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While presenting to my students (all in view mode only), one of them realized that they could turn music on for the entire class by clicking on the music button. I think that users with view access only should not be able to start the timer or music. Could you restrict access to to these widget to only collaborators in edit mode. Thanks, Sean

I liked that I could press ‘K’ and then ‘tab’ to scale stuff to a specific widths/heights. In the new design this functionality requires mouse click or 33 tabs…

I heard panels will be turned back to the original design? Probably one of the few ones here that actually has been enjoying the new UI - it was quite refreshing. Could it just be possible to allow us to have 3 options instead? New UI3, Fixed panels UI3, previous version I was very hesitant to use the new UI3 at first, but after using it for a while it’s been quite good. I do got to say the fixed panels with the middle bar now looks very strange as side panels turn rectangular and the middle panel still has curved edges - would you be considering turning the middle panel into a square shape instead to be consistent in design?

Please add the feature to use pen in Figma, lately I realized that I can do some motion design using the smart animate feature, which is a feature that is sometimes not found even in motion design tools.

Hi, it could be nice to have a checkbox in the right panel of the editor to show or hide the variant names in the view

I manage relevant files by utilizing the pin to sidebar feature and sections, and really love the sidebar feature. At times there can be a lot of files there and many I don’t own, making it hard to always remember what file was for what. 😅 Would be cool and very handy if I could add little notes or comments to these files just for myself. Perhaps when hovering over the file in the sidebar (or the tab) and showing the preview thumbnail, it could show comments I have added to the file as well. This could really help add relevant info for myself to remember about different files. (Or if not per user notes/description for files, perhaps there could be a description field per file like components have that would show when hovering on files. Related request for file level description here: Add Descriptions for individual files in the file browser

I keep accidentally opening my design library file because of the more primary placement of the link in the new component controls UI. It’s given too much realestate IMO. And the component dropdown looks like the section headings without the diamond icon next to it. That little diamond was great for scan-ability

Figma Slides’ inability to create charts is the only thing keeping me from moving our company away from Pitch. I’m sure charts are on the roadmap, and when they get here they’ll be great, but I was wondering whether it might make sense to offer a Datawrapper integration in the meantime. Datawrapper charts can be embedded on the web as iframes, and while it’s pretty clear from looking through Figma’s plugins that embedding an iframe on the canvas isn’t trivial (otherwise I’m sure we’d see all sorts of similar applications), I’m wondering whether it might be worth making an exception for Datawrapper given how long it might take for Figma Slides’ capabilities to catch up. In the meantime, I might experiment with simply exporting Datawrappers as image for use in Figma Slides, but if anyone else has found a better solution, please let me know!

Current state: Sometimes this button will be among the icons near the right bar header, and sometimes it will go into the dropdown menu. And, unfortunately, it goes to this menu very often – because this button is given a very low priority (even the very rarely needed “union” function has a higher priority) In general, changing button location is confusing and slows things down. It is very hard to learn the pattern when this button will be visible and when it is hidden, you have to look for it every time How would I solve this problem? Ideally: leave all dynamic buttons on the toolbar as it was before (let it be wider, the emptiness on the sides is of no value, the workspace is above the toolbar anyway). Compromise: Leave the dynamic buttons in the sidebar, but display them separately from the “Go to main component” (which will be fixed) – give them their own row, where they will fit not just two buttons + dropdown, but six or

Please, please, please add a presentation view for slides on mobile - its one of the main use cases thats currently missing. Additionally, a lowered RAM mode that optimises media for the device.

