Folders: I'm missing Folder contents preview/thumbnails

100% agree. Scanning folders for files is overly frustrating now, taking away or not proving an option for thumbnails is taking away functionality we relied on. Iwork across multiple teams and need to be able to pick up snippets from files. I spend much more time opening folders, realising it is the wrong one & going in circles to get what I need.

Hi Figma team,

I’m a designer, and I truly appreciate the continuous improvements you’ve made to Figma.

However, I recently noticed that in the All folders view, projects no longer display previews of the Figma files inside them. This change has made it significantly harder and more time-consuming for me to find the files I need.

There are two main reasons why file previews are essential to my workflow:

1. Alongside my current work files, I have many personal and older files that I may want to revisit. Since I often don’t remember their exact names, visual previews help me recognize them immediately without opening every project individually.

2. I have around 500 Figma files that I may need to access at any time. Without previews, navigating such a large library becomes slow and frustrating.

The folder icons do not provide enough visual information to help designers locate their work quickly. In fact, the current interface feels less user-friendly and has reduced my productivity compared with the previous experience.

I appreciate everything the Figma team is doing to improve the product, but I strongly hope you will consider bringing back file thumbnails or visual previews in the All folders view. This would make navigation much faster and improve the experience for designers managing a large number of files.

Thank you for taking this feedback into consideration.

Agreed. The old way allowed us to use recognition instead of forcing us to recall what the folder name is and which files are where. This change has made what would have taken me about 5 seconds take about 30 seconds to a minute as I try and figure out which folder the respective file is in.

Thank you all for your continuous work on improving Figma.

This is particularly painful for larger Enterprise teams. In one of our teams, we now have 28 visually identical folders. Because they are sorted by recent activity and constantly change position, there is no visual or spatial cue to help us find the right one.

Previously, file cover previews made it possible to scan the team quickly, even when items moved. Now, finding a particular folder means reading through the entire list each time. Folder colours are not an adequate replacement for meaningful previews, particularly at this scale.

Ideally, folders should support manual organisation through drag and drop, with the option to pin important folders in place. At a minimum, the selected sorting order should persist rather than reverting to “Last modified”.

Please consider restoring folder previews and giving teams more control over how folders are organised.

Upvoting this!! This is a major downgrade, especially for Org customers!

It has been a month since you decided to do this. And frankly speaking yall should fire the dude that suggested this would be a great idea. Instead of me taking 10sec to know where i have to go, I can now look 10 mins at 30 identical folders trying to remember which one was the right one. This was the one feature I loved about figma… tnx 

Just refreshed my screen and as if by magic, thumbnails in folder view are back. THANK YOU Figma for listening to us!

Hey ​@Jeff27 and everyone following this thread — glad you're seeing them back! 🙌🏻

Thanks again for keeping this in front of us, and for sharing your feedback along the way.

Appreciate the preview coming back.

To take it one step further for better accessibility, an option to increase the size of the previews inside the folders would be much welcomed.

When I’m working on my 27” Mac screen, the previews inside each of the folders are tiny and it’s very hard to make out what is what a lot of the time.

I understand that the new preview option is thinner/narrower so you can fit more folders on screen at a time, but having the option to increase the size of the previews would be fantastic.