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Managing local variables is pretty cumbersome and buried in menus. Bringing over the variable window found in Figma, would be big help in managing local variables.

As I am navigating in design and editing a lot of things hovering each others, I would like to fix parent element in order to avoid selecting or editing then directly. Locking all hierarchy is a bit cumbersome and does not help me working with all those elements properly and efficiently.Is there an option I don’t know or maybe a plan to make figma design evolve in this way ?

QOL feature request.I will never want AI in my workflow and it’s just kept being marketed to me which takes me out of the flow. It also gets very tedious to block these features one by one with a browser extension.It would be a very useful and friendly feature to make Figma account fully AI-free with a single toggle. I’d make it up to my team members if they want to use AI, so I wouldn’t make this a team/org level setting.

Could it be handsome to be able to extract a component from a design ?Because of our current process (no design system) we all do things similar a lot and it is a little difficult to produce a components library.Be able to extract a component directly form a design (with a direct replacement of what was extracted with corresponding instance) would be handsomely helping to build our design system more quickly.

The Check designs tool is really useful but I have one big problem with it. In some cases I have used items or colors outside the design system by intention, (annotations or information to the developer or business as the built in annotation is not visible for all). I would need to be able to ignore some design suggestions. Right now I can not use the check design function as only some of the suggestions actually applies. So, my suggestion is to either be able to ignore suggestions that aren’t correct or select those that you want to apply.

User groups in the admin panel currently get an auto-assigned icon (a generic people silhouette) and a randomly assigned background color. It would be great to have the option to customize both, similar to how workspaces already support custom icons and colors. Why it would help:- Makes groups easier to identify at a glance, especially for orgs with lots of groups- Lets teams align group visuals with their internal branding or team identity (e.g. a "Design" group with a design-related icon, a client team with the client's brand color)- Reduces the confusion of having group names and colors feel disconnected (a "Blue Team" showing up with a green icon, for example)

Hi Figma team, Looking forward to Config next week! Going to be epic! The Config website is NOT epic, however.Why do we need to do maths for the agenda? PDT vs EST time zone is annoying me more than normal looking at the schedule. Please add the ability for users to set their time zone so the times are accurate to a users location. Geez.  Also, why can I not hide the sessions I don’t want to see? I know I can add the sessions I am attending and keep my own agenda, but I also would like to hide the ones I do not want to see from the general agenda so I can check for new sessions that may have been added. I see some have been added since my last visit, but having to wade thru sooo many of the sessions I am not interested in to see whats new is arg-inducing. At least collapse them to show only the title (Plus a button to expand) if they are not of interest.Just a few thoughts. I’m sure others will add more.

Hi Figma developers! It turns out that exporting Figma fonts in JSON format provides the result that looks smth like this: "style": { "fontFamily": "Quattrocento Sans", "fontPostScriptName": "QuattrocentoSans-BoldItalic", "fontSize": 72, "fontWeight": 700, "italic": true, "letterSpacing": 0, "lineHeightPercent": 100, "lineHeightPx": 84.375, "lineHeightUnit": "INTRINSIC_%", "textAlignHorizontal": "CENTER", "textAlignVertical": "CENTER" }, for a page like this: And we face the necessity to invent some special algorithms for knowing the actual style name (that is “Bold Italic” in the ex

Here’s the translation of your text into English: "The page and layer separators need improvement. Even though I create a lot of pages, every time the client wants to review the designs, they don’t realize that more pages have been created below. For example, maybe a slight fade effect could be added to the bottom of the pages to indicate that there are more pages below. Additionally, the separator between pages and the separator between pages and layers look very similar, making them hard to distinguish from one another."

I’ve run into a limitation with auto layout when working with components that use slots.Currently, the auto layout direction (horizontal/vertical) defined in the main component seems to be locked for any instances. When content is placed into a slot, it inherits that direction and there’s no way to override it locally at the instance level.This becomes restrictive in cases where the same structural component needs to adapt to slightly different layout contexts.Is there a technical reason why auto layout direction is fixed this way? For example, is it tied to how slots are implemented under the hood or how layout calculations propagate from the main component?It would be very useful to allow overriding the auto layout direction per slot.

hey Figma fam, so, we’ve been going on about this for ages, but seriously, when are we getting the “lock guides” feature? it’s 2024, and we’re still nudging guides by mistake 🙄 we all know the drill - you’re in the zone, designing away, and then oops, there goes your guide. it’s like playing a game of ‘spot the difference’ trying to get it back in place. super annoying. i mean, how many times do we need to ask, right? it’s a no-brainer feature that would make our lives so much easier. locked guides = no more accidental shifts. simple. let’s give it another shot. maybe if we all shout about it (again), Figma will finally listen and add it to their to-do list. who’s with me? catch ya later! flo

With the new beta introducing AI and the left rail, move the help fob in that left rail, and get it out of the way of the properties right panel.

