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Hello! I’ve made plugins for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, XD, Sketch, and now Figma. Figma has by far been the nicest developer experience, so thank you for that! Honestly the whole experience has been smooth except at one point — bundling. Specifically, I had to use some webpack plugins to work around a few syntax error issues that came from dependencies that were compiled for es6, which don’t go through TypeScript and don’t normally get transpiled by Webpack. I realize this is a bit of a toolchain specific request, but since y’all have focused the bundling doc on Webpack and es6/esm modules are only becoming more common, I would have expected at least a callout or something that some extra work might be required. I think it’d be nice for future new plugin devs to have a bit of a heads up that some special considerations may be necessary when using dependencies.

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First I want to mention how much I love actions, great addition to Figma, thanks!I’ve come across something that bugs me. There’s an action to “Publish changes to library”, but there is no action for “Review library updates” or “Update libraries”. It’s a frustrating UX flow to publish changes using the keyboard, navigate to the project that needs the changes using the keyboard, and then having to use a cursor to update the libraries 😖

Minor issue in Figma Slides: If you set all the slides to animate (e.g. dissolve), then this layout: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] works as expected. Changing slides dissolves the view between all of them. But, if you hide a slide (using “Skip slide” option): [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] then the animation works between 1-2 and 4-5, but there’s no animation between 2-4. The skipped slide causes the transition to be instant - no dissolve, no push, nothing.

Describe the problem your experiencing and how your idea helps solve this When I export out PDFs and attach them to emails for review for stakeholders who either are not in Figma or just prefer to review and leave notes via PDF mockups, I always have to find a PDF compression solution that can shrink down the sizes. In addition to PDF compression, sometimes merging multiple files into a single document is something that I wish Figma gave some options for when exporting. Add as much context as possible (screenshots, Figma files, mockups, etc.) PDFs exported when they contain some kind of image seem to be quite large, maybe because the whole image is intact and it isn’t cropped down. Or just the quality is retained as close as possible to the Figma quality. 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. I’m n

tldr; Please add improved user management features which allow quick access to a list of all users who have access to any team file, regardless of how that access is granted, along with the ability to remove or edit that access. This list should include users who show up in the share list of a file with the ‘anyone with a link’ permission selected. Please also add a view which shows all files, across all projects, and their link sharing setting. In addition the list should include the ability to edit those share settings one by one and in bulk via multi-select. the details; It is currently very difficult to audit what files or projects a given user has access to or to see all of the users who have access to your files. Similarly there is no way to view what the sharing settings (anyone with link, only invited people, ect) are for your files without individually viewing each one. I reached out to support to ensure

Hello,As a designer, I would love to customize the prototype settings and design my own device mockup. A device size commonly used is 1440 x 982px, I should be able to use that specific size with a device mockup in my prototype. 

Would be very useful to have an option to create a branch from a page. I am working on a DS and having separate branches for pages/components would be very useful.

Please tell me if I'm just too used to something else, but this doesn't feel intuitive. It doesn't look like a button, let alone something clickable. I spent days trying to figure out how to bring the properties of a base component into the parent component.Additionally, I have to hover over it to even realize that applying the variable is possible—there's no visual indication of it. You need to hover to discover it.  

Thank you figma team for the new list feature! It has been my most anticipated feature for YEARS. There are 2 features that I would love to see to support it. I believe lists should support paragraph spacing between bullets. I am unable to start an ordered list at any number other than 1. Which feels too restrictive. I type 2. and start typing and figma changes it to 1. Does anyone else agree? Is there anything I missed?

Why does Figma lack the necessary features for managing multiple brands, particularly in the Enterprise plan?Many enterprises have more than 40 brands, including product brands, sub-brands, and branded initiatives. Why are these modes limited?Is there a technical issue that prevents Figma from handling more than 40 modes due to memory and performance constraints? In other words, are there limitations related to WebGL, databases, or browser memory that Figma cannot work around?If using modes for multibrand management is not the intended solution, I would appreciate it if Figma advocates could share the most effective and scalable approach for maintaining large design systems in Figma that accommodates more than 80 brands. Thank you.

