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Hi. I used to use MacOS native keyboard shortcuts to create a shortcut for the function “Go to Main Component”. Native MacOS shortcuts use app upper context menus (where apple icon). You can go to Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts → App Shortcuts and set any key for an any menu line. Now, there is no “Go to Main Component” in “Object → Main Components” and my shortcut isn’t working. It’s so painful to use the mouse every time to click a special icon. I use the keyboard shortcut “Go to Main Component” many times during the day. Also, there is a same story with “Clip Content”. There isn’t same menu line in Object menu and I can’t create a keyboard shortcut. It’s very frequent function. Please, fix it.

Hello. Recently I worked with plugin that can work only in “export” page. It was easy to add listener on page change, but rename page doesn’t trigger any event. Because of it user after rename should re-open plugin or change page and get back to export. Not really cool UX… I think it will be better to trigger currentpagechange.

Hey there! I’d love to be able to quickly copy & paste styles for arrows and shapes as I work in Figjam. In Figma, I’m able to hit option+cmd+c to copy all of the style attributes of one object and “paste” to apply them automatically to another object. This would save me a lot of time in that I wouldn’t have to manually repeat applying styles like dashed lines or colors as I work out flow charts. That’s all. Thanks!

I wonder if anyone at Figma has thought about putting an alert or notification into the Figma UI when files are opened/edited in teams. I’m new to Figma and I didn’t realize that there was a charge for using FigJam/Teams there was no notification of this until I got an email with a monthly charge of $5. Maybe the editor/account owner should get a notification with a yes or no question. Something the Figma Team should consider.

Would be cool that Figjam have a “hands raised” function, similarly on the Microsoft Teams call, when having to say something in a team workshop

A Figma Library might consist of a “Page” with several “Frames” that each contain several “Components”. Problem: Exporting all of the components in this Library requires exporting each frame separately and manually organizing them into folders afterward. Solution: It would be great if Figma had a “Treat Frames as Folders” export option that so every frame would be exported as a folder and the contents within each frame would be exported as files. This could all be done with a single click instead of needing a separate export operation for each frame on the page. (This is effectively happening in the “Assets” panel already, it’s just not available when exporting.) Taking this a step further, an “Include nested frames” option could allow provide the ability to create hierarchy of folders to be created on export based on frames within frames.

problem 1: in our current hand off design to dev workflow, we run into challenges of files with long list of images and icons but the developer needs to click on every single icon/image to download it all. proposed solution: would be nice to have a one click button to download everything that’s in the export panel as a folder or compressed file for developers problem 2: another problem is that, when a image is used, but not manually marked as exportable, it will not show up in the assets list for developers to download, which causes project time loss and unnecessary hyper-care post design hand off. proposed solution: automatically consider all icons and images as exportable assets, if designer want to remove something, they can do the subtraction. vs. now they have to mark from zero item to all. if they want to change export settings, there is default image to 1x and 2x png, and default icons to svg. if designers want to change the setting later, they can

Type of transition > loading Generic loader in between transitioning from one screen to another.

Can we please get the option to disable commenting in presentation mode? This could be an “advanced” feature or whatever but it would be great to have please!

When a new line in a text component is created via shift+enter a L-SEP character is added to the end of the line that later on is visible in a web page (Chrome - Windows) when you have copied&pasted the content from Figma.

A use case for this: I have a fullscreen modal component with the props: isVisible: true | false. I’d love to be able to click a button (from outside the component) in the parent frame and have it trigger the modal to be visible: true. Additionally, I’d love for it to use any animations I’ve predefined in that component for changing from variant x -> variant y for the transition (I understand this is complicated if there are multiple triggers set up internally, but it could default to using the first or something).

When previewing in the mirror the app it does not allow changing width fit to hight fit. If we are designing anything in landscape view it becomes hard to preview design. Is there a way to make the preview hight fit?

I want to share a certain point from the version history with developers so they have a finished version they can inspect while I work on a new version. However, while I can find where I can copy and share the link of a restore point in the version history, when others view them, they cannot switch to “inspect” to see the version history.

