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I’ve been using variants a lot and for huge numbers of components, it’s amazingly time-consuming. Plugins help but having a keyboard shortcut for “Combine as variants” and “Create multiple components” would help tremendously. Idally, everything would be possible to bind to a custom shortcut. I am proposing the following shortcuts: Create component ⌥⌘K Create multiple components ⌥⇧⌘K Create component set ⌃⌥⌘K Combine as variants ⌥⌘V

If I have nothing selected (2 things needed) - then CTRL+S is saving.If I have two things selected - CTRL+S creates a section. Who got this “great” idea to take a really important saving shortcut and make it two features?And, even if it’s bad and it stays, why doesn’t it create a section from 1 thing selected? WHY? What is the train of thought of people who work on features of this software? WTF?You either ruin things or destroy STANDARDS.

While I appreciate Figma supporting natively spell check, it’s mainly for the English US.I am working inside UK area and I need spell check to work for English UK more.I hope this is something devs can look at it and possibly it can be easy to implement update inside the app. 

I want to open the figma file URL directly within the Figma desktop app. Suggestion: when clicking on the new tab in the desktop app, I can add the URL in the search bar to directly open the file within desktop app. Problem: It’s frustrating to open the copied figma file URL in browser then wait for it to open the app. 

I would like an option to differentiate a comment vs a question so when I am sharing designs with clients, I know where are the key questions to focus on vs general comments by myself or other users.

It is irritating to need to keep looking up how to do common functions because Figma doesn’t follow conventions. Please have the humility to acknowledge most software conventions are learned outside Figma and follow those conventions even if you desire to break the mold. https://lawsofux.com/jakobs-law/I keep needing to look up how to turn text into links. Please, just let me use Ctrl-K.

Hi, I am currently testing the new Figma-UI3. First of all, thank you for all of your amazing work! Unfortunately there is not shown a branch status (e.g. “In-review”, “Merged”, etc.) anymore. I would recommend displaying the status of a branch in Figma-UI3 like it was previously in UI2 (see below). Cheers, Clemens

Figjam just changed their color palette (that looks quiet bad). My problem is that old stickies are still in the old palette, so when I edit a Figjam created before the palette update, I cannot add stickies that are the same color as the existing ones ! The only workout is to change the color of each old sticky note one by one… Expected behaviour : stickies placed before the palette update should be switched to the new palette! (as opposed to frames and shapes that support custom colors should stay as they are)

Hi Figma Team! 👋I have a few ideas that could improve Figma and make it even more versatile:1️⃣ Add a new Instagram post frame – Currently, Figma includes the standard 1080×1080 size, but another widely used format is 1080×1350 (portrait format). It would be great to have this as a preset option.2️⃣ Allow users to create custom frames – Sometimes, I need to create frames with specific dimensions, such as an A4 300 DPI frame for print. Having the ability to set custom resolutions and other parameters would be very useful and safe for next time use3️⃣ Improve optimization for printing – Enhancing rendering and print preparation would help maintain high quality and ensure colors are print-friendly.I’d love to see these features in Figma! Thanks for all your great work 💙

I would very much like a feature to maintain the same width of items in an Autolayout with wrap - even when they are dynamic using “Filled” Ex. i have 3 items in autolayout with wrap on. Width is set to Filled Max width for items are 200 Min width for items are 100 My autolayout width is 300 = all items are on the same row I change autolayout width to 200 = items in 1st row are now 100px wide, Item 3 is pushed to a new row, but stays 100px wide

This may be a dumb question… I uploaded an avatar to my account to replace the default first name initial avatar. However after a few days, I want to reset the avatar to the initial version rather than the image based one I uploaded. But it seems like there’s no way to do through the Account settings. Pressing on the avatar itself or “Edit” will simply prompt for a new image. Can anyone confirm this is the case?

While our teams and the amount of projects grow, it becomes harder to find and identify the right files on the search page. I would like to suggest to include the team name and project name in the meta data of the search results. Similar to a bread crumb in google search results.

These are some of the new Fig Jam default colors. I know there are ways to customize the palette but this is wild. Why did you guys lighten the green and blue? What’s up with this cyan? In theory these colors should look okay together but they do not.

