Suggest a Feature

I am playing with colors for a project. It would be nice to have variables per artboard so I could make color variables that are scoped to an artboard. This would allow users to play with colors and have the colors on the page live update rather than having to set them at the file level which could be harder to manage.

Keeping pace with new Figma feature updates (and all its existing ones) is tough. I’d love to see a little optional, contextual onboarding/popup prompting me to learn about just one new Figma feature each time I open the app. Featured features in the tool could be as simple as a useful keyboard shortcut, or something more substantial. It could maybe have a ‘Useful?’ feedback button to inform future topics. If this already exists and I just missed/dismissed it, would love to hear!

I’m loving the new “ready for dev” and “completed” feature, it allows me to clearly keep myself up to date with how things are advancing. I unfortunately work with all form factors, and that includes TV where I have to collaborate with four different teams, which makes this feature sadly not that useful in the end. It would be very useful to have this status feature set to different teams or at least have a way to see which team has marked this completed - and when everybody has marked it as completed, it really says “completed” or something else - because right now I would have the Samsung team marking this has completed, but the other teams would still be working on it and won’t have the possibility to do the same when done. And I really don’t see myself creating 3 copies of the same design for each team every time.

I’d like to be able to change the settings (device, fit/fill/size, enable shortcuts, hide UI, and possibly set the default transition and scrolling type) for all of the prototypes in a file in one place, rather than on each flow or page in a file. If not a single menu, having an “apply changes to all flows” button or something would help a lot!

Label Dear Figma team, please develop a preview image display feature for changing icons with instances like the current image which is not available and it is very inconvenient to change.

Variables are incredibly powerful and enjoyable to work with. It’s astonishing how swiftly flexible designs with multiple themes can be created. However, the variables pop-up is challenging to work with. It appears to have been designed in Figma and implemented by the dev-team “as specified.” Converting a complex theme with tens or hundreds of nested style-colors feels like torture: The pop-up should be resizable. The narrow column width for multiple modes will make links unreadable. The color pop-up should remember which tab was changed from “Custom” to “Library.” It would be excellent if color-styles could be dragged from the Local-Styles list in the inspector into the variables pop-up.

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Right now, you have to import one picture/file at a time. It feels very tedious.

Hello Figma team! Firstly, I want to praise you for the new Figma interface, it looks beautiful! I just wanted to share some ideas I had while using it: The vector editing mode is very hidden, I have to access another menu to find it, in the old interface it was more visible. I think it would be interesting if I could pin some plugins so they can be easily accessed on the plugins page. That’s it, thanks for your attention. 😉 🙃

Hey Figma Team I would like to see a feature where we can surface the “Missing Variant” errors in the design file. I usually publish new changes from the Library but when I go to a Design File and accept the new updates some don’t update the component which is fine but it’s quite tedious to select the individual components to find these errors. I would recommend to have like a dropdown for the Library icon to have the option to “Show Missing Variants” and it will just give me a small window with a list of components that failed to update.

The idea would be to have a sidebar in the home page similar to the one you see in files where you could see the members of your team and when you click on one of their profile picture, it opens the file they are working on, similar to the “follow X” on files but it would open the file they have open and are working on. It could be used for easy and quick access to files when you have lots of them or for teamwork.

Can we have an option to lock the grid layout for parent frame?

Hi there, I understand you all may be possibly working on a fully fledged iPad app. I wanted to suggest a much lighter lift interim that would make it easier for us as designers in the meantime. Please consider adding the necessary hooks to support the Figma site being added as a bookmark to the Home Screen on iOS (effectively making it a web app). This involves adding a few files that specify what is saved to local storage and how the browser treats the experience. This would allow the bookmarked app to run without a URL bar for a more full screen experience.

Hello, I am working on a feature for one of our existing applications. Standard behavior for modals/overlays is to close when a user taps outside. However, for this interaction, I would like to show a warning modal if they tap outside the main modal, rather than simply closing. I’m not seeing a way to easily accomplish this. Could we create the ability to customize “click outside”?

Each time when I need something in community, but have just opened Figma I need to open this tab again and click around 5 times until I find it. Why is it dissapearing after reopening figme? A mystery to me.

I’ve recently moved from Sketch to Figma. Our System Design of Al Jazeera Media Network’s news website is huge. I was able to successfully migrate it completely in a very short time. It was a great migration project. I too much miss the feature of moving a selected layer by clicking option+command and dragging anywhere in the canvas. I can’t tell how important is this feature. I am about to cry 🙂 … Hopefully someone from Tech team in Figma takes it in consideration

Issue: When embedding prototypes in Figma slides (or just design frames with scroll group / overflow content) it’s easy to miss the desired target and instead click the slide, which then changes the next slide. Annoying when showcasing a new prototype/design to an audience. Solution: Make it possible for the presenter to decide which input is needed to change slide, eg. only arrow keys, so mouse clicks only changes frames/prototypes elements and not slide deck.

So the side panel hides when you press "Shift + " which is perfect if you like a full screen experience. I find two problems with that. Some times I want to check the pages inside the panel. What I currently do is pressing the shortcut again and navigate the panel, which is ok, but it would be nice to hover over the left hand side region, or the title of the side panel that remains and temporarily display the left side panel. An other workaround is by pressing the “fn+up/dwn arrows” which works like a charm. The problem with this though is that I do not know in which page I am each time. It would be nice with this shortcut to either activate the above described temporary functionality or to write the name of the page somewhere.

Having only backspace to delete a slide causes me to delete a lot of slides on accident and then panic to undo and get them back. I suggest adding a combination command to delete, like Shift + Backspace.

I have an idea for working with components. What if we add a checkbox that lets us choose whether to apply changes to the text or just to the component’s style, without affecting the text? Currently, we’re facing issues with complex components and variants. When we update the text in one component, it sometimes causes unintended changes to the text in other components across different screens.

It can be very tricky (impossible) to add a dev mode annotation to a parent element, that has no padding, because the cmd+T tool will always select the child the you click on. Like here, I end up adding the annotation on the third child, but actually I want it to go on the parent with all three elements. Maybe some keyboard shortcut like Shift+Enter in Design mode, that simply moves the selection and annotation up one level.

Previously it was set to be 1920x960, and now is supposedly 1920x1080. This wouldn’t be a problem if the remaining width of the cover was ignored in the actual thumbnail in the file explorer just as before, but now all my covers have black bars up and down. Why this sudden change? The files in the community still have the previous behavior where the search results showed a thumbnail a little bit thinner than the actual cover size when you open the file.

I would like to be able to manually pull a node to another node, see image example of red connector line.

Similarly to what Figma allows to do with Paragraph indent, I’d love to see the paragraph outdent feature. This is well-known typographic technique from print design and it’s time to bring it to Figma.

When replacing a photo using ‘Fill’ and selecting ‘Upload from computer,’ I would love it if the image name could remain the same, instead of being replaced with the current image’s name. I often need to source photos from Figma, and having the original image name helps me keep things organized. This would make things much easier 🙂