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I am new to Figma. When I first started, the toolbar was at the top of the screen, but now it’s at the bottom. Why did this happen, and how can I change it back?

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“It would be valuable to have the ability to import AI-generated designs from Figma Make directly into the Figma design board for editing and continuous improvement. Prompt AI to generate a complete design project. Export the generated designs directly into Figma, where they appear fully editable and properly organized using standard Auto Layout and a structured design system.”

Hi! I’ve noticed that I’m only able to add links to text. It would be really great if it were possible to add links to other objects, specifically images. 

Hello, so I’ve noticed that I am unable to add a link to an image or a vector and can only add links to text. I am making tutorial videos within my organization and within our getting started file we want it to be so they click on the video play button (no text involved in this button) they’d be directed to the video. The hack I’ve done right now is put text behind the button so when they hover it can simulate like they’ve pressed the play button. I’ve looked up tutorial videos online and even their solve for this is similar to the text behind the image hack that I’ve used. Figma can we work on this as a feature? Would be great thank you!

With slots and composable components, I would love a feature that allows me to create some ready made examples of the slotted components, and have them available in the Assets. For example, our card component with a composable “content” slot; we have 3 layouts that are common in our experience for that slot; ready made patterns. We can make those layouts “components” and have them vended as “preferred instances”… but that seems like a workaround, since these layouts aren’t really “components”… For now, we’ll have a separate Patterns Library, and the designer will just copy-paste those ready made cards into their design. But I think it’d be slick if they can just be available in the Figma UI.

Hi Figma team, Since the recent updates, it’s no longer possible to easily change image fills inside a frame by simply selecting the parent frame.Previously, selecting a frame allowed us to quickly replace image fills contained within its child elements, which made workflows much faster — especially when working with templates, cards, or repeated layouts. Now, the Fill panel only shows the frame’s own background color, and we must manually drill down into each nested element to replace images. This adds unnecessary friction and slows down production. It would be extremely helpful to bring back the ability to:• replace image fills from the parent frame selectionor• provide a quick “Replace image inside frame” actionFigma version 126.1.2 MAC OS This was a very efficient workflow for designers working with visual templates. Thank you 🙏 

In my organization, we have enterprise level Figma or something like that and we use branching.So, without adding too much info, the situation is: The design file linked with library file.And in the design file we have stuff going on.And then we have branches from the design file. The scenario I had this week which cost me sleepless nights and two days of headaches, plus additional work on cleaning the mess out:And yes, I know, I’m partly responsible for that but I will add my conclusion in the end. So one day it was decided in the team that we need to alter one input in the input component (one variant). I made the change. Unfortunately, forgot to first train on a branch, but I thought “hey, it’s just one input, just adding some element to it” (let’s say it lacked an asterisk to be obligatory as a feature of the component).I rolled the change to branches and I think I just updated one of the branches as I

I genuinely don’t understand how Figma continues to dominate given how hostile the experience has become — for both users and developers. The UX is chaotic and non-intuitive: layers buried under layers, controls hidden behind inconsistent interaction models, and navigation that feels designed to fight the user instead of helping them. For many people — especially neurodivergent users — the interface can feel actively exclusionary rather than empowering. It’s hard to shake the feeling that usability is no longer the priority. From a developer perspective, the situation is even worse. The platform is effectively closed. The MCP integration with Claude is read-only, and meaningful mutation requires plugins running inside Figma’s sandbox. There is no serious external API for programmatic design updates. That makes modern workflows — automation, CI-style pipelines, integration with engineering systems — far more difficult than they should be.

After a late switch from Sketch to Figma about six months ago, here is my conclusion regarding the UX of Figma:While Figma has many great features that Sketch does not have (dev mode, way more capable prototyping, variables,…) the general UX of the tool is just sooo bad! Here are the things that annoy me most:Visibility of functions: There are so many functions hidden below a small icon that has no label. Much stuff is hard to find. And what drives me really nuts: When a function is not available, then its UI element (or entry in context menu) is hidden – not disabled! I’m using Figma for UX Design, and it just feels so wrong to use this tool that does not handle UX basics correctly itself.   Library management – publishing components: You can do this from the book button on the top left where you usually update components from other files, but publishing is mixed in here if you click on “This file”. But then you can only publish all cha

Hi there. It would be cool feature like truncation for auto layout. When you do narrower the line (horizontal or vertical) of a layout truncate excessive elements. It’s would be work good for element with set min width.For example, this two last elements truncate, and the other ones fill the space with the rules of layout for this box

I think it would be very helpful to add select funtionality like selection colors for slots in the component instance panel.This would make it easier to quickly target the slot to use the repeat control, and also save library consumers from having to dig through the layers panel to find the slot on more complex components.

