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Using shift+click the variable search opens automatically on most fields. The Gap field in AutoLayout is excluded from this and does not have a variable picker icon but it needs to be selected via dropdown every time.This is inconsistent and I think it should be also possible to have shift+click open the variable search.#littlebigupdates

When working with design tokens, not every variable should end up in an export. Internal aliases, private overrides, or work-in-progress tokens are often necessary inside the file but irrelevant for code.Right now there's no way to exclude individual variables from export.Extend the existing "Hide from publishing" checkbox so it also suppresses the variable from export output Or add a dedicated "Hide from export" checkbox (as shown in the screenshot)Low effort, high value. 🙌

it would be nice to see variable usages so one can actually know which variables are redundant. which variables are not tied to any property. its easy that way to say okay we are no longer using this based on a 0 or 3% usage then go ahead to delete. right now i have a whole lot of redundant variables which i don’t know about because an attempt to delete might cause error in the file.

Figma Make are not using my library components attached. It only picked “generic” ones. Both with “Attach design” and using a full design system library file.

I’m working with Figma Buzz to create some social media post templates. My template includes an image nested within a mask. I would like to allow the rest of my team to use these buzz templates and provide them with a simple way to place images in the desired space.Using slots works almost perfectly in that it enables me to designate the frame within a mask as a slot and placing the image involves a simple drag-and-drop into the slot. With all other layers locked, this makes my template very easy to use.However, having the slot frame not locked makes it easy to accidentally move the slot altogether, which in turn ruins the layout of my template. Locking the slot prevents it both from being moved, but it also prevents the drag-and-drop functionality from working. QuestionIs there a way to lock the position of a slot frame without disabling the drag-and-drop functionality? Feedback on SlotsIdeally, slots nested within other frames/groups would work with the layer locking feature using a

I love the new variables feature but have hit a snag I’d love to see resolved. As I’m the only UX practitioner at my company, we only have the professional plan which means we can’t use branching. Instead, we have developed a system where we initial design in a “WIP” file, which is reviewed and iterated on until approved; at this point, we copy things over to a “Live” file. While working through that with some variables now in use, I discovered that there’s no way to copy variables between files. I can’t just use variables stored in a library because I need to get the variables from our WIP Library project into the Live Library product and, by their very nature, they can’t refer to the same library of variables (changes made to a variable value for the WIP library shouldn’t be automatically updated in the LIVE library). It would be helpful if one could either export and import variables by collection or individually. Or even if one could select one or more variables to copy and then pa

Now that Figma is officially available and expanding in India, I’ve been wondering:Why are subscriptions still not localized for Indian users?Currently:pricing is shown in USD many local payment methods are unsupported international card payments don’t work smoothly for everyone currency conversion + taxes make subscriptions more expensive and confusingFor a lot of students, freelancers, and early-stage designers in India, this becomes a major barrier even if they genuinely want to pay for Figma.Why this mattersIndia has one of the fastest-growing design and tech communities:thousands of new designers every year startups heavily adopting Figma huge student creator ecosystem increasing use of AI + collaborative design toolsA lot of people want to purchase Figma subscriptions legitimately, but the payment experience still feels built primarily for international users.Things that could improve the experience1. INR pricingShowing plans directly in Indian Rupees would make pricing clearer a

I have a few SVG shapes as part of the branding for a project I am working on. I’m in the process of building out a component library and for the primary CTAs, one of the shapes will be the background for the CTA. That white background would typically be a solid fill with border radius, and using Auto Layout would be able to grow and shrink based on the label overrides per instance. However, I am unable to get an SVG working as the frame’s fill. It does allow me to “Choose image” and select the SVG but it never displays. From the docs, there is no mention of using SVG for this, as opposed to PNG, JPG, etc, and I don’t see why we can’t use an SVG as a fill.

