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Hi Figma team and community, First off, I just want to say that variables have been a game changer for me and my team. They’ve helped us improve both the efficiency and accuracy of our designs in a big way.As we move toward treating our Figma files as the single source of truth for all customer-facing content, I wanted to share some feedback that might make variables even more powerful—especially for teams that are serious about using them to scale design operations.Disclaimer: I haven’t searched to see if these ideas have been raised already, so if there’s any overlap—pardon the redundancy! 1. Rich Text Formatting SupportThere are many times when a string includes things like hyperlinks, bold or colored text, or even superscripts—especially in compliance disclosures. It would be tremendously helpful if variables could support some basic rich text formatting to reflect these needs more accurately in design. 2. Composable String Variables (and Maybe Formulas?)Right now, if I want to cre

Please optimize the performance 

dear figma team , please add copy and pasting feature for animations with a shortcut to quickly copy and past pre made animation between components . thank you 

Figma Make is coming to Starter and all seats on paid plans, and we’d love to hear your thoughts!This topic is meant for you - users on a Starter, Collab, Dev or View seat - to share your thoughts or ask questions about Figma Make. Note: Please remember that at the time of reading this, you might not have access to Figma Make yet. Figma Make is rolling out gradually and you can expect to get it within the next few weeks! A few quick reminders:If you need help with a specific account or file issue, please get in touch with our Support Team. A note on Forum Guidelines: Posts that veer off-topic or become unproductive may be moderated to keep the focus on the product at hand. Keep feedback focused on Figma Make — this helps everyone follow along.

Actually if you give any option for changing the base domain link like custom link it will better

Hi guys, I've been sitting on this idea for a while now. Let me know what you guys think.The feature is called Anchor, and it allows users to drop an “anchor” on a specific location in the canvas, navigate freely to other parts of the file (to assist teammates, inspect components, etc.), and then quickly return to the anchored location with a single shortcut (e.g., pressing the space bar). This idea’s on the house… but I’ll leave my bank details here just in case you feel generous when you roll it out.😅 

I’ve been playing around with Figma Make for the last three days and I wonder if it would make sense to have an option to pause after reasoning for the user to read and recommend changes or suggestions to their thinking. This feature will be off by default. Either you let it continue after reasoning, or suggest small changes in its reasoning or you stop and re-prompt.

Hello, I may need some assistance. It seems someone in application architecture at Figma forgot a core requirement for producing ALL design collateral. I’m speaking about Unit of Measure (UoM) and Resolution.The unit of measure should allow the selection of pixels, points, centimeters, inches, feet, yards, meters, etc. This is foundational for setting the overall canvas/frame/artboard dimensions. A must have. No debate.The resolution should convey the pixel density within the dimensions of the canvas/frame/artboard. That’s print. A must have. No debate.These are two of the most important settings for configuring a digital canvas. However, from what I’ve found poking around the internet, Figma thinks all designers work in Pixels and should rely on plugins, yes you heard that correctly. Figma suggest we use PLUGINS to manage these core settings. Come on? Really? What are you thinking? Oh, right, you aren’t.With 25 years of experience in information architecture, systems engineering, and

Please create a feature where the nodes can be collapsed. I’m on the brink of migrating from Mindmeister but FigJam can’t collapse nodes, so my large mind map will look so messy. I only tackle one subtopic at a time in my group meetings. Thanks in advance

Hi, Apologies if this question was asked before. How do we expand/collapse the nodes in a mindmap? Will be ideal to be able to do so, otherwise the mindmap gets too big thus having to constantly scroll left/right/top/down breaking the flow of the presentation. Thank you.

In short when you are building a library there are times a specific piece gets updated or we need to pull it from the library to reconfigure. To do that right now, we have to unpublish the WHOLE library and then go back in and re-publish each piece. As our library expanded that “republishing” of pieces becomes more and more tedious. If we just had the ability to “unpublish” a section (like how you can publish) that would make building and scaling a lot easier.

When working in figma in a tight laptop screen, it would be very helpful to have the figma UI be adjustable to be smi transparent like a frosted glass effect adjustable to the degree of how forsted/transparent it is. this will provide designers with more peripheral vision of the screen.

When users who don’t have full seats receive a link to a Figma file, the see this view (assuming they are authorized to view it).  At least half the people do not notice or don’t understand how to request access to dev mode or, if they already have permissions, to access Dev mode from here. The toast on the bottom ends up being a much stronger signal than incomprehensible “switch to dev mode” icon, so they click it. As a result, our admins get multiple Edit requests per day… This is problematic in multiple ways:Devs who were trying to get access to product specs and already have permissions, can’t so the work is paused or completed based on screenshots (trust me, it happens all the time) Admins of the organization are bombarded with Edit requests multiple times a day. They ignore these requests since we don’t add any designers on any cadence, but they still have to sort between reasonable Dev seat requests and Edit requests instead of adding devs in bulk There’s actually no way to chan

It would be nice if you could conveniently copy and paste from Figma to illustrator. I often create my own icons and custom shapes and it’s really annoying that I have to export these elements to files and import them in another program to fix or modify them.

