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Sections are amazing and I use them a lot after they were released. However, when working on layers inside a large section, I will be zoomed in so that a large section is going to fill my entire view-screen in Figma app. Clicking on an empty space is a common thing to do in Figma as it is a typical way to deselect a layer. But clicking on an empty space inside a section is not the same as clicking empty space in the void. It means selecting the section I’m inside. This makes it very easy to accidentally move a section when that is not wanted. I think it should be harder to select and thereby accidentally move a section. My suggestion is that a section can only be selected by clicking it’s frame-title or optionally it’s frame-border. In my opinion Sections do not need to be selected and moved all the time and are edited quite rarely compared to other types of layers. This will make Sections easier to work with and accidental movement of sections should be reduced. P.S. There is also Ph

Right now layers that are locked can still be selected. It would be useful if there was a feature to decide wether you need the locked items to be selectable or not. Sometimes this is just a background and shouldn’t be touched at all, or if you create a workshop for other users and you don’t want them to accidentally select something they cannot edit or shouldn’t touch

Please don’t hide editing tools and features: Edit Object, Use as Mask, and more Figma’s mission is to make design accessible to everyone. And then decided to make some features less accessible. (I know they’re not the same accessible meaning) At first, i was only a little annoyed but now that I’m editing objects, it becomes annoying. Why would you hide it and only show it primarily when you’re editing outside of a frame? (no shortcut key. The most you can do is double click it and if it’s really tiny i say, goodluck) When editing vectors or objects, edit object should be a primary action. In fact, if you’re using grid 1 fraction in this section you can squeeze all of them but instead you opt to hide some and show only 2. (What a tease) Look. The buttons you’ve designed were small enough so why still save space? I like how you made it cleaner, but not how you made it less accessible.

Discovered on a 3rd party plugin, but this is a Figma limitation. My team uses the Writer plugin to test content for compliance with our style guide. The plugin scans hidden layers and cannot exclude them due to limitations on the Figma side. Idea: Enable 3rd party plugins to include/exclude hidden layers.

Edit in Photoshop feature for images. I think it’s better to have a feature to edit photos in photoshop. This is already have in adobe XD. It’s very useful.

Hi! We need a fast function to create an instance with a shortcuts when a component is selected (e.g. Ctrl + Alt + I) , especially to create the first instance when a component is just created. It is very slow to do this via assets or component search. We really need this feature! What do you think?

When you browse community resources (design files) there’s no last update date. In some categories you can order by time, in others can not. For one thing this makes some resources not discoverable by browsing. And this is unnecessary waste of time that can be fixed by a small change: community resources must show last updated time in grid view. It shows number of likes and installs which may be good indicator for Plugins but of resources you would look for how outdated it is. And to find that out you have to open its page. And by the way when you open resource page and return back - your grid view position is reset!! I don’t know, but since this all has been like this for two years, then Figma doesn’t’ employ UX Designers? Have you ever designed something and were looking for some design resource? This is plain frustrating UX issues that could be fixed with small effort and long time ago. With dates - obviously no UX person involved, otherwise they would make distinction for resource

When designing certain Components for Design Systems, I am always stumbling over the issue, that Instances cannot have nested elements. Yes, there are workarounds using instance swapping and slots or creating a lot of hidden children. These work for Buttons or when there is a foreseeable count of variing children. When designing Tables or Dropdowns the workarounds do not solve the issue for me. The Solution: Let component instances hold children! If that does not work: Give a “child-count” input to the instance, that controls how many nested components (example: Table (Parent Component) holding x nested Rows (child component))

Hi everyone, When I created dropdown in prototype, I sometimes hit an interaction under the dropdown instead of interacting with the dropdown. Does Figma know this behavior to make prototype mode better ?

I want to give feedback on the new UI3 grouping. I think it is conceptually wrong to have the spacing between elements together with the auto layout controls since they are two very separate things: auto layout are controls internal to an element, while the spacing between elements is an in-between elements control. Having them together is misleading for two reasons: When there are no auto layouts, this part of the panel is called just layout, so if you select two auto layout it is not recognizable The icons are all very similar and it becomes difficult to recognize the gutters belonging to the auto layout and the ones in-between elements

Hi! I have recently noticed that all comments I make on a file in Figma creates an email notification to all who is invited to the file, so all developers, project leaders and customers gets spammed on email every time I add a comment to a file. I haven’t found an option for me to control this, but it seems that all invited need to manage this themselves. Many of our customers are unfamiliar with Figma, and it feels unprofessional to ask them to manage this themselves. Any ideas on how to work around this?

Can you add a way to publish you local components that you can use around the drafts. I Find it difficult using plugins to import export components styles and so on If there isn’t away already.

I have a large presentation with several simple animations, but when I present it, the images and animations take time to load. This causes occasional lag, and I often see pixelated images until they fully render. It would be helpful if either: The presentation could fully load in advance (including all slides and animations), or There was an offline mode to ensure everything displays smoothly without loading delays. This would greatly improve the presentation experience. FYI: Prototypes also take a lot of time to load while presenting

In large files, when you are trying to copy layers / components / properties / etc. from one view to another, while browsing, it’s very easy to lose the original view you were going to PASTE to. It would be nice to have a “Pin view” functionality so you can easily return to that pinned view when you have copied some staff from another view and now need to go back to original one.

Please switch back to the old UI. The new one is annoying, not intuitive, and slows my work down.

