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When presenting ideas, it would be helpful to have a keyboard shortcut to jump to the next section in FigJam. Similar to the keyboard shortcut “N” in Figma to jump to the next frame.

Prior to color variables being introduced all of our design system colors were saved as styles in our shared library. Now with the introduction of color variables, it seems style usage is shifting to be meant for multiple color fills and other more complex fills. For simple, single color fills, Figma recommends we use color variables (this is based on the tooltip in the style picker, but doesn’t seem to be reflected in the official documentation yet). My team has added all of our design system colors as color variables, but now in the style picker there are two sets of colors, first all of our new color variables, then all of our legacy styles. We’d like to delete the legacy styles so there is just one set of colors for our designers to choose from, however deleting a style detaches all of the instances of that style across text, shapes, frames, etc. So that is not a viable option since all of the existing colors across our teams design files will become out of sync with our design sys

right now a stroke is added to the png bounding box rather than the contents while in Sketch and photoshop you can add it to the outline of the contents. Can we bring that (even as an option) to Figma?

It would be good if Figma has a visibility toggle for the variables. It helps to identify duplicate values and makes creating/deleting/simplifying variables workflow faster.

Teams contain projects, but this relationship is not visualized clearly in the Home page because the style and layout of projects is the very same as those of teams (except for the little rectangle): The information hierarchy should be clear, e.g. like this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/controls/images/treeview-icons.png

Hey there! I noticed when you’re applying variables to an object property, the variables list doesn’t seem to be sorted in any way. I’ve uploaded a screenshot showing how my variables are set (on an external file), and the dropdown list when I’m trying to apply it to the gap of an auto-layout container.

Browsing files is such a pain. The customizable left sidebar just pushes the responsibility for file management on the user and doesn’t even give them the proper tools to actually manage files. Filtering and customizing collections is fine, but there needs to be an easy way to see the whole world, organized in a nested hierarchy. Too many weird concepts and got’chas. I’m always worried there’s a file hiding somewhere because I’m missing some distinction between a ‘section’ and a ‘project’ or whatever. I constantly flail around trying to navigate the company/team/project/section scheme. Just please give us folders, both above and below the project level, so we can place projects in folders, and we can create folders inside of projects to organize the files within them.

I would love the ability to add sections (like in FigJam) but, in a Figma design file.

What would be great is the option for designers to opt in to use tailwindcss values by default and the possibility of devs to easily export the html markup with the tailwind classes already on it as it would greatly boost productivity and make the overall process even better.

It’s now possible to install an “App Clip” without going to the App Store. For remote user testing, this could be awesome if Figma Mirror could be extended to work with Clips. I could then send a link or QR code, and get my remote user to test the design without the browser nav that is current situation with link sharing. Hope that makes sense? 🥸

I use Timely to track my time on Figma. This has done wonders for me. It can track everything. But it is only tracking in which Figma file I’m currently working - not the page name inside that file. It could be useful if I could toggle this simple ability - so my tracking software could read the tab and get better tracking. Thanks,

As a designer, I need a true read-only share (no ability to comment and input nay information) so that developers working on snesitive project can be allowed to view Figma projects without a concern that sensitive data or information might be brought back through Figma (specifically comment feature being disabled).

Please allow us to attach comments to a specific element. Otherwise, the comments can appear nonsensical because Figma is not aware of the state of the prototype when the comment is made.

Figma should create a course on Organising our designs like frames, components and pages, as many of the designer struggle with organising their designs.

Every time I come to a topic here about an issue I am having, I see that the topic is closed after a few days, even though the issue is not fixed at all. One good example is this one: Search results are not precise - we get 'similar words' instead of exact match The component search logic is simply terrible, and throws dozens of results when I do a simple icon search with a name like SORT. If Figma keeps these topics open, it will help us to vote and show that many people are having this issue.

Hello, guys. Hope you are well. I use math on my designs at Figma everyday, specially the useful feature of inputting arithmetic math on the properties values. Example: Width = (80 * 2) + 8. The things is, in Auto layout both Horizontal and Vertical padding, I can’t do the math by adding spaces between the values an operator. Example: “80 + 2”. Instead, it only works with the operator close to the values. Example: “80+2”. This is not a big ideal in my everyday work, but i think it would be nice to have this way of inputting the values, as it already works with the properties Width, Height, and such 😁

Everything is in the title

The recent section never shows ‘recent’ files. I can never find the files I was working on yesterday or day before. I would like the recent section to show files in order of most recently opened to the old file. I dont know why I cant see the names of files as well. I would like to see the files in the order I had closed them. Meaning - if I closed a file just now, it shows up as the first thumbnail. This thumbnail shows the screen area where I was working or stopped working at - this thumbnail becomes the first file, at the top left corner in the grid. the file that I had opened and closed before this one, will be the second file in the grid. So probably yesterday’s file will be in the second row may be… that way I can quickly find files easily.

As user coming from Sketch I am missing additional measurement information. To be precise I am talking about the horizontal offset of seperate elements while pressing option key. Am I the only one who’s missing this feature?

Star or favorite a component to add it to the top of the components list. Whenever you quickly add a component or do an instance swap, these components would appear first. Great for components that are used all the time like buttons. Do not require swapping back and forth in lists like the way the “Recently Used” works. Thanks!

I should be able to copy-paste a gradient and retain all properties of that gradient (aka.: all colors within a gradient and its orientation). I know we can save gradients as styles, but sometimes we don’t want to have a gradient added to the library, but we want to use it in multiple places. Please add this feature! Would save us lots of time.

For folks that need to log hours or reports / proof / ideas of what they worked on, I’d love to have a quick time lapse of my Figma screen, showing what I did in a given work “period” as defined by the user. For granularity, I’d love to ask it for these lapses between certain hours. For instance, 9am - 6pm work day - the default would be it records the any time some is working for more than 1 minute… Imagine an AI driven world where I could ask Figma “hey Figma, what did I work on last thursday between 1pm to 4pm?”. The resulting feedback would be a quick timelapse (say a snapshot every minute). Once I had the output, it would be great to be able to attaches “notes” or meta data to that work. So the hole exercise would be about extrapolating evidence work done / what was achieved, etc.

When selecting an element, a toolbar displays every time in a different location really annoying. Please create a pin button to pin the toolbar.

Hi! 👋 I work with someone who is new to Figma and was asking me what all the icons in the layer panel meant. I thought if you hovered them it would say the type (i.e. why it has that icons) but it didn’t, to my surprise. There are many threads like this with people asking what different icons mean: What does this layer icon mean? It is hard to search for this information because it is visual. What do you think of this idea? 🤔 Thanks! 😃

One of the reasons that Figma is such a pleasure to use is that the interface manages input focus intuitively and consistently. There’s rarely a case where I feel hindered by focus management. That said, the zoom menu/panel is one such case. I expect to click on the menu button, which displays the current zoom level, to first give focus the zoom input field. However, while the input field is decorated with a blue outline as if it has focus, it does not. There is no keyboard accessible way to focus the zoom input field. I expect tabbing to move my input focus—e.g., from the input field to the first menu item (Zoom in). However, tabbing immediately closes the menu. When the zoom input field has focus, I expect Up and Down keyboard arrows to increment and decrement the zoom in 1% increments, or—if I hold down the Shift key—by 10% increments. Just like every other numerical input field. However, the Up and Down arrow keys move focus to the last and first menu items, respectively. (BT