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Please, can we have alternating row colors for variables? I just need a little zebra striping to help me see what I’m working with. The system I work in has many color tokens in several themes. Adding alternating row colors is a small UI change which would greatly help the usability of this modal. I have a lot of other problems with the variables modal (it’s too small, lacks functionality, etc). All of those problems require higher-level design thinking. By contrast, implementing zebra striping is an easy win! 

Hi, Crop tool should snap to image border instead of being able to go out of bound. Thank you

It would really be amazing to bring the branching functionality to FigJam. My team is using FigJam to manage some very complex diagrams. And, to add complexity and stress, we are using the Figma APIs to use FigJam as a logic management tool (backend) for a feature we are building, so these complex diagrams are extremely valuable to us. So we would love to have the ability to branch → approve/reject → merge changes.  Is this something that is on the roadmap?

I’ve noticed that the “Dev resources” section is enabled if I’m in a main file but it's disabled while in a branch file. Is this an expected behavior or is my version buggy? It's the same issue either on web or desktop app. Thanks in advance. 

I have 46 pages on a project. (Maybe an extreme case, but yes I do). I just want to search for a page by name.

I would like to easily move an element to another frame rather than having to drag and scroll through hundreds of frames and layers to move it to where I’d like. There should be a ‘Move to frame’ in this menu.  

Simplified use caseImagine there’s one component that is the same on iOS and Android but different on Web I create a Platform property with values of iOS, Android and Web In order to allow all selections, I need to have three variants, one for each Platform property value, even though there are only really two variants.This introduces a risk of someone editing the iOS variant and forgetting to make the same change to the android variant since there’s no way to merge these variants together. This is a really simplified use case to illustrate the point, but I am working with components with 9+ properties, each with multiple values. This creates many duplicate variants and makes it really hard to keep track of the duplicates and keep them all in sync.  Please add this! It would really save me time, headache and reduce the number of variants of components.

It is driving me crazy when I follow someone, if I need to zoom to desired level, I loose the follow and I have to follow again. I just want to be able to continue following the user on the desired level of zoom I choose.

Is it possible concatenate variables within another?

Would love to be able to save and apply object styles such as a fill color and stroke color and properties; just like in CSS.

When using the eyedroppper/color picker via the shortcut ‘I’, you can select a color and the RGB value is copied to the clipboard, letting you paste this value to copy the color. (Very nice feature!)See below:  However, when pasting the value from your clipboard, the format is like: RGB 151 71 255. Figma does not recognise this a color when trying to use this value. Please see below, when pasting the RGB value in to a field that expects a colour, the RGB text at the start prevents Figma from recognising the 151 71 255 following it: Existing Process: Pasting the result of the Pick Color tool, automatically includes the text ‘RGB’Result is #BBBBBB or RGB 187 187 187You have to remove the ‘RGB’ yourselfOnce RGB is removed, then Figma will interpret the colorSuggested Process:Pasting the result of the Pick Color tool Figma recognised the 151 71 255 then changed the color to the RGB value provided.

What if you we could easily control the thickness of lines, arrows, and other elements on the board? 😍

Hi all,it would be really REALLY useful to be able to share a link to a screen in a specific state, for example with an overlay opened. We’re writing user stories, and both client and devs need to visualize the exact screen, in a specific state.In that case, with the modal overlay opened.Currently, i can only get a link either to the screen in the design mode (right link to the frame, copy as link to selection) so without any component state or opened overlay, or the link to the global prototype starting point.

At times I can get a buildup of available library updates. Often it’s a mixed bag of complex components and “easy” updates with just some type and colors adjustments. Nothing breaking.In those cases, I can either accept ALL updates available which might break stuff all over a page or document, or accept individual changes one by one (which takes time).Since updates are grouped like commits, why isn’t there a functionality to let me accept, let’s say, a commit with 40 icon updates, along with a color update of some 20 colors… without accepting a few complex component updates? All in all, what’s everyones thoughts on adding another update option?Accept ALL updates Accept a “commit” Accept individual update (part of commit)Would make life much easier. Quick design experiment: 

 Using browser version Currently, when I press Control + H, nothing happens. I want it to work the same as when Delete is pressed.  

