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Camilo_Sanchez
New Member
February 17, 2021

Custom team templates

  • February 17, 2021
  • 51 replies
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Consider the following scenario:

  • My team needs to have a reusable template with a predefined layer structure so we don’t have to recreate the same file structure over and over and to keep our files consistent enough that designers, PMs and engineers know what to expect of our files regardless of the designer that worked on it.

  • We currently use a file the team manually duplicates by doing right click>duplicate and then move to the project they will be working on, but instead of this, we would prefer to just click on create new file and select a template from the dialog that figma provides. The problem we have is that you need to publish that file to the entire Figma community to be able to do this and the security policy of our company doesn’t allow this.

Should templates be public to the community by default? Can’t we just create a new template and make it available to our internal team only?

51 replies

Harshika_Jain
January 7, 2022

this would be super helpful for our teams as well, especially to be distributed as support assets with the design system

Andrew_Lauder
February 16, 2022

Same here - really hoping for this one!!

greg.lubel
February 21, 2022

Me (and probably the other Designers at IBM) would appreciate the capability to add templates or at least feed into templates requirements for you to produce.

Guillermo_Varini
February 23, 2022

Hi.

How is this not possible yet? 😕

This is a deal breaker for me asi i have to copy/paste to much buttons and edit all of the later…

Please add this 😃

Marcelo.mah
April 22, 2022

This is exactly what we need too on my team!

Michael_Tardif
May 13, 2022

I just built a whole starter kit for designers thinking I would just save it as a template now that I’m done – and kind of shocked it doesn’t exist. I found this thread as I was hunting to figure out how to do it 🙂

Everything from Word, Sketch, XD, etc., relies on templates to make it easy to start everyone from a consistent base. This should certainly be a table stakes feature.

Chad_Ashley
July 10, 2022

This is exactly what I thought I’d get from signing up for “organization”. Super bummed I upgraded. I don’t see any real benefit now. Hope they add this functionality soon.

vdekkernl
Active Member
September 26, 2022

Yes, I would like to have this feature as well. I have made a file that we use as template. And I have favorite this file, so it’s shown in the left navigation. But now the design team is growing. It’s been overseen by new people. I think a default template that could be chosen when you create a new file will help in the keep the quality in our standardization.

Chris_Leake
January 10, 2023

have a very similar use case! thanks for bringing this up. Just spent 20 mins in admin logs to track down a missing design file template… it was accidentally moved and then overwritten. Not too hard to backtrack and re-create for what I’m doing, but still a bit frustrating +1

Steven_Bassette
New Member
January 17, 2023

This is very much the situation I’m in right now as well. I’m testing Figma (FigJam actually) to see if it has the features we need. Not having templates is a huge problem, since we depend on them heavily in other similar software.