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The figma buzz hasn’t fix one of figma ‘s big problem, which is heavy file size I use buzz to export some of the social post, but they take up to 2-4mb just because I need the social post to have good enough resolution

What I can’t stand the most is that the panels of the new UI can’t be attached to the edges. They leave some gaps, wasting the space to display the main design and operation area. And visually, these gaps are also distracting my attention. The toolbar at the bottom also interferes with the main operation space, especially if its color is the same as my design draft. By the way, is it just for the convenience of novices to move it from the top to the bottom? If someone who uses Figma more frequently, he will use shortcuts instead of mouse clicks to trigger these functions. So I hope that adjustments can be made in time in the official version of UI3, otherwise these redesign will seem like a subjective conjecture of someone who doesn’t use Figma much.

Hello,In the UI3 when you switch to light mode the topbar becomes transparent-grey, other than looking like a UI from 90s, it does not pass the contrast test! Contrast test results:​​​​​​​It used to be black like this (even in the UI3), and everyone was happy with it, please bring this back: 

 Mostly I like to use figma on browser (with fullscreen) just because it has more space, because there is no tabbar on browser. So, my suggestion is, there should be an option to hide topbar (or tabbar) on figma app, so users on smaller screen like macbook air will have more canvas view. Most people keep open a single tab, Why to waste entire screen width with tabbar?.Something like “Dock” on mac os. You can hide it, but when mouse hovers on that area it will be shown.  

I lead a team of designers and when i log into our project I want to sort by most recently edited; i want to see all the stuff thats been/being worked on since the last time i looked. This must be a common use case. What am I missing?

I have a site where I’m using Grid mode for 4 columns.On Tablet I want that to grid to change to 2 columns, and 1 column for mobile.Right now it seems you can only increase the number of columns on other breakpoints, not decrease it. That’s a major feature that makes grids useful.Any TBD on when it might get solved?

Totally lost. I pasted an image. Here is my list of try and error after then:The image was far too large and I wanted to resize it by using a handle on the top left corner (the only corner I could see). It moved around instead. I looked in the menu to the right of the screen to find some formatting options. Therein was a symbol showing the figure next to a “100%” without any explanation. So I expected this to be the size of the image and typed 25, to then see it become transparent and almost invisible. Ctrl-Z. Then next, I did Ctrl-F to search for “size” and found nothing. But now, the buttons on the right are missing.I am afraid I have to tell you that Figma desperately needs some kind of introductury tutorial...

Currently, if you copy + paste a figjam flow into a Design file, the Connector Lines stay fully functional – they stretch and adapt as you move their origins and destinations around the canvas, and you can move their origins and destinations to your frames, components, etc. I’ve been using this to show user flows within my UI designs, not only for ease of sharing with other teammates (no need to give in-depth walkthroughs), but also for easily identifying missing states within a flow. It would be great if a) the Connector Line was added as a tool to Figma Design, or b) basic lines and pen vectors had the option to act as connector lines – attaching to anchor points on objects and components, scaling when the endpoints were moved, and able to be adjusted with mid-line handles.

Please check the video.https://share.cleanshot.com/F4WbvN1jEvery time I use “rewrite” I have to press “open actions” shortcut 3 times to make it actually open again. Looks like a bug in UX but probably just the code.On a broader term, why push ai features and make them this interruptive?

It would be really handy to be able to set your own defoult settings for adding new section. I always use specific background color and corner radius and I need to change that each time I am creating new section it is really abundant work...

Hi Figma team,I’d like to suggest a feature that would be really helpful in collaborative workflows: the ability to copy and paste comments between different files.Currently, comments are a great way to communicate within a file, but when we need to reuse or migrate comments such as when duplicating parts of a project into another file we have to recreate them manually. It would be very useful to be able to copy a comment from one file and paste it into another, preserving its content, author, and ideally its relative position.This small improvement could save a lot of time and make collaboration even smoother.Thanks for the great work on the platform!

Is there a way to export some frames as one pdf? When I click export > PDF, it exports all frames as individual PDFs which is not what I want.  I have lots of frames in this file. Say 1000s. I need to export 17 as a PDF. 

Just like how GitHub has the “Forking” feature where, we make our own personal copy of a public file so to edit it freely, without effecting the original. This way alot of other people can contribute to the file and help in improving it, adding new features or fixing problemsIt would be great to have such “Remix” ability to the community files so a bunch of people together can contribute in keeping files up-to-date. For examples, community files for Shadcn UI are outdated, they have not been updated for 2 years due to sheer amount of work. With remix, anybody can help in updating these files without the need of a primary dependency.Thanks.

