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Please Please move Object Properties to the bottom of the bar. The most used blocks in the Right Panels are Position, Auto Layout and the rest, so my eyes are constantly darting to those data fields. When they are fixed in their position, like in Sketch and all Adobe, this darting action is automatic, instinctive and intuitive. So whenever I want to change some value, I should find the accustomed to field in its place when I look. But Object Properties Tab is object dependent, meaning that it constantly changes its sizes, pushing all those important blocks down. So I find myself always looking for the needed field, scanning all the panel every time. It is taking up time and taxing on the eyes and stresses me out. Please move it to the bottom of the Bar, or right above Export, which is not used that often. My eyes hurt, literally. Think of something, guys, please. Even if you add separate Bar to the Right of the right bar for only Object Properties, it would be better

It would be super nice if we could have a quicker way of creating variables. For example I would like to be able to select multiple frames and create variables for all text frames, then I could easily populate them in the variable manager. Its tedious to create text variables one by one.

It would be much easier to set the tone for a workgroup or describe the mood of a product if we could embed audio into a jam file. I assume this is a lot more difficult then it sounds given that there is a compatibility layer between figma and figjam … but this is an essential feature for a whiteboard application imo. 🙂

Hello, I was using the magnification slider daily. Then, you updated the app and removed it. Please bring back the slider, it was very useful

Dear Figma users! I was wondering if I could make a suggestion. When you create a component like a button and you have nested instances, like the button text (which is an atom component) would it be possible when you nest it to choose only the properties you want to have included in the button component? In my case, some of the properties are duplicated, like the state of the text (default, disabled) and also the state of the button, and I would like to only have the ‘fill in text’ property available in the right-hand side panel. I would like to select which of the properties of the nested component would be available in the main component. What do you think? Is this something you might find useful in your work?

I’m having problems changing (or removing which is what I want to do) the corner radius of a table created in Figma Slides. I’m in design mode and the corner radius settings are there under ‘Appearence’ settings to the right, BUT for some reason it’s locked and can’t be changed. Could this be a bug or is there something I’m missing?

It’s kind of limiting that Figma only lets you add padding to auto-layout frames. This setup often means we’re using auto-layout just to add padding, even when it’s not really needed to be an auto-layout. Which sprouts out a few additional layout issues in the process. In CSS, you can add padding to pretty much anything, like individual text elements, which keeps things more straightforward. Would be amazing if Figma allowed padding on more than just auto-layouts to make designs more flexible and keep the setup simpler. Any chance we might see this added?

I have searched a bit, and I can see that there have been previous requests on this matter, but that is now closed. I actually see this more as a bug that this feature is missing than a missing feature. So, please add this minor feature soon to Figma. It would be very helpful. It is very rare that I actually use stroke in outline mode, but when I do, I expect that you can set an offset unrelated to having an auto-layout on a shape, text, or component. I honestly thought this would be possible, but I have had to hack my way to create this for my needs. To elaborate, I’m creating a design system within it covering the focus state for various form components. The easy method would have been to add a stroke in outline mode and put an offset on 1 px. This would also automatically follow when the field area is set to fill, but instead, I had to hack this by adding an additional auto-layout with a shape inside that covers the same area of the form field. The original auto-layout then had to b

Hello, In an Organization, plugins approval requests from users are either on or off. It should be possible to distinguish paid plugins from free ones, since the Org would like to only manage costs, and let users install free plugins as they wish. Plus, allowing a plugin allows it for the whole Organization. As a user, if i need a very specific plugin for some precise need, i don’t see why my whole organization should be impacted by having access to that plugin. Seems totally overkill.

I have semantic-level variables for various component widths, heights, and spacing. In order to apply them to an element in the UI, I have to click the select input field, which surfaces the drop-down. Then I have to click the “apply variable” option. Then I have to scroll to find the variable I want, and then I have to select the variable. This results in 4 user interactions, which is unfortunately slower/less intuitive than typing in a fixed number value. 2 ideas to simplify this process: a shortcut when clicking the select input field to automatically open the variable list (preferred) allow users to type the variable name in the input field to and surface a search drop-down. For example, if I had a variable defined as col-8, with a value of 856 and number scope of width/height, and I typed in “col-8” into the width property text input, a drop-down would surface with the col-8 variable focused and I could click ENTER to apply the variable.

