Share Your Thoughts

I have an idea for working with components. What if we add a checkbox that lets us choose whether to apply changes to the text or just to the component’s style, without affecting the text? Currently, we’re facing issues with complex components and variants. When we update the text in one component, it sometimes causes unintended changes to the text in other components across different screens.

It can be very tricky (impossible) to add a dev mode annotation to a parent element, that has no padding, because the cmd+T tool will always select the child the you click on. Like here, I end up adding the annotation on the third child, but actually I want it to go on the parent with all three elements. Maybe some keyboard shortcut like Shift+Enter in Design mode, that simply moves the selection and annotation up one level.

Previously it was set to be 1920x960, and now is supposedly 1920x1080. This wouldn’t be a problem if the remaining width of the cover was ignored in the actual thumbnail in the file explorer just as before, but now all my covers have black bars up and down. Why this sudden change? The files in the community still have the previous behavior where the search results showed a thumbnail a little bit thinner than the actual cover size when you open the file.

I would like to be able to manually pull a node to another node, see image example of red connector line.

Similarly to what Figma allows to do with Paragraph indent, I’d love to see the paragraph outdent feature. This is well-known typographic technique from print design and it’s time to bring it to Figma.

When replacing a photo using ‘Fill’ and selecting ‘Upload from computer,’ I would love it if the image name could remain the same, instead of being replaced with the current image’s name. I often need to source photos from Figma, and having the original image name helps me keep things organized. This would make things much easier 🙂

We spend so much time utilizing and shaping nested instances in our components. In UI3, they collapsed by default, which feels like a buried functionality for DS that utilizes wrappers and slot architecture. The decision to hide nested props makes no sense. We won’t use nested props if we don’t need to expose nested instances on a high level. Selecting which props from nested to expose and hide not exposed would be much more useful to keep a clean UI.

The current properties position in UI3 is so far near the top. I spend most of my time in the middle to bottom of my screen, only really using the top for navigation. I would love to see the “Change Properties” available as a quick action.

The idea of combining Layout and Auto Layout settings is cool, but the idea of merging two categories of input fields into one is not. It makes the workflow worse, because both settings are important and often you need to see them at the same time. But now Fill/Hug is always visible, and height/width disappears if there is auto layout. Now to find out the size of an object you have to either 1. look at the bottom edge of your frame (not always possible, you have to scroll down if it’s long), or 2. move the cursor over the size input field (which is a time-consuming movement), or 3. make the right panel very wide (which eats up the working area). There’s no benefit to combining important settings. In any case, even in the new interface there are so many of these settings that they go into the scroll anyway. So please let these inputs live separately ❤️ (video demonstrates the problem described above)

In the Figma Slide Deck, in the left hand tool box it´s hard to see which slide is selected when I have several duplicates of the same slide. Is it possible to make the contrast a bit bigger between selected and unselected slides

I would love if you could see which comments were read/unread directly on the frames! As well as a sneak peak of some of the conversation as an option directly on screen vs only in sidebar. I would also love as a filtering option in the sidebar if you could filter to only show comments or comments related to that specific frame and another filtering option to see that specific section. I think the comments section can be improved since my team often gets lost in them and ends up messaging in slack which I find hard to track and make edits this way. Would love if a tips bar popped up for new users to teach them how to use the comments and how to filter etc since the filtering is a little hidden. Wish the filtering was and sorting was less hidden!

Hello! As a user who wants to maintain accurate information in my profile, but wants a simpler experience in the Comments functionality, I would like to have a separate setting to change the name that gets used in mentions. I would like to use my full name for my “account” name, and just my first name for my “handle” or “mention name”. Right now, the handle and account name are one-and-the-same.