Home should NOT be a tab. To switch between 2 files, I always hit a quick ctrl-tab. But with Figma I end up on the Home page. Then I have to ctrl-tab again to get to the page I intended to see. The Home tab is just in the way of the natural workflow. No other software adds unwanted tabs in your workflow. You open 2 tabs but then you have to switch between 3 tabs for no reason. How is the UI and UX of a UI/UX software getting so bad all of a sudden? How is this not common sense? The whole UI3 is a fisco, a mountain of UI/UX mistakes piling one over each other. Pretty much NO change is an improvement and it does not take into account the natural workflow of designing. Now, instead of working on my project I have to rant on forums because Figma decided to ruin its interface. Even this forum is clunky and a bit unintuitive, and has quite a few elements that just don’t make sense.

I regularly switch between files and, like in many other programmes, I can use ‘command + number’ to quickly jump to the tab I want. In Figma it feels really unintuitive to have to add 2 to the number because of the Home and Community tabs, i.e. if I have to press ‘command + 3’ to go to the first design file I have open; ‘command + 4’ to navigate to the second file I have open etc. I don’t really see Home and Community as tabs in their own right. They’re certainly a lot less visited as part of my workflow. Even the UI gives them a lot less prominence visually than individual design/FigJam files. I’d love to see ‘Home’ and ‘Community’ omitted from the tab numbering so I don’t have to do a bit of mental maths every time I want to switch between files.

I was using Figma Slides and didn’t understand why plugins didn’t work as it says “Unavailable in Only View”. Because of this simple message I spend SO much time thinking what could be wrong with file’s permissions, since I was the only owner. I PAYED a pro-plan, when I’ve a educational plan which is free, to solve the permissions “problem”. Only to find out that there isnt plugins in Figma Slides, yet. So yes Figma, change that message to just Unavailable or whatever. It’s confusing.

With a recent update (about 2-3 months ago) when Figme redesigned the UI of the right panel, the “Go to Main Component” button disappeared from the panel, and also from the dropdown with options for the component. Now you can only Go to Main Component from right-click on the component, there isn’t even a keyboard shortcut for it. It would be great if this icon-button could be brought back, it would make workflow much faster. Thanks.

Someone recently asked where the “Paragraph spacing” is (it’s now in the Typography>Basics panel). So perhaps instead of asking in the forum, what if you could ask using the Actions tool (cmd-K) ? Kinda like how you go to Help to search for menu items. 🙏

Many fonts provide automatic character variations based on the language hint, particularly Cyrillic and CJK languages. This is made possible through the OpenType Localized Form locl feature. This only works if the typesetting environment allows the user to declare the content language. Most professional typesetting software provides this feature, and it works on the web through the lang attribute. Figma currently lacks this capability and there’s no workaround. This is the intended design of Unicode, and OpenType expects applications to support this, and most new fonts tend to provide monolithic variable font files instead of separated by languages, and most font vendors have restrictive licenses that prevent users from hacking around the font file, so the only sensible solution is for Figma to support it. This was noted before.

Hey, I’m back with a new user story for the Figma product management team. I want to share an idea to improve Figma for design system engineers. It looks like Figma falls in love with prototypie-type guy designers and doesn’t care to design system engineers because in 2023 config release is conditional for them and 2024 year Figma slides 😅 Just kidding! Let’s get back to the problem. When developing a design system, we typically create core components first and then use them to create nested components. The best way to do this in Figma is by using the nested instance feature. However, a problem arises when I use a nested instance component in another parent component. I only want to edit one variant or boolean of my nested component, but Figma shows me all the variants, booleans, and text properties, making it complex to find the key variant or boolean to change. I believe that having a conditional logic or a boolean checklist for showing nested instance variants or booleans wo

Hello, I am wondering why you have separated text “layout” block, (fill width, within container, etc) and moved it above and away from "typography"UI block?? You have placed “appearance” weirdly inbetween the two, which should be moved to be above fill and stroke. This is incredibly inconvenient and has added a great deal of time to my flow, before I was easily able to adjust text all at once and now i have to move back and forth between the two. REALLY HATING THIS. At least allow custom organization of the UI blocks if you are trying to have the Figma layout match illustrator. ALSO WHY HAVE YOU HIDDEN UNION OBJECT IN A KEBAB?? WHY!!! This new ui is making me incredibly slow and is obviously hasn’t been thought through with actual designers in mind. Anyways I am enraged enough to submit this feedback that will never be read, instead of getting the work done that needs to be finished. Hello void…

If I am asked to review a branch merge, all i see is a notification in my alerts. If I view the notification it’s marked as Read, but there’s no way to go back and see all pending reviews that you haven’t approved yet. If I know I have a few pending reviews I need to go searching through branches to find out where they are. A way to view all pending reviews that I am an approver on would be helpful

It would be really helpful to have the ability to create an action for repetitive tasks. This tool would record a series of steps and allow a kind of automation to be “replayed” with a keyboard shortcut. Examples from other software would be actions in Photoshop and Illustrator, or macros in Excel. A tool like this would possibly need to act on a frame level, at least in our proposed use case. We do a lot of vector design edits which get really repetitive, mostly when building and editing custom icons that have to be pixel-perfect sizes for certain devices. At the moment the workflow is to either do it manually in Figma (combo of keyboard shortcuts, and reaching for the mouse for things like Booleans which don’t have shortcuts yet), or work in Illustrator and import into Figma at the end, when setting up the library of components. If there was a way to record some kind of custom automation in Figma, we would be able to have a more efficient workflow and to stay inside of Figma for the