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We use dev mode, but can’t see color code of color style. 😔That’s hard to use.

It would be really helpful to import pdfs as images without trying to read any of the text as this tends to mess up the formatting and so is no longer readable. I would use the feature for going through maths exam papers when I would want to demonstrate going through the paper. If you think this would be valuable please vote on this thread so that it gets the attention that I think it deserves. Many thanks James

Please let me know if such a feature exists. If not, it would be helpful if it were implemented for teams using libraries. Group A: Artist with limited or no editing of components Group B: Artist with governance over components I need any component created by Group B to be available in a library for Group A. However, Group A can not break, unlink, or edit the component in any way, this ensures Group A comes to Group B for edits to the components if needed. Please share if there is such a feature, plugin, or hack. I want to ensure our team communicates their needs appropriately while keeping our branding and components working correctly throughout all the projects created by our artists. If a rouge Group A artist unlinks and then creates their version of a component, when Group B rolls out an update for all components, the unliked component will not update, making it difficult for our team to keep track of all customized components by Group A. Thank you.

This should say “Go to main component in [library name] library.”

It would be better if we were able to set device for each and every flows we create since the device setting becomes common for the whole file we were unable to have separate devices set for mobile and desktop in same device

I would REALLY love some additional zoom options on the prototype view. I’m constantly going to different presentation rooms, some with TV’s, some projectors, and the resolution scaling of each (including my own monitors) means there just simply isn’t enough options to present effectively. For the most part this: really only offers me two different views, and for me that’s just not enough. For sure I want to add separate options for both Fill and Fit: Scale DOWN to Fit width Scale DOWN to Fit height Scale UP to Fill width ONLY Scale UP to Fill height ONLY But I’d never be opposed to a simple custom zoom, so we can try to actually match real pixel width on various screens with scaling.

Platform billing feedback, I find it disappointing that developers are force to let every client know that they work with that they need to own their own Figma account in order to work with them to have an available dev license. It would be great to have an individual license that allows developers like myself to work on multiple Figma projects from multiple brands and agencies. The licensing model feels very restrictive in its current state which is why I end up canceling my plan. I hope in the future this does change as I think you do have a wonderful platform, but your current model doesn’t make sense for developers who work on lots of different projects who don’t build the designs but execute them. I would love it if this message gets to the right teams in Figma.

Not super important and totally subjective, but I don’t like the sound of the timer when time runs out in FigJam. 🙃 Would love to have other timer sounds to choose from.

I would love to be able to set variables for font sizes. That way i could define the reduction amount for the mobile versions of our designs. Set a vaiable of 40px and a mode “mobile” with the value 32. This would make this kind of conversions a breeze: If a text looks to big, opt for its mobile version. done.

Need to resize color palette (and other palettes). Tired to scroll it every day. Add this feature please.

I leave comments in my projects to discuss certain topics and also sometimes use the comment function for documenting specs. It would be good if comments could be visually distinguishable (discussion vs. specs comments), so that devs can see at first sight which ones are important for them.

Hey folks! Am I the only one who would love to receive a notification or a ping (outside the Figma App but as a Mac notification) when a specific person of the team enters the file?

I use a custom emoji font made as a COLRv0 font. This technology has been supported for years in all browsers and in Sketch app but is not supported in Figma.

I think y’all should color code them like illustrator or aftereffects because it gets confusing and overwhelming.

I find the latest update to the gradient functionality not very good. It’s displaying a list of “Stops”, but it’s really not as important as the “color picker” of each stop, it takes more work for the user to change the color. Please go back to the old version.

Actually an Admin that doesn’t edit drafts looks like it’s never entering Figma, even when doing administrative tasks. Please consider Admin activity in the Last active status. Actually we do some editing in the draft to overcome this.