I frequently have components that have either been orphaned or that I’ve inherited from other designers that contain empty interactions (for example, a click trigger that is set to “None”).Then, I will come along and try to create a new interaction by drawing a prototype arrow between frames, and it defaults to “On drag” which completely screws me up, causing me to have to troubleshoot why the interaction I created is not working. Almost invariably, I’ll have to delete this orphaned click interaction and fix my new interaction.As far as my experience, this is unwanted and wasteful behavior. It would be much more intuitive to simply overwrite empty click interactions when I draw a new arrow. This should be the workflow with any type of interaction (click, drag, hover, etc.). If I create a new interaction, it should replace an empty one of the same type.

Currently it’s not possible to dynamically set or assign mode variables to a frame or a document. This would be incredibly helpful when it comes to user settings, like change a theme or language, for example. When prototyping, dynamically setting a mode variable like systemTheme or systemLanguage could then be done through user interactions like clicking a button, to simulate many real-life use cases.

As the title describes, i’m finding it odd when other prototype tools have native lottie support and figma only have it as a GIF since i recently move the majority of my work to figma. 

I was looking at library analytics and could not understand why there were no statistics for some components. Then, having searched for an answer on Google, I opened up the library’s publications folder and only then did I realize that there were errors in properties of these components. 👆In the screenshot, the broken components look like normal components It seems to me possible to display these errors directly in the analytics or, at least, highlight them more clearly in the publications window.

The ability to view analytics for color and text styles, the same way you can for components. So being able to see how many usages there are for a given style, and then drill into a style to see all the files that it’s referenced from. This would be super helpful for my team as the number of styles always seems to grow but never shrink. So being able to see which ones are rarely or never used, would help us in identifying which to delete.

Hello, I am working on a Design System and now I am adopting the interactive components. They look promising, but there is one feature that is missing. I was so excited and started adding interactions to all the bread and butter controls - buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, switches, lists…etc., but then I figured out that usually, the prototypes are representing a few use-cases and not all controls are clickable. So I was wondering whether there is a plan to add a switch on the component level that enables or disables the interactiveness.

I want to know if it’s possible for me (as the owner) to set up something so all the viewers on a FigJam cannot see other viewers. So everybody on the jam thinks that they are alone on the file Thanks ! 🙂

I wish that there was a place to add annotations in the property panel, whenever the parent and child frames have the same size, it will be difficult for me to select the parent frame because the child frame takes up all the space, so that I have to select it in Layer panel and click “Add annotation”

Even before the last update, i found a few inconsistencies within Figma’s interface. The one that bothers my a lot is the properties selection menus. i’ll bring the Font family, Font weight and Font line height as examples.When Figma is set to light mode, the font family selection menu is in “white mode” and the variable selection in nicely located at the top. easy to reach. this is perfect.  The space letter spacing is also in “light mode” with the variables button extruded on the field itself, even better, but for the rest of the menus are constantly set to dark mode and their variable selection are placed at the bottom of the list. for fonts with long list this makes navigation very hard with a lot of scrolling. Please fix this inconsistency as specially the later one is the most inconvenience to work with.Thank you

Most times, I want to know what’s in the figma file or I am just exploring and want to see a file, all of that gets added to recents because in doing that, it opens the file. Now, my recents gets so cluttered because of all these.That’s when I remembered what happens to Community files.This preview gives a sneak peak of what’s inside, just how it would if you opened the file. I think when you are part of org or have a lot of figma files relating to similar things, this helps in reducing the load to think what was in that file or to reduce accidentally opening a wrong figma file. Would be great if a preview option is also available for all the files as well :)

Whenever im using the Actions menu (Cmd+K) to search a term in any of the categories: “Assets” or “Plugins & Widgets” and i select one of the results, after reopening that menu, the search term and category selection is being reseted. this causes frustration since im using this menu to search. im in a search mode. as a user i am not always certain i selected or found the option that answer my need. This pattern causes me to click again on the wanted category and re-enter my search term. this action is very frustrating.I suggest that category selection and search terms will be persistent as long as i did not delete my search term or ended my Figma session. Please consider this fix as the current situation is very frustrating. thank you.  

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