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Without better tab/file management I will use Figma less. I have 40ish tabs open. Some are Figmas I just need to refer to often, some are Figma/FigJam projects I am working on, some are presentations I have been asked to look at, some are my presentations, and some are FigJams for meetings that happen frequently.  If you want Figma to be a central repository for all of this the file/tab handling will have to get better or I will work in other tools where I can find the information I need.Small fixes:Hovering over tabs needs to show the current view...not some Front page that I do not recognize.  Current tab needs to be easier to find. Vertical tab bar so I can read the names. Right now I can see 1-3 character of each tab’s name. Ctrl+/ needs to teach open and closed files. An open tabs view with preview of the last view I had. 

If I use a link that is a click, should be green, if it is a hover, could have another color blue, if it is while pressing, purple, and then so on, drag could be red or orange, for example. And they could show in the line a icon related to the trigger it is using.Swap overlay should show a different icon and line color too.Would make it easier to identify when we mistakenly created a drag instead of a click.

We have moved from Pitch to Figslides for our presentation tool. We are finding several issues with Figslides that pitch had nailed, but one of the biggest frustrations I’m hearing from the team is sharing presentations with clients. In Pitch, from one button you could create a link to share with any external party. If you wanted it password protected it would also create the password and copy both link and password as text to share via email.In figslides, you have to go in to presentation mode > share presentation > Copy audience link > Who can access (changed to anyone) > click on password required > click generate password and then paste the link in to a text box or email before going back in to copy the password and paste that to. What should be a simple 1 or 2 step process is 10! Please make this a more simple process and copy both link and password to the copy board at the same time.

We need to apply variables according to property in more styles, much like how we can assign conditional visibility to toggles on and off. If I’m creating a button component, I want to assign text sizes, padding and colors according to properties of size and type. Currently we’re making different instances for every size and type to link them to each property which results in multiplications for each new property.It will probably work using some conditional logic, when the property is this, assign that, and so on ..

As I am using Blender for VFX and 3D modeling, I find some interesting UX there. Like when panning the 3D world: if the cursor reaches the edge of the viewport, it is put on the other end so I can keep on panning. Is something like this a nice idea for the infinite canvas? You pan, and can keep on panning without reaching the limit of your screen. Similarly, when scrubbing values in an input field, in After Effects the cursor is hidden. Maybe hiding is not the best UX, but the idea is that you can keep on scrubbing infinitely without reaching the same limit of your screen.Anyway, I was wondering: could this be a nice UX addition for Figma Design? And other Figma products, perhaps?

I would like to be able to use colour styles just like fills / strokes. Meaning that I would like to be able to apply mutliple of them and or combine them with other fills. Current implementation: Currently using a colour style for either the fill or the stroke completely disables adding new fill or stroke colours Why I would need the feature: Using them in combination with other colour styles and or regular fills / stroke colours would allow me to do things like define shades over an image fill that I could reuse and update easily, or define a highlight shade that I can apply for different states (like mouse over). Currently, if I wanted to do that I would need to create multiple layers and give each of them their own colour styles. This is very much possible but complicates groups that have auto-layout or leads to text layers being below other layers and as such are not easily changeable without going through the layer panel. It would also enable you to quickly create slight variants

Hi everyone,While working on a design system today, I had an idea that I think could be a valuable addition to Figma—especially when it comes to building out basic UI components.It would be incredibly helpful if, after creating just a single base component (like a primary button), we could use AI to automatically generate the full set of common variants based on that one example. For instance: States like hover, focus, and disabled Versions with or without leading/trailing icons Alternate styles like secondary or ghost buttons Of course, this might be harder to apply to more complex components, but for foundational elements like buttons, input fields, tags, or chips, it feels like it could save a lot of repetitive work.I’m sure there’s more to consider technically, but I wanted to put the idea out there—maybe it’s something worth exploring as a potential feature.Thanks for reading, and I’d love to hear what others think!

I want to create a PDF export of my Figma files. But I need a solution to also include my annotations from Figma. Is that something Figma can support in near future?

Hey, I onboard a lot of guests in my Figma organization and it would ease my admin life if I could change the Share settings to “Sanofi + Guest”. Thanks

I’ve been working on a project using Figma Make and I’ve noticed that after a while, Figma Make AI just does whatever it wants to even when I specifically tell it not to in the guidelines.md or even in the prompt specifically.I get messages from AI like this:******The user is very frustrated because I completely violated their explicit instructions to only fix the logic issues and not change the UI. They're also pointing out that there are errors in the console that show I broke things. Let me analyze what went wrong.The user is absolutely right - I completely failed to follow their clear instructions. They explicitly said they liked the UI the way it was and only needed the logic fixed.I think the best approach is to:Acknowledge the complete failureAsk them for guidance on how to restore the working versionPromise to make only the minimal logic changes they originally requestedNot make any assumptions about what the UI was likeI will commit to precisely following their original instru

The spread option allows us to play with the drop shadow effect in creating cool effects. It’s a shame that this option is restricted unless specific conditions are met with the vector shape. Why not just have it always enabled regardless of the vector shape? It’s limiting when you have a desired effect in mind and you can’t use this option, AND it’s frustrating when you can’t figure out why it’s disabled in the first place. I know there are certain conditions like the shape should be a rectangle or a circle or that there’s something to do with the clipping option for frames. This thread is not for asking how to enable the spread option, but instead suggesting to have it enabled at all times. Please fix this 🙂