When creating a deck that has UI screens I’m working on in it, my natural process is to copy & paste the frame from my working file. However, if I try to resize the frame within Slides, the elements within the frame do not scale proportionally. I’d love to be able to use the Scale tool to make my frames fit more comfortably in my slides without having to export as a PNG or guess what scale the frame should be in before I paste it into the slides

When reviewing updates and deciding to accept a component update, can the number of components remaining be displayed up in the title? So something like “Review updates: 5 remaining” or “Review updates: 5 of 6”  

Has there been any consideration to changing how API rate limits are applied? Here is our situation, which seems like a pretty common one:We are a software dev shop. We have a Figma Professional Plan for our organization, Full seat licenses for our developers. We rely heavily on the Figma API for connecting our tooling (AI coding tools, etc) and pulling directly from Figma files. The rate limits are perfectly sufficient for how we usually work with one HUGE caveat…We work with a design shop outside our company. They have their own Figma org, Pro Plan, and Full seat licenses. Projects usually start with them creating Figma designs. They share these files with us, but they live in their org. If we access the files directly, we hit API rate limits almost immediately because we only have guest access to these files.The main work-around we have now is to make a copy of the Figma file into our org. Then we can access it with the API limits under our licenses. But this defeats the entire purp

Can you please add the ability to add headings to the pages panel? I know Figma gave the option of 'dividers' by typing ' -'. But it would be good if you could make these headings (for exmaple, RESEARCH > Landscape> Insights > Survey'. The divider helps but still leaves you doing things like making an 'Archive' page with everything just dumped onto it, where it would be really good to have an 'Archive' heading, and then whatever pages you’re archiving underneath (for example).I’m also aware that many/most designers hack their own headings together by adding a page and giving it a heading name, but these are still actual pages and add a bit more confusion for other people using the file, and reduce consistency.Please? Not a huge amount of effort but massive value I reckon!

When creating overlays, there are cases when I want it to be positioned relative to the element that triggered it. For example, a tooltip that explains a button or image. Currently the only way to do that is to manually position the overlay. What would be nice/more efficient is to have an option to choose how I want the position to be calculated-- relative to the entire page, or relative to the element itself–with the same set of position options (centered, top left, top right, etc) that we currently have for alignment. That way overlay positions can be set quickly without the need for manual fiddling.

I’m hoping for a Figma Make integration for Gitlab like they did for Github so I can more easily share the code with developers at my company. I think the workaround is to ‌download a zip from Figma Make and place into a project in an IDE like VSCode to then connect to Gitlab. It’s not ideal, especially for designers.Hopefully I’m not missing a better solution that exists.

It would be very helpful to allow the Review updates modal to be resizable and for the image(s) shown to scale accordingly. When a large number of components are being updated it is tedious to have to continually zoom in and out depending on the size of the component. Being able to make the modal larger with an auto scaled visual of the components would save a lot of time.

Hello Figma Team,I really appreciate the new sidebar update and the overall improvements to the interface. However, I would like to share a usability concern regarding the vertical ruler.Currently, the sidebar overlaps and hides the vertical ruler, which makes it difficult to quickly access and place guides without collapsing the entire panel. This interrupts the workflow and adds unnecessary friction during design tasks, especially when working with alignment-sensitive layouts.It would be greatly appreciated if the vertical ruler could remain visible within the canvas area, even when the sidebar is expanded. I believe this small adjustment would significantly improve the overall user experience for many designers.Thank you for your continued efforts and improvements to the platform.

I’ve been looking into how I can leverage the new MCP server functionality in my design-to-dev handover process, but have been struggling with a few issues.As a means of speeding up my web design process, I have created singular components (no variants) that use variables for spacing, typography etc. These variables relate to modes like Wide Desktop, Desktop, Tablet, Mobile. My idea is that I’d like the MCP to read the singular component and be able to extract all the variables information across all modes and map those values to Tailwind classes (such as pt-4 md:pt-6 lg:pt-8 etc..) With a fair bit of back-and-forth, I’ve been able to recreate a passable version of my designs, but only for a single instance - this using variables from the default/first variable mode. So it’s not ideal to select one frame/screensize at a time and prompt the agent to recreate it - the code output can get messy pretty quickly.Do we know if there if Figma have release plan for the MCP to be able to read mu

