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Hey everyone, currently one can decide to publish libraries either… in the org in the same team It would be great, if one could publish libraries in any team. Why? In our design system, we have set up a “team” as testing environment, where we would like to test bigger changes, which could potentially break existing layouts. But we are unable to publish changes from our component library to the test environment as long as we are limited to publish in the same team or org. It would be great to be flexible and choose any team for publishing.

Does anybody know if it’s possible (and how) to stretch a gradient over multiple text cells and keep the actual text data? I know that I can “flatten” text into shapes and do it. But can we keep the text cells and do it? I’m trying to take advantage of the Local Variables feature to streamline our copy editing (and design), as well as have Figma mimic the code and data on the eng side. So, there are places where in our code it would be an interpolated/concatenated string that on display has one gradient going across the text. The screenshot shows the gradient stretched across an entire string on the top. When I carve it up into concatenated Variables, the bottom two is all I can do with what I know:

I want to visually organize all files within the Project workspace, as an Admin i want to create a Template that will be used every time a member creates a new file (or have an option to use Template or create blank file) this will help organize files in the pages panel, all using consistent file structure across the workspace.

I want to use Code Block in Figma Slides. Currently, it results in an error when I copy and paste the FigJam’s code block component into Figma Slides. This feature would be very valuable. Every engineer would use Figma Slides for their technical presentations.

Loving the new product. One pet peeve, is I can’t currently add images to masks I don’t think. I have to add them in a standard design file and then copy and paste them in currently. One idea is you should have the ability to add an associated design file to a slide deck so that you can keep track of design iterations in the design file and then have the presentable deck as it’s own file. If they’re separate that is fine but it will be easier if they’re connected somehow.

When I am previewing a slide in the presenter mode, keep the focus on the same slide in the slide-view mode Show distance between layers and the edges of the frame when I hold down option. This is a behavior I use when creating slides in Figma and I find that missing. It’s difficult to use ‘X’ and ‘Y’ coordinates to make alignment. Do not stop at what other presentation tools are doing. Go a step ahead and do what you do best 😉

A delay between the bt keyboard and Figma is jeopardizing the experience.

Is there a way to disable the previews that show up when you hover a tab at the top of the Figma interface? I have not bveen able to find a setting.

Is there a way like in XD to set the prototype zoom percentage via a drop-down, or at least show the current zoom percentage. I use that to match the chrome web-view percentage and screen size to match the exact design dimensions for comparison. I only see options for “fit” and 100% so there doesn’t seem to be a manual way to adjust the zoom percentage to something like 50%?

It would be awesome if Figma provides a way for the Manager to approve the frames, so the same is communicated to both, the Designer and to the Developer without verbal communication, this saves a lot of time and energy.

Hi there! I just received the new UI3 on my files, it’s very fresh and I mostly like it for real, it breaks some habits but it will forget in a couple of days I guess. However, I think some little adjustment can be made, and I see 2 of them very precisely the K shortcut to scale has been reworked, and the focus hook has been settled on the multiplier input. I don’t know how people use this feature, but I mostly use the px inputs to resize what I want, and before, I was able to switch between multiplier and px pressing tab, but not anymore with the new scale grid next to the multiplier input Distribute horizontally / vertically It is not clear why the distribute system is on the Position section BUT the actual value is on the Layout section, it makes honestly no sense to me. oh yeah a last thing: clip content was quicker before with a checkbox, but i understand the choice of making it an input, it’s more consistant I guess Overall it’s a great redesign can’t wait to see more of th

When adjusting the X/Y position of an object or the W/H attributes of that object using numerical values, Figma offers basic operators (±*/) to add/subtract/multiply/divide values quickly. As a feature extension, it would be great if Figma also supported the ability to specify the anchor point from which those operators should apply. For instance, in Sketch, it’s possible to add 8px width to an object by typing: “+8” – this extends the width by 8px to the right (using the left side as the anchor point) “+8R” – this extends the width by 8px to the left (using the [R]ight side as the anchor point) “+8C” – this extends the width by 4px on both sides (using the [C]enter as the anchor point) Likewise, in Sketch there are vertical anchor point modifiers. Typing in the height input: “+8” extends 8px from the top downwards “+8b” extends 8px from the [B]ottom upwards “+8m” extends 4px to the top and bottom, from the [M]iddle These are extremely useful shortcuts when adjusting designs – e.g., if

