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it would be so incredibly helpful if i could open up nested canvases right inline as i’m working on a design.so for example, i’m working on a screen with a component stored somewhere else (like way off to the side on that same canvas or in a diff page in the same file or even in a separate design system file) and then be able to press a button to open the main component in a nested (or “popup”) canvas so i can edit it, then close the nested window and continue working on the main design. this would help me to not break context and stay in my flow.would also be very cool if i could create instances of those nested canvases manually too. if i could define a happy path series of screens and then underneath them create a button/link/something that opens an “error states” nested canvas, then i could keep the main design clean & clear and still allow people to jump into details without leaving the current context. this would also really help me as i’m designing to have a separate space t

I typically choose multiple properties, but I have to keep clicking open the dropdown. TONNNNNNS of clicks.

I wanna present the prototype like slides. It will be benefit to have the title on top and differentiate subtle interaction on screen. Sometimes I get lost and need to go back to design mode.

Please add the auto page number function. I’ve been expecting this before Figma slides 🙂

We use Fig Jam for user research analysis and there are only 9 colors of stickies so it limits us to how we can use them.  We should be able to customize the colors of the sticky notes, or at least have more colors!

When I share my screen - I don’t want my customers see the NDA projects and teams I work with. Here’s my solution:

Please enable playing of videos in design mode and dev mode, not just prototype mode. As a designer, I want to be able to include videos that viewers may play, So that my viewers/designers/devs may better understand what I have designed. As a dev, I want to be able to include videos that viewers may play, So that my viewers/designers/devs may better understand my thoughts visually Better still, I can then link videos to take people on a narrated tour of my design. Currently, videos do not play inline on the design, but need to pop up in a preview modal. Not great UX from a UX platform. Check out Miro Talktrack for inspiration: Create a Talktrack in Miro

The Missing Fonts replacement tool that becomes available when you are missing a font in Figma is really useful. Why not make it available all the time for any and all font replacement?Could be an easy feature to add since the tool already exists.

I would like to have the mirror feature be locked to a specific frame so that i’m able to see direct changes on the device of choice. What happens today; I select a frame that i want to view, go to edit another frame ( this could be a component ) and mirror switches aautomatically. All i want is a way to hold the focus on the one frame until i say so. It would make life so much easier especially during meetings where changes are requested on the spot and the test device will then switch between too many different items which ends up distracting the stake holders. So much pain! Thanks.

I love that Figma keeps evolving, but I wouldn’t be here if I’d love all changes ;)Recently this changed: When in the tablet-app in a prototype and want to change between flows or want to restart a prototype it takes more clicks. First I have to double touch to open a header and then I need to open submenu’s for one or the other.If I want to change the flow I have to click on some arrows pointing right.. which opens a slide-up somewhere below; I’d expect it to be on the right if the arrows point right. So it takes me a bit longer to find where to select the desired flow.Basically, I have to click more and I have to search where a menu may open. It used to work intuitive and quick, but now it changed (which takes effort to learn the new way) and I see no real win.Am I the picky one or do more people prefer the old two-finger-opens-bottom-menu-with-restart-prototype-right-there-menu? 

I usually have 3-4 Figma documents open and it would be super helpful to have a quick indicator as to which documents have new comments in them. The toolbar’s comment tool icon has the red dot indicator which is great, but having it in the tab itself would be even more useful.

Add it as a toggle here, so you don’t need to go trough the Assets panel and right click on the component. 

Is there a way to set default settings to newly created projects? Most of the time I use Figma to create desktop webdesigns, so I’d like to have my prototype to have a custom size device (1920x1080) and a different background color. And perhaps have a predefined grid.

So I am going nuts in the new UI when using the shortcut “k” for resizing objects. My muscle memory knows that “k” > tab would get me to resize using pixel increments. Now that leads me to positioning. I dont see why this order has been changed - this is one of my main quirks with the new UI apart from the floating action bar, but is another story. 

