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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

Eduardo_Tello
February 7, 2023

+1. This feature would help my team so much… it’s about time.
Would be good to have possibility of adding a few templates for the team to choose from when creating a new file on their projects.

vdekkernl
Active Member
February 28, 2023

I just saw that Sketch (Oh yes, I said it) has templates now 😶‍🌫️

Mikael_Ishhanian
March 29, 2023

Was just about to submit the same idea.

I’d like to create a proper template for my new drafts so I don’t have to create X number of pages like Cover/Personas/Problem Statement/Etc.

Deb_Morris
April 13, 2023

Upvoting!! We have a specific file we use as our starting point for all projects in Figma, that includes page organization and categorization and standard thumbnail templates. It would be ideal to make this a standard option next to “new design file” in Figma.

Neri
April 19, 2023

Just here to lurk on progress. No? Maybe?

June 2, 2023

Hi 🙂 Any word on this? Would be a huge help on the DesignOps side.

June 14, 2023

We really need this!!!

Julian23
New Member
June 29, 2023

Would really love this. Figma has a lot of features that are ideal for making templates… except the ability to create a template.

Jeff_Deibel
New Member
July 18, 2023

I just recently ran into this problem. I had to create 8 teams in Figma (all with same structure) and found the process to be very time intensive. Instead of copy and paste, I had to rebuild and copy the same structure 8 times and then double check all of my work.

I know duplicate is not a buzzy worthy feature, but it did negatively impact my perception of the tool. I dread ever having to setup another project team in the future and truly hope the functionality to simplify the process is built into the roadmap before I have to do it again.

From a designOps perspective, it makes it increasingly harder to create a consistent setup when the process is manual.

Matias_Greco
September 13, 2023

We love this feature in FIgJam - make it a reality in Figma too!