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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.

Is there any way to import custom webfonts into Figma desktop app, e.g. from some CDN or using woff/woff2 source files? Convertion to other font types seems to be a workaround, but it’s not quite reliable due to possible conversion losses and distortions.

The new UI makes me feel… claustrophobic.

I often find myself moving artboards while making flows and most of the time I’m just looking forward to swap two artboards, but if they are no on the same Z-height, you cannot do that easily, especially if they are a few artboards apart. I was thinking if you have two artboards selected, to have an option to quickly swap those, simply replace XY coords… I guess it might be a very low-hanging fruit, especially that the functionality is there with drag & drop… Many thanks!

I am a bit baffled that I could not find another thread about this. Whenever a setting is changed on a component instance, it is treated as an override even if the value is the same as the main component. There is no easy way to keep track of those overrides, and it often leads to unneccessary mismatch between the main component and the instances. Some examples: I have a button component. The horizontal margin is 20px. At some point in my process, I want to see how it would look if I changed it to 10px on one of the instances. I later decide that 20px worked fine, so I change it back. Now, if the main button component is redesigned so that 16px is the standard value, the aforementioned instance will still stay 20px. The only way to restore this connection is to choose Reset-> All changes (because there is no specific reset for the margin). That will of course also reset the label of the button so I have to enter that again. I have an info card component with some text in it. The t

When working in large design systems with many tokens, I find myself looking for a feature to quickly select repetitive tokens when clicking the “apply variable” button next to the bindable properties. Curious whether this counts for more of us.

Hi! I need your help. In my company we have multiple Figma files (design projects) within one project. Usually they consist flows. Do you know a way, tool or a plugin to merge them? Create one huge flow, tree, connect them? And keep them up to date automatically? These are my thoughts so far: Building one file with the whole flow could be possible, just keeping it up to date would be a nightmare Create a flow with tiles, titles and links to Figma files in them

Hi, my organization nees the ability to track the usage of one or several prototypes and to be able to measure the accessibility and overal use, some kind of detailed analytics. We need to be able to see visitors per prototype and a history, date/time, visitor or guest, total number of visits etc. I know Invision had this feature Analitycs Dashboard were you could track all this. I’ m wondering if something similar is availabe in Figma. Maybe is already available somewhere, if yes, can you give me some hints on how to get there? Maybe a plug in available? Thank you

I am sharing a prototype for a group of people to use. I have created a link and password. I need to know who has been seeing my prototype. This data is surely stored in the database, Can we surface it to the users please?

I need to repeatedly access the test styles list or the Fill style library menu only to find it’s large enough for maybe 8 items out of 50 or more. This leads to endless scrolling through a tiny popup menu. Can this be increased to leverage the full height of my screen if the list is long?

Currently, I see when I select a layer which has been overridden, there are 2 places to reset that layer: one in the 3 buttons and one in the “more” menu. But I also noticed some of these buttons for other types of selection, some of them has this kind of a split button to attach a menu to it: So I am wondering why don’t you make a “reset” menu next to the main button like this:

It’s hard to find relevant files with the current search.

Really don`t like the approach that I need to create a lot of additional auto-layouts just to have different spacing between components. I guess Adobe XD have a more convenient way to do it.

As a non-designer who uses Figma often, I constantly find myself getting “lost” in the “blank grey space” of Figma files, then have to scroll through and zoom in/out frantically in order to find the actual design content. Or I need to find old comments to bring me back, or follow coworkers who are currently in the design… etc. This happens in FigJam too. It would be great to have a shortcut that “re-positions” you back into the actual content!

I’ve been using the Number variable feature in Figma to specify margin values, applying it only to the areas corresponding to the margins within the layout. For the auto layout’s gaps, which don’t correspond to margins, I’ve been manually inputting numbers instead of applying Number variables. However, in dev mode, I’ve noticed that the suggested variable usage based on the value automatically proposes the closest Number variable value, which is then reflected in the code (you can also see the ‘Suggested variable usage based on the value’ tooltip). Due to this suggestion feature, using Number variables has become quite inconvenient for me. I believe there should be an option to disable the Number variable suggestion feature.

It would be nice to have a feature within the comments function where we can temporarily mute a specific user or project’s comment notifications. Or it could be a “Figma Focus Mode” where we won’t receive multiple comment notifications.

Not sure how common/uncommon this issue is, but recently I’ve had a few projects from clients where they want to use the prototype preview as a final product. In the most recent project, they have lists of text that they want people to be able to copy (within the preview). I know that the content in the preview is not built with markup (rather just a canvas), so any kind of solve that requires selecting text would be a huge change that would require an overhaul of the entire engine, and hence, is unrealistic to implement. However, creating an interaction that will tie an ‘On Click’ to copy text to the clipboard would be much easier to implement. In the list of options for ‘On Click’ you could add ‘copy to clipboard’, then in the settings for the action you could provide a text box where the text to be copied could be pasted in. Alternatively you could have the option to copy an image instead. Thanks!

Hi everyone, I don’t know if it is possible, to hide labels from the contextual panel (the right panel). For me, the new interface creates a little bit of frustration, besides the fact that I Like testing new things and UIs, but: I don’t like that everything moved somewhere else; I guess, in the right panel, things are moved down because of the new field labels. I understand that makes the app easier for new users to find actions, but for advanced users who are familiar with the old UI, the new UI adds a little bit of friction. That’s all that I want to say.

Only deterrent to switching over from Google slides.

An engineer and I (UX designer) were looking at a crazy complicated technical flow in FigJam and thought how nice it would be that if you selected 2 nodes in said flow, it would show if they were connected.