Have a feature request/idea for underline application that would really help speed up our team’s workflow and file maintenance. The Problem: We frequently create editorial designs (articles, etc.) and have to mock up inline hyperlink styles within body copy paragraphs to show stakeholders. For accessibility, we generally have to use an underline for our hyperlinks. The problem is that the underline function in Figma is limited to basic rich text styling and not editable at all. So, it’s super thin, same-color-as-the-text, and the spacing from the baseline b/w underline can’t be adjusted. I’m aware that we can manually add an underline/stroke instead and use auto layout to achieve our desired spacing/color, but the issue there is that it doesn’t flex with the actual body copy, causing us to do tedious adjustments so the underlines remain aligned with the respective hyperlink text as things in our designs change/update. The Idea

My internet works perfectly, I can watch YouTube videos and check social media. I don’t want to panic but I can’t access my files ?? Error 504 Even on the browser

Would be possible to include other categories of type systems beyond grids as variables? Kimberly Elam proposed a taxonomy of GRID types for graphic design that was quite elastic. Not all webdesign need to follow the same GRID properties. In the taxonomy was documented: dilatational bilateral radial modular ramdom grid transitional axial Web design could follow: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Typographic-Systems-Kimberly-Elam/dp/1568986874

Hello, I’m trying to work out if it’s possible to change text colour within a table cell on FigJam. If I choose a change of colour it is only allowing me to change the background colour. I’ve tried hacking it but to no prevail, any ideas? Thanks Please search for existing topics before posting! Press 🔍 at the upper right to sea

Icons in the Choose Instance panel are small and it hurts my eyes if I have to spend time trying out new icons by swapping instances. I don’t want to change the size of my entire interface to increase the size of these icons but that’s usually how I fix the problem. It’s pretty frustrating. Would be great to have a size adjustment feature or just increase the size of icons to reduce eye strain.

Floating bars with rounded edges are only aesthetically pleasing, but they add an annoying border between the tools and the window, creating annoying elements for the view that peek out from the edges. Lessi is more, remember? You seem to have copied other systems such as Miro or from your own FigJam. Truly, this choice is terrible, adds nothing of value and really worsens concentration and vision. Figma must remain a technical tool, not a video game. It must have the canvas CLEAN, without things popping up here and there from the edges of the windows. This thing doesn’t even look like it was designed by UX/UI professionals who have to work with software. It is really disturbing to work with something like this. Please: go back or at least give (forever) the option to use the old version (which is NETTLY better) with the exact same tools and functionality. Thank you.

Hello! Please consider changing the combination, because it’s hard to type an uppercase letter “D” now. I should type lowercase “d” first instead DevMode is activated 🥲

The component properties panel in UI3 is extremely difficult to parse when you have a complex component with nested overrides. Currently the only thing that differentiates a section header from a component prop name is the font-weight, making the sections blend into the list of component props and making it difficult to find the section you need. Making the section titles darker than the prop names would help with scanablitity.

When using UI2, pressing K to go into Scale mode and then pressing the Tab key would focus the width input, and pressing Tab again focuses to height input, for quick width and height adjustments. In UI3 this behaviour is changed, so that pressing Tab is focusing the anchor point selection, which makes this interaction worse, breaking muscle memory. I believe there is no need to change this in the new UI, as it is making the UX worse.

The layers panel feels noisier, the updated frames icon is hard too see.

Adding several properties to an annotation in DevMode is currently quite repeating: for each property, the “+ Property” has to be clicked again. Solution idea → hold Shift (or any other helper key) + click property adds clicked property, but keeps the dialog open.

We have an issue on our Figma in which we are still encountering an issue on our Figma pages. We have updated our font style to Avenir, and ever since we made this update, we keep having alignment issues with the text. For example, in the attached video (skip to 0:40s), the spacing of two sections is both set to 2, but they keep getting misaligned. The alignment corrects itself once we click on the text box. However, this is only a temporary fix. Each time we reopen the Figma file, the misalignment returns, requiring us to manually click every text box to realign them. video link: Unique Download Link | WeTransfer This has become quite time-consuming and frustrating. To avoid this ongoing issue, can you please investigate what might be causing this problem in Figma and provide a solution?

Similarly to how in a Git repo we can block any changes to be committed in the main branch, it would be nice to allow the same behavior in Figma. New changes should only come from the merging requests of branches.

In the previous version, we could select nested layers with the ctrl + right button, but this functionality is absent in the present version. This is not user-friendly. Now we have to select layer option and then we have to choose the nested layer it is very annoying.

The current tiny blue dot of unread comments in combination with the slight faded text color of the read comments, in the right-hand sidebar, are too subtle to quickly distinguish. Please come up with a design where unread comments stand out more 😉 🙏