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Why should I continue to be a customer when you, Figma, will just do whatever you like with my workflow? Why would I trust you to do what’s best for me and my JOB when you make changes like this? When you make a tool that people rely on for their livelihoods, they really don’t like it when you fuck around with it for your shitty business reasons. Stop making it your customers problem that you feel the need to staple new bullshit into an already over stuffed tool.“You’ll get used to it” is a really shitty business model to force your your customers in to. All your telling me is I need to find an alternative ASAP so I don’t get locked into an Adobe like ecosystem and business model again. I won’t be renewing our contract with you.

I would love to have a higher contrast theme for Figma’s UI. It has long been a minor annoyance to me that a tool I use to create accessible designs doesn’t itself meet minimum accessibility requirements. However I’m now at a point where it’s actively impeding my own workflows. I’m currently going over hand-off-ready designs to make sure they use variables in all their autolayouts. The distinction between pixel inputs that have variables assigned to them and those that don’t is unfortunately abysmal, making the work very strenuous when it doesn’t need to be. The little raised/sunken area and border around the value isn’t anywhere near WCAG contrast recommendations in either theme. There are plenty of other instances throughout the UI where I feel aesthetics have been prioritised over accessibility and that would benefit from an accessibility audit, but a higher contrast theme would be an excellent start.

Figma, please add connectors as a standard feature in Figma. I am willing to pay for it as a separate feature.  

Currently auto layout arranges layers from bottom up, i.e. the lower most layer in the layers list appears on top of every other layer on the workspace. This creates two problems 1. Confusion There’s a clear confusion of the order of layers shown in the layers menu and the representation in the workspace. This requires a bit of getting used to 2. Effects like drop shadow don’t work like they are expected to Applying a drop shadow to layer 1 does not cast the shadow on layer 2 And applying a drop shadow to layer 2 casts a shadow over the top layer 1 The Order in the layer menu should be reversed. Does anybody else see merit in this? Update: The same logic applies to horizontal auto-layouts. The right most element is on top whereas the left most element should be on top majorly because we scan left to right hence the element on the lleft most extremity is to be scanned first. for example: Say we require a stack of layers to be shown which shuffles on drag It would make more sense to

This new Figma UI3 is just awful. Everything looks weird and it's super confusing now. I hate it. Why did you even change anything? It was fine before. Nothing makes sense anymore. Total downgrade. Please just put it back or something. I'm literally begging. Ew. Also, if you're not going to revert it, at least give us a 'Classic UI' toggle so we can pretend everything’s still okay. Thanks, I guess.

For a plugin developer, the transform property of Figma is a mystery. When you try to rotate the gradient axis, you will find that the gradient will deform unexpectedly, and you cannot change the center point of rotation. This is completely different from the characteristics presented in the UI, where you can adjust the angle of the gradient transformation at will without worrying about the damn deformation. I don’t understand why Figma, as a UI design tool, does not adopt the same logic as the transform property of CSS, which will avoid a lot of unnecessary troubles. At the same time, I think the transform property of CSS is more powerful and supports 3D perspective, rotation, and displacement. So Figma really doesn’t plan to improve your transform property?

Hello!Please refine the "Set variable" function so that values can be assigned not only in "Mode 1" but also in other modes.For example: I have a variable MyVar (boolean type) with two modes (Mode 1, Mode 2).I want my prototype to allow me to set MyVar to True in Mode 2 when clicking a custom button. Currently, this is not possible.

Text-style overrides like bold, underline, … won’t work on instances properly, now the instance must be rest for the bold overrides to come though. So a lot of screens needs to be rechecked and manual work is needed everywhere the instance is used. Any solutions for this?

For the first time in my life I write a post here. Today, during a demo of my monthly work in the presence of 30 colleagues, figma replaces UI2 with UI3. Thank you, I failed demo because I could not navigate in my own space! Well, that’s what I’ll accept and I will get out.But... I have burning deadlines, I have a release, but the guys from Figma decided that it’s not as important as changing the position of all tools, changing their icons, overloading the right menu with "beautiful UI"…Now instead of working, I have to retrain, you slowed my work several times. Will you pay me for this? Because my employer isn’t!I say this very rarely, because, in general, I am patient with people and their mistakes. Seriously, the dude who invented UI3 and made up his mind from this release, if you’re reading this, think about the meaning of your existence. It’s not normal, it’s beyond good and evil. Imagine that in your house, which you pay for, some man will break in, change the places of all the o

I scroll through here and see many folks upset about UI3… and I guess my feelings about it overall are not as strong because I could live with the unmovable toolbar but I will say that tucking Plugins and Assets under “Actions” is a terrible user experience. Ironic… considering who uses Figma primarily are UX designers.  99% of the time I’m going into “Actions” it’s to grab a component and it’s incredibly annoying to have to click open, search, click assets, click more when it doesn’t show in the first 4 suggestions… Even using hotkeys to do this is painful. Could I just have a “Assets” button that has all my components in a scrollable little window? Please?

