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It would be great if the Layer and Properties Panels were adjustable because they get in the way of me seeing the artboard/screens that I am working on. Another thing is that when I close these panels, I can no longer see the comments that include feedback or edits that need to be made on my screens. Because of this, in one view I can see the comments and everything, but can barely get to the screens on the artboard to do anything about it and on the other, I can see the full artboard, but not the comments. Both options are frustrating, especially since I’m just trying to make some edits. Therefore, I suggest making the Layer and Properties Panels adjustable so that they don’t get in the way and allowing the comments to be visible even when the panels are collapsed. 

In Figma slides when you click on a group of slides it's not clear which slides are in the group. Attached is my solution. So the darker blue with the blue text and icon is the slide the user is on right now. But the slides in the lighter blue with grey numbers are slides in the group but show the user is not currently selected on those slides. 

Enhancing Scroll Bar Visibility in Figma PrototypesOverview: When designing prototypes in Figma, having a visible scroll bar that appears automatically during vertical or horizontal scrolling can significantly improve user interactions. This basic affordance helps users understand that more content is available beyond the visible area.Steps to Implement: Visible Scroll Bar: Ensure that the scroll bar appears automatically when users scroll vertically or horizontally in your prototype. This visual cue indicates that there is additional content to explore. Formatting Scroll Bar Appearance: In the property section of Figma, you can customize the appearance of the scroll bar. Adjust settings such as color, width, and style to match the overall design of your UI. Benefits:Improved User Experience: Users can easily navigate through content, knowing that there is more to see. Consistency: A formatted scroll bar that aligns with your design ensures a cohesive look and feel across your UI.

This is one of the most baffling decisions in UI3. When you have an existing component, you’ve kept the exact same icon as UI2, but changed the button’s functionality. I’m constantly accidentally creating a new component, when I’m trying to go to that component. Please, when you have a component selected, hide this action in the ··· menu. There’s no reason for it to be one of the primary actions. 99.9% of the time when I have a component selected and I go to press this button, I’m actually trying to go to that component. Now that functionality has moved to the folder name, which is very confusing. But at least removing this button from the primary action menu next to the component name would help.

I’m tired of managing multiple files for just one thing. Nedd a a feature like this, where I can open all the file type in one file instead of manging multiple files for the same project.

It would be great if the Color Contrast Checker could also work for variable. I had to disconnect my variable or style just to check the contrast ratio.

1. Describe the problem your experiencing Our design file has 50+ comments across various projects at any given time. As a designer, it’s noisy for me to see all comments instead of ones just on the page that I’m working through. Suggested idea Filter visible comments by page.

Hey folks,I’ve been using Figma AI lately, and honestly… it sucks. I had high hopes – I mean, AI in design sounds like a dream, right? But the reality is far from it. It’s clunky, barely understands prompts beyond surface-level UI, and ends up creating generic screens that I still have to completely redesign.Instead of speeding things up, I’m spending more time cleaning up AI-generated junk than I would if I just designed it from scratch. It feels like a beta version of something that might be useful one day… but it’s definitely not there yet.Has anyone actually had success using Figma AI in real-world projects? Or are we all just nodding along pretending it’s the future when it’s really just a waste of time?Would love to hear your thoughts – maybe I’m missing something?

Hi all! I would like to share with you this question with the community, as I have been researching a bit and found nothing. I saw someone shared before this question, but there was no answer and the feed is closed now. [Change "Reset all changes" to "Reset specific changes + drop down menu"](https://Link to the post). ----> Please, read this one for more info. It would be great to hear if anyone has any trick that allows them to reset all changes, without reverting the text content to the original component one. Any tricks or solutions that might be already in placed? Thank you!

Hi, Is there any option to automatically sort the items/components in the variants menu? Seems like I can drag them and drop but while having lots of elements it’s quite hard to keep things in the correct order. I know there are plugins to sort items in the layers menu (like SortIt) but would be great if there is an option to make the same (A->Z, Z->A) for the variants. It will make life easier.

It’s rare that I use groups, but I do have a doc with a dozen variations on a layout in a frame that I had grouped to hide the frame names on the canvas and I was surprised that when I selected a child frame in one of them, Select Matching Layers returned “No matching layers to select” for what should have been matches for the other child frames of the frames in the group (and do match if those parent frames are ungrouped).I would expect Select Matching Layers to work the same way in a group as it does for a section (where matching children are found, but limited to within just the parents in the section). I guess I’ve always considered the contents of groups (and sections) to be a “loose” collection compared to the “rigid” collection of the contents of frames.

