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I’m not able to select layers that are visible, but don’t have a fill applied to them. This seems like bug level to me, and I noticed a couple of threads that bring the issue up but have been closed without any updates. This really hinders me in trying to create quick prototypes where I’m working off Sketches or screenshots and don’t have the time to fully recreate a design. I’ll usually draw invisible boxes to use as click areas. Unfortunately if I do this I can’t select any of them directly, and instead have to hunt for them in the layers panel. Please fix this! It shouldn’t be the same thing as hiding a layer!

I’ll share some ideas that i had and think that would be helpful on FigmaJam Guide ruler: this ruler would be able to use horizontally or vertically (90º or 180º) and only the person who added the ruler could see it on the page. It would help to organize and keep things aligned, even if the object (shape, sticky note, text, etc.) is in diferent sections. More objects can be rotated. I like using post-its, widgets, washi tape and other things, but it’s annoying not being able to rotate them… Because not leaving all the objects at 90º keeps, in my point of view, the page more visually pleasing

@Manuel_Barrio said it here: Fix naming when creating component variants The behaviour of adding Variants to components should not change depending on whether the component name is simple or compound (using slashes). The component naming using slashes should not be used to determine the name and quantity of variants created when using Property > Create Variant. Adding a Variant to a component should always just add 1 new Variant and leave the component name as the user intended it. It is a much more common use case to add variants to a component already in use than to create a bunch of variants based on a component’s naming structure. Workaround: cut the component name and replace with a letter, then create the Variant, name the variant property and then paste the original component name back. As Marco says: “boring”.

UI3 is getting really good, and if you guys keep adding more and more features this tool will explode and the layout gonna be overloaded — what I want? give me the possibility of hide or unhide features that I use.

I change width and height of frames about a million times a day. Every time I have to go to those two dropdowns to change width or height to fill/fixed/hug or to change the direction, I just wish someone at Figma would see the click events on these thing and help our dying productivity out with shortcut keys. (in the new UI they are even harder to locate with position moving all the time due to component settings changing height above them!)

Default Ctrl+D behavior, when duplicating an object, is to repeat the last offset that was used on the object. While this is super useful in many cases, there are very often situations, where I don’t want this behavior, or where Figma isn’t able to correctly reproduce the offset (like when rotations are involved). In those cases, it would be nice if there was an alternative keyboard shortcut that just does “Duplicate in Place”. Afaict, Ctrl+Alt+D for instance is not used, and would be a good candidate. If I am missing an existing feature, pls let me know!

Also there is no blur for viewer in Properties section

I noticed something frustrating with the UI3 updates. The “Constraints” settings are hidden behind a tiny button within the Position section of the right sidebar. Maybe the Figma team felt like these settings were rarely used, but they are critical when you’re working with items that are absolutely positioned, and want to control how they resize relative to their parent. It would be nice to see these settings surfaced at the top level when the selected item is either absolutely positioned within an auto-layout frame, or the child of a frame without auto-layout.

The light (light!) blue of prototyping noodles makes them very hard to see. Please increase the contrast and/or have them dynamically adjust based on their background similar to how frame names will change based on background contrast.

Hello, Figma teams I really like your product, but its design often makes me sad, even the new one (which is still unavailable to me) Why do you use such small fonts and icons? Why do you have such weak accents in fonts, why are you so afraid to use normal sizes of buttons, windows and everything else? Here is my project, in which I pointed out several problems of the new interface and offered my solution (https://www.figma.com/design/R3MNzdcnUOSn5Z7bDm8QRf/Projects-%2F-Figma?node-id=5138-1781&t=FCL0qP4CvH2WwbL4-1) See how beautiful and comfortable Figma can be for the eyes if you use interface elements and fonts of normal sizes I’ve already sent you a similar message, but no one has entered my project, apparently you haven’t seen it, so I’m sending it again

I’d love to see a feature (or plugin/AI) where, if I’m working on a frame for desktops and then switch to something specific like a MacBook frame, the component sizes would dynamically adjust to fit the new frame. It’d save a ton of time versus having to manually resize everything every time.

Hi We can’t see edit access files for a specific user. It would be good if we have the file names here.

Every time I try to type a long string value into a string via Set Variable, the interface “helpfully” tries to end the string, which 99% of the time is not what I want and I find myself fighting against it to get the result I want. I suggest removing this feature or intelligently stopping after the user tries to correct it the first time.

Manually swapping these is far too time consuming in Slides. For templates, gather the styles in one place and let me swap in bulk.

“In the prototype at destination action, I need a search option because I have many frames. Without it, navigating between frames takes too much time.”

My design systems team today is working towards integrating with ZeroHeight to provide documentation across the org. This made me wonder, will Figma ever encompass design systems through to documentation? If Figma had a sub-platform for creating a design system manager (similar to ZeroHeight, DSM), this would really streamline workflows as all assets in Figma would seamlessly translate accordingly. 🤞

I really like answering people’s questions about Figma in “Ask the Community”, but there’s a lot of questions about Slides… Which I don’t use. So having either a Slides category, like for FigJam, or a Sub category in the “Ask the community” category —if that’s possible— would clean up the forum a bit.

In Adobe XD (from which I hate to draw positives), when I am working with a container with an overflow, I have watermarked visibility to its contents. I can even work with those elements while the container is in focus. When working with lists of data which need to tell a story, Figma makes it very difficult to work and adjust this content without isolating the elements elsewhere. Can we please get some more meaningful interactivity with overflow elements in Figma???

Hello, I would like to recommend a feature to Figma’s file analytics page. For UX KPI purposes, it would be great if we could track how many hours we’ve been active in a specific file (not hours a file has been open). This would be a useful feature for quantifying certain value add for personal goals or KPIs.

When defining components and creating instances of them, I really wish that I could allow them to have other elements as children (like text and non-component frames), without having to turn those into a component and use the instance swap property. Forgive me if this is just a newbie problem – as I’m a programmer learning Figma for personal use – but it makes it more difficult for me to build components in a way that represents how I would actually build them in code. I’ll use a modal as an example. In code, I might define a ModalContainer component which is composed of a backdrop and a floating panel (with layout properties), and which accepts children as props that get rendered inside the panel. Then when using it somewhere, I can just put whatever I want in it, like so: <ModalContainer> <Text>Some text</Text> <Image /> </ModalContainer> In Figma though, I can’t seem to do something this. I can create a component for the modal container and makes i

Hi, I would like to suggest/share an idea of having a reset current changes for cases that users not remember all the changes they made and wanted to reset all changes or maybe there will be a list of files that are being changed and pick which one to reset its changes. I hope this will be noticed. Thank you in advance!

The ability to have a “link” from one element to another. Linked here is a widget that someone created that essentially does what I’m suggesting. Having this be native within FigJam would be amazing. A clean, straightforward design is all that is needed. You could also improve on the creator’s design by allowing the option to link to items on different pages

Hello there, Imagine this: You’re in the middle of a creative zone, and suddenly you need to check the blend mode settings. Instead of a quick glance, you have to dig through menus, disrupting your flow and maybe causing those annoying “brain freeze” moments. Bringing the blend mode option back to a more visible spot, like before, would streamline the workflow, bring peace of mind, and reduce the chances of forgetting it. Filling the gap while adding a useful feature ?🤔 Switching between iOS and default settings feels cumbersome. I always wished there was an easier way to make these adjustments on the fly. After all if you Need a custom percentage Just click the corners icon, and the percentage appears for precise customization, Just like before. best regards

Looks like you can only link text from FigJam to an external file, you can’t link a section or an image to a file outside your board. Does anybody have any kind of hacky way around that?