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There are times when having sections free of constraints is nice… but my design team has become addicted to using auto layout with frames. In many cases when using sections, it would be amazing to perfectly space the inner sections out using auto layout.

I am using Figma from almost 2 years. It’s a great tool. Previously I was using Windows 10 yet recently switched to Linux(Ubuntu). Figma doesn’t have any official release for Linux. There are some Unofficial desktop versions but they are “BUGGY”. I request you guys to release an official Figma desktop app for Linux.

I've been really enjoying the new Motion features in Figma. The experience feels intuitive, and creating animations has become much faster and more enjoyable. Even in its current state, Motion shows a lot of potential, and I'm excited to see how it evolves.While testing, I came across a few areas that could significantly improve the workflow: Nested Layers in the Timeline When working with nested layers, child layers currently appear individually in the timeline alongside their parent layer. This can make the timeline cluttered and difficult to manage. It would be helpful if the timeline supported nesting similar to the Layers panel, with expandable and collapsible groups. Dedicated Clipping Mask Workflow Motion currently lacks dedicated clipping mask support. A masking workflow similar to After Effects would make it much easier to create and animate reveals, transitions, and other advanced motion effects without relying on workarounds. Dedicated Alignment Controls Motion currently

Hi! I’ve been testing figma motion and I noticed the preview is always at 60fps or more, not really sure, but there is no way to change the preview to something else, I would need to be exporting the video at 30fps or 24fps everytime I want to check on animation  timing. Any way to change that or is it something for an upcoming update?

Figma MCP should provide frame-to-image exporting as a tool. That way AI could export graphics in a page design as `.svg`s, `.png`s, etc... and upload them to our cloud bucket,or put them in our web assets folder.

Describe the problem your experiencing and how your idea helps solve this Screenshot and sample file below. I’m using an iMac sized frame with extended height. This issue is exacerbated by the fact that this is the now the default view when using multiple flow starting points and is the only way to actually change the flow starting point. So you have a constant trade-off of whether you want to see the Figma controls or your prototype’s. Annoying as hell. EDIT: When sidebar is hidden, the fixed header is visible but inaccessible. As soon as the cursor hovers near it, the Figma UI appears over the (clickable) website header. Wow… Add as much context as possible (screenshots, Figma files, mockups, etc.) https://www.figma.com/file/WlYbWyHwtBGEFZihdMt2az/Bug-Obscured-fixed-header?node-id=0%3A1

"Please add support for fully custom workspaces in Figma, similar to Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop. Users should be able to move, dock, and save custom panel layouts to fit their personal workflow and make designing easier."

This is functionality I used to use in Sketch, and I really miss it! Now that Adobe owns Figma, I wonder if this feature could be implemented. I work with a team of visual designers and we use Figma for all our design files now (we love it!). But we still do more complex compositing in Photoshop. Rather than the hassle of saving a PNG every time I make a change to a graphic and re-linking it in Figma, I’d like to be able to import the .PSD and have it update as a dynamic link. Let me know if anyone has questions about this. Thanks!

Hi everyone,I'm learning Figma Variables and I'm facing an issue that I can't figure out.My setup:Figma in Google Chrome Free (Starter) plan Personal Draft file Latest Figma UI (UI3)What's working:✅ Color variables work perfectly. ✅ I can create String, Number and Boolean variables. ✅ I have set the correct scopes (e.g. String variable includes Text content).The problem:String Variables I created a String variable (e.g. Sign In Button with the value Sign In). According to tutorials and the Figma documentation, I should be able to bind it to a text layer's Text Content. However, when I select a text layer, I only see variable options for typography properties like Font Size, Font Weight, Line Height, etc. There is no option to bind the actual text content. Number Variables I created Number variables. They don't appear for properties like Corner Radius, Padding, or other numeric properties where tutorials show they should. Boolean Variables I created Boolean variables, but I can't

I am quite certain I am not a robot. However, when creating an account just now using a work-specific email so that I could accept an invite to a Figma team, registration was a very frustrating affair. The CAPTCHA was far too long (5 questions), the instructions were maddeningly vague, and I failed multiple times. Each failure meant having to do the entire 5 question CAPTCHA again from the beginning. I attempted to switch to the audio version, hoping that might be easier for me to understand, but I failed that too. As a result, registering a new account took at least 15 minutes, and had it not been necessary for a work assignment, I would have given up altogether.Please consider changing your CAPTCHA to something that can be more easily completed by humans. While I certainly understand the desire to avoid spam signups, other websites with similar challenges have found approaches that require a user to, at most, click a checkbox. Perhaps Figma could follow a similar model.

Our design system leverages mix blend modes for hover states so our icon buttons appear on any background color and remain accessible, without needing separate hover–on-primary, hover–on-secondary, etc tokens. We use multiply for light theme, and screen for dark theme. It would be really awesome if we could apply blend modes directly to the color variables, OR support blend modes as variables in general. Our current work around is to apply the blend mode directly on each component variant, but this requires us to define separate light and dark theme variants. would be great if we could use variables here to have it automatically switch between light/dark.

