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ContextMy company heavily uses Figma variables and are looking to build out multiple collections each having a unique set of modes. One example would be around Buttons—two collections would be made, one for states and another for size. There would be many other collections that would need to be created to create a comprehensive design system. Caveat: This use case may be an edge case or unique to me.ProblemThe current variable window is very inflexible:Can’t view your list of collections outside of a dropdown feels clunky Can’t resize the left panel with the list of variables Can’t reorder modes (I may be missing something here on why that is built that way)SuggestionsWould be nice to treat the variables’ left panel like the main pages and layer panels Collections could be treated like pages and would be housed in a resizable section above the variables which

Not sure if this has been been covered so apologises if it has! I did search but couldn’t find anything.We are manufacturing our own product/device and I use Figma for prototyping the screens that go onto it. To give a better visual presentation to stakeholders within the company I work for, it would be useful to be able to upload our device image (as a png with the screen removed) so when I show UX/UI flows with prototyping they get a better sense of what it looks like in situ on our product/device.  

Why doesn’t autolayout support inline layout This kind of design of including rich text elements (spans), icons, emojis, chips, and images inside a block of text is becoming increasingly popular and seems like it would be straightforward to implement. Im currently contemplating building a Figma plugin that would split a text block into individual words, then wrap them in a ‘Wrap’ auto-layout frame. This way you could insert arbitrary elements inside the text. @Figma pls

Suggestion for the Ask the Community Forum:I've come across multiple threads where users faced similar issues, but by the time I found them, the discussions were already closed. This wastes valuable time when troubleshooting quick issues.I get that storing excessive information isn't ideal, and many problems do repeat. However, Figma is used by a diverse global audience with varying English proficiency, professional backgrounds, and software literacy. What seems like an "obvious" question might not be so obvious to everyone.Would it be possible to keep threads open for a set amount of time before closing or removing them? This could help more users find solutions efficiently.

I want to connect variables with my sizes (e.g. 2.9, 3.9,0.2) to the scaling feature. Is there any workaround right know or a plan to integrate this feature?  

Hi, I’m building tables in the form cells » rows » columns » tables. 1.) This really feels like it needs to be a built in feature within native figma? 2.) My issue right now is how properties nest and aggregate as I build the parent component. Ultimately, it would be great if somehow figma noticed when multiple child components with the same properties are aggregated in a frame so that you can keep properties simple and functional as you nest. For example, when I nest cells into rows, I’d have to select 9+ components to nest if I want to include the cells component set’s properties. Of course I do not do this because it would create a loooooooong scroll in the UI. This results in have to click through several layers to get to the cell level when I’m trying to make relative simple changes at the column and table level. So, when I have the same cell in rows, I really need the properties to be aggregated so that way I can nest at the top parent lev

It would be convenient to only associate the plugin to some issue types so that the button “Add design” and the “Design” section itself would not show up on all issues. 

It’s been a while now but often when collaborating on the same schema, the width of my arrows are not the same as that of someone else even though I started it from a copy/paste of an existing object that had an arrow connected to it. The only way I can fix that is by copy pasting the arrow that has the width I want and using it afterwards.

The design panel moving as you are working with different elements can be very frustrating at times. I find myself looking for width and height which jumps around depending on what is selected. Can we please be able to lock certain stats in place?

I was thinking about that when I started a meet while I was working in other project, And I catch me looking to five or six tabs about two different projects and wondering this question, “why not group this tabs by project? Oh, yes… I’m in the app, not in the browser”

It would be great if Figma can let users control the shape and placement of prototype connectors and also make them visible to anyone viewing the file, so that anyone viewing the art board can get a sense of the pathway to get from one screen to the other. Use cases Handing work off to a developer, they can see what the interactions points are without having to explore the prototype. A random stakeholder browsing around your art board wanting context on what the journey is. You can connect the prototype without having to go back and draw manual lines to show the journey when viewing as an art board. UX improvement suggestions Pain points:Currently the prototype accent color is a light blue, which is hard to see over top of light backgrounds. Cannot control the shape of the flow line, so they sometimes may overlap other frames or artifacts, making it cluttered and hard to f

the Windows app is really crap, it is nothing more than a webview around the website, it is not a real, full feature, efficiente native app ☹️

Is there a way for me to set color to a property without creating additional variables? Like, I don’t have enough modes to do this well and also modes is a little clunky for prototyping. Trying anything to cut layers.

