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Figma introduce invert colors feature on selecting any colored object

I am currently making stickies in figma. I am coming from miro where their font type size scales to fill out to the extents of the sticky note. This results in a more pleasing to look at design, it feels more natural. I would love to so “Auto” as a font type size option. Not only would it look better, it would also help with issues where the amount of text I need to write is greater than can fit in the area. Similar to how I appear to be rambling on and on with this description 😉 Here are some images comparing miro with figma and why this would be a great feature to have

Does dev mode auto-detect color contrast issues?

Hello, Few months ago, I think Figma team said they were working on a “table” feature for FigJam. Do you know where I can find more information about this? Also do you know if this feature will also be added to Figma? I know there is a way to create table in Figma with “Auto layout”. But if this is made in a component (part of a Design System Library) and a user would like to add row or column within an instance, it starts to be complex. That’s why I am looking for a “real” table feature in Figma. Thanks in advance for your help

I am using variants to enable dark and light modes for example and it works automatically for almost everything except for overlays. I have am user flow with an overlay menu that opens when I click on a button or icon. I want to display how to shwitch between light/dark modes. So when Im in light mode and open the overlay menu (light) and then switch to dark mode and then open this menu again its still in light mode and I dont see a way to change this using the “Change to” nor “Set Variable” options in the “On click” prototyping option. How can I simulate this consistently without having to use two different menus (one for each mode)?

I do not want my file to be copied. I just want the file that I share to export that can then also be exported. I need more option

When I resize an image, I want it to stretch by default not crop: I know I can go here and set this setting to “crop” to get the behavior I want. (despite the counter intuitive name of “crop”)

At the moment, you can select the frame tool and click in a frame and it’ll add a frame, but when frames are nested and not easily selectable with the frame tool, it would be advantageous to be able to quick insert a frame into a selected frame on your artboard or in the layers panel One way of resolving this could be to add it to the right click menu or into Object on the main menu, similar to “Frame selection” option

The main issue with Figma Slides is that you never know if all images and videos have loaded before you start presenting to the client. Depending on the wifi connection you might end up with videos that don’t play and low res images. It would be best to include the assets in the initial loading and maybe return some messages to inform the user. A good example is CodeSandBox approach when it starts up a server.

Continuing the discussion from Dynamic number of nested component instances: I have components that might include a number of instances of another component, e.g., rows or columns in a table, options in a select/dropdown, etc. To accomplish this, I have to either create a separate variant for each potential number of nested instances, or create the component with the maximum possible number of nested instances and make the instances hide-able. Neither is optimal—the first could lead to a crazy number of variants, and the second could result in a large number of hidden layers, which hits performance pretty hard. It would be great to be able to specify a component instance to be nested in a “parent” component then allow an arbitrary number of the nested “child” instances in instances of the parent component.

Hello Figma! I’m trying to design a component for an API reference documentation (see image below). This component needs to contain instances of itself, but that’s not allowed by Figma. Could you add this option and perhaps have a number to set the max possible repetitions (to avoid the “infinite” issue)?

Currently everything is mixed up in the notification panel, which is especially hard if you are an admin as well as a designer one or many projects: Comments in Figma files for all teams View / Edit permission requests to files License upgrade requests … Adding filters for those categories would help a lot: Comments (by team) Permission requests License upgrade requests …

Minimal UI is awesome! I love how clean it makes my workspace, with fewer distractions. I would love the ability to see a minimal version of my pages and layers when I select an object. Instead of only showing controls on the right panel, please also display a simplified version of the left panel. I often switch layers or pages, so being able to quickly change them after selecting an object would be very useful. I would love to use this mode more as it significantly increases my productivity, but right now it’s very hard to do so.

It would be nice to be able to change a shape without having to start over or use vector. e.g: I i decide to draw a circle, however when I add my content I realise that The content is too much for the drawn, I would like the option to click on that shape and change it to a different shape that addresses my content / copy.

When you click on a component set, the UI will show you which properties are being used and which ones are not. When one isn’t being used it shows an exclamation point. This allows the user to clean up the properties without guesswork. I would love to see something like this for Local Variables. As a bonus, I would love to be able to see all of the places a local variable is being used. That way instead of opening each layer, and hunting for a tag, I could maybe see a list of where it’s applied. Like when you use the search function. 😉

Our developers don’t seem to be able to view the properties of a stroke gradient in Dev- or View mode. If they hit ‘Copy’ on the Border section, they get some line of code describing it `border: 1px solid; border-image-source: linear-gradient(163.37deg, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2) 0%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1) 25.07%); ` This contains the properties like angle and gradient stops, which are not initially visible in the Inspector. Would be lovely to expose those properties in Dev- or View mode so our devs doesn’t have to go through so many steps to view the angle of a stroke gradient. Thanks a lot.

Responsive view makes it easier to communicate with developers about resolutions, but not having detailed adjustments can be inconvenient. It’s good for checking different views, but minimum resolution support is still hard to verify. I thought it would be great to have a feature like Chrome DevTools’ device mode for precise adjustments. So, I added some UI in Figma’s style. Hope it becomes a reality soon! 😀

As far as I can tell (and based on other people’s posts), it is not possible to switch between modes via the prototype (e.g., have a button with a Boolean or if/else behavior to switch between modes). This would be very useful especially when doing UAT since the clients only have view access to prototypes, not the Figma files (and no client wants to do that anyway). So, they can switch between different views/modes with the click of a button. I am really curious why this is not a functionality. Prototypes are for other users than the creators, the perspective should have been from the end user’s.

I am finally starting to come around to UI3 but it drives me crazy that my layersp panel is so tiny and cut off in the bottom left of the app. It’s competing with the pages/assets, so why not give it the same hierarchy or interaction as the File/Assets switcher?

Creating custom templates in Figma Slides is only available on the Organization and Enterprise plans per the Figma Learn article. This is a basic feature of any presentation design software, even for decks designed entirely by individuals. As much as I would love to move our agency away from Google and towards Figma Slides for our pitch decks, this will be a non-starter without this feature. We can’t justify the huge cost increase when no other Organization plan features are relevant to us. Please consider ungating this from the high-cost plans.

Is there a way to send a comment to everyone involved in a project? This feature is essential when working on projects that include a lot of people, and it’s a crucial tool for managing comments effectively. For example, Invision uses @project, and it’s perfect! I look forward to your response. Thank you very much, best regards.

When you select component, its properties show up at the top of right panel. So block with “Position” properties moves down. This is so inconvenient and confusing 🫣 Bruh

I know Figma Slides is still in beta, but it would be really helpful if one could share presentation links easily with people who don’t have a Figma account. I understand I could export to PDFs, but using the full interactivity that Slides offers would be ideal for presentations to clients and partners outside an organization. Also: Adding viewer analytics would be a huge plus in the future.

Please allow us to prevent users from unlocking items on a FigJam board When a board is created and locked, it is to preserve the integrity of the board setup, etc. When any editor has the ability to unlock, it takes ownership away for how the original board was created.

Hi everyone, I’m trying to export frames to PDF with the raster images as losseless, uncompressed PNGs. I know this is possible because on a very similar project last year, I was able to export the frames that way. As of right now, the PDFs are exporting the raster images with heavy compression/artifacting. I need the export to be PDF as well so the font/text stay vectors. What should I do? Thank you!