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In File A I create 20 (arbitrary example) different components that have an icon instance property. File A has access to my Icon library (in another file). So I add all icons as preferred values for my 20 instance props in File A. Now I add some icons to my library and publish the update. Well guess what? Now I have to go through the 20 props in File A to manually add those new icons as preferred value. Imagine this at the scale of a mature international design system. What’s the point of the preferred values feature then?

Migrating over to Figma. Literally found a limit within 2 minutes. In Figma, you can’t end a line with an arrowhead on one end, and a circle or dot on the other. Illustrator has been able to do it for 25+ years. Sketch can do it. Even PowerPoint can do it. But Figma can’t? On the Figma dropdown menu, it mixes up caps with ends. Round and Square are caps. Line Arrow and Triangle Arrow are ends (or tips). Nothing else can be done except arrowheads. I make a lot of wireflows, so this seemingly small thing is actually a big annoyance for me. Has anyone else noticed this?

Hello folks,I do feel like we need to greatly power up the ways to organize styles specially when it comes to typography, specially thinking in terms of design systems and shared styles. Any improvements there are very welcomed, things like:Personalized order of styles per user ( maybe use AI to offer some help )  Nesting os styles beyond an exposed list, menu style with mouse tunnel and all would still be better in cases of more complex systems. Maybe add the another option like in variables: All, In this files, and than add list the sets for user to pick which one he wants to single out. More power here would be very good.Give us options, and I apologize bring this up but I feel like even Sketch at times gave us an easier to consume approach to this. Also:1-% and ems values for variables. WE BEG. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏2-Component level tie up of component variant name to Mode ( Desktop/Mobile), so we don’t have to syn

Hello,At my company, we have an Organization license that allows us to save custom fonts directly in the admin panel.The problem is that my company is a multi-brand company, and its brands change over time.Because of this multi-brand management, the font admin panel is not well adapted to our needs. I need to create folders or categories to separate the different fonts by brand. We currently have more than 50 fonts to manage.When there is a rebranding, we have to remember which fonts and weights are used for each brand, which is very difficult, and delete those ones.Please consider to add folder management, at least 1 level of folder. Thanks  

Hi! I’m trying to create an “author credit” component to document a design system. The component has a link to the original resource. All text will be set using component properties. Is it possible to create a property so the link URL is filled in the instance instead of using overrides?

With all the new AI features in Figma, the only thing missing is generative expand. If we could reframe or crop images and have the tool generate the additional sections of the image—allowing us to freely change aspect ratios—it would be game-changing and bring Figma closer to becoming the true Photoshop killer.

Having a rolling slide deck always being the source of truth (without the need to create copies) makes it super easy for business use - however we are largely unable to actively work on slide changes in these existing documents because of the risk it’s currently being viewed or presented.Being able to create a hidden branch and merge back into the main document (same as Figma Design) would make handling changes a breeze.

Figma supports enabling/disabling some OpenType features from the UI.https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/4913951097367-Use-OpenType-features From the plugin API I can see which features are being enabled withhttps://www.figma.com/plugin-docs/api/properties/TextNode-opentypefeatures/but the property is read-only. How can I programmatically enable/disable some OpenType features?Also, is there a reason why it’s accessible on UI but not Plugin API?

HiAs a maintainer of our Figma team (not admin tho) I was wondering if there is any possibility to access Figma Make analytics to understand the following:How many Figma Make files have been created? Which designers/teams are creating Make files? How many prompts are being used in which Make file? Thank you

We need a way in the REST API to get a list of Team IDs. A previous post (Suggestion: API endpoint for :team_id) was moved to ‘share an idea’ and then marked as solved, so I’m reposting sans solution, in hopes that we can get some votes. With the new library analytics API, this feels more relevant than ever. I want my users to pick the team their library is in from a list, and then pick the library file from a list of files. Trying to get end users to figure out how to get the library file ID is needlessly complicated to start taking advantage of the new API, when I could set up a system to let them pick it from a list. Almost all of the endpoints require a Team ID… (or require a file ID, the list of which requires a project ID, which requires a Team ID… etc.) So adding a Team API would unlock improved usability for almost every other REST API endpoint.

For User Test Purposes It would be great to have custom IDs for each action a user performs on a prototype. Specially when using external tools that track clicks/links.i.e. if I want to track a click I can do it currently if the user navigated to a different frame that has a individual ID, but that is not possible if for instance the action is to open an overlay.By making it possible to add Trackable IDs to actions it would reduce by a lot the number of artboards needed. Thanks

Dear team,Why is it basically not possible to simply drag and drop a sound file (mp3, wav, etc.) into the platform? This would make things much easier and would also save resources, since audio files require significantly less storage capacity compared to video.As a sound designer, it’s always an extra step for me to convert sounds into video formats—and what starts as a 1MB mp3 quickly turns into a 100MB video. This seems unnecessarily inefficient. On top of that, it doesn’t look very nice to have “empty” videos with just a black screen.Surely there must be a better solution. I’d be happy to support you with my expertise if that would be helpful.Best regards!