It would be really helpful and time-saving if we could navigate file pages from the Actions menu (similar to Walker or a similar plugin). This is especially useful when dealing with larger files with multiple pages or for those who like to speed up navigation with shortcuts like myself (and hopefully many others too).It could work like this:Open the Actions menu (either with a shortcut or menu click). Start typing a page name. Matching results start showing up in the results list (under a "Matching Pages" section). Navigate through results using keyboard arrows or a mouse click. Select a page. You're taken to the selected page.Just like we have the All, Assets, and Plugins & Widgets tabs, there could be a Pages tab.That would be awesome!  

"Regarding the page names on the left side of Figma, when we are building a component library, each component may have updates. We hope that there can be a tag next to the page name to indicate the 'updated' status. Is it possible for Figma to implement this in the future?"

Variables are great, but it would be handy to be able to apply variables to every property in the design panel.At the moment the options are limited. For example, I can’t use a variable to determine the sweep of an arc.In this case, I have a component, “Progress Circle” It has a property of “Percentage” which is applied to the text. I want to be able to apply a property to the sweep value of the purple arc and use the same variable for the two properties, keeping them in sync. 

We are on an Enterprise Licence with Figma, and as part of trying to keep our Figma files secure to external access we have changed our settings so that any public link requires a password. But we have now hit a snag where we have Designers trying to do unmoderated user testing from the Prototype screen which requires a public link so that our testing participants can jump straight in the prototype, however it seems that there is no differentiation between password options for the Figma file and the Prototype view. It would be so useful to keep the Figma file secure, i.e. the link for the Figma file itself requires a password - but the prototype view can have a public link with no password, as participants are refusing to have to create a log-in just to do some testing.

At this time, Figma doesn’t make use of browser back/forward at all. This can make it very challenging to navigate if you interact with comments, or links, especially. The general expectation here is that all places that you’ve visited would be logged in the browser history so that this can be navigated as a webpage should.

Please make this feature available to Professional plan as well. We see value as an organisation to use this feature.

There’s been a number of occasions where I’ve had some ideas that I just can’t prototype in Figma Here’s a couple websites I’ve found that use the scroll-controlled animation/motion effect I’m trying to achieve. Anyways, please ad this Figma! https://www.apple.com/airpods-pro/https://www.caveworld.com/

Currently, Plugins take top z-index over the Edit Properties panels. This makes the Panels unusable when a Plugin is positioned at the right of the design area as the Panels are under the Plugin. Because I prefer and am used to using my Plugins on the right of the design area I have to either close it and reopen for ever use (absolutely ridiculous) or have it out from the side far enough to see the panels when they are opened. IN the case of a large Plugin such as Tokens Studio, this is an enormous amount of screen space even with my ultrawide screen.Simple fix.Thanks!

Is there a feature to auto generate a list of all the sections on a FigJam board and create an overview or “table of contents” section?

I think it would be great to be able to create shortcuts to figma/figjam files within the folder structure. Some files need to be in 2 folders so that different teams can easily find them. 

Hi everyone!!! I'm wondering if there is an appetite to have the ability of locking tabs in a file? Sometimes I'm working on a project where certain parts are not ready yet to be shared, so I'd like to lock the tabs (or maybe frames?) 

I use FigJam a lot for research, however dealing with references is quite inconvenient. I would love for there to be a citation management tool like Zotero, EndNote or Mendeley just as a plugin for FigJam! 

After pasting an animated component into Figma Slides, we realized that right clicking on it does not show the ‘Go to main component’ option.

I want to slice the layers within a frame, but the 'Snap to Pixel Grid' feature is not activated, which makes the slicing process very inconvenient. I would like to know the reason why this feature is no longer available. Please bring back this functionality, as its absence is causing disruptions in my work. When working with Auto Layout and framing the entire page for slicing, I hope the 'Snap to Pixel Grid' feature will be activated. Figma, please take quick action.