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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

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

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 “R

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.

Is it possible to bump up the contrast on the variable token chips when they appear in the fields. They have a very light background and border around them and are near impossible to identify them in the UI when you have dark mode enabled. I understand that the icon buttons have an active state which is very similar if not the same as the hover state background colour, but when you have variables set, in dark mode you can’t really see them clearly in dark mode, and if you have low brightness on you monitor it makes it worse. Could you bump up the background or the icon button border or maybe use a different colour for the variable token chips when they are shown in the UI maybe?

Have the variables drop down shown when free typing into any of the spacing fields. At the moment you have to select the variables icon on hover to access the available variables, but it would be quicker to have those suggestion shown as well you a user clicks any field and starts typing a value to be also be able to see the variables drop down shown to pick from. For instance I might know I needs a sml or 16px spacing value, it’s quicker to activate the field and start typing because the field is a larger hit area then the small icon button to access the variables. It’s also faster from a tabbing perspective to be able to activate a field, type some values to see what variables I have available and then select the one I want. Would even be awesome if I have a value in a field that is exactly the same as an available variable, that it would let me quickly attach and detach the variable the same way you can attach or break a style to an element.

I’ve seen this bug be a thorn in many people’s side for the last 3 years and nothing seems to have been done about it. When prototyping and viewing said prototype, there appears to be no definitive way to get the screens to display in the correct order. If I’m presenting a visual to a client, I need a way to cycle back and forth between screens with ease. My only options at the moment seem to be restarting the prototype or creating hotspots in my design to cycle back to the previous slide. I would heavily suggest that the best and most intuitive way around this bugbear is to have pagination defined by layer order. Allowing the layer panel to be visible in presentation mode, along with a way to jump to a specified screen would save many of us time and reduced mental anguish. Has anyone ever found a plugin that fixes this problem, or at least makes it a less frustrating experience?

I use Figma in read-only mode. When a link appears in the text, it cannot be opened in a new tab. I’ve tried CTRL + click, clicking with the mouse wheel, and searching the context menu for an option. The only way to open a URL without leaving the current tab is to copy the link via the context menu. Perhaps there’s an alternative method to enhance this behavior, such as allowing the user to easily navigate back to the node containing the link.

MAIN PROBLEM: It is difficult for non-designers outside of a Figma ‘team’ to easily browse all the design files within a project to eg. find something specific. SOLUTION: Allow users outside of a Figma ‘team’ to have view-only access the project without having to pay for a seat. If they can have view-only access to the files within the project, surely this is beneficial? THE CURRENT PAIN POINTS: I’m always providing colleagues (non designer or dev) with different urls for different Figma files. My colleagues are not aware of how many files are in the project My colleagues (non designer or dev) do not realise they can navigate pages within a Figma file (even when signposted) so I regularly have to send URLs of each different page when neccesary. I would happily spread these pages out amongst different Figma files IF they could access a project with view-only permissions. My colleagues can not easily see the time stamp eg.

Hey, Some of my files have a lot of pages and I know that I put something in one of these pages a long time ago and now I can’t find it again 🙈 I would like to search for text, layers, components, colors, instances etc. in all created Figma files. I have been able to find a plugin for this so far Thanks a lot