First of all, it is very neat to have this feature in Figma, it made me switch from our company standard (powerpoint sighs) to Figma Slides (or is it Slide Deck?). The possibility to add interactivity, such as polls, is great! And sure, removing the background, changing mode (dark/light), is very neat. But, we are still designers. To put it into user stories: As a designer I want to be able to change the default font and theme colours for a slide deck (after all, we are all bound to use templates we didn’t design) As a designer I want to be able to style the poll components (and to hide components I don’t want to use, such as vote count) As a designer I want to create my own templates As a designer I would like to import powerpoint/keynote template files (which of course I have to tweak in order for it to be correct)

Problem:The annotation customization feature is limiting and does not preserve category settings across files, nor does it allow for standardization of categories within an organization, requiring users to have to re-author custom categories for every file. Solution:Allow users to choose between the standard customization categories or an organization-approved set of custom categories. This could be set by an administrator, or something that can be published from a central approved library. And/Or allow individual users to preserve custom categories between files.Suggestions:Allow for custom colors to be used for categories. Provide an option for numbering of annotations (numbering will help with accessibility annotations, including: page landmarks, reading order, heading order, focus order etc.). Allow for more robust text editing within the annotation, including: addition of rows to organize information, adding clickable links for developers to refer to developer documentation (secti

You can use the scale tool (K) to scale a component which is good. Problem: Once I used the tool, the scale of the component is reset to 1.Solution: Add a property to components that show and let you set the scale of it. See image attached.Mockup of Scale component property 

Suggestion: Enable multi-property selectionSituation:While manually selecting properties of an element, I’ve noticed that I’m currently only able to select and copy one property at a time.Problem:Using Ctrl + Left Click only selects a single property, which makes copying or modifying multiple properties time-consuming and repetitive.Proposed Solution:Introduce the ability to select multiple properties at once using a combination like Ctrl + Shift + Left Click. This would allow users to quickly select and copy multiple properties, significantly improving workflow efficiency.Benefit:This small but powerful enhancement would save time, reduce manual effort, and streamline the editing process—especially during high-volume design or development tasks.

Issue:While creating a text style, the input field slightly shifts or moves when I click to type (from default to selected state). This movement feels like a glitch — the field shouldn't animate (or) reposition when it's focused.Expected Behavior:There should be no transition or movement. Only the visual state (like border or highlight) should change on selection, without affecting layout or positioning.Steps: Open the text styles panel. Click "Create Style." Click into the input field and start typing. Notice the slight movement or glitch as it changes to the selected state. Note:I’m wondering if this movement was added intentionally for a specific reason. Let me know if I missed anything!

Context: I’m part of a Figma Organisation team with thousands of design/FigJam files. We do our best to keep files properly organised within teams/projects for discoverability and general hygiene, but could probably stand to improve. General Figma comprehension across the wider business is quite poor.We often need to share files with other staff in the business (very few files have open access i.e. are automatically shared with everyone in the organisation). However, many people don’t seem to understand how permissions naturally work, i.e. sharing a project facilitates access to all child files; sharing a team facilitates access to all child projects & thereby files, etc.More often than not, editors will share links to the files they’re working on even when they’re concurrently working on several files within the same project and might as well have just shared the link to the overarching project instead, which would give them access to all current and future files within that proje

Adding a “bring me back to where I was” button on Figma canvas.

I tried AI image generation, and I was shocked. Bro, this free tool has some built-in styles, you can try it:  https://www.aiimagegenerate.cc/image-art-creator

For at least nine months, Figma has known about, and seemingly completely ignored, the fact that putting the toolbar on the bottom is unintuitive, and unrequested. I don’t understand why something so small has gone unaddressed so long, especially since the 2nd biggest thread on the forum is the feature being universally hated. Why change something that wasn’t broken?

There’s currently only Mac device frames to represent desktops. For showing UIs on Windows it would be nice to have a Windows laptop device frame to not confuse or distract stakeholders who expect a Windows design presentation.

I have a bunch of stickies that I’d like to make into shapes (rectangles) so that I can resize them/remove authorship. Is there a way to do this besides copy and pasting text into a new shape?

I work on iOS and always have at least three browser installed in my computer. I also use different logins for different platforms. I don´t want to change my default browser so each time I need do a web login in Figma I have to copy and paste it to the browser my login credentials are linked. I don`t know if anyone is having similar problems or if this is a personal ignorance. I think instead of redirecting user to the default browser, the link for web login could be shown in a menu with system installed browser options. I believe, this could prevent some of web login issues. Thanks for reading

I would like to express my concern regarding the new interface design (UI3). Specifically, the fixed action bar is quite uncomfortable for the design experience. The fact that it cannot be moved or repositioned freely limits the visibility of the canvas and disrupts the workflow—especially when working on large projects or with many elements.This static bar visually interferes and reduces the effective working area, which is a significant drawback compared to the previous version, where users could adapt the workspace to their preferences.I would appreciate it if you could consider offering an option to customize the position of this bar or make it floating, as it was in UI2.Thank you for your attention and for continuing to improve the tool.

SummaryApril Fun Week has come and gone, and with it, our beloved FigPals have been snatched from this cruel digital plane. I humbly propose the addition of a FigPal Cemetery – a memorial space within Figma where we can honor the memory of our lost pixelated companions.BackgroundFor one brief, shining week, tiny joy-gremlins followed our cursors around the canvas. They watched us prototype. They witnessed our questionable auto-layout decisions. They were there for us in ways no plugin ever could be.And now? They're gone. Just gone. No goodbye. No grave. No closure.Proposed Feature A toggleable "Cemetery Mode" in Figma Tombstones for each FigPal variant (ghost variants optional) Visitors can leave notes ("You always hovered with such enthusiasm", "Rest in pixels") Epitaph generator (e.g., “Here lies Blurple the Bold. Died chasing a component into an infinite frame nest.”) Optional seasonal ghost sightings around Halloween 👻 RationaleThe design community needs a space for collec