Suggest a Feature

Hello, I would like to propose an improvement for navigation in the design files.In our project, we add many internal links to specifications details, which facilitates the timely consultation of information.On the other hand, after following an internal link, it lacks a simple way to return to the previous location in the file, such as a floating Back button or a behavior similar to "Return to instance" after navigating to a component definition.It would also be very useful to be able to automatically display the list of backlinks pointing to a given section, frame, or element.This type of functionality would greatly improve navigation, reading documentation, and working with complex files that have a lot of cross-referencing.

I was surprised to notice today that the long awaited Connected Projects is now available in Figma but also very disappointed to see the absurd limitations on how many connected projects each plan can have. I can somewhat understand the limitation of being able to connect with one company at a time for technical/admin reasons in the first release, but WHY do we need the limitations of how many connected projects we can have if all parties are already paying for their licenses? The max 3/6 in Professional and Organization is ridiculous, as it also counts the projects that are shared our way. Please remove these artificial limitations, or at least make them a lot bigger like 20 / 40 / 80 so they make some sense in the real world.

Layer names can get really messy when layer renaming is enabled, and the number never seems to be very useful for me. (ex I don’t remember what “Frame 324” is, I usually just reference a named parent/child for context). To me, it’s just additional noise in my layer list. Thankfully, Figma offers an option to disable this, “Rename Duplicate Layers”. This solves my issue when duplicating, so I don’t end up with “List Cell 2, List Cell 3, etc”. But… New frames & groups still get a number added by default. This can sometimes result in seemly very random numbers appended to a new group or frame, depending on how it’s added, or what already exists in a Project. For example, drawing multiple Frames will cause them to increment, but if you group an item and apply auto-layout, it starts again at 1. See this example. The behaviour I’d rather have Don’t append any number to layers when this option is disabled (New frames would simply be “Frame”, and you could create multiple elemen

Using shift+click the variable search opens automatically on most fields. The Gap field in AutoLayout is excluded from this and does not have a variable picker icon but it needs to be selected via dropdown every time.This is inconsistent and I think it should be also possible to have shift+click open the variable search.#littlebigupdates

It’s difficult to toggle between editing board content and moving the board, because you have to either click the hand tool button or use the keyboard shortcut. Similar tools I’ve used allow for holding the right click to toggle to the hand tool, making it easier to go between moving the board and editing board contents. I’d love to see that feature introduced to make it easier to move the board around as I’m editing. I haven’t been able to find a way to do this, if it’s available already, please let me know how to enable it! Thanks!

When working with design tokens, not every variable should end up in an export. Internal aliases, private overrides, or work-in-progress tokens are often necessary inside the file but irrelevant for code.Right now there's no way to exclude individual variables from export.Extend the existing "Hide from publishing" checkbox so it also suppresses the variable from export output Or add a dedicated "Hide from export" checkbox (as shown in the screenshot)Low effort, high value. 🙌

it would be nice to see variable usages so one can actually know which variables are redundant. which variables are not tied to any property. its easy that way to say okay we are no longer using this based on a 0 or 3% usage then go ahead to delete. right now i have a whole lot of redundant variables which i don’t know about because an attempt to delete might cause error in the file.

Figma Make are not using my library components attached. It only picked “generic” ones. Both with “Attach design” and using a full design system library file.

I love the new variables feature but have hit a snag I’d love to see resolved. As I’m the only UX practitioner at my company, we only have the professional plan which means we can’t use branching. Instead, we have developed a system where we initial design in a “WIP” file, which is reviewed and iterated on until approved; at this point, we copy things over to a “Live” file. While working through that with some variables now in use, I discovered that there’s no way to copy variables between files. I can’t just use variables stored in a library because I need to get the variables from our WIP Library project into the Live Library product and, by their very nature, they can’t refer to the same library of variables (changes made to a variable value for the WIP library shouldn’t be automatically updated in the LIVE library). It would be helpful if one could either export and import variables by collection or individually. Or even if one could select one or more variables to copy and then pa

I have a few SVG shapes as part of the branding for a project I am working on. I’m in the process of building out a component library and for the primary CTAs, one of the shapes will be the background for the CTA. That white background would typically be a solid fill with border radius, and using Auto Layout would be able to grow and shrink based on the label overrides per instance. However, I am unable to get an SVG working as the frame’s fill. It does allow me to “Choose image” and select the SVG but it never displays. From the docs, there is no mention of using SVG for this, as opposed to PNG, JPG, etc, and I don’t see why we can’t use an SVG as a fill.

When creating a deck that has UI screens I’m working on in it, my natural process is to copy & paste the frame from my working file. However, if I try to resize the frame within Slides, the elements within the frame do not scale proportionally. I’d love to be able to use the Scale tool to make my frames fit more comfortably in my slides without having to export as a PNG or guess what scale the frame should be in before I paste it into the slides

The current Tables feature in Figma feels quite limited. It would be fantastic if some basic functionalities could be introduced soon, such as: • The ability to easily resize cells without needing to adjust font size • The option to merge cells • Top, middle, and bottom text alignment options These enhancements would bring Figma’s table functionality more in line with what we already have in tools like Keynote and Google Slides.