At this moment it is not possible to Star/favorite files that are shared with me from another Figma account. I’d realllllly like to. Also having a " Shared with me" folder woud be more intuitive then clicking a tab within " Recents"… (could be shared with me over a year ago) Greetings, Hans

To make Figma Design Files better for collaboration with Product Managers or people without design/dev seat it would be nice to: Make comments more like annotations, so they don’t overlap the actual design screen Make it possible to show/hide all comments of one design page at once (currently it’s only shown on the side menu, where it’s hard to know to which screen it refers to) Make it possible to add tags to comments. (Like Requirement, Open Question, etc.)

At the moment it is only possible to view screens with viewport 360px with the Google Nexus 5X device in prototyping presentation mode. This device is quite old and has only 640px viewport height. It would be nice to add custom devices or to have state of the art android devices with viewport 360px width to choose, for example Samsung Galaxy S21 (viewport 360 x 800px) It’s crucial to have some fancy looking devices for management presentation or usability tests with customer. (Not everyone is designing for iPhones… 😉 )

Making Logos and unusual shapes is very hard in Figma. Can you make pen tool better?

When I bring a component into FigJam and want to change it to another variant, it doesn’t give me a text label to understand which variant I’m changing it into. Would be a great quality of life improvement!

Hi all, I have been starting to use Figma Slides and I understand that this is still in Beta. One major issue I have with the experience has been to not easily navigate between slides. There’s an option to use Scroll of zoom but there should be an option to use Scroll for moving up and down the slides. Also as a default, page down and page up should do this but that doesn’t seem to work either. The only way is to use the arrow keys. I consider moving between slides one of the most used interactions and limiting this movement is a very poor experience. Thanks

I liked that I could press ‘K’ and then ‘tab’ to scale stuff to a specific widths/heights. In the new design this functionality requires mouse click or 33 tabs…

I heard panels will be turned back to the original design? Probably one of the few ones here that actually has been enjoying the new UI - it was quite refreshing. Could it just be possible to allow us to have 3 options instead? New UI3, Fixed panels UI3, previous version I was very hesitant to use the new UI3 at first, but after using it for a while it’s been quite good. I do got to say the fixed panels with the middle bar now looks very strange as side panels turn rectangular and the middle panel still has curved edges - would you be considering turning the middle panel into a square shape instead to be consistent in design?

Please add the feature to use pen in Figma, lately I realized that I can do some motion design using the smart animate feature, which is a feature that is sometimes not found even in motion design tools.

Hi, it could be nice to have a checkbox in the right panel of the editor to show or hide the variant names in the view

I manage relevant files by utilizing the pin to sidebar feature and sections, and really love the sidebar feature. At times there can be a lot of files there and many I don’t own, making it hard to always remember what file was for what. 😅 Would be cool and very handy if I could add little notes or comments to these files just for myself. Perhaps when hovering over the file in the sidebar (or the tab) and showing the preview thumbnail, it could show comments I have added to the file as well. This could really help add relevant info for myself to remember about different files. (Or if not per user notes/description for files, perhaps there could be a description field per file like components have that would show when hovering on files. Related request for file level description here: Add Descriptions for individual files in the file browser - #2 by cupps)

I keep accidentally opening my design library file because of the more primary placement of the link in the new component controls UI. It’s given too much realestate IMO. And the component dropdown looks like the section headings without the diamond icon next to it. That little diamond was great for scan-ability

Current state: Sometimes this button will be among the icons near the right bar header, and sometimes it will go into the dropdown menu. And, unfortunately, it goes to this menu very often – because this button is given a very low priority (even the very rarely needed “union” function has a higher priority) In general, changing button location is confusing and slows things down. It is very hard to learn the pattern when this button will be visible and when it is hidden, you have to look for it every time How would I solve this problem? Ideally: leave all dynamic buttons on the toolbar as it was before (let it be wider, the emptiness on the sides is of no value, the workspace is above the toolbar anyway). Compromise: Leave the dynamic buttons in the sidebar, but display them separately from the “Go to main component” (which will be fixed) – give them their own row, where they will fit not just two buttons + dropdown, but six or more. Or increase the number of buttons when expanding the