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Hi Folks,I’d like to propose a feature that would improve navigation within large design files.Often, while working on a complex Figma file, I need to quickly return to a previous view or jump forward again without manually scrolling through the canvas. It would be helpful to have a dedicated option similar to a browser’s back/forward button, that allows seamless switching between recently viewed areas of the file.This would save time and enhance workflow efficiency, especially when handling files with extensive UI screens.What are your thoughts?

I'd like to suggest a feature that would significantly improve collaboration in Figma.Currently, when I return to a Figma file after some time, it can be challenging to quickly identify what changes the team has made since my last session. Scrolling through the entire file to find recent updates is time-consuming.It would be incredibly helpful to have a feature that visually highlights all new modifications made by team members since I was last active in the file. This would allow us to catch up on progress instantly and streamline our collaborative workflow.What are your thoughts on this?

Problem As a designer exporting assets for web development it’s frustrating having to either export with no control over the file size and reduce later in photoshop, or pay for an image compressing plugin that is helpful, but exports as zip files so the file management gets messy quick. Solution Have more expansive export settings e.g. slider for image quality and file size calculated in real time with slider - similar to photoshop. Might just be me but I sorely need this functionality, especially during the rapid part of a project which is the design to developer hand over. Does anyone else have this problem? 🙂

The lack of flexibility drives me insane;1.  I cant change the size of a nested component (you have to make sure its the same size for every option but thats not actually how things work)  (min maxes make this extremely painful)2. If I make a list component its a pain to change the content in the lists in a component (no matter how many plugins you use, and also you cant use the AI feature for this and it would be cool if you did) - basically what ends up happening here is you create a ton of booleans (making a component a mess; especially if its a nested instance) instead of giving the user more flexibility)3. The lack of collapsing nested instances shown in the sidebar; sometimes you need them and sometimes you don’t so you just have a HUGE list of nested instances (especially in a table)The design system current functionality provides the user absolutely 0 flexibility who is creating user flows its asking to be detached; which leads to old outdated components and infuriating user ex

Hi All, I am experiencing a lot of bugs and issues in the Styles panel, to the point that it is impossible to use.   Selecting multiple styles is off. It keeps 2 or 3 selections than if you select more it selects random styles or selects everything in between the ones you originally selected. If you want to move a style at the end of the list to another folder, you can’t scroll up while holding that style, so it is impossible to move. Creating subfolder is a nightmare as it always gets added at the end of the tree, and moving it out does not work ( see point bove ) Duplicating a folder just duplicates the content of that folder inside that folder The experience is overall very glitchy and is basically impossible to use at the momentHavent used styles too much since variables were introduced, so I’m not sure if this is a temporary issue or is a known bug.  

As a company, we don’t just use Figma for wireframes but also for presentations and FigJam Boards. It would be really helpful if we could mark files as “archived” that could then be displayed in grey, maybe also with a date, for when in our company history the file used to be relevant or current. It’s hard to keep track of “is this file still currently relevant or not?” Obviously we don’t want to delete old file since we still might want to go back to e.g. Team Workshops that we did 1 year ago, but also it would be nice to have them “out of the way” when searching for files that are currently relevant.

Dear Figma Team, I am working on a prototype for a complex financial product.As I add new features, bells and whistles etc. the prototype rapidly expands beyond MVP scope, into v1/v2/v3 + product iterations.So far, 80 individual version changes.As far as I can see, there is no neat way to create a branch off of a ‘master’ prototype that would allow me to break down an end to end prototype into MVP and future iterations of the product/ feature set.This would be very handy to showcase to stakeholders (business, product, tech) how the product would evolve and validate with users what are the most essential needs (MVP) versus nice-to-haves.If I duplicate the whole file and strip out what I have build back down to an MVP by rolling back to the earlier versions, those files are not part of a single prototype evolution. And if I roll back to e.g. version 10 out of 80 within the prototype, then I would change the file itself and have to keep going back and forth (and to precisely the right ver

Hi Figma Team,As multiple designers are collaborating in the same project and working within the same Figma file, we want to minimize errors and maintain consistency.Is there a way in Figma to easily identify who has worked on a specific part of the file (such as widgets, components, layers, or folders)?This would really help us track changes and maintain accountability across the design system.Thank you,Prashant

I always wonder why there are no diagonal rulers? it will be useful to have diagonal rulers

HeyI want to do the same result in the image but without outlining the text to path because i want the change the text on different instances. but i can’t do such thing due to the text size being fixed when scaling the container  

Hi, Please add the support for files like: PDFs - when you can add specific pages from the PDF file, link or a file to download on the board Txt files - like txt, css, html, etc so you can add content from text or link file to download Slides - powerpoints, google slides, etc Video, so you can add links to YT, or small video files for reference GIF - animated gifs other files if possible (check Miro, Microsoft Board what they offer) Thanks, guys please add in comments what would you add to help your workflow in FigJam?

Can we please add an option to choose whether annotations sit to the left or right of frames vs above and below? My flows are aligned horizontally which means I have a million dashed lines running across each frame. If we could set annotations’ orientation then annotations wouldn’t clutter adjacent screens without having to hide controls. Yes, we could vertically stack our flows, but also (no thank you) that comes with it’s own issues.

