Suggest a Feature

Hello! Here is some quick feedback from a new user! I notice you have a too low contrasts for gray text. That makes it quite hard for me to read. It would be very nice if you could improve the contrasts a notch. Here is an example: Thanks!

Is everyone else using Figma to create and showcase branding PDFs / Brand Identity PDFs for simplicity reasons ? Ok maybe I’m alone but I have been doing this for a while and I’ve always had trouble with the exports. My problems : Way too heavy files Some clients can’t see some of the slides The is no export window to play with settings. What I suggest → bring us the good old PDF export window that we can find in InDesign or any other software, so we can enjoy the final process of handling a fresh document to a client. Thanks for adding to the discussion !

When can we use the Figma Plugin API to drop Figma Widgets on canvas, this can be tremendously useful in creating a scaffold for designers to use, and grouping all useful plugins (atleast ones available within an org) to improve readability of the file, and discoverability of the plugins.

The Explore Community button is not easy to track due to the white color, same as the main color on the platform. Please differentiate it from the rest and make it easier to find it. 😃 Thank you!

It be great to see some sort of integration from Loop in to Figma. Bring in a loop component would be a great way to cut down on context switching between Loop where we do a lot of planning and writing briefs for Design sprints etc…

Wouldn’t it be cool to bring all features Adobe has to Figma? I know it’s a lot, just wanted to see if you guys are working on it. The Figma UI would end Adobe Illustrator easily. ☺️

This isn’t just an Idea. Consider it a feature request, as it is painful not to have this in Figma. 🤕 When discussing design options with a team, we often try to sketch ideas or highlight parts of the design as we discuss or review designs. However, using the current pencil feature brings a mess to the designs (it’s hard to remove all those lines from the designs, and sometimes small “lines” or “dots” can be missed). Adding a specific Brainstorm/Annotate mode (similar to how it works in Zoom) would be great so users can switch it on and annotate and sketch their ideas and thoughts. If there is a need to save sketches at the end of the discussion. It could be saved as a separate FigJam file.

I’ve found that basic search in Figma doesn’t give the all the files that contains the searching characters. Take a look at this example : I have a file named [SMT] eHandbook I typed the word “handbook” to the search bar but suggested results are nothing related to the word. Only when i type “ehandbook”, the result that i was looking for appeared I expected that the system will give all the files with the name containing the word i typed, but there is no clue to know how it works

In our case, and in many other cases, developers are english-speaking, but work with a product in a different language. This means, that we as designers, create handovers that have both languages available. It would be great, if there were a better way to implement translations into a dev-handover, rather than adding text boxes beneath each frame (which is the current practice).

ability to organize/group prototypes in prototypes panel

A delete option would be very helpful or a recycle bin. Currently if we delete a file it is removed from the system forever. Or a lock option would work as well, where it is impossible to delete a file unless unlocked.

Can we include a feature in dev mode that allows us to view the original style that an alias name is referring to? In our design system, we want to use token names to enhance automation and streamline our process in Figma for designers. However, we have made the decision to avoid using tokens in our code base to prevent conflicts with Tailwind utility classes. Developers are not concerned about the alias name itself, but rather require the color class utility that it points to in the ordinal scale. To address this issue, I am currently implementing a workaround by appending the ordinal number to the alias name, separated by a pipe divider. This helps developers understand the position of the color on the ordinal scale. One potential solution is to enable a hover-over functionality on the alias name in dev mode, allowing users to view the reference style. Alternatively, we could consider adding an option in the hex dropdown to switch to the reference style, which would also help resolve

Autolayout and variables work very good togheder, but it’s a pity we are stuck in using pixels. It would be a game changer if we could tokenize values in %, fr, rem and so on. Keeping the design really true to handoff means we must have the ability to use relative measures

Figma team, let’s have a chat. The Vision Pro is incredible. Can we please have a native visionOS app? If anyone can show designers how we should be designing for this new platform, it’s you. Show us how it’s done. Spatial Figma app.

