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cameronsuorsa
October 25, 2022

Add auto layout to Sections

  • October 25, 2022
  • 101 replies
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There are times when having sections free of constraints is nice… but my design team has become addicted to using auto layout with frames. In many cases when using sections, it would be amazing to perfectly space the inner sections out using auto layout.

101 replies

February 26, 2023

This feature would be critical to standardize the use of Sections.

Right now, resizing sections and organizing their internal frames adds too much manual work during the creative process of every screen that our team had to discard them until this feature is available.

Sections are a significant feature for prototype-building and organization of a page; they could also be of good use on UI/UX flows that are open to changes.

Tommy_Silcher
March 14, 2023

+1 I am also looking forward to this.

Josh_Rhode
New Member
March 18, 2023

Please, please, please.

In addition to product design, we use Figma for a ton of clickthrough slide decks (brand guidelines, client presentations, etc).

Auto-layout makes slide management a breeze (because you can just drag to re-arrange frames).

Except for one big proble: putting a giant frame around your slide frames breaks the clickthrough.

So having auto-layout on Sections would instantly solve that.

Listen to me Figma. Sections + auto-layout instantly makes you the most desirable slide/deck/presentation tool on the market.

John_Marstall
New Member
March 23, 2023

Honestly I don’t use sections in FigJam and this is the reason why. Give me autolayout and I’ll readily switch my top-level organizational frames to sections.

Anthony19
New Participant
April 4, 2023

Started using Sections in my new team, and we use a custom Title component inside them all. Just having the ability to apply constraints so they fill or are fixed would be a huge time saver!

djv
Figmate
Community Support
April 4, 2023

Thank you all for the feedback!

We’ll pass along your feedback and ensure the Auto Layout team is aware of this thread.

Ross_Howard-Jones
April 12, 2023

This would be a big time saver and allow us to fully adopt sections into our workflow.

Adam19
April 21, 2023

+1 Would be super useful

Ali_Pordeli
May 19, 2023

This is a must-have! Please add this

Ben_Enright
June 20, 2023

Absolutely definitely 100% add this please!