Hi! I upgraded my Figma account from using the free version to the basic plan. Since I did that I can no longer switch to design mode when I could do that with my free account. Please can someone fix this asap. Otherwise I will downgrade my account.

Figma has stopped remembering the file sorting preference: It now always defaults to ‘Last Modified’ at the beginning of session, no matter what your choice was. Can we have it back?This is now default at the beginning of every sessionI am these days having to open this dropdown ‘Sort By’ → Alphabetical 30 times a day. Last modified does not work for us since it shows us whole new set of files every time because how many people work and edit files daily; Alphabetical works better for us since we use numerical naming and then every file is correctly displayed in the intended order of product importance (home, registration, features, etc)

Hi Figma, please add a feature where users can create a special type of frame within a component, so they can create instances of the component and then magically insert other instances or content into the special frame placement. Swapping instances works if we need to change one instance to another instance, but it is very limiting and essentially cripples Figma’s drag-n-drop design mentality. This feature would open up a world of opportunity for design systems to be much more scalable and effective.

Hi everyone, I’m a teacher using Figma in a design class. We’re currently working on retro-engineering design prompts. For example, “design Spotify on Game Boy Classic”. The “pixel preview” option is perfect for that while in design mode, however, it doesn’t seem to be available on prototypes. This is 1980, we don’t want super smooth x4 retina anti-aliasing here! Any idea how to enable “pixel preview” in prototype mode? Thanks so much in advance!

I’m having trouble exporting PDFs of frames. Do you know if the export functionality embeds the fonts? I will import the generated pdf frame into another work that requires to be PDF/A compliant, so I need the font embedded in the frame in the first place. I tried with Adobe Reader, and it does not say “embedded”, which is usually a sign that it’s not. I tried with another software (Okular), and it does say “fully embedded”.

Hi,The addition of annotations and measurements to Design mode is such a great decision.However this is rendered almost useless if the annotations and measurements can’t be made visible to View Seat users.Often annotations are used for communication with a range of stakeholders, not just designers and developers. It’s not viable to upgrade every stakeholder to a Full or Dev seat to engage with this content.

These are new and improved color formats that replace hex and rgb. They will soon become the standard in web browsers. They open up more colors than are currently possible. The Expanding Gamut of Color on the Web | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks

Currently there is a different order in the dropdown for Grid columns/rows than the dropdown in Resizing. The muscle memory really hurts here.Resizing:  Grid: Please unify the dropdowns for them to both either be:Preferred:Fixed width Hug contents Fill containerorFill container Hug contents Fixed width

When sharing, I would love to be able to specify a specific slide to link to. This will allow more fine tune sharing. If the url was appended with something like “slide-1” it would allow for us to create dynamic and easily editable links in our Airtable as well. We are using slides as a creative review workflow and this would help us tremendously!

Figma's current branching is a bottleneck. All branches must come from main.If one designer is working on Feature A (v1.1.0) and another is on Feature B (v1.2.0), the designer on Feature B cannot get updates from Feature A. They are blocked until Feature A is fully merged into main. This forces designers to either wait, or manually copy-paste work, which breaks components and causes errors. The Solution: We Need Git-Style Branching To fix this, we need three features that developers use in Git every day: Branch from Branch: Let me create a new branch from any existing branch, not just main. Update from Branch: Let me "update" my branch by pulling changes from any other branch (e.g., merge Feature A directly into Feature B). "Cherry-Picking": Let me select specific changes (like a single component update) from another branch and pull just that one thing into my branch. This would unblock designers, stop manual copy-pasting, and allow teams to work in parallel safely.

Hi Figma team, I’d love to see more ways to organize tabs in Figma desktop app. I often have 10–15 tabs open, but I’m usually only actively working in 1–2 files and frequently jumping into a few design systems. The rest of the tabs are useful, but mostly for quickly checking something. When many tabs are open, it becomes hard to find the files I actually use all the time. It would be great to have more control over tabs — for example, pinning important files, marking current working files, grouping tabs, or showing design systems as compact icons instead of regular full-width tabs. Right now tabs feel a bit like browser tabs: they are just open, but I can’t really organize them around my workflow. Some simple customization would make it much easier to navigate between active files, design systems, and reference files. Thanks!

Hi, I’m not sure if this is new since the May update, but I wonder why “empty” (all elements hidden) Auto Layout Frames keep the size of the last hidden child (and I do not mean last in the list, but the last element to have been toggled out of view by the user), making them not-0px high even with nothing in them. See here a file with a Frame with three hidden rectangle: the Frame keeps the size of the last child rectangle to have been hidden. When adding a 0-px Frame to the AL frame, and toggling this 0-px Frame off last, the container goes 0-px. In my opinion, empty AL Frames should have a height of 0. What do you think?