Small thing, If I attempt to move a file out of drafts and into a folder:right click file “Move to...” select a new folderOnce the new folder is selected, I want to hit enter to submit the form. This can be an option instead of clicking primary action “Move” 

Amazing new tool this Figma Buzz, especially for content teams.However, we can’t find an easy way to create social media carousels. Is there a carousel feature or a setting to remove the grid gap? That will be much appreciated.Thank you Giada - Vitamina Studio

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I’m writing to express my deep frustration with the current limitations of Figma’s Slide Deck feature. As a tool celebrated for its UI/UX capabilities, it’s astonishing that Figma lacks fundamental functionalities that are already included in other design platforms. Key Issues: Absence of Interactive Buttons for Non-Linear Navigation: The inability to create buttons within slides that link to other slides severely restricts the creation of dynamic, user-driven presentations. This is a basic feature in tools like Canva, which allows for interactive menus and branching scenarios. Smart Animation for Linked Slides: Once non-linear navigation is added, Smart Animate should apply smoothly across these links to keep animations consistent. This avoids disrupting animations when navigating non-linearly, ensuring a seamless experience. Enhanced Linking Visualization in Grid View: The Grid View is a great feature, but to avoid the mess of overlapping arrows like in Figma’s Prototype mode,

A common pain point I run into is when I select a set of frames that are vertically stacked and use auto-layout to quickly change their arrangement to horizontal. This happens often when organizing existing frames into a workflow. This happens to me at least once a week, so it creates not an insignificant amount of friction.When I set auto-layout for the vertical group, it defaults the individual frames to fill and the outer frame to fixed. When I change the direction of auto-layout to horizontal, it retains the respective fill and fixed selections, thus squishing all the inner frames in the fixed-width layout frame. I then have to undo and manually apply the settings I desire. I think the default setting should be to retain the aspect ratio I’ve already set for the inner frames and set the outer frame to hug. Assume that the inner frames are the size I want them to be and honor that with how auto-layout is applied.

If you try to paste a component into FigJam, you can't set it as a thumbnail. You have to detach the component in Figma first, and then paste it into the FigJam. Then you can set it as a thumbnail.In the same way, if you add a library to a FigJam file (like for stickers) and use one of those, you can't set that as a thumbnail, even though the use case of making covers for clients or projects and being able to just drag and place those in FigJam is probably pretty common. I don't know why you can't set it, but it seems like that would be an easy thing to do. This ticket was closed after everybody gave up… but this seems straightfoward. 

So many times have i accidentally closed the file i am intending to open because of your decision to surface the close X on hover for a tab i am not active in. Chrome does not do this. Please remove it. Make close X only appear for active tabs

In Dev Mode, when selecting an image, you can see the original filename of the placed source image and download it by 1) clicking on the name in the layer properties, or 2) in Assets.However, when downloading, a strange filename is suggested that doesn't match what we see in the layer properties.Question 1: Is it possible to fix this so that the source image is downloaded with the original name?Question 2: Is it possible to bring this functionality into the main editing mode? It's sometimes very useful when working with designs, and it's sorely missed.

I propose adding a contextual "Play" button directly on the selected frame's label, right next to the Dev Mode icon This simple addition would keep the workflow focused on the canvas and significantly speed up quick iterations. Maybe?

IMO in Dev Mode, the “Explore component behavior” button should be a primary button because nobody has seen this button while it could enormously helps a lot for the development Also, in the component behavior view, you should suggest the component behavior of the nested components

Hi Figma Team,I am a regular user of FigJam for creative collaboration. Currently, I am frustrated by the lack of native support for Frame.io links.While YouTube and Vimeo links automatically unfurl into a playable video player with thumbnails, Frame.io links only appear as plain, static link cards. As Frame.io is an industry standard for video review, this significantly disrupts our workflow. We have to manually take screenshots and link them just to make the board look organized.I strongly request: A native Frame.io widget or enhanced link unfurling that supports a video player inside FigJam. The ability to view thumbnails and play videos directly without leaving the FigJam board, similar to the YouTube integration. This feature would be a game-changer for creative teams worldwide who rely on both Figma and Frame.io.Best regards, Seonku

Figma slides is great! One thing that our team has been missing since we’ve been using it is an option to export to .ppt. Our team works a lot on decks for external clients and we would love to use Figma Slides to do that.

When I add a video to a placeholder and play the prototype, the audio starts playing automatically. If I forget to lower the volume, it can be very surprising and embarrassing—especially when I am in a public place or an office environment.This becomes a much bigger issue when there are multiple videos in a design, such as in a testimonials section, because all the videos may start playing audio at the same time, resulting in a very poor user experience.Adding a mute option in the video preview/upload section would effectively solve this major pain point. In addition, including a “click to play” button overlay on videos in prototype mode would be another strong solution to prevent videos from playing automatically. I believe these enhancements would be relatively easy for your team to implement and would significantly improve the overall prototyping experience.I am a UI/UX designer with over 2 years of professional experience. If there are any suitable openings, I would sincerely appre

Could you add the ability to include the update icon thingy next to those nested instances which have updates available but might not have been update when the initial component update was applied, and maybe add an extra option in the instance update menu to also enable the ability to update the instance and nested instance as a short cut, or at least indicate to the user that there are nested instance updates available that haven’t been update.It makes sense that when you do an update to an instance you don’t want to automatically update those nested instances that the user may have already configured their properties, but it would still be very useful from an in application feedback context that the user is still being informed and communicated when there is a potential nested instance update that can be made but hasn’t been executed by the application.Like it could be as straight forward as have an update icon next the nested instance name on the side panel.