This functionality exists in Photoshop and it's pretty useful, especially for those of us that use a tablet and pen instead of a mouse on a daily basis.Having to do the keyboard shortcut to zoom in and out gets repetitive very quickly. Simply holding the “Z” and left click up/down or right/left to zoom would be huge

Hi, Shortcuts are great but not enough. I’d like to share an idea for improving the editing experience in Figma.This concept is inspired by Windows Explorer. When you press Alt + Space, a context menu appears, and some shortcuts are underlined for quick access: A similar approach could be implemented in Figma. For instance, pressing Alt (or Option on Mac) could underline available shortcuts, like this: This would provide a more intuitive navigation experience and reduce the learning curve for users.Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!Best regards,

Steps to reproduce Click to add an “Open overlay” interaction. Two options will be shown: Close when clicking outside Add background behind overlay (see screenshot in the end) Existing functionality: “Add background” only has the option to add a color. Desired functionality: “Add background” also allows to add a blur effect to the layer on the background. Possible workaround Suppose Frame1 contains the overlay content Put Frame1 inside Frame0 Resize Frame0 to take the full size of the screen Make it so that “Open overlay” targets Frame0 instead of Frame1 Manually position Frame1 (the overlay content) inside Frame0 (the overlay) Add the desired background color and blur to Frame0 Problems with workaround The “Close when clicking outside” functionality is lost since Frame0 takes up the whole screen. Manually adding an on-click “Close overlay” interaction to Frame0 would not work as intended. This is because the entire Frame0 would respond to the click, not just the part

It would be great to have a way to store a ‘File’ or link to a file directly in the file system. This way, when organizing projects you can place a  Figma ‘File’ into a folder that would link directly link to a Figma project. This would enable ‘storing’ files in a standard workflow. This way, we say “You will find all project files in the project folder” 

Our team would like a feature where we can add a title to the layers panel without that title being an actual page a designer can click into. Is there a feature that exists like this already? In the screenshot I’ve attached you see where “components” page is? We don’t want that to be a page but rather just a title that a person cannot click into. Please let me know if more clarification is needed.

Just as there were requests for horizontal scrollability of the left menu, and the somewhat expandable right pane of tools. I need the libraries pane that appears while applying colors and such to be expandable or horizontally scrollable - or at the very least, hovering shows me the full name, like in the main tool pane to it’s right.In my use case, I’m creating a design system, and the naming conventions of those can become relatively long and the most specific detail in the name is at the end (e.g., hover, focus, default, etc)(Unless someone knows a way to see this)An image showing the problem:  

Current music is repeating. I get boring after listening in 30 minutes and open some lo-fi hip hop stream. Really want to use FigJam music. Please, add more tracks or direct audio stream from SOME lo-fi music stream. Sincerely, Mikhail.

Hello. My company uses Figma embeds in our design system website and this website also functions as a development environment similar to Storybook. When we are developing on our local machines, the Figma embed dumps a bunch of output to the developer console which I think is inappropriate and very distracting. Is there currently a way to disable this output? Here’s a screenshot of what I’m talking about: Looking at the logs, it appears that the Figma dev team is using an abstraction around the window.console method. If that is true, I imagine it’d be easy to support a flag that can be passed via query param on the iframe src URL to disable debug output: https://www.figma.com/embed?embed_host=share&url=ourFigmaUrl&disableConsole=1 Then in your abstraction you’d look to see if that parameter was truthy and if so skip logging (would probably want to just grab that param once and store it as a global variable or similar on page load for performance reasons). Another option is to

From what I understand, currently there is no way to programmatically update the widget to the latest version when users interact with the widget. Users do not know that there is a new version, and the current version they use is old. They can manually right click each widget and see if under Widgets menu, there is Update to latest version option.It would be great to have updateToLatestVersion() or checkIfLatestVersion() so, the widget can prompt them to update.

why is there not a link to access open support tickets so that you can see when theres a response instead of having to check your email? its extremely frustrating having to comb through emails looking for responses from support, i feel like it would make things a lot easier and quicker if there was a way to view support tickets through our accounts [like in a chat/inbox] instead of through email. the ai chat feature will let you submit support tickets but once you submit it and close out of the chat its GONE. when you go back to reopen the chat window it just resets to the initial ai response, but if you chat with ai and close the window and go to reopen it the chat is still active. i feel like it also do that when contacting support, otherwise why even offer to contact support through the chat feature? 

This is MUCH needed. Our libraries contain already established typography and color styles that we use throughout our product and branding. Being able to link these styles with Slides presentations would GREATLY help our marketing and sales presentations look polished. The sales and marketing teams could focus more on the content and the branding and design teams can spend less time we styling everything once the presentation is done. Yes, components in libraries are not necessarily helpful here, but color/type styles/variables are critical.