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I’m in need of standardizing the positioning of certain notification elements across all screens and variables for X and Y position can be very very helpful to achieve that. There are variables allowed for width and height but not X and Y. Not allowing variables everywhere makes the variables feature look inconsistent and incomplete.

We’ve used couple times Figma’s observation mode while user testing. We noticed that if your prototype has animation which contains overlay, that overlay is not visible for observators. Only person who is using prototype can see overlays. This is critical problem which deteriorates observation feature.

Hi, It can happen that comments start to stack on top of each others to the point that even by using the current sorting feature, the list is hard to manage. In order to facilitate a quick identification of the type/nature of comment I’ve been proposing a basic writting guidance in the librarie, but users do not follow it because they do not first read it. So let’s reverse the process. It would be helpful to have a feature which helps me to create comment categories in which I would park each comment I receive. I would have access to a dashboard where I can retrieve easily all the comments in their respective categories. This also would help to extract analytics on the type of comments received. Also, what you be helpful is a Reminder feature that would remind me that I still have to answer to comments depending on how I have set up that alarm. Hope this is useful.

When creating an overlay for something like a tooltip or notification center, if you use a glassmorphism effect with background blur, you’ll always see what’s behind the overlay in the file. The expected result would be to see what behind the overlay while presenting. For example, if I want to the overlay to open across multiple frames, with different backgrounds, I would have to duplicate the overlay and frame it’s displayed over to achieve this. But, that doesn’t solve the issue if the user scrolls the frame behind it, as the background of the overlay wouldn’t scroll with the page. Expected: What’s happening: Does anyone have a work around or a way for the overlay to always show what’s behind it while presenting instead of what’s in the file?

the blue object, does anyone know how recreate this in Figma. I’m having trouble with it.

Hi Figma, I wish we still had the team and project description panels in the Figma browser, or something better. Now the “Edit description” dialog contains all the information we painstaking put together to describe a team of project into a single hard to edit string: This is unmanageable, and we found the previous UI compelling because it provided a great context for new team and project members where outlined who the stakeholders are and what they do on a team/project. Here is an example: So going what step better, it would great if there was a UI for entering this type of information as a way to onboard Figma users to a team or project. Perhaps with user defined fields. It could just be a simple “Team (or Project) Information” link so people could select it to get the information we all need to understand who the sponsors, UXD’s IA’s, and even workflow information about the team or project. I would even settle for a custom link field that just opened a FigJam file section so I can

Often add Touch or mouse gestures on wireframes and then show flow to the next screen. I use the Dot on the start of the arrow and the arrow head to point at the next screen. Even better if I could select common Touch or mouse gesture iconad instead of the circle - save me time.

I couldn’t help but notice that sections are being used more because they now are the go-to component for developers due to the “Ready for dev” feature that the sections have like in this image This is a great shortcut/feature when we want to let the devs know what is ready( final or approved), and I think we also need to have a “Copy link to selection” shortcut just next to the “Mark as ready for dev” button. This way we can skip 2 extra steps when sharing links to the selected section. I’ve made a simple prototype just to see what it would look like. I’ll add a screenshot here and I’ll also put the prototype link so you can see how this action would look like. Design - Prototype link

This sort of thing really does zero good to the company brand. Dark Patterns like this, to get people on the mailing list, is not genuine and could be much better. Keep sign-in/sign-up flow clean, because right now it’s muddled. My initial feeling after clicking “Continue with Google” was that I had also accidentally committed myself to “ I agree to join Figma’s mailing list”. And my gut was saying “NO! I don’t want that!” Only after later inspection, I realized that checkbox was grouped with entering an email/password and “Create account” flow. So, not great, and this experience applies to every single user that follows a shared link from email. Definitely needs improvement. It could be a clear choice for the user on next screen, after going down the “Create account” path. Make it intentional. Your users will thank you.

Hey, I have a color palette template in a Figma file that I would like to use to generate color styles in the project (Primary 100, Primary 200, etc.). The template looks like below - each shade is a mix of color with the appropriate transparency of white and black. I would like to generate color styles in the project based on these complex layers (without the need to merge them one by one). I can do it manually by selecting each color with the eyedropper, but I would like to automate this somehow. Is there a way to do this quickly without losing the layer structure?