Can we get Layout Grids for Sections? I use Layout Grids to organize my component variants, documentation boards, etc to quickly position annotations and specs alongside design elements within Component Variant Sets and Frames. However, with the introduction of Sections, I could get away from another level of nesting in frames if I just had the ability to use Layout Grids as well.

In addition to dev mode, I wish I could just look at the property tab that viewers can see. This would allow me to stay in the same overall space and see what I am selecting. Jumping into dev mode is possible, however, something about it is less convenient.

The new upgrade requests page is much better, but it’s still kind of tedious for large teams. I always have to copy the requester’s email address first before I click “Approve”, then go to the “Members” tab and search the email address again so I can assign workspace and billing group to them. It would be a more natural experience to just assign and approve in the same “Request detail” view.

From my experience, Designers do most of the annotation, red marking, and adding developer resources/links. Constantly switching between Dev and Design mode is annoying and inefficient. Selfishly, I would like to see all the Dev tools inside the regular “Designer mode”.

I would like to add a feature to Figma for the admins to use: Adding Job titles to the members and being able to write your own upgrade reasons We have a lot of people from our company joining Figma, but because we are quite large (2500+ people) it is hard to oversee who has joined Figma for what reason. We have to keep a list of people that joined Figma that actually have a role as Business Analyst or Product Owner, but do the work of a designer as well. Having to keep a list manually is a lot of work and if we would be able to filter on certain roles and check their upgrade reasons it would be super beneficial. Thanks!

I know that MAC computers may accept .SVG format for their icons, but Windows and HTML still only accept .ico formats. There are simplified converters and even a plug-in for Figma that allows the convertions to .ico, but they still doesn’t support multiple sizes unlike standard .ico files does. Would be nice if we could get a feature to generate scalable .ico files which today to my knowledge, may only be found in GIMP.

Hi There, When new layout grid is added and set the transparency as 100%, the components on the desktop will be covered. Pic: grid layout transparency 100% covered other components I think the layout grid should be always the most back layer and should never cover other components. What do you think? BR, Bruce

At the moment, you can multiselect variables and batch-apply the scoping to them. However, every time a new variable is created after that, we have to remember to manually apply the scoping to those. It woudl be great if we could just decide at the group level “everything in this bucket should be used for border only”. Additionally, it would be nice to attach a description to the group. We are using the term “foreground” as a catch-all for text and icon variables. But those who are not used to it are continuing to search for “text” as a variable name (and finding nothing).

I annotate designs in Figma extensively for developer handoff (behaviors, interactivity, important callouts, etc). Right now, it’s frustrating that annotations are treated as design elements (get sucked into a frame, cant cross multiple frames easily.) I also typically duplicate all screens to show one set with annotations, and one “clean” set that represents the actual look of the interface. I propose an “annotation layer” that can be toggled on and off quickly, where drawn elements are not bound by frames but can freely be superimposed on any design. Comments accomplishes some of this, but I need to draw arrows and other visual elements when comments aren’t adequate. This would also allow me to use a single set of screens for annotated and “clean” designs

Hello, I know that we can right click on a tab and then select “Reload” from the menu, but it would be much easier if there would be a keyboard shortcut, especially while using a Keyboard and/or Mouse that have app-specific configuration for certain buttons (e.g. Logitech Master MX where I could set button 3 - press on the scroll wheel - to Reload the Figma tab). It would probably be a good idea to include the “Reload” somewhere in the menu or as a button somewhere in the UI. Thanks in advance!

We love using Figma for user testing, however it poses privacy risks. In the past, I once observed someone logging back into the prototype and taking screenshots with their phone after the test ended. We use Lookback and prepare a Figma prototype link to share ahead of time for each participant so we’re not scrambling beforehand. We prefer this so that we don’t force our participants to sign up for a Figma account, which would seem unnecessary and would put people off. I found a plugin called Crypto, but it only creates one password that can’t be changed, even when deleted and re-adding to the prototype. We’d love to have some sort of password option we could change between participants for the public link.