Hello Figma, wonder if we could create something like a tiny “link button” to set the flow name as the frame name instead of writing it twice and to be more descriptive in case a user forgot to set a title to the flow. and maybe the frame takes the name from the flow name in case there is no other frame has the same name of the frame

Hi, My font can’t be set to Italic, on the right side menu there is not italic option, and when I select the left side menu, FIGMA/Text/Italic, nothing happens. The font I stored in my project and this applies for all users in our team and on windows app as well on the web browser. The font is blinker, you find it here:Google Fonts This font has no problem with italic in other software, like office, gimp, Inkscape etc, or in web apps. What can I do?

It would be awesome if I could choose a variable mode to be the default in my design file. Let’s say you have 3 product brands that your design team works on. You’ve gone ahead and built out your tokens so that each brand has its own variable mode. Awesome, this allows you to share the same styling rules across your product suite. BUT, now whenever you’re designing for brands 2 and 3, you are forced to work/explore/iterate in a space that has mode 1 set as the default (brand number 1 is the first variable mode by order in the local variable panel and thus the default). This means that designers working on brands 2 and 3 will CONSTANTLY be needing to go to the mode switcher and updating the mode. They will need to set the mode every time they: create a new frame pull out a new component have to draw a frame around UI exploration because the Figma canvas is set to the first mode by default. This seems suuuuuper tedious

Hi guys! Is there a way to “lock” specific variants/overrides and color options in a component used in two products? For example, I want to enable color selection/override in product “A” but don’t want designers to change color or override in product “B”. Thanks!

I use a big screen, and Figma’s window is usually maximized. As a result, I very often miss various popups because they’re way too small and appear somewhere in the corner where I don’t look.For example, I just tried to insert a link with a shortcut and it didn’t work, a hint appeared in the corner, but I only saw it in half an hour, and only because another window was on top of Figma and that corner was the only visible part.Here’s how it looks for me (and this is a unusual example with an almost empty page, usually pages contain a lot of elements and I pay even less attention to the screen margins). 

My team uses Figjam to do our quarterly planning.  For each sprint in the quarter we import each issue.  It would be very ideal to have the story points assigned to the ticket show up in the (unexpanded) widget (ie, beside the ‘Priority’ section in the bottom right corner).As a workaround, for each ticket we manually:1) create a square shape2) modify the text to equal the story point value found in jira3) drag it over the issue widget and group it  - Note: this grouping functionality doesn’t seem to work if the widget is ‘on top’ of a section or other widget, so we have to drag it into dead space to group and ungroup.This is messy.  Sometimes when attempting to move the widgets around, they move without their grouped ‘story point label’ square (user error, sure, but it still happens as a result).

I love the idea of being able to populate screens/wires with sample content, but why can’t I tailor a prompt to get the correct content first? Currently, I have to select the frame, press “replace content” and then wait for it to change everything before clicking “make changes” to then provide it the context needed to replace the content with information specific to the app I design for. Considering AI provides better outcomes with more context, why make me wait for the inevitably wrong content to populate before providing this option?

Hi Figma!I would love to see an option to “Apply a variable” in the Dashes and Gaps number.(Found in Advanced stroke settings)Thanks!Ethan 

The previous UI​​​​​​​​​​As my habits，the Plugins function is very important and common. But in the New one I can’t find it visualized. But I also want to try the new UI more. So，Can you add back the Plugins on the screen?

Aha! has Epics, Features and Ideas that I need to reference and update while I am designing. I would like to be able to embed them into Figma in the same way that Asana Tasks and Jira Tickets work. Fields I would expect to be able to see:Aha Reference # Description  Status Assign toField that I would like to see:Related items (links) Comments Vote summary (ideas only) Requirements (epics only) Redacted screenshot of how my team is using Jira right now 

Most of my time doing mock ups in Figma consists in creating rectangle boxes and then manually creating text boxes on top, which need to be constantly readjusted clunkily. The success of Canva as a design app for posters, CVs, etc is the excellent and seamless feature the app presents the user regarding the possibility of assigning a text automatically to every shape, and centering that text in an automatic way. This has really democratized design capabilities to the masses.I wish Figma also had this feature, which would speed up considerably my work flow.

I love using FigJam connectors in Figma to layout flows. They make diagram manipulation easy to iterate and refine. The drawback is that once I’ve completed a flow, I can’t create a master component and then the instances I need to present in multiple contexts. The FigJam connectors don’t want to nest inside of a frame, and as a result, my instances have no connector lines. Additionally, the only way I can share the completed diagram outside of Figma (.png or .pdf) is by making a screen cap, because the export function won’t capture the FigJam connectors either. So one of my steps once diagram is almost final is to replace the FigJam connectors with Figma lines/connectors that will componetize. It’s not so fun. It would be nice if those FigJam connectors could componetize along other elements in a frame. There must be something technically preventing this, but it would be a good enhancement, IMO.