Ability to create custom frame sizes and prototype devices

Agreed! Having only Mac screen sizes is an incredibly privileged and myopic view of technology. Either add more sizes (like a Chromebook 1366x768) or allow us to save our own presets.

Of course I’m agree 🙂 I’m suprised we are only 3 ?

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I use Figma to create prototypes for custom devices like smartwatches.

Our screens can be many different sizes and shapes - so I would like to be able to save, name, and favorite some of our most common screen dimensions, and not see all of the other available frame defaults that I will almost never use.

It would be huge to also be able to customize device shells for prototypes as well. If I could upload a device shell as a .png, and define available interactions for the screen type - including any physical buttons - that would be amazing!

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It would be great if we could save different device frames. This would save much time as I currently design for a number of specific screen sizes that I have to manually add every time.

This is something that I have been wanting since I started using Figma over 3 years ago. I came to Figma from Sketch mainly because it was free and easier to use. One of the Sketch features that I miss most is the ability to save custom frame size presets.

I used this feature to save presets for different social media asset sizes as well as device and web sizes that were not already saved in Sketch (or Figma in this case). This feature is important enough to me that I am considering switching to a design software that offers this feature.

I can’t understand why that is not an option. Simple but useful functionality.

It really frustrates me that there is a huge list of every iPhone, but just some ugly 2013 generic “phone” for Android.
I understand it isn’t viable for them to create a frame of every device available, bit for a tool that is literally build for designing things you’d think they would let us add our own.

Having the option to choose a component as a frame would be good.

Often I will just create the device frame myself and the use that, however, it doesn’t work very well with prototypes as animations can get a bit weird, overlay backgrounds cover the device and slide-in animations slide over the device and not behind it.

I design for custom hardware, so I have unique device sizes etc.
Add to that, the majority of phone users don’t have iPhones…

To add to this, being able to choose a component to be a frame could also allow variants to be included, some of the devices I design for include lights that change colour depending on various things.

Or maybe have physical buttons, having the ability to make the frame part of the interaction would be great

Right now, we have the possibility to add frames from the categories:

• Phone
• Tablet
• Desktop
• Presentation
• Watch
• Paper
• Social media
• Figma Community
• Archive

However, how nice would it be if we could create our own template? Not everyone works with those standard sizes, so why do we have to edit the screen size every time we want to add a new frame in the correct size (or duplicate existing ones)?

That’s interesting, would like to add them as “components” just to be seen on the right tree or would you also like to have a nice prototype view (with the device skeleton as we have for the existing ones)?

+1
It would be a much useful feature!

My organization has a series of set breakpoints we use to design for. Being able to preset these as part of our design system would be extremely helpful in saving us time having to refer to a reference list.

Also going to upvote this. I work on medical devices often with very unique screen sizes and bezels - e.g. blood glucose meters or ventilators etc.

It would be great if I could create a component and specify a frame (that I set to the correct screen dimensions) inside the component that is the screen.

Amen! Amen!! I’ve been needing this. When will we get this?

Hi community, I have a question.

Is it possible to add your own custom frame in the Frame list selection?

Going to upvote this as well. I am now working at a company and they have an Android only app. I am using the device recommended on Material design, 412x892 px and none of the devices fit this measure, I cannot have page scrolling because I have no boundaries for the scroll. What would be the best course of action for me? Thanks

Do we have any news about this feature? Is this being considered or in development by the team already?

It seems like this could be a very simple new feature, that could start with just a new category ‘Custom’, where the user can create and name their own frame sizes, not modifying the presets; It could grow from there.

I think of this as a priority as many suggested sizes are deprecated. ‘Dribbble Shot HD’ under social give us an 800x600 frame, when a simple google search suggests using 2800x2100. I don’t think the dev team should embrace the continuous responsibility to update those values… every year we get new devices with new screen sizes, resolutions, and ratios… not to mention the ones based in social media apps - like dribbble - that could change their standarts multiple times a year.

I’d REALLY like to create our own frame template size. I really want it to be updated.

The current ones have a skeleton view???

Didn’t know that! And just on the right, I design interfaces for coffee vending machines, so the skeleton view isn’t very relevant in my case. Plus it’s more low effort to just set a frame size as template, rather than having to add an image as skeleton and positioning it correctly.

Hey everyone !

I love Figma, but i have a problem. I can’t save a custom frame size.

It would be great if we can save our own custom frame size for different projects.

I don’t think it’s “hard” to implement, but it would be very useful.

Thank you by advance !

I’m in the same boat. I’m surprised this feature isn’t there yet

Upvoting this as well…just a simple, clean desktop device frame would go a long way