TL;DR Link to frame breaks when it is moved to another file/frame In a big company with many designers, IT analysts and developers, we found out that best practice for developer handoff is to link Figma frame to Jira ticket, so developers don’t need to search through dozens of files, pages and frames to find what needs to be implemented. No problem till now. But as designers, we have many versions of different screens in a different state and after a while, it becomes quite a messy place. So we want to clean up the space, group workflows and move it to other pages or to other files (i.e. designed workflow is small at first so it is laid within bigger group, but it grows in time so we need to move it to another page/split it into multiple files). But when we do that, we break all links in Jira, so either developers can’t find the right screen when needed, or we need to invest excessive time to change all links in Jira, which can vary from tens to hundreds of screens. Does anyone else ex

For an product I’m working on, the design team has a system used by all designers. We hand-off designs both in english and arabic. So all components and pages need to support switching the initial english (left to right alignment) design to arabic design (right to left).Currently, I handle this in the following way:English font is [x] and arabic font is [y] → add the font names as typography variables to switch between Text direction, english [ltr] and arabic [rtl] → manually handle or use a plugin like RTL layout Components for english [ltr] and arabic [rtl] view → eg list, checkbox, header → add layout direction variants to change multiple elements direction to right for arabicThe problem with all of this is that it’s a lengthy process which is not scalable. The ideal solution would be that when a language is identified and set as a property/variable/setting, then on each element/frame figma smartly set the right rtl expectation → text direction right aligned, set font and it’s sizin

As the title suggests, it would be terribly useful to be able to reset just the padding override for a specific component instead of having to hit reset all just to be able to set the padding to “inherited from master component” and remove any overrides.

If I apply a color style to an object as a fill (or stroke), I can’t apply any additional fills to that object. I also can’t change the opacity of that fill when it’s tied to a style. Example: I have a button that is a frame with a blue background which is tied to a color style. I want to create a hover effect for that button by adding an additional 10% black fill on top of my blue color. Currently to accomplish this, I have to detach the blue from it’s color style, then add an additional fill black on top of it and reduce the 2nd fill’s opacity to 10%. See example screenshots below. This not only breaks my blue color style, but if I have black as a style in my design system, I can’t use that color style either. Has anyone found a workaround for this that I’m missing?

It would be very helpful if we could accept library updates per page, so that we can exclude some pages from being updated (ready for dev) while accepting the updates for other pages (design WIP pages). In our Figma files we have separate pages ‘Ready for dev’ to which no changes should be made after handoff. But we want to continue designing on other pages in the same file (working on new iterations), so we want to be able to accept component updates from the library. But these updates are automatically applied to every page in the file, which means the ‘Ready for dev’ designs are also modified and sometimes even break. I do not want to have to make a separate file for every time I hand over a design, because I want to keep all designs for a specific feature together in 1 file. A solution would be to be able to accept library updates for specific pages rather than all pages. What do you think about this? Similar (closed) topics that I’ve found: Component updates limited to a page Exc

Would be great to have basic formatting properties for tables. Cell color is not enough to create certain data visualizations.Stroke properties: color, weight, line type (dashed, solid) Merge cells: just a must Drop shadow: for table as a whole. At least in design mode Headers: ability to select hoe many rows to display as header Footers: same as headers Alternating colors Basic filtering or tagging Support in design files

Hello Figma Product Team!  👋 I’m writing to propose a change to the Starter plan:please make “Unlimited files and projects” available to all users, not only those on Professional and above. Here’s why this matters: Projects act like folders. The ability to organize design files into Projects is a basic need—similar to creating folders on a computer. Yet in the Starter plan, users are limited to just one project (with up to 3 editable files) and everything else is held in “Drafts.” This makes management chaotic and files hard to find and classify. Unsurprisingly, many users are frustrated. For example, one Redditor observed: “Drafts are unlimited (for now) so long as they’re on a team… but it’s sleazy, it’s scummy, it’s dark UX, it’s crappy upselling” (reddit.com, jitter.video, reddit.com) Another shared: “You are limited to 4 projects, and 3 pages per project… This is a major rug pull imo. A terrible change for people who work on many projects without compensation” (reddit.com)

Is there a way to turn a navigation bar into a sticky header?

 Message:Hi Adobe team,I would like to suggest a feature enhancement for Illustrator's selection behavior. Currently, Illustrator uses direction-based drag selection:Left to right drag selects only objects fully enclosed (Contain).Right to left drag selects any object touched (Touch).While this is useful once you know it, it can be unintuitive for new users or when switching between other design tools (like Figma or CAD software) which use consistent selection behavior.🆕 Feature Suggestion: Please consider adding a Selection Mode toggle in Preferences or the top toolbar:Touch (Partial Overlap): Select objects partially within the selection box.Contain (Full Overlap): Select only objects completely inside the selection box.

How to copy and paste text from Word documents has changed. I’m having trouble pasting into text boxes in particular. When I copy and paste text from Word it appears as an image in Figma. I have to paste as an image using CMD+V then repaste with CMD+SHIFT+V for the text to paste into a box. Has the way you copy and paste changed in Figma recently? It seems this little difference is adding quite a lot of time to my workflow at the moment.

I hope to add the function of path gradient, which is very useful for logo design.