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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

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.

It needs to be easier to zero in on the specific things that were change in a branch review. For example, I have a branch where I add a simple line of copy to one frame. But when I review that before merging, it shows me an entire section without multiple layout frames in it. One of them has the new text line, but how am I supposed to know that? See the screenshot below - I made the additional text bigger so you might be able to spot the difference. But what if it was the same size as the rest of the body text? It would be better if it highlighted the specific difference and allowed you to zoom in/out at the parent/child layer level. Dev-mode has a feature that is a little like what I’m talking about. It’s the “Compare changes” that have been made after marking something as “Ready for dev” feature. Even though this doesn’t always work that well either, this would be more helpful than what is available now for reviewing branches. Dev mode change review

Hello!I encountered an issue today where children of a frame (auto layout or not) who have constraints set of any kind (Top + Bottom & Left + Right shown in video demo) will only grow in increments of 1px. In Auto Layout frames with Fill it works correctly, but not with non-Auto Layout. I think this is a bug! Or if it is working as expected, I think the expectation should change, as it does not meet my user expectation!Thank you!Sam Smith

So, in our design system we want to apply variables to our text styles to ensure consistent letter spacing. Since we want to use different letter spacing depending on the mode (light mode/dark mode), we’d like to apply these variables to the text style and assign different values to them.However, as Figma uses percentages for letter spacing, it’s not really possible to achieve this properly. Variables can’t hold percentages, and therefore we can’t fully make use of this feature at the moment.I hope Figma will soon allow us to choose the format we want to use for letter spacing globally.Does anyone have a solution for this problem?

ProblemWhen working on long-term social media strategies, we need to create both visuals and the accompanying copy. Currently, Figma Buzz focuses on visuals, but there’s no dedicated space to add or manage related text content. This forces us to switch between multiple tools or documents, which increases the risk of losing information and slows down the workflow.Proposed SolutionIntroduce a dedicated text area within Figma Buzz, similar to the text blocks available in Figma Slides. This would allow us to write, edit, and organize copy directly alongside the visuals.Why This Would Be Useful Centralizes all content (visual + copy) in one place Makes collaboration and client approvals easier Reduces context switching between tools Minimizes the risk of missing key information  

When marking up a file with comments (comment tool active), if I hold space and activate the hand tool, when clicking to drag (pointer turns into hand icon) instead of dragging a new comment is drawn on the page. Guessing this is a bug not a feature? Just would like to use the hand tool shortcut without creating new comments - this forces changing back to the move tool to cancel out each time

I’m trying to make our design system easier to search by including alternate search terms/tags in the description of the component, and it’s a frustrating experience. I can’t rename the component itself, because we want to keep naming 1:1 with an existing web framework, so I’m adding in alternate search terms in the descriptions.Using the component description works to an extent, by which I mean that the component will appear… somewhere in the middle of a long list.For example, if I search for “dropdown”, my asset panel results will contain a mix of dropdown menu items, icons with “down” in the name, the actual component I want to highlight somewhere in the middle of this, as well as some assets that are completely unrelated to dropdowns if I have other libraries turned on in the document.Many of our components are nested and contain several items for constructing menus (dropdown/item, dropdown/separator etc.) , and these are often shown with equal or more priority than the core compon

Hi all, ChallengeI regularly need to check all comments on a Prototype and it’s not always convenient to switch to Editor view to see all comments. Currently comments in Prototypes are presented per frame which requires me to scroll through the frames until I find comments.SolutionAdd the Only current page filter from the Editor view to the Prototype view comments list  Or add Show all comments filter What do you all think?Btw, I do use desktop notifications too.

It would be so beneficial to add a “Go to instances” feature to Figma, just like the existing “Go to main component” feature. In crowded design teams, it is so hard to track the use cases of a main component, since a variety of different designers may have used a single component in so many different screens and cases. Especially while constructing or revising a design system, this feature is extremely needed. It would save a lot of time and effort in trying to detect the specific needs and requirement or the necessity of a component.