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It would be nice to manage notifications and comments for any file/project at a more global level. Currently, in order to change notification settings for a particular project, I need to enter into each one individually. And from my profile settings, I can only apply “all comments” or “mentions/replies” to all files from the start, but having to go open each file in order to change the setting from my default can be tedious.  In the global settings, it would be nice to have a list of projects and/or files and be able to control notification preferences from there--saving time and making quick changes easy. 

Can we have an option stop syncing while in view only mode at least? I don’t need the latest version all the time for visualization and to keep loading every time I focus back on the tab is very annoying.I’m keeping it in offline mode for now by using dev tools to prevent loading but something a bit smarter would be better.Reloading should be an optional action.

When presenting screens, we want to show the work within a phone. Right now we go to prototype mode, take screenshots of the prototypes, then remove the backgrounds in photoshop. Please let us export screens with the phone like it looks in a prototype, so we can add to slides. 

Hey Figma team, like a lot of design teams, we often add features over time.Sometimes, the feature adds are so large or disruptive to the current design that we need to overhaul it (and sometimes the project structure).Starting a new file is disruptive because we have a fair number of people who have relationships with the old file. Without a redirect function, getting all the stakeholders to find and start using the new file is an epic poem of a task.We want to minimize disruption to other stakeholders who may still need the older designs until the new one is agreed on and ready. The logical thing to do is work in a branch, right?The problem with this is that right now, branch merges require a complete review of conflicts - and this is a problem, because:I don’t want to review and merge conflicts one by one. I just want to completely overwrite main with my branch. Making me do this is the

What is your pain with Figma workflow that you would me love to solve I will build a free application, mention you in credits Thanks in Advance

I’d love for there to be a way, when working with overlays/modals, to be able to close the overlay so that when it closes, the screen revealed upon closing is different from the original parent screen. For example, on mobile I have a bottom sheet menu from which I can select an icon that allows me to navigate to a new page. This isn’t the same as swapping overlays or navigating within overlays. It’s that an action from the overlay results in the parent screen (screen under the overlay) changing. I’m able to do this with Smart Animate with just the menu component, but when I want there to be a dark background to overlay the parent screen, that messes the animation up and the behavior isn’t as one would expect. The animation with the overlay feature is perfect, except that I can’t control which screen the overlay closes on to.

Looking for an API endpoint to see when a user is editing a doc vs reading a doc.  Something like ‘last edit’ behavior in events log.  Unable to see this in API, hoping others are needing a feature like this. 

We sometimes link component to another component in another page.On desktop app, it will be very convenient if we can go back to previous page instead of having to look for the figma page we came from manually.

Hey Celine,I noticed the 9/25 update, “Copy Make previews as design layers.” It’s great that we can now bring content generated in Figma Make into Figma Design for further editing. However, after trying it I ran into an issue:Content produced by Figma Make includes interactive behaviors—for example, clicking a dropdown to reveal its menu. After importing into Figma Design, those interactions are no longer present.Please see the attached images: both the date picker and the dropdown are static (not clickable), with no interaction. Similar interactive effects are missing in other places as well.Could you please continue improving this functionality? Thank you very much!Best wishes! 

Apple's Universal Linking implementation is a robust and easy to implement way to open Mac Apps instead of their Web App counterparts.It's absolutely annoying to open a Figma link from any other tool and having to first open Chrome + a new Tab that will have to be manually closed when we already have an alternative that works so well. Please consider adding Universal Links to Figma.Here are the blueprints from Apple:https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/supporting-universal-links-in-your-app

It would be great to have a quick way to copy the hex codes of the library colours. At the moment it’s three steps (click the colour > filter icon > copy hex code. Be great if it could be one click, especially with having to check colours for accessibility regularly.

please give me a shortcut to copy variable color, I literally have to hit the “Detach Variable” just to get the damn hex code then hit Ctrl-Z  

I find it really frustrating to have to either hold the space button or toggle between the hand tool to move around on my board. Can you please include an option to let us hold the right mouse button to hover and move around on the board?

When I create a template, the template should CLEAR the conversation thread for all users, including me, the owner. When creating a template, it would be nice to have a checkbox where I could say “clear conversation thread for everyone”.

When using Figma slides I have to go back to a Figma doc to edit vector graphic elements, otherwise the graphics get messed up when editing in Figma Slides. 

Videos can autoplay once you’re on a slide instantly but doing multiple elements that sequentially animate seems to require two clicks to get the first element to animate and trigger the rest. It makes it tricky for presenting to know which slides are one click and which are two clicks. Please make it possible for first image element on page to auto appear (without using smart animate) and trigger the rest of the elements. 

My prototypes have a lot of animations which my Macbook Pro has no problem rendering when I present from my computer; however, many of my non-designer colleagues don’t have the same luxury of a good graphics card on their computers, causing my prototype to run very slowly when they ‘re demoing my prototype to other teams.  Rather than maintain two prototypes or worse, manually disable the transitions I set for my prototype and undo all the work I did so that it’s playable by under powered computers, it would be helpful to have a setting in presenter mode to toggle animations on and off. A good example would be like modern video game consoles having performance and fidelity modes. The former optimizes frame rate at the cost of fidelity, where the latter optimizes for resolution with a fixed lower frame rate. In the context of Figma, all animated transitions could be toggled to play as “instant” in “Performance” mode but could be easily turned back on to see the prototyp

My team needs to review all UI copy. That copy goes into a library so we can be consistent across the product. I’m trying to review and update the copy in Figma Make. However, it’s impossible to extract the reviewed copy so I can add it to the library. A separate file in code view would not only make it easier to review and make sure we haven’t missed anything (even if we then have to update the .tsx file also) but also have that record.

While working with complex prototypes, I see the following features are missing: Management of a local database for components. Copy/paste of created components (e.g., File.tsx) between pages. See all created pages and easily navigate between them. Identify where an element is a component versus hardcoded with the same appearance. Configure component properties.

I wish I could zoom the Figma UI without also zooming the canvas. That is all.

Hey there! 👋 It always has bothered me that Figma’s general UI is slightly too tiny / has very small font sizes and I hoped that View>Interface Scale would solve this issue. Figma’s small font size and icon size make it quite difficult to navigate through the app without having hawk eyes. Sometimes elements (especially in Effects menu) are small click targets. Scaling the Interface up seems like a good idea to counter this and improve readability and clickability. Unfortunately at this rate, it’s not a real solution for me. It is pretty much useless to me since it also scales your designs / the canvas. I’d like to scale the UI (Sidebars, Top Bar) only and keep my design canvas untouched to remain at an actual 100% scale. The current behaviour doesn’t make much sense to me. If I’m designing for example a screen at 1920px width I’d like to see an actual 1920px screen. My work depends on the canvas representing the pixels at 1:

Not sure why it still doesn’t exist but another +1 to darkmode or background color picker for the figjam canvas - literally having to use other tools because of this simple feature - I dont’ want to have to use a plugin for this

So If text overflows from one, it can show up in another textbox. This would be useful for two-column/grid composition and responsive layouts.

Hi Figma Team, I would love to have an option to collapse variable groups in the variable modal. Problem: Every time I’m opening the variable modal, each group is being expanded. Having a lot of component tokens as variables, this means either: Collapsing each group manually, until I get to the desired variable group. Or scrolling a looong way down until I reach the desired variable group. Solution: A) By default variable groups should be collapsed, not expanded B) A shortcut to collapse all groups

The absent ability to add a master slide, page numeration and even components inside Figma Slides is a reason why my clients could refuse to make a transit from power point to Figma slides. And it is upsetting.