Consider the following scenario: My team needs to have a reusable template with a predefined layer structure so we don’t have to recreate the same file structure over and over and to keep our files consistent enough that designers, PMs and engineers know what to expect of our files regardless of the designer that worked on it. We currently use a file the team manually duplicates by doing right click>duplicate and then move to the project they will be working on, but instead of this, we would prefer to just click on create new file and select a template from the dialog that figma provides. The problem we have is that you need to publish that file to the entire Figma community to be able to do this and the security policy of our company doesn’t allow this. Should templates be public to the community by default? Can’t we just create a new template and make it available to our internal team only?

Why not let us choose the animation pattern? We already have a feature just for that, but only for things on the canvas. 🙂 what could it hurt? let us customize this one tiny detail!

On PC i want to explore figma document with only mouse, but i can’t zoom in/out without keyboard - I have to hold down the Ctrl with the other hand. On a Mac, there is no problem: gestures on the touchpad make zooming convenient. At the moment we can scroll through a document by dragging it with the left mouse button or by scrolling horizontally, but to scroll horizontally (which is also often used as vertical scrolling) you have to hold down Shift, which is rather illogical for a map-like interface. Can you add a switch like the existing “Invert Zoom Direction”? That would solve my problem. This feature was already requested in 2017: https://spectrum.chat/figma/feature-requests/zoom-with-mouse-wheel~04d1784d-827c-4363-9404-ffddc91bcfef Thanks Vlad

I had a chance to test the new file format and have a few comments. Switching between Slide view and Grid view modes is hard. The button is on the top left as the only important element there, and everything that was there before has been moved to the bottom. There is a keyboard shortcut (Shift + .), but the keys are far apart to do it with one hand. Layers are only visible in Slide view. Will it be possible to show them in Grid view as well? Layers can be hidden, but thumbnail slides unfortunately cannot. They take up a lot of space. An option for a compressed version of them would be useful. Normally, as you select something by clicking the mouse, the item is outlined in blue. When you are in Slide view mode, clicking on a slide doesn’t give any confirmation that you are now operating that slide. Only the bar on the right changes, but that’s not enough for me. In Grid view mode, clicking on a slide doesn’t do anything, you have to click above the slide to bring up the bar and be abl

After selecting a layer and pressing ‘K’ for scale, the scale-multiplier field gets selected. If we want to scale to a fixed width or height, we have to select it with the cursor. It would be faster and better if we can press ‘W’ or ‘H’ after we are in scale mode to focus the width / height field.

It would be great to be able to choose which unit of measurement to use (px, rem or mm). It would also be great to be able to switch between sRGB and CMYK profiles quickly. The creation of frames in standard mm formats should be native and the export of PDFs for printing should be improved. All this would make Figma the ultimate software.

It’d be nice to be able to search for a layers with a search bar in the layers panel instead of scrolling through a long list of layers or scan your canvas. This will make the interaction far more intuitive and time-saving for users.

Please bring in something similar to the variable data sets from Photoshop or the ‘Create links when placing text and spreadsheet files’ functionality in InDesign

Option to use nested (objects with) variables. Big need! Every tutorial about variables you watch skips using button states 🙂 Variable Window option to search (if you have a lot of variables) Scalable columns (if variable names or strings are too long) show if variable is used (good to know when you want to clean up your mess) Popup bigger Window please Being able to copy from the variables Popup to another popup (like it is already possible in the right column) Tootltip for (long)variable names

The tab favicon colors (blue, purple, orange) are grayscale when not hovered. It would be nice if we could see the colors without hovering to identify which tab is which type of Figma file.

In the previous UI I could see the new height of an auto layout layer when changing the padding. In UI3 I cannot. I would love to see the effect on the dimensions when playing with the padding.

I’ve submitted a few ideas at this point, and also found some ideas while searching that frankly feel like they should be base functionality… They didn’t get much traction with votes, and were closed after the 90 day mark. It seems REALLY hard to get suggestions actually recognized by the development team within that timeline. Not trying to stir up anything, and I know the devs have a lot going on, but… can we get it lengthened? Or have a reopen button?

I have several frames that I want to tag them as “Ready for dev”, but I have to do it in each of them individually. Is there any way?