don’t seem to be able to view the properties of a stroke gradient in Dev- or View mode. If they hit ‘Copy’ on the Border section, they get some line of code describing it `border: 1px solid; border-image-source: linear-gradient(163.37deg, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2) 0%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1) 25.07%); ` This contains the properties like angle and gradient stops, which are not initially visible in the Inspector. Would be lovely to expose those properties in Dev- or View mode so our devs doesn’t have to go through so many steps to view the angle of a stroke gradient. Thanks a lot.

Responsive view makes it easier to communicate with developers about resolutions, but not having detailed adjustments can be inconvenient. It’s good for checking different views, but minimum resolution support is still hard to verify. I thought it would be great to have a feature like Chrome DevTools’ device mode for precise adjustments. So, I added some UI in Figma’s style. Hope it becomes a reality soon! 😀

As far as I can tell (and based on other people’s posts), it is not possible to switch between modes via the prototype (e.g., have a button with a Boolean or if/else behavior to switch between modes). This would be very useful especially when doing UAT since the clients only have view access to prototypes, not the Figma files (and no client wants to do that anyway). So, they can switch between different views/modes with the click of a button. I am really curious why this is not a functionality. Prototypes are for other users than the creators, the perspective should have been from the end user’s.

I am finally starting to come around to UI3 but it drives me crazy that my layersp panel is so tiny and cut off in the bottom left of the app. It’s competing with the pages/assets, so why not give it the same hierarchy or interaction as the File/Assets switcher?

Creating custom templates in Figma Slides is only available on the Organization and Enterprise plans per the Figma Learn article. This is a basic feature of any presentation design software, even for decks designed entirely by individuals. As much as I would love to move our agency away from Google and towards Figma Slides for our pitch decks, this will be a non-starter without this feature. We can’t justify the huge cost increase when no other Organization plan features are relevant to us. Please consider ungating this from the high-cost plans.

Is there a way to send a comment to everyone involved in a project? This feature is essential when working on projects that include a lot of people, and it’s a crucial tool for managing comments effectively. For example, Invision uses @project, and it’s perfect! I look forward to your response. Thank you very much, best regards.

When you select component, its properties show up at the top of right panel. So block with “Position” properties moves down. This is so inconvenient and confusing 🫣 Bruh

The new variables feature is great! But I’m asking you to add an ability to assign String variables to Text props of component instances. My use case I have a generic component “header” in my company’s design system that can be used with any text. I insert the instance as a part of my specific design frame for iOS. A UX Writer edits the header text. Then, I create a frame for the same screen for Android, Desktop and Mobile Web. In total, I have 4 screens with the same header. Now if the UX writer decides to change the text inside the header instance, they have to copy paste it 4 times. I’d like to solve the sync problem and the need to maintain consistency manually. I wanna make a String variable “screen-1-header” for example, and bind it with the Text property of the “header” instance. BUT as far as I see, Figma doesn’t allow it at the moment, which is sad. I can assign a variable to a text layer that is not a part of a component, but I don’t like the idea of detaching instances from

I know Figma Slides is still in beta, but it would be really helpful if one could share presentation links easily with people who don’t have a Figma account. I understand I could export to PDFs, but using the full interactivity that Slides offers would be ideal for presentations to clients and partners outside an organization. Also: Adding viewer analytics would be a huge plus in the future.

Please allow us to prevent users from unlocking items on a FigJam board When a board is created and locked, it is to preserve the integrity of the board setup, etc. When any editor has the ability to unlock, it takes ownership away for how the original board was created.

Hi everyone, I’m trying to export frames to PDF with the raster images as losseless, uncompressed PNGs. I know this is possible because on a very similar project last year, I was able to export the frames that way. As of right now, the PDFs are exporting the raster images with heavy compression/artifacting. I need the export to be PDF as well so the font/text stay vectors. What should I do? Thank you!

I’m looking for an offline method for showing a prototype to a client, during a Fairtrade. The last chance will be sharing it with InVision offline, but I would like to show animations, transitions etc… made with Figma. I need a quick solution, so I can’t redo it on Webflow. Thank you for your help 🙏🏼

Paragraph spacing breaks if you mix text styles in a single text block. Ideally this would function in such a way as to take on the paragraph spacing per style instead of assuming everything in a given text block wants to use the same paragraph spacing. If the paragraph spacing was inherited by selected items, the same way the rest of the text style is, it would make quick single text block styling possible… Right now you have to create individual text blocks every time the style changes and then merge them with an autolayout, then if you want different spacing you end up with a bunch of embedded autolayouts, which works, but it’s messy.

In the Figma desktop app, I constantly create new files which are by default named “Untitled”. Is there a way I can “right-click” the tab to “Rename” it rather than going to Home > Recents > Recently Viewed > Find Untitled > Right-Click “Rename”

I would love if you could animate between slides as just “Instant” so there’s no true animation and you could add a duration for that. I’d like to have my slides progress on their own based on time, and I can’t figure out how to do that.

I’m constantly finding myself inconvenienced by the inability to view content outside the scrollable frame in design mode. The only options seem to be either changing the size of the frame or toggling outlines to view the matrix code. Neither of these solutions are really that great, what would be great however is if there was a way to scroll inside the scrollable frames in design mode. Perhaps modifier+scroll, or simply when using the scroll while mousing over a scrollable frame. Thanks!

It would be great if we could control opacity when referring to other variables, the same way we can do for plain colours.

The padding within an item in FigJam is dependent on the size of the object, which, as a designer, drives me absolutely batty. I want to have objects of various sizes that all maintain the same padding so that my diagrams can remain consistent; the varying paddings across objects makes my diagrams look sloppy, which is not a good look!

I would love if there was some kind of ‘present’ mode from the edit view. As in, instead of actually pulling up the prototype link or prototype window, I would want to remain in edit mode, but have it zoom/scale to whatever frame I am sharing to a group, and then scroll to the next frame in my flow, but not having to zoom in or zoom out. This would be extremely useful when I am sharing in-progress designs or ideas with a group, and it doesn’t have any interactions or flows added yet, and I find myself just scrolling around and zooming in and out in edit mode, causing my presentation to the group to appear scattered.