When reviewing updates and deciding to accept a component update, can the number of components remaining be displayed up in the title? So something like “Review updates: 5 remaining” or “Review updates: 5 of 6”  

Can you please add the ability to add headings to the pages panel? I know Figma gave the option of 'dividers' by typing ' -'. But it would be good if you could make these headings (for exmaple, RESEARCH > Landscape> Insights > Survey'. The divider helps but still leaves you doing things like making an 'Archive' page with everything just dumped onto it, where it would be really good to have an 'Archive' heading, and then whatever pages you’re archiving underneath (for example).I’m also aware that many/most designers hack their own headings together by adding a page and giving it a heading name, but these are still actual pages and add a bit more confusion for other people using the file, and reduce consistency.Please? Not a huge amount of effort but massive value I reckon!

When creating overlays, there are cases when I want it to be positioned relative to the element that triggered it. For example, a tooltip that explains a button or image. Currently the only way to do that is to manually position the overlay. What would be nice/more efficient is to have an option to choose how I want the position to be calculated-- relative to the entire page, or relative to the element itself–with the same set of position options (centered, top left, top right, etc) that we currently have for alignment. That way overlay positions can be set quickly without the need for manual fiddling.

I’m hoping for a Figma Make integration for Gitlab like they did for Github so I can more easily share the code with developers at my company. I think the workaround is to ‌download a zip from Figma Make and place into a project in an IDE like VSCode to then connect to Gitlab. It’s not ideal, especially for designers.Hopefully I’m not missing a better solution that exists.

It would be very helpful to allow the Review updates modal to be resizable and for the image(s) shown to scale accordingly. When a large number of components are being updated it is tedious to have to continually zoom in and out depending on the size of the component. Being able to make the modal larger with an auto scaled visual of the components would save a lot of time.

Hello Figma Team,I really appreciate the new sidebar update and the overall improvements to the interface. However, I would like to share a usability concern regarding the vertical ruler.Currently, the sidebar overlaps and hides the vertical ruler, which makes it difficult to quickly access and place guides without collapsing the entire panel. This interrupts the workflow and adds unnecessary friction during design tasks, especially when working with alignment-sensitive layouts.It would be greatly appreciated if the vertical ruler could remain visible within the canvas area, even when the sidebar is expanded. I believe this small adjustment would significantly improve the overall user experience for many designers.Thank you for your continued efforts and improvements to the platform.

it’s different from just using history. we are working on a file that was ongoing for years, some of the frames are old, some are new. we want to see what is the age of each screen to understand the timeline of our work. we could scroll back in time and see, but then we would had to jump between times, trying to discover and guess when a screen was created, rather then the possibility of just clicking on it and see the date of the creation

I’ve been looking into how I can leverage the new MCP server functionality in my design-to-dev handover process, but have been struggling with a few issues.As a means of speeding up my web design process, I have created singular components (no variants) that use variables for spacing, typography etc. These variables relate to modes like Wide Desktop, Desktop, Tablet, Mobile. My idea is that I’d like the MCP to read the singular component and be able to extract all the variables information across all modes and map those values to Tailwind classes (such as pt-4 md:pt-6 lg:pt-8 etc..) With a fair bit of back-and-forth, I’ve been able to recreate a passable version of my designs, but only for a single instance - this using variables from the default/first variable mode. So it’s not ideal to select one frame/screensize at a time and prompt the agent to recreate it - the code output can get messy pretty quickly.Do we know if there if Figma have release plan for the MCP to be able to read mu

Hi everyone!  I have seen a lot of posts here about having to detach a fill of a layer in order to change the opacity and asking for opacity to be also able to save as its own variable, but this is not exactly my wish. I wish to define a variable that has a not a 100% fill, but rather references another color variable and has a different opacity without having to detach the referenced variable. Example use case:Alert component with 3 variants. In this case the “color” variable is the background in the first of the 3 variants (from left to right) and also the text and stroke color in the other two variants. “background” variable in this case only the background in the 3rd variant.  In light mode it is a light blue, but a solid light blue. In dark mode, instead of having to define a whole new “dark-gray-ish blue” color to reference here, I would just like to reference the “info/main” variable, with an opacity so that we stick to the same color. For FE, this makes no sense, seeing this, h

Hey guys! I'm a product designer and a Figma lover. For along of those years, I saw Figma grown up and become even better, bringing to us designers a lot of new possibilities to work. But this is my first time that I want to request a feature ASAP, since creates a lot of pain. Hope everyone see this topic as something really useful too.So, I usually works on web applications and thus I need to design both mobile, tablet and desktop version of the web pages.And, when we speak about Design System, we need to make sure that our components will adapt on each screen, no matter the viewport size.So, bringing this discussion to a real case: I made a component for my DS called “chip” with some variants as we can see on this print: The width’s component need to follow their inner content to keep growing on the sides as we can see:but this growing effect (which is possible glad the ‘hug’) need to stop when reach the max width from the chip’s parent container and this, Figma can’t help me. So, th

I think the branching feature is very interesting and I can see it being of great use to my team as we are moving from Adobe XD to Figma. However, I would love to see a search functionality when browsing the branches in See all branches. I can see a potential issue in the future when looking for a specific branch made months ago. My idea is to use a branch for each JIRA ticket and name it accordingly. A search functionality would greatly help with the trackability of each design change.

Ability to create modal windows via "Open Overlay" is very convenient, but it would be nice to be able to use a specific token to darken the background in the "Background" section, so that the user would be able to change the tint or opacity for all modal windows at once, rather than each one individually. 

There is a great feature in Notion called “close redirecting browser tabs” This is a setting that, when toggled on, automatically closes a browser tab when a page open in the desktop app. It would be great if Figma had this feature as well. When I click on Figma links, I end up with lots of browser tabs like this, because the pages open in the Figma desktop app. I would love if these tabs auto-closed.