Good luck getting the gray hairs at your company to PAY to switch away from Powerpoint or Google Slides.

Hi everyone,If I’m not mistaken, the only way to use variable logic to switch variants based on a variable mode is by creating a component, instancing it, and then connecting the variable to its properties.For example:I have a component called “Slider”, which contains two variants — iOS and Android.As a designer, I’d like to use the “Slider” component and set in my file the variable "system" to iOS.However, as a library maintainer, the only way to make this work is to create another component called “Slider”, then instance the original Slider inside it — which doesn’t make much sense.It would be great to have a property directly in the parent component that allows variable modes to work without needing to nest components inside each other.

While establishing local variables for a dashboard with large-scale numbers, I’m finding that the value field does not support “,” (commas) as a character. This makes numbers beyond 3 digits much harder to read at a glance. It also breaks stylistic choices for typographic reasons. One solution that comes to mind is to have a global style mode for whether commas are auto-placed in numeric strings, either at the local variable stage for numbers or in type-setting options. This would reduce work on the user’s end for having to manually place every comma, and also ensure consistency from a calculation standpoint (so that Figma has an accurate number to reference in equations).

Would it be possible to make the crop feature accessible via a keyboard shortcut when editing an image? I use this functionality frequently and find it somewhat inefficient to have to manually select the icon each time.Additionally, I noticed an inconsistency in behavior: double-clicking a cropped image enters crop mode, whereas double-clicking an uncropped image does not. It would be helpful if the interaction were consistent in both cases.Lastly, I observed that the “Create Frame” function is currently assigned to two shortcuts: ‘A’ and ‘F’.

I’m always working on large projects where I’m jumping between creating concepts and diagrams and referencing all of them. It’s a hassle having to maintain two different files, especially when sharing and gathering feedback from stakeholders. An example is when I’ve created a flow diagram in FigJam and then I want to walk through wireframes based on that diagram. I usually end up jumping between both files, which is confusing for people, or creating a flow in Figma, which is way less flexible than FigJam for creating diagrams. It would be great if there was a way to embed or integrate sections of a FigJam file into a Figma file and vice versa. Along with that, I’d need a way to edit embedded sections.

Would be really good to import SVGs into Figma Make.

The text above the top left of the frame is very small. Please have some setting so that when you zoom in a lot, the text no longer stays the same size and enlarges, so you can at some point easily see the text and be able to edit it easily. Sometimes I have to take a screenshot and then zoom in to see what i’ve typed. Other text in other apps appear easily readible. I remember another app ( I think Sketch) did this, when you zoom past 100% it keeps the font size relative to the zooms instead. so the artboard name becomes larger and larger.

When adding an additional interaction to a component (within the “Interaction” floating window), for actions such as ‘navigate to’, ‘open overlay’ and ‘swap overlay’, we have to select the right frame from a huge dropdown list which enlists all the frames in the page. This is crazy. Even if I give my frame a unique name to make it easily identifiable, it is still extremely difficult to go through the list and find the frame as the list is not even sorted alphabetically. And it doesn’t even only list the frames within my space, but ALL the frames in the page.A simple search bar will solve the problem. Combine that with the ability to first see the frames within a space in the list, it gets even better. Would also be great if we could drag noodles like we do with single interactions.It’s highly frustrating to look for a frame in this panel. Kindly add this simple feature that will be a huge boost to usability.  

In an file you have 50-70+ prototype on single page, and you generally remember by name, so if we have something like search by name on prototype side, we can easily find the prototype

When I open a comment in Figma and start replying, but then click outside of it to do something, when I click back in the comment to continue my reply, the text I’ve entered so far is gone. This has lead me to loose several bigger chunks of already written replies and it’s very frustrating.Steps to reproduce:Open a Figma file with a comment there Click on comment to see the comment text/thread and the Reply field Click in Reply field to start adding a reply Type something in the Reply field, but don’t send it Click outside of the comment, anywhere on the canvas, so the comment box disappears Click on the comment again to bring back the comment box Reply field has been reset, the previously entered reply segment (that has not been sent) is goneExpected way for this to work:Reply text segment that has not been sent should be retained, so after doing something else and returning to the comment, the reply can be continued where it was left off.Use cases:I’m reading a comment that asks me t

I would like to start a design in Figma Make or import Figma Design project, and then edit with Make. At some point, I would like to export for manual editing in Design and import back to Make for additional adjustments. Is that possible? 

I’d love a copy button for comments in Figma. Sometimes I need to copy feedback from one file to another. A quick copy button would make this much smoother than having to manually highlight the text and press cmd+c every time.

I love that Ctrl + Z can go back through all of my selections. However, I do NOT love that it remembers even when I’m clicking between pages. If I make changes on one page, then navigate to another page, then navigate back to the page I made changes on, I want the Ctrl + Z to undo the changes I made on that page, not “undo” the navigational actions I did by walking me back to the earlier page and back to the page again before letting me undo the changes.