I wasted an entire hour trying to figure out why the contents of my frame was bleeding out. Why is ‘Clip Content’ off by default? What a confusing UX decision. I don’t understand this change, it makes no sense. I haven’t seen anyone uncheck that box while working in Figma. Or if they do, they do it so rarely that it doesn’t make any sense to change it to off by default.

Hello there, I am currently having issues viewing the guides on my design when the brand colour is pretty much the same as the guides and familiar to some colour. Please help me how to change the guideline colour like black, blue green and any other dark colour

  I use custom code (CSS and JS) in Figma to optimize my website’s UI, but the current input area is too short. Editing longer snippets requires constant scrolling and slows me down. It may better if the input fields ara resizable. 

Hello,It would be interesting to be able to transfer an entire figma make prototype to figma in order to improve the design and make adjustments easily without losing the functionality of the prototype developed in figma make.To complete this feature, like many users, it would be useful to be able to save the entire project in GitHub.It would also be interesting to be able to upload modified files! 

Dear Figma team, I suggest a feature allowing vectorising pasted or placed image, as well as making AI generated image immediately vector instead of PNG. Please please add this feature ASAP. It’s the only reason I still have to keep Adobe Illustrator :( I hear vectorisation / tracing images is already available in BETA version .. But I can’t figure out how to get BETA version of Figma myself. 

If I want to add a comment/caption to an image in FigJam I need to create a separate Text and Group the elements together - I would love to have an “auto caption” added to images I use in FigJam - Whimsical has something similar, that is pretty handy, see the video here: CleanShot 2021-05-10 at 16.36.56 · CleanShot Cloud

I occasionally (once is too often) see the AI self-talk mention being unable to see what’s going on due to a “truncated file”. What does that mean. Eavesdropping on its “tinking” I get the impression there are times it can’t access all the code and hast to make blind changes. Is that what’s going in? (It can’t be, right?)

With the increasing popularity of iPads among creative professionals and the device's capabilities now rivaling many laptops — especially with Apple Pencil support and desktop-class processors — it’s surprising that a leading design platform like Figma hasn't released a fully functional iPad app. Is this a matter of strategic prioritization, where Figma believes the current user base doesn’t demand it strongly enough to justify development resources? Or is it due to technical limitations, perhaps stemming from the complexities of maintaining feature parity with the desktop/web version on iPadOS? Alternatively, is Figma's vision more aligned with a cloud-first, desktop-class browser experience, where portability across devices takes a backseat to collaborative infrastructure? If so, does this approach overlook the rising trend of mobile-first or tablet-based design workflows? It would be insightful to understand if Figma simply hasn't seen en

I would like to suggest a few useful improvements to Figma’s Version History view:Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to tag/mention other users (e.g. from frontend team) when saving a new snapshot to the history? It would be great if I could tag or link certain frames, sections or pages when creating a new snapshot. By that I could lead developers directly to currently edited areas of my file in Dev Mode. At least, please make hyperlinks work inside of version commit messages. At the moment no interactive content seems to be allowed.

Describe the problem your experiencing and how your idea helps solve this A scrollable (clickable) list of items triggers the interaction even if a fixed element overlaps it. Additionally, this bug occurs even if that overlaping element has a “Tap → None” Add as much context as possible (screenshots, Figma files, mockups, etc.) Stumbled upon this issue when I had to position an iOS keyboard on top of an interactive list of elements. Demo file and steps to reproduce: Start the prototype from https://www.figma.com/file/GpbLNhQGrYKCTFO8aZy8BK/Hotspot-bug Click the gray bottom rectangle with or without scrolling It wrongly triggers the hotspot from the “background” items

As a designer, I'm working on a large-scale Figma project with over 3 years of development. The file includes numerous deeply nested components used throughout the product.Even minor changes to a single component—such as swapping a fill for a stroke on a button—trigger severe performance problems:Figma freezes for 5–10 minutes as changes propagate across all instances. Another 5–7 minutes are needed to sync with the server. The tool becomes sluggish, with 1–3 second lag on every action due to background updates.This makes efficient work nearly impossible. I can't make consecutive changes without waiting for updates after each one, significantly hampering my workflow. Proposal:Implement a feature that allows users to temporarily freeze a component, preventing changes to the parent component from immediately affecting its instances

Hi! Turning off “snap to pixel grid” in a Figma Design file no longer changes snapping behavior when dragging frames around. Whether this feature is turned on or off, a dragged frame still snaps to each pixel, no matter how zoomed-in. Note that some other objects (e.g., vector objects) still respect this setting. It’s just an issue with frames, components, and component instances. Note that If I group the frame, I then can drag the group to any sub-pixel location. I’ve restarted my machine, restarted Figma, checked for updates, reloaded tabs, tried it in other design files. Tried it in the client, in Chrome, and in Safari. Same problem. Can anyone else replicate this?

There are so many figma users in China, but there is still no Chinese support in 2025, while Korea and Japan nearby have it.