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Marc_Kremers
Marc_Kremers
December 20, 2022

Auto layout in FigJam

  • December 20, 2022
  • 7 replies
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A tool like Figjam would benefit so much from an Auto Layout feature.

As a user, so often i’ll just duplicate a shape, which will often follow a horizontal or vertical flow.

It makes sense that this would only be possible in Sections.

At very least, you could have it as a Auto Layout “Lite”. You click on the Section, and you can choose the flow to be → or ↓ for new children in the parent section right?

Duplicating a child in a section just places it over the previous shape, literally no one wants that.

C’mon, let’s make this happen 😉

    7 replies

    koulini_k_satya
    koulini_k_satya
    December 20, 2022

    Loving FigJam and what it has to offer.
    Would love to see auto layouts in FigJam as well so all those note blocks can automatically align themselves.

      Celine_
      Figmate
      Celine_
      Community Support
      April 24, 2023

      Hi @Marc_Kremers ,
      Thank you for your idea! Do not also forget to vote your idea so we can gauge the overall interest in the Community.

        Jillian1
        June 22, 2023

        Agreed. As a pm, I would love to use auto layout around my product roadmaps so that when I move/add/delete a milestone or feature, it can change update related roadmaps. I have roadmaps that are ‘connected’ in my brain, but I’d LOVE to create parent/child roadmaps in a cascading logic approach.

          Martin_Funk
          Martin_Funk
          September 7, 2023

          +1 from me. I’m so used to auto layout in Figma that I’m missing it in FigJam so much. 🙂

            Dmytro_Kovalenko
            Dmytro_Kovalenko
            October 27, 2023

            Hey there. While working in FigJam, I came up with the idea to add a feature to rearrange the positioning of elements. Auto Layout in Figma works in a similar way. By pressing the button, the cards are rearranged from vertical to horizontal. This will speed up the work, and you won’t have to manually drag them.

            Example

              Sarah Lynn
              Sarah Lynn
              New Member
              April 30, 2026

              I still can’t believe this feature hasn’t been added to FigJam. Please add auto layout to FigJam!!! 🙏

              Vincent Sels
              Vincent Sels
              New Member
              June 22, 2026

              Yes please, add a button to automatically re-arrange all elements horizontally or vertically. Like Dmytro_Kovalenko’s suggestion. It becomes much more relevant when shapes are connected. When I start creating something horizontally, shapes would be connected to one another on the left and right edges. When I want to switch to a vertical layout, I need to switch around all of the connectors from left/right to top/bottom! Which for larger diagrams becomes so much work that nobody in their right mind would ever do this.

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