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Hello! Please consider changing the combination, because it’s hard to type an uppercase letter “D” now. I should type lowercase “d” first instead DevMode is activated 🥲

The component properties panel in UI3 is extremely difficult to parse when you have a complex component with nested overrides. Currently the only thing that differentiates a section header from a component prop name is the font-weight, making the sections blend into the list of component props and making it difficult to find the section you need. Making the section titles darker than the prop names would help with scanablitity.

When using UI2, pressing K to go into Scale mode and then pressing the Tab key would focus the width input, and pressing Tab again focuses to height input, for quick width and height adjustments. In UI3 this behaviour is changed, so that pressing Tab is focusing the anchor point selection, which makes this interaction worse, breaking muscle memory. I believe there is no need to change this in the new UI, as it is making the UX worse.

The layers panel feels noisier, the updated frames icon is hard too see.

Adding several properties to an annotation in DevMode is currently quite repeating: for each property, the “+ Property” has to be clicked again. Solution idea → hold Shift (or any other helper key) + click property adds clicked property, but keeps the dialog open.

We have an issue on our Figma in which we are still encountering an issue on our Figma pages. We have updated our font style to Avenir, and ever since we made this update, we keep having alignment issues with the text. For example, in the attached video (skip to 0:40s), the spacing of two sections is both set to 2, but they keep getting misaligned. The alignment corrects itself once we click on the text box. However, this is only a temporary fix. Each time we reopen the Figma file, the misalignment returns, requiring us to manually click every text box to realign them. video link: Unique Download Link | WeTransfer This has become quite time-consuming and frustrating. To avoid this ongoing issue, can you please investigate what might be causing this problem in Figma and provide a solution?

In the previous version, we could select nested layers with the ctrl + right button, but this functionality is absent in the present version. This is not user-friendly. Now we have to select layer option and then we have to choose the nested layer it is very annoying.

The current tiny blue dot of unread comments in combination with the slight faded text color of the read comments, in the right-hand sidebar, are too subtle to quickly distinguish. Please come up with a design where unread comments stand out more 😉 🙏

Similar to adobe and other design software—you can make the tool adapt to your workflow. Why can’t we re-position modules on the right panel? I really hate that “component” is now above the “position/size properties”. I 1000% prefer position to be pinned to the top with component controls following. I use position/size controls all the time on a variety of projects, and the fact that it moves around now is very unhelpful and slows things down. But why can’t everyone have it all? By allowing these modules to have standard stacked preset, as well as user-specified stacks?

I used to love editing vectors in Figma, to the point that I’m not even sure that I know how to use Illustrator anymore. But UI3 made the workflow for editing shape dramatically worse and cumbersome, adding steps to what once was right at our hands. Here’s a few things I miss from before that I hope gets fixed/reintroduced on UI3: Arrow keys to add/remove polygon and star count. These shortcuts seem to be gone and just don’t do anything now. Quick access to vector boolean operations. These were moved to the sidebar, way too far away from the toolbar which seems to be a more appropriate place for them to live, since it’d be close to the shapes menu. Also, they completely vanish when you select a shape? (see screenshot)

Could be super useful, i think, to have a selection tool similar to AutoCad. Depending from which way (left or right) you select your object, it will either select the individual elements or the whole object. Also it could be cool to have a free hand selection tool like AutoCad as well.

I want to create an icon set with ‘corner radius’ tokens via number variables to change the roundness of an icon by changing the mode. Example: I have a rectangle and I want to give each corner a different corner radius token via number variables to change only the mode and slightly increase the roundness for a huge bunch of icons. how the variables could look like Actually, Figma only supports that all corners have the same number variable. I made a gif to visualise the idea. If you could set different ones, the right shape would change as well.

All - In a perfect world I’d like to convert my Figma designs to vscode and MUI. I have gone through all the recommendation videos I can find but any suggestions are welcome. One thing I want to confirm - does it matter what design kit I use? For example, there is a dedicated kit for MUI but it is much less robust than others so I’d rather not use it unless I is the best way to create MUI code. I really appreciate any help

There is currently no way to see the current page in the Figma UI when the Pages section is collapsed. When you have a lot of pages and/or you have similar pages this gets confusing. Keeping the whole Pages section open is often a waste of valuable vertical space. Space that’s very useful for the Layers section. Maybe Figma can show the current page name somewhere in the UI? Maybe above the current file name? Or somehow in the Pages section? (not the prettiest solution)

Our development team (who only have view and devmode access) have complained that when trying to inspect components with complex interactions (ie: interactions buried inside layers), they simply have no idea the interactions exist without the designer placing myriads of comments or writing documentation to explicitly illustrate this which entirely defeats the purpose of devmode. I agree with the team that this is counter-intuitive and there should be a better visual indication of where a developer needs to inspect in order to see these interactions. At this point in time only a user with edit access can actually see the interaction pathways visually, and that’s simply not good enough.

It would be super nice to be able to manage and apply by default custom FigJam color palettes. The same way we can now manage Libraries and Fonts on an organisation level (admin panel). It’s possible to set a custom palette on a team level, but why not on an organization level?

I have created a product development page. I want to invite the entire team and all employees of the entire company to this page in order to make a huge complete roadmap of all the tasks for the company that will have to be done over the next few years. since all employees must be on the page, it is necessary to be able to configure access rights for each piece of information on the same page.

为什么figma的variables不能对每一列中的单元格单独支持编辑表述？ 我想对这红圈标注出来的 变量 添加描述，但是我找不到哪里可以添加，因此我只能对这一整行的变量添加描述。这很不方便。 难道没人和我有同样的需求嘛？

I would like to be able to configure a short cut to be able to navigate through the tabs “All” “Assets” or “Plugins & Widgets”. Massive cognitive load on remembering which plugins are installed or to find them again. Minimum requirement would be to have a “filter: Installed plugins”.

Use case: I have POs with view access account and devs with dev mode accounts and none of then can see integrations without actually entering presentation mode and clicking through. It is time consuming and even this can be unambiguous, and lead to errors. There should be a mode to see interaction lines without going to presentation mode.

This would be really helpful to be open to guest collaborators. We are on a professional plan and have tried to use Figma for brainstorming sessions or workshops that involve outside collaborators - these collaborators only need access to one file for a limited amount of time, and currently with both FigJam and Figma it’s not possible to do so without adding another editor. We’ve had great feedback from those that we have done sessions with and we would love to have some possibility of adding guest passes for outside collaborators that allow them to view and edit a file, without needing to add them as an editor and allow them to access other project files and such.

Very often i find myself recording my screen to add a preview of my interactions in presentations. If an image is worth more than a thousand words, a video lasting 1 second is 24.000 words.

We have components where we update the copy to be specific to a certain design. When we implement library updates that are style changes (i.e. change in color or font size), some but not all of the copy gets reset to the default. This is super annoying and also inefficient as we have to go back and edit files every time we update our library styles.

In the latest update, it took me a while looking for the “go to main component” command which was in this menu. Magically i found out that it is hidden under the library name lol. I have heard in the last ConFig 2024, you guys told that you redesign things not to let user waste time look for hidden buttons that would show while hovering. You may have made the UI clean, but it is way toooooooo confusing. I am thinking you skip UX while design this UI3, or you were giving this to some intern to be in charge. I believe most of designers hate UI3 as I hate it. I suggest to bring back the component menu in toolbar.

On the left panel, when the pages section is collapsed there is no clue on which page you are. I liked how you had the name of the page in the old UI on the top right of the panel and looked like a dropdown to open it again. Can you add the name somewhere when is it collapsed?