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When a component has a “on click” interaction, in the prototype view, we see the pointer cursor once we hover over the component. That is ok I wish I could also get a pointer cursor when setting the interaction to “while hovering” and “Mouse enter/leave”. I imagine having a check into the interaction frame to “force pointer cursor”. Why? Because hover interaction on buttons and other UI elements are more clear when we also get the visual clue of the cursor changing. (This is now a universal usability treat, so users are more likely to understand what is going on when the cursor changes) If the cursor don’t change, but the state of the button changes visually, it creates a very tiny friction until the user realizes that this is a hover interaction minus the cursor changing. My personal work around on this looks like this:Figma – 22 Sep 23 Basically I make a third state with the interaction “While pressing” Then I can fake a press thing. But this workaround add some extra work that cou

I’m shocked, to be honest and you guys should consider changing it. I just tried to get the local variables and use them in my vscode project. 

This is great but there are some cases when a user want’s to bring in a component from another library that has variables attached that you no longer want to use. Say you are building a new library with it’s own variable styles. At the moment there is no way to just detach the current variables when you bring in a component from another library. You have to manually comb through the component and try to find all of the instances where there are variables being referenced from the outside library. Very time consuming! It would be a life saver to add another option to the quick options panel to “detach all variables”. This way a user could start fresh and add new variables to the component and have no references to the an outside library.

Ability to archive a page within a Figma file I often have a lot of pages in a Figma file for draft/random work. As soon as I am done with the work, I rarely visit the page again and would like to archive it. I do not want to delete it as I might need to reuse something from there.

I am writing this after having lost time on rewriting annotations multiple times because lost after clicking outside. The problem occurs mostly when wanting to get back to Move tool by clicking the icon in the toolbar. Replicate:Press Y or choose Annotation tool Click the frame on canvas Type your annotation Do not select category Click Mov tool (or any tool) in the toolbar (or select a layer) Annotation is lostI would honestly expect that the annotation gets preserved, same way it is preserved when clicking in the canvas.Otherwise, it could be preserved in edit mode, but yet not saved, like when I continue to interact with properties sidebar or scrolling.But not lost.

This is so annoying. I shouldn’t have to use the web version to disable this. FIGMA should allow me to turn this off in the settings. I don’t use Figma every day and I certainly don’t want it to open every time I log in. Clearly, this has annoyed several users but you fail to listen. STOP FORCING ME TO OPEN FIGMA AT LOGIN!!

This should be standard for all text in any context, especially a sticky. Mural does this and it always comes in handy. Anyway, yelling into the void mostly.

I have been using Figma Make to mockup websites I plan to create elsewhere. I have found that many times a prompt I request on a section will make changes to another, unrelated section that I did not request edits to. And because there is no “undo” button, I lose the contents on the section I did not wish to have revised. I’m wondering if there is a way to lock sections that have been finalized so that no prompts on other sections have an effect on unrelated sections. Like a toggle lock and unlock so AI doesn’t mess up an already great section when I didn’t ask it to. 

I want a shortcut to show and hide / expand or collapse the pages and layers panel. If I got one I’d want the pages panel to open and close by keyboard shortcut. It’s too much work to constantly open and close the pages panel. Overall, I’d say that the pages panel needs a UX review. We’ve now got so many pages that it’s a tough experience, but I’d say that if I could choose a page from a dropdown list as opposed to opening and closing the dang panel everytime that would be awesome. Or, ideally what if when I hit page up or down the magic menu (command + p) or whatever it is called displays all pages that I can search on quickly or use the arrows to thumb through them. Some mail applications to do this today for UG folders and it’s way nicer than trying to find a folder. Maybe use that AI money for things like this and not trying to tell me what names my buttons ought to be. ;) 

We’ve come to a point where our team is using Figma Make, we want the ability to add a default (maybe prepend to?) Guidelines.md that we can configure at the team admin level. This would allow us to setup specific style and background information in a standardized fashion across all projects by our team.

The comments feature is very handy amongst the colleagues. It would be nice if the comments bubbles would stick to the object instead of sticking to the position within the frame. Since we are moving stuff around ( adding or subtracting elements ) the comments made should stick to the proper parts of the design. Otherwise, when we move things around, the comments don’t make sense anymore because they do not relate to the object’s new position.

When viewing styles as a read-only seat/license, there’s no way to view the values used in the style. This applies to text styles, color styles, and effect styles from what I’ve seen. Hitting the settings button for a given style just opens a popover with a preview image and a repeated name for the style. The export button doesn’t seem to do anything, either.   

I love variables, they make lives easier. But would it be possible to combine multiple variables in one click. For instance, I design a lot of cards in UI, and they all have a grey outline (var 1) with a 5px border (var 2) and a 20 px padding (var 3), and I have to add them one by one. Could I just define those 3 variables in 1master variable so I only have to apply that master variable? Creating a card component isn’t the solution for me as many cards can have different internal layouts.

As a figma user I want the option to add a synonym or abbreviation to my profile to speed up the commenting process in the design files.E.g. I’d like to show my real name for the other users, but I’d also like them to refer to me with just typing my initials. 