As an avid user of Figma, I’ve found the platform to be incredibly powerful for designing and prototyping user interfaces. However, I’ve noticed that there’s room for improvement when it comes to managing scrolling interactions within prototypes. Specifically, I believe that the addition of scrolling controls and scroll smoothing options would greatly enhance the presentation of prototypes, providing designers with more control over the user experience they are trying to simulate. Scrolling Controls: The ability to add scrolling controls to frames or elements within prototypes would allow designers to create more interactive and dynamic experiences. This feature would enable users to simulate scrolling behavior more accurately, particularly in cases where precise control over the scroll position is necessary. Scroll Smoothing Options: Introducing scroll smoothing options would further improve the realism of prototypes by adding a more polished and natural feel to scrolling interactions

Currently text styles allow you to do some modifiaction without breaking the text style. Change text alignment for example. It would be helpful, especially with the introduction of typograhic variables, to be able to have more options available without breaking the text style. Specifically casing; uppercase, lowercase, etc. Also text decorations like underline would be helpul as well. My use case is that I have a multibrand design system with each brand using a different font family. For buttons, some brands use title case in the button text and other brands use uppercase. The only way I can mange this change efficiently is through swap library. I would like to use variables as thats what we are using to change color, size and spacing between brands. But without being able to change or target the capitalization option, we are stuck with using a typography only library and using swap library. Another, and maybe better option, would be to allow a string variable to target a user specifie

Hi You can easily access variables via the Figma Plugin API. Meaning you can create ‘pickers’ to and populate them with team library variables for things like radius, spacing and colours. With the advent of typography variables, you use a composite ‘style’ to group a number of variables together (i.e. to make a H1 or paragraph style). In order to create a picker for typography styles, based on my styles contained in my team library, currently I have to ask the user to select each variable individually (for font size, line height, font-family, font-weight, etc). Whereas what I’d like to be able to do is for them to simply select a single typography style. Unless there is going to be a move towards composite variables (yes please), can the team library methods be updated to include a getStylesInLibraryAsync method? Thanks

The lack of a Shape Builder Tool (like in Adobe Illustrator) is surprising. This is an essential tool that I use on every project in Illustrator. I have used the Boolean Groups, but they don’t fill the use of a Shape Builder Tool. A SBT allows me to trim the edges of overhanging shapes, which I commonly do when designing.

For example imagine that I have these 2 token variables: page.margin = 16 icon.padding = 10 and that I have a component that contains an icon with the padding. To ensure the icon aligns vertically I need my component to have a margin of 6, but only because the icon already contains 10 padding. Therefore, to make my design using tokens I need to specify the padding as: page.margin - icon.padding = 6. I do not want to use the value 6 directly as then when tokens are updated the design will not be. This is related to Using expression as a variable's value but not the same. To support tokens for measurements this is essential.

Introduce such a possibility, so it will be possible to do thanks to variables, for example, transparent black or transparent primaries. Currently, you need to make a detach alliance.

Hi folks. Is there a way to view a prototype on mobile that displays the sidebar and its flows? When viewing my Figma prototype link on mobile (iPhone, all browsers), the sidebar that shows all user flows does not display at all. I have four user flows that I want to display. I tried testing my prototype with all viewing options (fit to screen, fit width, full screen, full size). To confirm, this works fine on desktop. Mobile is just not complying. 2022-2023 threads on this seem to not give a clear answer. Your help is appreciated!

Hey guys, I see that the UX for selecting gradient colors has just changed. The cool thing is that now there are numeric STOPS, which I don’t think we had before, but the rest of the UX is a bit of a mess. There are too many steps to perform and the steps became less intuitive so they take a longer time. For example, if I click on the color box, I have to look for that color in the list below, then select the color picker to edit the color. So there’s one extra click and the action of finding the list item, which takes longer now. Imagine you have play around wkith some color and you have to quickly go from one to color to another to adjust, it’s a nightmare, I am literally going to use another app just for getting the gradient right. Also, seeing the color picker all the time with the whole color spectrum really helps the process of matching colors. What happened, how in the world did the best tool for UX release something like this? 🙂 Please revert it back to the way it used

While documenting default margins of html tags or text classes is rather easy, communicating and continuously onboarding other designers is very difficult, especially on scale. So in order to align the spacings between text elements it would be super useful to add another text prop which can define margins to the top and the bottom. Please upvote 😉