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Bent
Bent
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Pan and zoom gesture on middle mouse click

Right now, when you are exploring your file, you can hold the middle mouse button to go in some pan mode, where you grab and move the canvas. Other 2D graphics software offer this functionality aswell, though some have it on spacebar per default. In my favorite photo editing suite the user can not only pan the canvas, but also zoom by scrolling the mouse wheel in this mode. I’d love to see this functionality in Figma aswell. Currently in Figma one would have to hold crtl additionally to the middle mouse button. This is somewhat inconvenient, because you need to use both hands and it’s most likely bad for accessibility too.

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rbz
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Daniel_Amann
Daniel_AmannNew Participant
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Use character count for max width

I want to make sure that the length of text lines is accessible and therefor would like to use a character count to set the max width instead of pixel values (e.g. 80 chars max).

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djv
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Baffour
Baffour
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Tooltips don't really work with fixed position content

Hi all, I’ve made use of interactive components to create some icon buttons with built in tooltips. They work the same as the example in the playground file. The hover interaction itself works fine, the problem comes when I use it in a scrolling context. Made a basic example as I can’t share my actual file: Figma My button is at the top of the blue frame. If I put the navigation header behind this frame in the layer order, then the page content appears on top of the header, which is obviously not something you want. But if you position the header above the frame, you can’t see the tooltip when you hover over. The only way I can get this to work is using open overlay which can’t be done within the interactive component. Are there any plans to support open overlay or something similar to solve this? Or is there a solution already that I’ve not spotted?

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Julia57
ahainen
ahainenActive Member
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Revert Drafts having to be in a Team

I am a person, not a Team®. This is confusing at best.

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matteusdacosta
keisuke_matsuo
keisuke_matsuo
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新しいファイルを作成する時の挙動 Behavior when you press [+Design file]

新規でファイルを作成する時、まずはファイル名をつける必要があるかと思います。 現在は「＋デザインファイル」を押すと、作業画面に遷移しますが、これはデザインファイルの命名規則に沿って他のデザインファイルから名前を参照する際に少し不便だと感じます。（私はファイルの一覧画面に一度戻って確認している） 今のmacやwindowsの「フォルダ作成」のように、名前の変更がアクティブの状態で一覧上にフォルダを作り、名前が決定した後にユーザーが任意でデザインファイルを開けるようにした方が使い勝手が良いのではと思いました。

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Elyriades
ElyriadesActive Member
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Operations with variables without triggers or with none trigger

For none trigger add the ability to create scripts for variables. After delay isnt enough, it takes time to be like none - default trigger Now i have to change color for tabs that have to work like according to the scenario if its bigger than predicted width it have to change color, if var1 = var 2, change color, now i have to made it by myself in canvas, and change everything that have to work automatically manually, and do change color automatically, thats mean if i want to change some screen if its equel to default scenario i made i always have to remember this scenerario and make predicted values for all of screens i made. but what if i want to subject them all to one scenario that i create like default for all the screen with vars in canvas? i can do this by trigger option in interaction window and only for prototype, but i cant make like scenario for canvas, not for prototype, i need to make scenario for canvas, if variable 1 = variable 2 settings attached to the var are changed

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y_toku
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George_Lolux
George_Lolux
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Add variables to theme switch

Hello. When we switch the theme, it’s impossible to add color from variables to the canvas color. Can you add variables to the Figma canvas? In this case, we will be able to set colors for canvas and section colors and switch our designs accordingly. This will improve the experience and make the design process easier for designers, because not only users need a theme switch.

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y_toku
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Elyriades
ElyriadesActive Member
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Dynemic variables

Make dynemic variables. Like now i have to make constant variables and assign these values ​​to variables, but what if i want to change values in element (like width), and automatically put this value into a variable?, i just want to make from one of element parameter variable and change it, instead manual entry into the data table. I need just make varible and choose what type of variable is it : constant or dynemic (like min - max additional settings), if its dynemic all those variables that i made changing parameters will automatically change the variable without predefined values

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tallneil
tallneilNew Participant
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Quick actions documentation: "Debug broken fixed-scrolling layers"

I happened upon this quick action: “Debug broken fixed-scrolling layers”. I searched Google and this Forum, and I can’t find any documentation or mentions of this feature at all… Figma team, I would love to see documentation for quick actions! It would help in scenarios like this (I found a quick action and I want to learn more about it). It would also help Figma users discover useful quick actions! I’m sure there are tons of quick actions out there that I don’t know about yet.

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Celine_
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Julia57
Julia57Active Member
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LAUNCHED - Reset name of multiple text objects by submitting blank field in dialog

(Our client doesn’t allow the use of plugins for security reasons. I know there are plugins for this.) When I want to reset the name of ONE text layer, I can just delete the name and hit enter. This is great. BUT why can’t we do this with multiple layers? We can rename multiple layers by selecting them and hitting ⌘+R, but entering a blank field does not reset the name like it would for a single layer. Idea: I think it should do that. Just let me delete the name and submit the dialog, to reset the names 😃

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Celine_
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Lars_Velken
Lars_Velken
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Consistent Component Swap Instance Search

Please upgrade the swap instance search field in the design panel so it can find text in component descriptions, in addition to the exact component name text. The component search in the asset panel already does this very well. Thank you!

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Alamaki
Kathi_Fleming
Kathi_Fleming
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Following a viewer should show overlays

When following a person viewing my prototype, I would like to see any overlays they are interacting with. Overlays are not seen from my end when following, so it just looks like a mouse floating around the frame underneath.