While I appreciate Figma keeping the frame presets updated with the latest hardware, the current organization makes it difficult for designers who prefer specific devices sizes/or is part of the deliverable (like me and the iPhone 13 Mini <3) for their workflow. Currently, I have to scroll to the 'Archive' section every time I want to create a new frame. This adds unnecessary friction to my process.Proposed Solution: Give users the ability to 'Pin' their most-used frames to the top of the sidebar, or allow us to toggle the visibility of specific device categories—similar to how the 'Inspect' mode in Chrome allows you to customize which devices appear in the list. This would allow us to prioritize the screen sizes that fit our specific design.Or other suggestion: just give us the control over it. :P 

Dear team, Please add a layers panel for Figma Team, just like how you would in Webflow. It is hard to imagine which layers we are selecting. This is so we can be more accurate in our prompts.Looking forward to granting this feature.Regards,Aileen

LibreChat is a free, open-source, and self-hostable AI chat platform that offers a unified interface for interacting with multiple LLMs and connecting to various MCPs.  Our team uses LibreChat extensively and we have already onboarded 40+ MCPs to it. Onboarding Figma MCP would be a great unlock for the org. Requesting you to allow LibreChat to connect with the remote Figma server.  Thanks!

currently working at an agency and they won’t switch to Figma due to the issue of Internal vs. external comments and how this is solved in Invision with Private Comments. I feel like if we just had private or even levels of permission (admin) comments vs. guest comments Does anyone else experience this? Is anyone using a plugin or workaround to help solve this?

This is a feature that would really improve the cross-pollination between the two systems! Right now it only functions for videos or static photos. At the very least, a simple download button would suffice- allowing you to manually download another user’s GIF upload and drop yourself into the slides document. Currently you’d have to request the file be sent separately. thanks!

Problem:Currently, FigJam is an excellent tool for collaborative brainstorming and ideation. However, when transitioning from high-level conceptualization to more structured representations like flowcharts, sequence diagrams, or entity-relationship diagrams, users are often forced to switch to other tools or manually draw these complex diagrams, which is time-consuming, prone to errors, and difficult to maintain. This breaks the seamless flow from idea to implementation, creating a gap between the initial brainstorming phase and the detailed technical documentation or code implementation. The lack of text-based diagramming also limits the ability to easily version control diagrams or generate them programmatically.Solution:Integrate native support for Mermaid.js within FigJam. This would allow users to create various diagrams (flowcharts, sequence, class, state, ER, Gantt, etc.) directly using Mermaid's simple, Markdown-inspired syntax within a dedicated block or widget in FigJam.Key f

Folks, if we want to draw clean paths in Figma you need to give us an easy possibility to join different path strokes with each other. This is literally the only functionality besides (rarely) using picture to vector feature that I go to Illustrator for. But it is necessary I’m sure this has been discussed but that I need a 3rd Plugin like “Join Paths” for the most basic functionality can't be right.If anyone else struggling with this please leave a comment or any interaction with this so it actually gets seen.Best,Jannik 

Right now, working with branches is quite limiting in the sense that: If I have a Figma project, with 2 frames (Frame “A” and “B”) contained within the same section I open my branch and select “Update from main…” Frame “A” has some changes I want to APPLY to the branch, BUT Frame “B” has some changes I want to KEEP in the branch PROBLEM: because both frames are contained within the same section, when updating from main file, I can only resolve the conflicts by updating all the frames, and therefore losing either the uptades in the branch or in from the main file. What I need: More granularity in what updates from the main file I need to ADD from the main file and which ones to keep in the current branch I’m working. Conflict resolution today is ALL or NOTHING and this doesn’t work. Sections are great for keeping my files organized, but they’re making it IMPOSSIBLE to work with Figma branches. Please fix this. Thank you!

I’m Head of Design, leading a team of ~10 designers who work across ~20 files at any given moment.Lately, I’ve been missing tons of comments because there’s not a clear way to see notifications about which files have comments that are unread vs. which files do not have unread comments. Here’s how it should work:In the tab bar, a new “Triage” tab where you can automatically switch between files where you have unread comments. Once you click on a file that has unread comments, it opens “Comment mode” where you can review the comments. Alternatively, you can “mark all as read” Finally, the Mac app should have a Badge counter that displays a count of the # of files that have unread comments. That way, you can never miss a comment. ⭐ This simple, new workflow would save me from missing comments from my team. Please, Figma - it’s time.

Setting durations, easing curves, delays, especially for Smart Animate animations are essential tools when making presentations in Figma in order to make fluid ‘Keynote-like’ transitions. Unfortunately these are completely absent in Figma Slides at the moment, making it pretty much useless to our team. We will keep making our presentations in Figma Design and linking everything by hand🥲 until these crucial settings are implemented in Figma Slides…

Something thats always been tedious is the Figma export function. It would be helpful for there to be a button that takes you to the folder you’ve exported your assets. This is most often a problem when exporting assets into multiple tiers of folders, and having to navigate between the folder and the Figma file.