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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

When working with Figma, most of the time i would like to maximize my canvas as much as possible. working with an external screen is great, but sometimes its not enough, or even an option that does not exist. Most of the time my layers panel is collapsed since it is rarely being used. but the actions panel is being used quite constantly, mostly due to the fact that i need to adjust properties in my ready-made components. What if there was an option to keep the properties accessible without the need of the right side panel? lets say when selecting a component with properties, an icon or some other interaction would allow me to change these properties “on the fly” maybe something like this example: This would free up so much needed canvas space and also allow for quicker components adjustment Just to make my argument stronger, when right clicking on a component, users can change the instance and the property (variant) but this menu is dug very deep and requires to many interactions to m

We all do this, we all probably have a page called “Cover” or “Thumbnail” to hold the precious file thumbnail in our Figma design files. But when you think about it, why should this component take place in our well organized pages panel? Wouldnt it be nicer if there was a dedicated space for the thumbnail to be set as part of the design file “configuration”? for example (and sorry for using the “old” ui here 😇) This will lead users to a dedicated space where they can add an art board with the desired graphics and set it as a thumbnail (or maybe it will just happen automatically? who knows!)

When you move a layer to the folder, this object is always located at the top in the list of layers of this folder. And if you make a condition, if the layer is dragged on top of this folder, then the file will be at the top, if the layer is dragged from the bottom of the folder, then the layer will be located last in the folder.

Suggestion: Add Paste to replace function on UI3

Would be very useful when trying to apply different “branding” or styles using variables to be able to apply font styles as well. Currently we can only add numbers, colours, string, boolean.

To be able to scrub on the zoom amount to change the zoom size without having to click the field or type a number in and without the dropdown menu coming out.

How am I supposed to build muscle memory with UI 3 if elements keep shifting depending on what’s selected? In the previous UI, all essential controls—position, size, and clipping—were consistently located at the top, and their looks rarely change. In theory regrouping properties based on their type is a cool idea but in reality it create so much friction as it takes an extra moment to reorient with each new selection. and having all properties contained in boxes isnt helping. Please consider either restoring the previous structure or providing an option to use the old structure. While I could revert to the old UI for now, it’s unclear how long that option will remain available.