Je suis assez déçu de Figma ces dernières semaines/mois.Beaucoup de mises à jour qui changent la prise en main des habitudes. Pas grand chose mais chercher tous les 3 jours ce que l’on a l’habitude d’utiliser c’est exaspérant.Sans parler des regressions en chaine sur les slots, le comportement des autolayouts, les ratios qui recommencent à se comporter n’importe comment alors que c’était devenu un super outils.On sent bien que vous êtes en train débattre contre l’arrivée des iA mais s’il vous plait. Continuer de proposer un soft de qualité.

When working with variables it is really annoying that the Variables window closes on esc. I want to dismiss sample color or selecting another color from my styles as examples, but instead it closes the Variables window.

When aliasing a color variable to another (img 1), or using it directly on an element (img 2), we should be able to override the opacity without the need to create a variable for each transparency variation: Cant override opacity in the alias: Example 2 Cant override the fill opacity:

I’d love a toggle to turn Motion off in Present mode while I’m still storyboarding.This would be a great option for when I am just testing things out and don’t want to present just yet. Or when I want to make sure storyboards and frames flow well before getting distracted by the motion. Maybe this means I work backwards, but does anyone else feel this need?

With the admin updates that came out on March 11, there is one new feature that we would like removed or able to be turned off by an org admin.When a user requests an upgrade in Figma, this new feature allows the user temporary access to the functionality of that seat for 3 days (unless the admin replies to the upgrade request sooner). Here is the description from this article:To ensure users aren’t blocked from collaborating while admins review their seat request, they’ll be able to use the functionality of the seat they requested temporarily for up to three days. During that time, they can create new files and edit any files where their teammates have given them edit access. They will not be able to edit files they do not have edit access to. The temporary access ends immediately if the request is denied or expires.Prior to the updates on March 11, this was the behavior for dev mode requests -- users would get temporary dev mode access for a short amount of time while they waited for

When I open my Figma project files, they are always sorted by “Last modified” by default. I can manually change the sorting to Alphabetical order using the dropdown in the top-right corner, but after refreshing the page or reopening Figma, the sorting resets back to Last modified. I’ve seen other people posting the same issue. I want to push this topic forward with sharing it again. Is it possible to fix it please dear Figma? :)

Hi Figma team,My team and I have been experimenting with slots recently. I'd like to propose a feature enhancement: when a component with properties is added via a slot, those properties should be accessible directly from the main component.Ideally, these nested properties would surface automatically, eliminating the need to click deep into the component hierarchy to make edits.

Need a way to update padding numbers in sections instead of manually resizing it every time. The current padding of 80px look very small in some cases, hence the request. Or if we have any way to do it today, please let me know.

Is there a way for someone to download the presentation as a PDF when they are viewing Figma slides in presentation mode?Maybe I’m missing it, but wondering if this feature exists? Would help our org out a lot as many clients wish to have PDF versions of our pitches. TY

Hi Figma team,I'd love to see the following three improvements added to Figma Slides:1. Linked slides across presentationsAllow a slide to be "linked" from one presentation into another, so that editing the source slide allows updates it everywhere it's linked. This would be huge for teams that reuse boilerplate content (title slides, team bios, product overviews, legal disclaimers) across multiple decks; right now, updating that content means manually editing every deck it appears in.2. Copy selected slides to a new presentationAdd the ability to select a subset of slides and generate a brand-new presentation from just those slides. This would make it much easier to spin off a lightweight, audience-specific deck (e.g., pulling just the relevant slides to send to a vendor or client) without having to duplicate the entire deck and manually delete everything that doesn't apply.3. "Send slide to end of deck"Add a quick action (right-click or keyboard shortcut) to send a slide to the end o

With the latest UI panels updates, I now lost the ability to directly select a HEX value straight from the Fill layer. A huge downgrade, now I need to open the color panel, switch from HSB (that I use frequently) to HEX, and copy from there. Please bring back direct input field in the Fill layers to have ability copy color value directly.  

Request: Add option to import multiple Jira issues at once in native Jira Widget. Story: We started to use FigJam for our team collaboration (±20 ppl). We have feature breakdown in Jira, we need to import Jira issues to board. It is possible to now either insert one by one or whole project. I need something between. Either import this list of issue Keys or import this JQL result. Jira projects usually contain hundreds of issues, so importing whole project is useless. Doing it one by one for 40± issues at a time is real pain.

For audits i am often adding hyperlinks to sections and thought it would be a great feature to be able to add a hyperlink to the heading instead. 

Please can we get percentages for variables? We can use percentages manually, but we can’t create a percentage as a variable. This would speed up my design to dev process tenfold, and considering we can already use percentages in the design, why disallow it in variables?An example is I want store values for line height and letter spacing as percentages which behave responsively/dynamically, so when creating type variables I don’t have to do manual calculations, store 10+ letter spacing/line height values based on which font size they will be used with and hope I never change the font size variable in the future.