Hi everyone!  I have seen a lot of posts here about having to detach a fill of a layer in order to change the opacity and asking for opacity to be also able to save as its own variable, but this is not exactly my wish. I wish to define a variable that has a not a 100% fill, but rather references another color variable and has a different opacity without having to detach the referenced variable. Example use case:Alert component with 3 variants. In this case the “color” variable is the background in the first of the 3 variants (from left to right) and also the text and stroke color in the other two variants. “background” variable in this case only the background in the 3rd variant.  In light mode it is a light blue, but a solid light blue. In dark mode, instead of having to define a whole new “dark-gray-ish blue” color to reference here, I would just like to reference the “info/main” variable, with an opacity so that we stick to the same color. For FE, this makes no sense, seeing this, h

Hey guys! I'm a product designer and a Figma lover. For along of those years, I saw Figma grown up and become even better, bringing to us designers a lot of new possibilities to work. But this is my first time that I want to request a feature ASAP, since creates a lot of pain. Hope everyone see this topic as something really useful too.So, I usually works on web applications and thus I need to design both mobile, tablet and desktop version of the web pages.And, when we speak about Design System, we need to make sure that our components will adapt on each screen, no matter the viewport size.So, bringing this discussion to a real case: I made a component for my DS called “chip” with some variants as we can see on this print: The width’s component need to follow their inner content to keep growing on the sides as we can see:but this growing effect (which is possible glad the ‘hug’) need to stop when reach the max width from the chip’s parent container and this, Figma can’t help me. So, th

Took me a minute this morning to find the new placement of the publish button for figma make prototypes. This is an action I am frequently doing as I push changes/updates to those who have access to the designs. I liked the old placement of this much better which wasn't buried two levels deep. With this latest change, putting it under the share button > publish > 1st line item - it is less clicks to change the URL of the prototype which is share button > ‘update’ icon, which is an action I would never want to do. If anything updating the URL of the prototype should be several levels deep; not publishing changes. 

I think the branching feature is very interesting and I can see it being of great use to my team as we are moving from Adobe XD to Figma. However, I would love to see a search functionality when browsing the branches in See all branches. I can see a potential issue in the future when looking for a specific branch made months ago. My idea is to use a branch for each JIRA ticket and name it accordingly. A search functionality would greatly help with the trackability of each design change.

Ability to create modal windows via "Open Overlay" is very convenient, but it would be nice to be able to use a specific token to darken the background in the "Background" section, so that the user would be able to change the tint or opacity for all modal windows at once, rather than each one individually. 

After a late switch from Sketch to Figma about six months ago, here is my conclusion regarding the UX of Figma:While Figma has many great features that Sketch does not have (dev mode, way more capable prototyping, variables,…) the general UX of the tool is just sooo bad! Here are the things that annoy me most:Visibility of functions: There are so many functions hidden below a small icon that has no label. Much stuff is hard to find. And what drives me really nuts: When a function is not available, then its UI element (or entry in context menu) is hidden – not disabled! I’m using Figma for UX Design, and it just feels so wrong to use this tool that does not handle UX basics correctly itself.   Library management – publishing components: You can do this from the book button on the top left where you usually update components from other files, but publishing is mixed in here if you click on “This file”. But then you can only publish all changes. If you want to publish only a few changes,

Hi Figma team and community,I'd like to suggest reverting (or making optional) the loading animation behavior during AI image generation.Current behavior: When generating an image with AI, the Frame displays a dark blue gradient animation while waiting. This completely covers the canvas area and blocks visibility of all layers above the image layer.Previous behavior: The loading state used to show a transparent checkered background, which allowed me to continue editing other layers and making layout adjustments while the image was being generated in the background.Why this matters: The dark blue animation blocks the entire work area during generation It's no longer possible to edit or inspect layers above the image while waiting This interrupts the design workflow, especially for longer generation times Suggested fix: Revert the loading animation back to transparent, or Add a user preference to choose between the two behaviors Thank you for considering this!

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