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J
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Oscar_Otero
Oscar_Otero
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Styles aliases

I’d like to be able to create aliases for text styles, colors, shadows, etc. For example, I have the color “Color/Primary/500” and would like to create the color “Button/Primary/Background” that is a link to the first color, so if “Colors/Primary/500” is changed, “Buttons/Primary/Background” would change too. This would also be useful for text styles, effect styles and any other named style, allowing to create a kind of root tokens that can be reused under different purpose names.

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mkippenberger
mkippenbergerNew Member
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Automatically select newly added components in preferred values folder/frame

For instance swap component properties, you can define preferred values in Figma. The components you can select for that are organized by page and frame(s) they are located in. I have icons in my project that each are a component which are inside the same frame. Now, for other components I have defined an instance swap property to swap the icon in that component. For this, I checked the checkbox to select all the icons in the icon folder/frame. However, when I create new icon components in the frame, they are not selected automatically which means that I have to reselect all icons for each component that has an icon instance swap property every time I add a new icon. I wish for newly added components to be automatically selected as a preferred value if that component is inside a frame where all other components have been selected already.

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J
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Mario_Urbina
Mario_Urbina
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Add music and timer feature to Figma

like in FigJam, we would like to have music that can be played in joined design sessions.

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shamique.etienne
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Tian_L
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Bring back images when you search up components

I find it difficult to find icons or my components when it’s just text so I want the image previews of the assets to come back. It just makes it easier for me to find icons in the panel especially because I don’t always remember what I name my components and find reading/scrolling through so many words difficult.

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Jean_the_Web_Machine
Sami_Parvez
Sami_Parvez
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Launched: Creating sections and moving objects easily to sections with 1 click

Since Figma is a great place to do card sorts and organise information, what if there was a way to create an area and turn it into a section? That way, if I had to move a post-it or another object to that section, all I would need to do is click "move to " and presto, the object is moved to that section easily, without having to pan and zoom around the board too many times. This is especially useful if you have a large workshop and lots of ideas to organize.

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Jean_the_Web_Machine
Leafer
Leafer
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Features for Presenting Prototypes like Slides

I currently use Figma to create slides and then use prototype view to present them. However, I have to manually be at the computer to click or press left/right to switch slides. It would be amazing to be able to use a presentation pointer (switch next and back by detecting the buttons for page_up and page_down) and present from afar!

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Gleb
Thong_Nguyen
Thong_NguyenNew Participant
posted in Suggest a Feature
Local variables panel improvements

After using the Variables feature for some time, I’ve discovered some problems that could be mitigated like this: The Local variables panel should display the Collection name when Toggling off the sidebar. The panel shouldn’t hinder other panels when multiple ones appear at the same time (auto-arrange windows when another one appears) Allow double-clicking on the Collection name to rename Allow changing the variable type of the existing one Searching variables popover should allow users to collapse the Collection Group of variables in the Collection should display numbers of var similar to the All variables section

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mrthink
Digital_Feet
Digital_Feet
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Frame View when sending Prototype

The Frame Navigation on shared for prototype view-only needs to be improved. Figma is lightyears ahead in XD but it could take inspiration from how they make the navigation of Artboards much simpler. The logic is hope there’s a page where all frames are displayed and you can search on em and find em, so we do not have to navigate via the prototype itself. It makes the job easier for both project managers, designers, the client and the sales team to look for the page they are talking about with ease. I attached a picture of how XD is doing it but and I added descriptions. In my uploaded image you can search the name of artboard and the specific artboard you are looking for will appear. You got alot of useful updates lately and im sure this will be one of those. In helping those who collaborate with the designer and developer.

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Gayani_S
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Andreas_Nordenson
Andreas_NordensonNew Participant
posted in Suggest a Feature
Variable overrides for text styles

In our design system we use design tokens for line height. Example: We see these as part of a “line height toolbox” which depending on context you could override the typographys default lineheight token with any of the four. The same way text alignment is always accessible regardless if youre working with a text style or not. Making this perhaps optional if you have multiple variables/tokens within a segment would be just great. We do the same with letterspacing and fontweight. Up until now we have been using the Figma Tokens plugin which has allowed this. As for now with variables, it is no longer possible which means that we would either have to create a huge set of text styles, or a very annoying solution with modes. Great to see the typography part released with variables though i am slightly disappointed that the relative values are not supported (ex. lineheight %) as countless others have already pointed out.

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drake1
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Explore Community Option - Dark mode

Explore Community Navigation button is not optimized on Dark mode

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djv
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Arman_Designer
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Pages in the Figma

I preferred the pages to be a dropdown list

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Gayani_S
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Sunil_Sharma1
Sunil_Sharma1New Member
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Apply multiple & replaceable colour palette by single click we can see what goes well with the UIs

We could have multiple colour palettes to switch between and see what best will go with the UI. Now you see we know 3 types of colour blindness, so considering WCAG… some systems are intended to be built for colour blind people as well. So if we create replaceable colour palettes according to different types of colour blindness, we can easily apply different colour palettes and replicate them into the same UI with a single click, instead of manually creating the themes. This feature can save lots of time so we can easily utilize it for creative tasks.

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Sunil_Sharma1
Olivier_Mattelart1
Olivier_Mattelart1
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Include a possibility to include comments underneath a text label

With developers, we often see issues when using or creating translation keys. It would be useful to have a possibility to add comments/metadata underneath a label or its translation key. With this, we would avoid duplicates or bad naming, etc.

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Gayani_S
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