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I’m working on a guide plugin. Adding guides while the rulers are hidden is confusing because nothing appears to happen. I’ve built this plugin in multiple other apps where they all support a way to show/hide guides. In those cases, I show the guides when new guides are added. I’d love to do that in Figma as well.

Long unused plugins can lead to forgetting the product’s usage scenarios, even though it has a detailed description of the portal. Why not consider inserting “user-defined content” in the next line of the plugin?

There are older posts about this, with Figma acknowledging that the feature isn’t available. But as the app continues to push out really impressive sets of new features, I wanna surface the request for the ability to scroll content with a frame that is acting as an overlay. The scrolling stuff works perfectly on a frame, but as soon as you set that frame as an overlay…nothing. I’m working on apps that utilize side panels for additional content, and not being able to scroll in them is a real bummer.

I would love to see a “little big update” that improves the pages panel. Page numbering: Every page should be automatically given a page number that is separate from the page name. This will make it much easier to communicate with collaborators - “see page 6” rather than “see the page titled 'icon + asset explorations 11/3/23 r2.” Divider lines: Many designers use a blank page named “------” to divide pages. I would love to see this as a feature in the pages panel that doesn’t require a blank page.

It would be incredibly helpful if we could set what our color is at the profile level so that every time we go to any board we can retain our consistent color. It’s painful at present, if your approach is to use the same color to help identify your user, to have to change the sticky note color every single time you visit any Figma board. It doesn’t even necessarily need to be a profile setting. Just retaining the last color you selected on any board and sticking with that instead of the random colors it seems to currently be employing on every load.

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It would be GREAT if you could add a search field in the Interactions panel. For instance, when I am adding an onClick event to open an overlay, I have to open the dropdown with all of the frames, which are never in alphabetical order (which it should be). I would like to be able to type in the name of the frame in the search field, which will filter down to the frame I am looking for. I hope this is in the queue.

As I designer in a large organisation, I would like to better understand where I can save my files. As an admin or project manager, I would like designers to know where to save their files with more ease in order to make file discoverability better for other team members. The idea: Add a Short Description to Figma Projects, so users can read a quick blurb on what the intention of that folder is.

Often in early stage features, the owner of the Design System may feel hesitant about adding a new component when it’s only instance is on a single page. The Engineer/Designer may make the call to keep the design pattern local, but still loop/re-use the design pattern. At the moment this can be achieved by keeping the Figma component local and repeating it, or not turn it into a component, repeat it, and deal with the time-consuming changes.

I am working on dark vs light modes for my UI and it would be really convenient if my stakeholders could switch modes by themselves. Problem is they have read access only (which I’d like to keep as is) and I realize mode switch is only available if you have edit permission. Any one with similar concern? Any idea how this could be supported (at least to some degree)?

Right now, I’m creating a very detailed wireframe, and I’m using rectangles as image placeholders. When I create a rectangle, inside a group, the new shape jumps to the very top of the document. It repeats again and again. As the document is fairly tall in height, this becomes very inconvenient to have to drag and drop from an ever greater distance. http://somup.com/crf2IVFn91 How do I get shapes to create inside of a section? It shouldn’t go to the very top of the document.

When creating more immersive plugins which require more screen real estate, it would be great if we could pass in a fullscreen: true param to the showUI. It could then expand to take over the full canvas area. Would this be possible to add?

I want to be able to set prototype stettings to mobile to replace web cursors with a tap cursor but not include the device frame. Currently I can only get touch cursor with a frame. Additionally recording prototype in Figma to gif or video would be game changer.

Hi there! Guys, how did you solve 2 problems: export presets (like in Sketch), where I can create my own preset for Web, Android, or iOS. For example: in the Android preset, I have like 5 different png and for iOS - 3, but with different dimensions and suffix names. And second question - assets panel. For example, I created an icon. Set 5 dimensions in Export block → back to the main page → drag&drop from Asset panel this icon and… where is my export presets?

being able to section off specific files in a project to delineate archived or current.

It would be great to have the most recent styles on top after creating them. Usually they are used after creation, it’s nice to have them right on top - as it can be seen in this video from a different problem. Or an option to order them besides dragging.

When a conversation in the comments is resolved, automatically indicate so with the green check. You could use LLM’s to analyse if a solution has been agreed upon.

Lot of ideas are captured by team members in the form of images/screenshots, would be great to build from that

Please add a “Select/Deselect All” option to preferred values to remove values. Currently, it takes over 3 seconds per value to remove. If you’d like to change icon families for example, this is very time-consuming. A simple “select all” option would save a lot of time.

Now that I can set visibility with a variable, I would like to have the ability to defined a transition for the visibility of that item. Then I could flip a variable to turn on or off a UI element and have that element transition onto the screen. (slide in, slide out, fade in or fade out). Without this feature, I have do some crazy work arounds and given the limitation of variable interactions on a nested component… it is a pain in the… workflow.

Allow the Autolayout Horizontal and Vertical gap to be defined by a variable. A use case is changing from a list view to a card view. They both use Autolayout, but the gap distance is different for the rows of a table vs cards. This might also be useful for making components responsive to different screen sizes.

I have an idea for your software that could really help us out. In our team, designers and product managers often put their designs and project plans in the same file, and then they give this file to our engineers. This leads to a lot of discussions between the people who work on the front-end and back-end of our projects, especially when they’re writing the specs for our APIs. The problem we keep running into is that when we’re working on these files, it’s really easy to accidentally mess up the design files. We don’t want that to happen. It would be great if engineers could look at the designs and add their own notes or comments without being able to change the original design. So, my suggestion is: can you make it so that when designers hand off their files, the engineers can write on them but not edit the actual designs? This kind of control over who can do what with the files would be a huge help when we’re putting together our project plans. Thanks for con

If I have edit access I use the Rect tool to sometimes measure some distances/relationships between objects. When in view-only access this is not possible, so I have to figure out distances in a round the houses awkward way, this is terrible for pixel perfect implementations. Maybe it would be enough if the marquee select would show its coordinates/measurements, but a dedicated Measurement tool would be best.

Hi! I would love the ability to “Detach All” instances within a selection. How it would work: Select an object(s), right click the selection, and click ‘Detach All Instances’. Anything that is a component or instance within the selection would turn back into plain objects. Why: I prefer to use Components throughout my page designs and I also turn each of my pages into a component. So lots of layers of components. My developer uses the Figma to Webflow plugin, which requires NO instances or components on the page. At the moment I have to make him a copy of each page and manually go through the layers to detach everything. Would be nice to make him a copy of the page, right click, and ‘Detach All’ instead. Happy holidays from Pennsylvania!

Would be great to be able to set Z index value. (In line with what is available in CSS)