The behavior is now inconsistent between annotations and the UI at large.

Problem A page can have loads of frames / screens. When I have to link many objects on a screen to many other frames, its time-consuming and tedious to manually select from the dropdown list or create a line connector between each frame (especially if its a big project - zooming in / out constantly is mentally jarring). Proposal: Allow users to search through the destinations list, so they can quickly link to frames from the prototype. This would save SO much time.

Figma is the most intuitive tool I have ever used and I would love for Figma to expand into web development! Publishing a website directly from Figma would be incredible!

Problem: There’s no way to move a file to a new sidebar section while viewing that file. Solution proposed: Some way to modify or add a section when selecting from list in “Add to sidebar” My Related Goal: Associate some open tabs together for later review, but close them right now.

It would be great if we could comment on the initial marking “Ready for dev”. In our case, we are writing about what epic these changes are connected with. So, if we modify some screens, it’s OK; we can comment on them, but if the changes also include new screens/frames/modals/elements, we cannot do that. To work around I have to mark the new frame as Ready for dev, then copy its elements and use “Paste to replace” to indicate changes allowing me to add a desired comment. Using branches sometimes creates a too complex process. Branches work great if there are multiple complex features conducted on the same file. Especially if they are made by multiple designers. For multiple quick adjustments not really.

It would be great to be able to create more complex mind maps where branches could get merged. I’m running into this issue as I’m designing a mind map to show the relationship between some of our services

The new command for hyperlink doesn’t seem to be working. When it was before cmd-k, now it seems to be cmd shift U - which is very unintuitive (and also not working?) If you’re going to change, why not follow at least patterns from other apps like slack (cmd-shift-v)?

It would be great to have an optional or global toggle associated with Annotations in Dev Mode. Problem: when you copy a frame or section with annotations, they automatically carry over as well. This can be handy for global callouts, but I often find myself having to go back and manually delete all of the annotations I don’t want carried over into the new screen. OR I’m trying to callout different features / properties in this screen than a previous one. Idea: create some type of flag that designers can mark if they want specific annotations to be “sticky” or “global annotations” when copying work

Hi, hope you are doing well. I wanted to let you know something that I’ve been struggling since the new Toolbar interface has been here. My problem specifically resides in the search for the Union Selection option. I was really comfortable when It was just in the top screen. It could be really cool to make a customizable toolbar at this point. Greetings!

When creating a new file, 90% of the time it is a Figma Design, 9.999% is a FigJam Board and 0.001% it’s an import. Either way, I always have to perform two clicks for these important actions. I would suggest extracting the two most used actions (probably Design and FigJam) as colored buttons and hiding the rest in a dropdown:

The “All Notifications” window shown in the Home tab is a great place to get an overview of the last comments added to my files. To make it even more useful, it would be great to also see in it (either immediately or upon hover) the state of the comment, so I can quickly see it was already “Marked as resolved” without having to open the file. Optionally it would also be good to see when and by whom was it marked as such.

When creating new variables that reference other variables, it’s incredibly difficult to determine which variable is the one I should be using. For example: I have size/{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} variables that end up being used to set things like the width/height of buttons in form fields. When creating a field/accessory/size variable that references a size variable, there’s no way to determine which step in the scale is appropriate. My suggestion is to provide the current value of a variable on the right-hand side of the list item in the variable dropdown:joeysharesthings.com

Figma introduced a useful feature that allows searching by type, author, or direction. It would be even better if you added tags, enabling us to search by tags as well. For instance, a large product company may have several different products, each with its own concepts and prototypes. We gather all concepts within a single project due to the sheer volume. Tags would help us filter them more efficiently.

I wish there was a little bit more space for the feature I use all the time - changing stroke width. Because variables are taking it all and I misclick all the time, because it only shows up when I click on it.

When creating a lot of stickies, I don’t always want to create an arrow tying them together. That is the default and I constantly have to delete it, which slows me down. Additionally, when creating an arrow from scratch, I am not able to really use it randomly, it must be tied to a point. Which doesn’t always help.