Share Your Thoughts

In the properties panel to the right of the name of whatever you have selected some options pop up such as multi edit, select matching layers, use a mask and/or 3 dots for more options. What is odd is that when I select a variant for example from one component those options can be either wildly or subtly different than if I select a variant from another basically identical component. It almost seems random to me though I’m sure it is not. Is there a resource that could illuminate not so much what is showing when a selection is made but why that particular pop up icon is visible so as to get a better understanding of what inconsistencies might be happening on my end? Always curious. 

During design system development, we often encounter components that could be simplified as templated versions of existing ones.Examples: A datepicker is essentially a pre-configured text input. It could be created simply by setting specific properties on a standard text input component.  A menu component could serve as a generic list for dropdowns, but we could offer templates like "Countries", "Categories", or "Currencies". Adding these templates to the design system would help designers avoid "reinventing the wheel" by creating slightly different versions of the same pattern.Proposed UX for Template Instances in Figma: Create a generic component. Create an instance of that component. Customize its properties as needed. Click "Save instance as preset" or "Save instance as new component". Give the template a name. The template appears as a selectable option (e.g., in a dropdown) when creating new instances.  

I think it would be interesting if plugins inside Figma could be organized by categories, similar to how it's done in the Community. You can see in your menu that your installed plugins are already arranged in a way that helps you better understand how each one works.

Screenshot from Figma's right panel, focusing on "Go to main component in library" under a component  When using components in my team, I often missclick this link under the instance selector dropdown. Working with my library closed consumes less memory, so that's why I do it - but everytime I hit that button it opens my library and takes me away from the file I'm working on.I work with low DPI (650), so I feel like that my issue isn't about not being able to hit the instance dropdown, but rather the proximity of the click area of the elements.Does anyone feel the same?

In one of my projects I was wanting to capitalize a single word, but realized I didn’t have the ability to do so without it being manual. I feel a shortcut, even if its just in the drop-down sub menu, would be useful for multiple selections that need to be capitalized especially when it’s not the whole sentence/paragraph. 

Add the ability to save local copy per page 

Branching is a great feature that helps align the work of designers and developers by providing a shared “main” branch and clear organization. However, the lack of a search input to quickly find a branch becomes frustrating, especially when working on large projects with many branches. Adding a search bar would significantly improve usability and speed.That would be a simple and efficient quickwin. 

If you could set the animation type to a varriable, this would be helpful for creating settings that reduce motion.

 I need to be able to write more functions and specifications on Figma Design, because in this way, the project can view pages and specifications at the same time, and does not need to switch to other files (Word, ppt) to view FRD or PRD. The designer does not need to switch to the platform to write files, and can collect the above text AI into an asset of internal business logic.Or you can import these specification text into Confidence / Jira /Word. I often have to copy it to all other collaboration tools after writing it in Figma. It's really tiring.Why is Annotation not enough? Because the text cannot disappear when the case is finalized, and it must be output on the pageAt the same time, it can switch to display and hide everything, and provide it to different users to view. The function can be attached to Instance without having to pull a lot of lines to the Note next to it, which is really time-consuming. Finally, it is recommended that these texts can be copied once by Figma Ma

Hi Figma Team Legends,How do I reorder the Figma Prototype Flows?  Can you please add a drag and drop feature to reorder them.  I would like to group related views/screens side by side.  Currently they are spread higgled and pickled. This makes it difficult and frustrating to view and check if I have all designs linked.  :-( Once the drag and drop feature is implemented.  A reorder lock toggle switch, should be added to the top ‘Flows’ bar which auto locks the added ‘Flows’ from being accidently moved around when exiting. Your consideration on implementing this feature, would be greatly appreciated.  :-)P.S. Bring the honky and keep the fire burning!

Opening and using Figma is no longer joy for me. I only open it out of necessity to fulfill work requirements. While it's commendable that so much quality products are built fast and announced during config, most of them seems useless in real-world. From a world-class company like Figma, I'd expect something like a Cursor IDE that I can enjoy using daily

Hi Figma Team Thx for your great work. I have a request that would make my work easier. Could you make it possible to pin plugins in the tool-bar of UI3. Thx

Can't currently apply variable to font in Figma Sites.

My figma file is getting huge and I want to move artboards to another file but retain all the comment history. Can you please build this?

It was brought up a while ago, but, I think it still makes sense for new frames to have Auto Layout enabled by default. Without it, the development paradigm is “everything is `position: absolute`” and pulled out of document flow. Yes, native (iOS, Android) paradigms approach layout by adding flow but I think Figma is far and away used more for web design.

As design systems grow organically, it might be necessary to reorder Variable Modes in the Local variables panel, similarly to how it is possible to reorder variables.

Hey, Figma team! You're great guys. But could you please allow us to right click the Main Component in a Library, and there's the option, something like "See all instances of this component" so we could see the list of all designs, where this components have been used? Just like we have Right Click > Go to Main component. Like this, but vice versa. In my company there are 50+ pages of designs. And few times a week i need to use some nice component from our enormously huge (like my penis) Component Library. But i don't know how. I want to see examples - how it has been used earlier?So here's what i often do: i screenshot it and post it in our slack and ask if anybody knows how to use that. And if i'm lucky enough, some colleague will answer.I believe it's not the most convenient way.

Grouping pages with in project. Tag pages to page within ‘Project’ to show relation or from other ‘Projects’just a suggestion for tool that I would find it useful.

Developers, if you read this thread, please take this into account in future releases. When viewing files in a project, Figma preloads ALL files in the project. The whole application starts to freeze and makes it difficult to use even the ‘create file’ button (over 1 min of waiting). Why not make this screen with the ability to preview 50 files, splitting all files into preview pages [1,2....50].  Colleagues, if you know how this can be fixed, I will be grateful.  Have a nice day! 

いつもありがとうございます。Figma Sitesを利用しいくつかの単一ページのプロダクトをリリースしました。しかしながら、リンク要素が<div>タグで再現されていることで下記のような弊害が発生しています。Analyticsなどで、aタグのクリックイベントが取得できない Googleのクローラーなどはaタグを操作しているという説もあり、SEO上リンク先を取得できていない可能性がある任意でタグを選択できたり、ClassやID名を記載できたりすると上記の問題も解消できると考えます、今後のアップデートで検討してもらえると嬉しいです。

I noticed with the new update that the GAP and PADDING input nearly look identical. I constantly click on the wrong input to add spacing between a component.

I want to create folders within folders

In UI2, when you needed to add a property to a text component there was a button for it just next to a text field, so you when you use variants the text will be easy to change.For some reason someone thought that putting that function under “Apply variables” button (with variant icon) and adding extra steps to access this function will be SO user friendly and so much better. As a software for UX designers, have you even tested it on various UX designers?When you read the amount of complains for new UI update, maybe it’s something you should consider to make your customers satisfy? At least bring back the option to bring back the old UI!

Upgraded to dev seat to get access to plugins, and now I can’t edit? The free tier rules and limits just go out the window?!? This is bullshit. Figma is bullshit.