Hi, Is this crazy? But wondering if there was any way  the max / min could be a fill so you didn't have to set to variable?

Our IT-team needs fast and high quality animated projects, which Figma does good, but unfortuinately there's not export-videoformat. In my opinion a lot of people would like to make such a function.Thanks in advance!

Hello. With all the updates to auto layout, it would be wonderful if when an engineer is reviewing the designs, they could actually resize a frame to see how the designer intended for the responsive breakpoints to work. Especially since CSS now supports container responsive in some browsers which is essentially how Figma works. Right now, the only option would be to copy and paste frames side by side of different sizes to show that interaction but it only gets you so far and letting the actual engineer modify that width to see the responsive intentions you baked into the design would be way more helpful and less “noise” on the screen for them to review.

If you value the users, you should listen to your community. Someone is fine with the new design, but some people raise a strong voice that they prefer the classic one. Why you ignore them and remove the option to use the classic interface?! 

I absolutely do not like UI3, please don’t make us switch!!

Dear Figma, I would kindly ask to give users control over interface. Even in Adobe I can tailor my setup. I don't need a floating bar, I would like to customize my interface and make in more like original UI. Please keep in mind Figma is a tool! not fancy game or app. Hiding some functions that was easy to access before to dropdown is very bad move.  

I love the annotations feature!It would be great if I could move an annotation from one frame to another. If the note was made on the wrong screen or an earlier iteration, I’m currently just copying and pasting the text from the annotation attached to the old frame to the new annotation on a new frame. Also a keyboard shortcut to quickly tag the annotation would be handy.

Hi all! With the new update to Slides, the “timing” option is now missing from the “Slide Transition”. This was a core functionality for me as it allows me to use smart animate on various components in the slides for complex animations.For instance, if I want to move a group first to the left and then to the right, I would create separate slides with the “smart transition” and set the “timing” option to “after previous”.This would allow various transitions between slides to take place automatically without me having to click through them. For me, this is core functionality. Image below is an example of such an automated transition. In other words, could we get this feature back?

Greetings. I’m loving the Compare Changes tools in Dev Mode. In a scenario when I’m auditing working files vs official handoff files(of a given flow), the search results are numerous and difficult to parse manually; I really wish there were filtering capabilities, with categories like Text Edits, Color Changes, Spacing & Layout changes, etc. This would supercharge an already powerful tool, and allow me to drill into the specific kind of changes I’m searching for. 

Sometimes, additional context is needed on a prototype to guide the participant. If only some things are linked together, or you want the participant to imagine they are in a certain scenario, so they pick specific options. For example:I give the instruction “Imagine it is a hot sunny day...” The UI asks “What will you bring with you?” And the options are: Sunscreen Sunglasses Water bottle Umbrella Scarf Boots I’ve been doing this using a manual text object, but the drawback is that this is attached only to a single frame, and I’d need to duplicate this on subsequent frames.Alternatively, I sometimes include an instruction slide that comes before, but the user doesn’t always remember all the scenario or context.

It would be great to have a feature to show hotspots only after certain user behaviours, such as clicking on an area that is not a hotspot 5 or 6 times. This allows the user to explore and struggle a bit, so we can observe a bit and won’t have to intervene and provide explicit instructions, since the hotspots will be eventually revealed.

Hey guys, I am using digital whiteboards primarily to collaborate during design sessions. In order to create hierarchy during some of these sessions, I use secondary colors to group things together. For example: Primary sticky is yellow, secondary sticky is faded yellow My solution: For me having a faded version of each color would already solve my issue in FigJam Sidenote: Loving the tool, the emotes and stickers a great addition and I am hoping you guys will start building some smart in-app tools to create frameworks and tables like Miro, with the advantage of embedding these things in Figma. Well you get the drift, rock on 🤘

Figma's menu corner radius is too big -- 14pxWindows default menu corner radius is 8px (logical resolution)macOS is 9px (logical resolution). When @2x scaled, it actually appears as 18px in the screenshot

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It would be very useful to have the ability to embed interactive prototypes made in Figma into FigJam, the same way we can do it on websites. This would help when hosting review sessions and gather additional feedback, without having to send links all over the place.