The function GRID doesn’t work as function WRAP.It is absurd that if do I delete an element into the autolayout, in grid it remains a empty space.In Wrap Mode it didn’t happen, elements naturally stacked due to the rules of padding set in autolayout.With GRID mode there is NO CONSISTENCY in padding. NOW, the GRID rules. So if do I set a vertical padding 10px, BUT the grid does not “afford” that padding, IT’S THE GRID THAT WIN, padding change, but I don’t have any information about this changement (just zooming in and checking manually).Moreover, with Wrap Mode, if did I resize the frame of the autolayout - with all the elements inside in Fill container - especially after the introduction of the precious Ratio function) - the elements would had resized. Now, not!Elements go off the grid.Changing a grid already existing is IMPOSSIBLE through the new GUI.It is impossible to ALIGN things in the grid.Joseph Muller Brockmann would be very unhappy :(  Everything doesn’t work.This new tool has

Please update the feature for printing purpose. Because If I want to print magazines , brouchers at all and   and multiple pages option also. I go for adobe only. Please include this feature to coming up more users into figma .I hope you update this feature as soon as possible. 

新版UI界面功能太难用了，能不能弄回旧版本，网格布局那些全部没了，用起来好别扭

Hi Figma team,I’d love to suggest a feature that could bring mobile prototyping to a whole new level: support for haptic feedback in prototypes tested on mobile devices (especially via the Figma mobile app).Today, Figma already allows us to prototype with beautiful transitions and rich interactions. But being able to trigger haptic feedback (via the Taptic Engine on iOS, or vibration on Android) during key interactions (tap, success, error, screen transition, etc.) would let us:Simulate real product experiences more accurately Design more emotionally engaging and trustworthy interactions Test and iterate on sensory feedback during user testing Elevate the quality of motion & micro-interaction design directly within FigmaIt would be amazing to have:Native support for defining haptic patterns (e.g. soft tap, success pulse, warning alert) per interaction Compatibility with existing mobile preview features Potential integration with Core Haptics or custom presetsLetting designers proto

Current behaviour (in Org): 1- after sharing a link to anything in a file (page, frame, section, etc) the url uses those names 2- if the name of any of those names included in the url changes, then the url, which has been included in documentation and dev tickets, breaks. Expected behaviour: use unique identifiers instead, so the url already shared do not break due to file renaming due, file clean up, etc Anecdote: 1- an entire set of sprint tickets (50+) had to be painfully relinked due to file name, frame and section renaming that happened after the PM grabbed the urls. 2- after a feature has grown (or low memory warning), and there’s a need to split the file into multiple files in another project folder, the frames are cut and pasted into another file. Once again, simple file management breaks urls already shared and an entire project needs to be relinked.

I often find myself trying to use the font weight shortcuts to change the weight of a line. Would be a helpful shortcut when you have a line selected. Possibly also when you have an object selected, it could edit the stroke width on that object. cmd - alt - < cmd - alt - >

It should be possible to swap library components manually. In this screenshot, I’m swapping a icon library for another, but the icons are not named the same, so I can’t finish the job. Why can’t I simply select the component I want to replace it with? Even worse, there’s no way to select the components from the old library to swap them them manually one by one. Component instances from my old library are scattered in pages and there’s no efficient way to select instances from a certain library (apart from the swap library modal). I’ve looked at so many plugins and none of them can get it done. It’s such a pain and could be resolved easily. btw - the same applies to “Missing Library.” Because I can’t swap them to an arbitrary library, I’m left with ghost components that I can’t even locate.

This is a feature comment specifically for Slides, but I believe it applies to Figma and FigJam too. When I send a Slides presentation to a client, there is no way to hide my presenter notes or all the comments from me and my team. So before sending I have to be sure to delete all my presenter notes and comments which are only meant to be seen internally.I would love to not have to do this so I can keep internal comments and presenter notes for reference. Would be great if when sharing externally I can choose to hide comments and speaker notes so they can’t see them.

What about having a feature where one user can share his/her selections to other team member who's working in the same file? 

Doing UI/UX for 23 years, since 2000. Hi everybody. The major issue of editing components right now, is the fact that ussually you have to go to the isolated component library and edit it there. And while you are doing that, you are completely disconnected from the rest of the design. I would like to see the future, for editing instance of component on the spot, and immediately see the result. After edit is done, there should be the “Publish changes…” button. Universe bless the Figma.

Hi I am trying to implement SFX into my prototype however it has been quite the struggle since the only way for me to do it by adding a video with that audio I want, and half of the time the audio plays out very „buggy“ in the prototype view. Will there be a feature to allow such implications in the future? It will make presentations to clients or project groups way easier and more fun. Otherwise I have good unity knowledge where I can try and implement such ideas, but I rather stick to Figma when its just about prototyping and UI design, otherwise I can just fully build that whole prototype in Unity, but it will take longer :/