When inputting text into sticky notes, if the text overflows, the sticky note changes size instead of the text size adjusting to fit.This is unintuitive and results in misshapen sticky notes if there is too much text.In the physical world, a physical sticky note doesn’t change size when I’m writing on it - I have to write smaller to get it to fit.This would be a more intuitive flow when entering text into a sticky note: the text should shrink to maintain the sticky note’s size and aspect ratio.

Please make your products interoperate.

When a coworker is presenting their design work and I’m following them in the file, the UI automatically minimizes the sidebars. This makes sense to me, but I’d really like to see what page we’re on in the minimized version of the left sidebar (screenshot below), rather than simply the name of the file. Our files typically have a lot of pages, and I’d like to see where I am while I’m following another user.It would also be beneficial to be able to switch between pages while the UI is minimized. I’m often working on one page while occasionally referencing another. If I’m working with the UI minimized and I need to look at designs on another page, I have to first expand the UI before I can click on the page I want to go to. It’d be great to be able to see the name of the page in the minimized UI, click it, and get a dropdown menu of the pages in the file that I can use to navigate between them. 

I have been documenting our design system best practice in Confluence. I would like to embed the Component Playground into the doc. This would allow people to preview the ui within the doc.

The way the web works is that elements nested within a parent element will inherit the font-family defined in the parent unless explicitly set on the nested element.It would be a really useful feature in Figma to allows something similar where you can define a font family for a frame so that all the text elements inside inherit that font-family, so if the font-family needs to be updated you don’t need to change the font-family for every text element within the frame. However, the nested text elements with a font-family explicitly set would remain unaffected.You could also do something similar with text styles where a text style can inherit from a parent text style so you can make more broad font-updates to your text styled without having to change each one individually.

Event listeners could improve prototypes efficiency and limit the number of workaround to replicate common interactions on websites. OnScrollUp OnScrollDown (left or right as well for Horizontal scroll with an offset value) E.G : Menu expanding on scrolling up. Right now this is almost impossible to simulate, while being a pretty common thing. (i mean yes, with increasing a number variable or decreasing it and check the previous result, which asks for a lot of onMouseEnter and possibly deactivating other interactions). It would be great to listen when user is going up or down the page. OnView (with offset trigger and possibly onLeave) For example we have a page with sticky elements, like filters, that need to disappear when the footer enters the visible area of our prototype. As of now, we need onMouseEnter interaction to change visible state with booleans. This is a problem, because people won’t be able to see these interactions when on mobile. So triggering a bloc when it is onVi

I am coming from google slides - i am often going into presentation mode during building a deck to check the slide i have just designed. Going into presentation mode has a lot of friction: 1. shortcut is weird, why not cmd+enter like google slides (current shortcut collides with something on my browser​​​​​​​2.starting presentation is alway a two click action because of the presentation type menu ; presenting with notes is much less often used (can u hide it behind a “more actions” menu? Just some initial thoughts after heavy using for 1 day - would help me a lot.   

I’ve been noticing that my images no longer are showing the little dropdown in the asset panel that gives you the option to download the source image. Is that a bug/setting or is that functionality being removed?

The developers and I are currently refining our handover process. I discovered, that for the VSCode Figma plugin the Feature “Focus mode” is available and was wondering why I wasn’t able to access it. I found out that it’s only available on the organization plan and above.Since I know that the huge canvas is overwhelming (even if it’s structured in sections) this feature would make the handover process way easier and is a huge benefit for developers, regardless the team size. It also saves time for designers, as they don’t have to invest as much time in neatlessly structuring the file and explaining the structure in detail to devs.We are just a small team of three and won’t be growing soon, therefore upgrading to another plan does not make sense for us.Is there any chance this will be available for the professional plan as well?