Organization would be immensely helpful if we could create folders for our drafts. I want to be able to organize my drafts into different categories (such as UI kits, Ideas, Wireframe kits, iOS, Android, etc…) so I can find files easily. Right now, the drafts page is a huge jumbled mess and I can’t create Team pages for everything.
Maybe something as simple as being able to add ‘tags’ to each file, similar to Zeplin.
👋🏻 Hey
Figma is changing how file organization works: Projects are becoming folders you can nest for deeper hierarchy, with folder colors to help you scan at a glance. That addresses a lot of the grouping and structure people have asked for. How deep you can nest varies by plan — details are in the announcement.
One note, since this thread covered a few different suggestions: This is folders, not tags. If tagging or nested tags is what you're after (e.g. where a single file can live in more than one place at once), that's a separate capability, and the announcement thread is a good place to raise it with the product team. The same goes for organizing the Drafts area specifically.
You can read the details and share questions with the product team during the rollout here: Rolling out: Projects become folders 📂 ✨
You can create a bunch of free Starter teams and projects in them (projects are like folders for files). Each free team can have up to 3 projects and you can be a member of 100 teams at most, so there is plenty of room for sorting your files. Personally, I have three teams with 2-3 projects in each of them.
UPDATE: This is not going to be possible from April 21, 2021
@Gleb Yeah, that’s a hack, but not very efficient. I want to be able to put my files into more substantiative categories such as UI Kits, iOS, Android, etc… Creating separate Teams and only being able to import 3 projects would be pointless. I don’t need any fancy Team features, which is why I think something like the tags idea would work well.
That’s exactly what teams and projects allow you to do. To clarify, a Project is not a File. You can import any amount of files into a Project. Project is like a folder for files, so you can create a team with three projects: UI Kits, iOS, and Android and put all your files into these categories. Also with Starter teams you are not getting any fancy team features.
I have multiple project as I am sure everyone else does. Is there a way to create folders and organize projects ? 👇
The same way Microsoft OneDrive lets you move around/create folders. It would be nice to have projects organized in a single folder.
There is no way to organize projects. You can only create more teams and organize them this way. It would help if you would explain why you want to organize projects. What structure do you imagine for them? How many projects and files within them do you have? Please try to roughly address the points in the product idea template when creating a new feature suggestion:
@Gleb I would like to keep my projects to be organized rather than showing all of them on a list. The same way Microsoft OneDrive lets you move around/create folders.
I don’t think it would make sense for me to purchase another Team plan just to organize my files. I am already part of 2 teams.
Thank you 😃
I’d be much happier by organizing files with nested tags. Folders are very 1958.
The Org > Team > Project structure has become a little too constraining as the number of teams in our organization has grown. In our organization we have multiple teams grouped by product. It would be very useful to associate groups of teams either through an additional organization layer or by tags that can be applied to teams.
This is one of the most important pain points for me. Altough, I would put in in a different level.
Team > Projects > Folders > Files
Why do you ask? When I worked in Sketch, I would organize my files based on releases. Each funtionality or idea would have its own file, in that file pages would be for different devices. And each realease would have it’s folder within a project. This is crucial to good organization and overview of project files.
Please, add folders. I’d rather have folders than tags, because folders hide the complexity. It’s much easier to look at a few folders than hundreds of files.
Our design org. at my company has hundreds of designers spread out across the globe. This means I can be in dozens of meetings throughout the week, all with multiple Figma files. I realize there is a common organization scheme, but I would like to have a personalized file organization experience where I can group files from specific meetings that all have a relationship (to a specific meeting) into a folder. Meetings may also contain project files. I don’t want to change someone else’s project folder structure, I want the ability to create my own and include a collection of project files, or only specific ones from a project.
I would also like the ability to “star” or favorite files temporarily that may rise to the top for priority tasks for the week that need my input.
I do not currently have any screenshots or mocks of how this would work, but if someone else with a similar need had some time to make this happen, that would be great! I just don’t have the time at the moment (see above).
One use-case for organizing with tags is for production status of files. As you can see we have a manual work-around for this using label components within thumbnail frames. This gives our developers a bird’s eye view, but… well it’s a very manual work-around and obviously cannot be sorted/filtered which is where the real gain to using a tag system would come in. The great part is that it’s quite agnostic— teams can create tags to suit their own workflows or organizational standards.
I don’t see how creating more teams and projects resolves this particular use-case?
As mentioned above, nested tags or even just tags are the way to go vs folders. A file can only sit in one folder/project but with tags, the same file could belong to any number of structures for organizing.
Describe the problem your experiencing and how your idea helps solve this
There are so many files being created & handed-over to developers everyday, and as team is expanding. A consolidated view or searching the files is being tedius
Add as much context as possible (screenshots, Figma files, mockups, etc.)
Anything like tagging files with keywords and searching would ease out. Just like Zeplin does. Or a consolidated tab for files shared with developers would be an ease.
Ask questions to bring the community into the conversation
If there are available plugins let us know. We don’t want to invest heavily on plugins and zeplin provides the solution but for only this feature is an overkill.
I wish we could organize it easily
Voted! I really need this feature now since Figma announced the new Starter Plan…
The simplest solution would be to allow project/file organization under Drafts the same as a Team. This would basically mean that Drafts would function as a solo member team while the paid accounts would have access to collaborative teams.
The changes to the Starter plan in late April will present some new challenges in regards to organizing files. As most users under this plan move their work to the Drafts section, files will quickly become scattered chaos.
Possibly the simplest solution would be to allow project/file organization under Drafts the same as a Team. This would basically mean that Drafts would function as a single member team while the paid accounts would have access to collaborative teams.
Here’s a quick mockup:
There absolutely needs to be a way to organise files in Drafts. I wish to group similar files together to find them easier and to tidy up the sprawling mess.
The workaround to create projects does not work in an enterprise environment with teams, because generally new projects can not be created as you wish by all employees. In a collaborative environment this also negates the fundamental point of drafts - they are private.
Folders would be absolutely fine. They are not ‘1958’, they are a universally understood concept that works fine for most situations. Tags could also work, but for me one goal is to get rid of the visual clutter of loads of files dumped in the Drafts space, which tags would probably not achieve. @Slavo made the same point.
It remembers me the same incomprehensible lack inside Invision…
now they are dead.
ok ok ok … bad ux designer joke — sorry
That would be a PAIN relief as you have to get through stuff very hard! Specially when I browse through community files and would like to save and organize them for later usage!
I find it irksome having to glance through designs I’ve worked on. I also hate that personal works and client works are all in one place. Yes, there is the search option and I can always create an additional account for just my personal works (but I really shouldn’t have to).
As a freelancer, I might want to group my design projects as Fintech, Health, Personal works, e.tc. That sort of thing. Can we have folders or something…to make this happen? This will be really great, especially in terms of organization and ease (well, for me).
Does anyone else feel this way? Is there some sort of tool or plugin to get this done already?
Thank you.
This feature will help to stay way more organized. Im surprised why such a simple thing is not already included in Figma… project management is defiantly a must
I used to have a “Personal” team (just me and my ideas), with “Archive” and “Workbench” projects acting as folders to organize Drafts. Now that there’s a file number limit to Starter Teams, I either have to create “Personal 1”, “Personal 2”, “Personal 3” teams (I’m not going to do that, probably), or we need some way of organizing Drafts.
Figma is useful for personal stuff, and I’m glad Drafts are unlimited, but my previous method of organizing them is no longer possible, so we need something else.
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