Here is my problem, Sometimes 1 Sticky could be affected to 2 different groups/sections. I would like to be able to affect the same sticky to 2 things might be with a global tag system or anything’s else (today I do work with customs tags create in a Figma lib)

Similarly to what I used in miro, I would love to have a User Story Map Framework template; It should have user Goals, tasks, and vertical lines for releases. Would be great if newly added tasks snapped automatically to some kind of alignment, so that it looks clean at all times, even if I move the bottom to the top and so on

My team has an area where we put stuff like copyright notices in a group/frame. Figma keeps moving the point where it was aligned too (where the person who made it put it originally, that was right where the camera spawned). What I’m suggesting, is to add a way to set that point, with no chance of Figma moving the start pos.

In Figma’s gradient feature, when switching from a solid color to a gradient, a newly introduced color always alters both the brightness and saturation. However, such occurrences are scarcely applicable in interface design (at least in my experience, I’ve never encountered it). Consequently, each time I switch gradients, I have to manually copy the hex value to override the unwanted color and proceed with my work, which is quite inconvenient. It’s hoped that there could be presets for newly introduced colors. Every user has different usage scenarios, and it would be beneficial if saturation, brightness, transparency, or newly added colors could remain unchanged. Previously, having a gradient’s newly added color with 0% transparency was preferable to the current situation.

Hey! Let’s say I make 100 icons. I often need to change sizes and positions. My monitor is wide: the sidebar is far from the icons, and it is inconvenient to aim. Resizing with the mouse is not convenient for small values (e.g., 148px → 146px). Therefore, I suggest adding the ability to change sizes next to a layer: select the layer → click on the size → enter a new one. Exactly the same feature would be useful for moving layers and points on vectors to exact coordinates (e.g., 131.48px). I suggest adding that one with the option to turn it off.

When renaming many variables it is frustratingly slow to do so and prone to errors. With layer renaming it’s much more intuitive, fast and accurate. It would be great to have that same functionality applied in renaming Variables.

I loved this feature in sketch, the way you inserted a component. It was much more organised, the current way figma uses assets is not as clean. I would like this feature added.

I find myself updating instances too often and forgetting to push to the main component. A setting to update the main component by editing the instance would be really beneficial.

When using the alignment function on content across multiple different frames on the page, it did not align them with each other as described in the documentation, which worked correctly in previous versions. However, if these frames (Frame1, 2, 3) are nested within a parent frame (FrameA), it is possible to align the elements within Frame1, 2, 3 with each other. This achieves my goal, but it’s overly complex.

What can you do when you have unattached comments? There should be an option to place it back on a frame or object inside the canvas. Vote here if you have the same issue. (original question here: What do you do with Unattached comments? ) It would be great if @figma can let us reattach lost, unattached comments back to a frame. Even better if the comment automatically falls back to a children frame underneath when you ungroup a frame, to which the comment is attached. That just reduce unattached comments from happening.

It used to be that when you changed the fill on a shape from solid to a gradient, it would make the second gradient color the existing solid color with an opacity of 0%. This was great and really sped up my process. In the last update they changed this behavior so now it makes the second gradient color some arbitrary darker shade which just adds more clicks to my workflow and some annoyance especially since it used to work better… Is anyone else having this problem?

is it possible add private mode so no one else can access file while you’re working on it but everybody can access it in public mode? Basically same file with private and public mode available.

If I make changes to the scoping of a variable, the only way to track down the changes is to click into each variable and check the scoping settings. It would be nice if an icon could be placed next to the variable label, perhaps aligned to the right for the following states: Full scope - no icon Partial scope - half-closed eye Fully hidden - closed eye This would obviously only apply to colors and numbers.

Hello 🙂 I think it might be useful if there is some kind of feedback to why the ‘Invite’ option is disabled. For example today it was disabled because the email address I have added was missing a dot (.), therefore invalid. I spent a lot of time searching for resolutions and reading unanswered questions in the community so maybe a single hover state why it’s disabled might be useful. Or leave it enabled and provide error messaging. I hate displaying errors but it might be clearer than expecting someone to see a missing dot at 10:30 pm 😃 Hope that makes sense. Cheers!

It would be nice to have an option to have the stroke offset or inset the shape it’s being applied to. As in, when I have a rectangle with a fill applied and want to add a stroke to it, sometimes I want the stroke to be inset or offset of the shape and not on the perimeter. As it stands now I have to copy the shape and group them together, one with a fill and the other as just a stroke and it’s a bit cumbersome. There should be a setting within that dropdown that has the inside, center, or outside settings where you can select inset or offset. Then you can input the amount you want, would make it much easier and quicker.