Firebender is a coding agent, that many android engineers use. Currently the Remote Figma MCP does not work whenever I configure it. Is there any way to get this to work? I tried:https://docs.firebender.com/context/mcp{"mcpServers": { "figma": { "url": "https://mcp.figma.com/mcp", "type": "http" }}} and I get a message saying to reach out to Figma support to allow Firebender MCP client use OAuth scopes with the Figma remote MCP

It would be amazing to see if there could be a native figma built-in Bento grid generator with sliders. I know we have the grid function, but this plugin from Akriva is wicked simple to use and would really improve workflows. Would love it if you could select frames and have Figma AI automatically create a campaign ready bento with images.The simple, random, centered and sliders make this such a great easy to use feature that would be awesome to have in Figma. https://www.akrivi.io/presenta

One of the things I used to love about Figma was collaboration. I have a paid Professional plan and my partner has another Professional plan. The thing is that we cannot collaborate in a same file. If I want to do that I have to paid another seat for her inside my team which is ridiculous because she is already paying for Figma.With that beeing said, the first time I fell into the trap and added her to my project. Nothing in the UI told me that I was going to be charged with another full seat (really bad UX and dark pattern from you Figma). There is only a button saying ‘Approve’, that’s it! I lost almost $80 because I added several friends to that single file. Figma, you robbered me.So, Figma, you are losing us, I saw this several years ago with Sketch and the community choose Figma. Now I’m open to explore other tools that allows me to work collaborative with other paid members (I’m not saying that I don’t want to pay).I used to love you, you changed! :(

Hi Figma team,I’m working with a central design system library that uses variables for colors, typography, spacing, etc. The challenge I’m running into is how to customize those variables per project/client without editing the library file.Here’s the workflow I’d love to have: In the library file, components are built using semantic variables (e.g., Brand / Primary, Text / Default). In a project file, I create local variables with the same semantic structure but mapped to project-specific brand values. I want to be able to relink or remap library variables to my local variables, so that when I update the local variable values, all linked components automatically update. Right now, even if I duplicate the variable structure locally, components still reference the library’s variable IDs

I have a new branch and adding slots to some of libraries container components starting with modals. Set up and implmentation is fine but I added instructions to the slot description panel and I can’t seem to see how the designers are able to read them? When you select a slot in an instance you see two lines of text then it truncates, clicking the content does not open the rest of the instructions in a fly out and there seems to be no way to access the rest of the content. Am I missing something?  

If you open a lot of projects the tab strip gets crowded. Chromium browsers solved this by allowing to group tabs, maybe Figma could do the same ?

Currently, annotation categories are defined per file.This makes it hard to keep consistency across team projects.It would be very useful to have option for team-level or organization-level annotation categories, managed centrally, so all files share the same list.This would help maintain alignment between designers, developers, and QA.Please upvote 😊

I’m trying to recreate the structure of our Text Field web component with slots. I would prefer the Figma slots to behave similar to the <slot> element in that they wouldn’t reserve space until there is content in them.Currently I can work around this by adding a boolean property that controls visibility of each slot but this adds clutter to the property controls.In the properties panel slot contents are described as “Default” or “Modified”. Having a third state “Empty” that also hides the slot from Auto Layout would solve both for me. 

Slides and Figma prototype are products of same tool, there is no way to add prototype into slides which can let me me scroll through my desktop prototype 🤔This causes a lot of back and forth between different tabs while doing a presentation. 

Here, I have an orange colour at 60% opacityPreviously I could paste a hex value in, and the colour would be replaced and remain at 60%Now it goes to 100% no matter what I paste here. As soon as I paste in a new hex value, I have to set it back to 60%.I am replacing a colour - not the opacity. Why change opacity as well? This is awful, and as of today, it has really slowed down my workflow. Thanks.

Why are the "Save to version history" and "Show version history" options disabled in Figma Make, even on a paid account?

It would be really cool if we could access Code Connect for variables at a lower plan level. It appears you cannot use Code Connect for variables in any other plan than an Enterprise full seat due to not having access to “REST API for variables” feature.This would really help us in using the Figma MCP for better consistency but as a self employed professional $90 a month is a bit too rich for me personally.

Current State: When you add a stroke to a mask, the stroke becomes an extension of the mask.Needed Improvement: When you add a stroke to a mask, the stroke is on top of the mask.This should be so simple, can’t understand why this wouldn’t be the default, but at the very least to have this as an option would be super helpful. I understand you can duplicate the shape on top and add the border, but then when resizing the mask you have to resize the shape on top as well, trying to eliminate a step.