Figma’s almost entirely replaced my set of tools and it’s a lifesaver! Still a few features I miss out from Photoshop which I think can be implemented to Figma. Font Filter: So, I used to use illustrator for this and obviously that’s what it’s meant for. But now that I’ve switched to Figma almost entirely, I see myself going back to Illustrator for just this feature. So when I’m selecting fonts, there are no previews. There is also no way to filter them by sans serif, serif, etc. I’d love to see something along these lines implemented!

I use components from a design system library. I override many things in the components. When a component updates, my overrides are preserved - except fill. That is a problem, especially when the fill is an image. Every time the component updates, the image is gone (reset to the default image). It is a real pain and I wish this was changed soon.

While I’m typing in a text box, I’d love to hit Tab or another keyboard shortcut to fill the text box with lorem ipsum or another stock text.

I need create style for border radius

I have created a plugin for Figma for our styling needs but given that our designers work with large files, it is not very convenient for them when the plugin takes up precious screen space as they try to navigate their design. I was wondering if it is possible to move the functionality of your plugin to the right sidebar as one of the options along with Design, Prototype, and Code. That way, designers can access the functionality of the plugin from the right-hand bar without having to open the plugin which takes up screen space. See the screenshot for reference.

When having multiple different frame ratios in the same page, it is sometimes difficult to be changing the screen size in the prototype panel to test the designs in the preview while working. Would be helpful if either : You could manually save a few screen ratios in the prototype panel to quickly switch; If you automatically get some suggestions for screen ratios according to the frames you have on the page. See here my very quick very sloppy illustrations of what I have in mind → Would save sooooo much time ! Curious whether other designers would benefit from it?

I’m building a figma plugin where I’m giving the user a button to record their audio. I’m using the Web Audio API with the following code snippet: **var** audioContext = **new** **AudioContext**(); navigator.mediaDevices.**getUserMedia**({ audio: true }) .**then**(**function**(stream) { **var** source = audioContext.**createMediaStreamSource**(stream); }) .**catch**(**function**(err) { console.**log**('Error: ' + err); }); ’m able to console.log(navigator), but there’s no mediaDevices field showing up. I think the issue is that the plugin window is an iframe and in order to get mic access from an iframe, I have to add an attribute to the iframe tag (javascript - Cam access for embedded iframe - Stack Overflow 1). However, I don’t see how I can get access to the tag. Would anyone be able to answer this? Thanks!

I’m so used to the browser pattern when when you want to look up something, you open up a new tab to search for it. I keep finding myself doing that with figma where I open a new tab to open up an existing file. It makes me want to search file titles and be able to open it from the new tab rather than clicking back to the home tab and sifting through my files.

How about being able to split a text area into a certain amount of columns? Adobe InDesign is doing something like that for example, and it could definitely help organising a huge amount of text on a design!

This is the singular reason why choosing fonts is so tedious in Figma. I’m thankful for the update to finally be able to see the font before applying it to my text (which is the literal bare minimum), but being able to see what a font looks like doesn’t make choosing a font any easier if you know what kind of font you need, but you still have to scroll through hundreds of alphabetically organised fonts of varying classifications that don’t apply to you, when a simple filter would make the decision 10 times quicker. It makes the experience of designing start to finish in Figma frustratingly difficult.

Problem: I’m updating components in my team’s Design System Library and I’d like to know how many instances/files/projects/teams these changes will impact. Context: I am on the Org plan. I have several components and variants. In the case of Top Bars (one family of components), many of the variants are simply not in use, and may be removed or consolidated with zero impact. Others are used hundreds of times across many files and teams. Currently, I have to go into the library analytics tool to cross-reference. I’d love to see some of this data as metadata (a simple instance count would be ⭐ ) on components in the main component page. Bonus points if I can get links back to individual files, or even just to deep link into the analytics modal. For the community: Are there any plugins or workarounds you know of to make this easier? How many of you are struggling with making updates to heavily-used design libraries?

It would be really great if there was an option in an auto layout frame where the frame would wrap the objects to the next line. Like this. Objects would respect the padding set in the Auto layout. Loom