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The title just about summarizes my issue. Developers until recently had access to ruler measurements and annotations with their Dev Mode seats. Recently, these tools were stripped from them. I don’t understand why only designers can measure distances or leave annotations, so long as they are not editing files, why should Devs be unable to annotate or inspect files using the tools Figma designed for Devs to inspect files?Good design practice in Figma often requires us to build things differently than they would be built with actual HTML/CSS. with Autolayout in mind, it’s better to determine the space between objects rather than apply padding to the top of Divs as many devs would do. However, when a dev wants to measure the total space between elements, they should be able to use rulers to make the measurement THEY need and not the one Figma decided they should have. Why were these tools stripped from Developers? We’re already on an Organization plan, paying quite a lot of money. They we

As per this discussion - How to disable 'observe' mode - #5 by Dave2 - I think it would be useful to be able to turn off ‘observe mode’. It is very annoying being watched while I work, unless I specifically am trying to share/demonstrate something. It is the digital version of someone looking over your shoulder. I dont want to have to remove people’s permissions from the file just to stop them digitally stalking me.

Hi there,I’d like to propose a feature that allows individual sections to exist within a parent section, with the ability to collapse and expand them via an accordion-like function. The default state would be closed—similar to an index—so that child sections are only visible when expanded.Currently, it’s challenging to guide developers to the correct layers because the default open view doesn’t always reveal all sub-sections, which can make navigation and referencing less intuitive. This feature would help improve clarity and streamline collaboration.

Hi Figma team,I’m working with a central design system library that uses variables for colors, typography, spacing, etc. The challenge I’m running into is how to customize those variables per project/client without editing the library file.Here’s the workflow I’d love to have: In the library file, components are built using semantic variables (e.g., Brand / Primary, Text / Default). In a project file, I create local variables with the same semantic structure but mapped to project-specific brand values. I want to be able to relink or remap library variables to my local variables, so that when I update the local variable values, all linked components automatically update. Right now, even if I duplicate the variable structure locally, components still reference the library’s variable IDs, and there’s no way to swap or remap them to my local set. The only options are: Manually rebind variables one by one (tedious), or Carry all brands inside the library as modes (not scalable when wo

Please kindly add native support for custom-assignable keyboard shortcuts within the Desktop App. I currently cannot add any custom keys and our workflows would be greatly improved with this essential feature. Thank you! 🙏🏼🌊Computer: Mac Studio M1 | OS 15.3.1

When selecting semantic tokens/variables for colors, you can’t search by section name—this is a HUGE MISS. For example, if I need a color for inputs and type “inputs,” in the color selector, the system doesn’t surface the variables you’ve grouped under that section. That feels like an obvious expectation. On top of that, actually locating these colors is incredibly frustrating when selecting a color. Whenever I’m building something new in a complex design system, this becomes one of the biggest pain points. It’s like there wasn’t any UX done for this. 

In a Design file I can create structure and hierarchy for my font styles by using a naming convention that leverages a “/”. However, even if it’s the same naming convention, this doesn’t result in the same outcome in Slides (in Design. Mode or Slides Mode). In a Slide file in Slide mode, I see the whole name in a list with no hierarchy applied. In a Slide file in Design Mode, I just see a list with no hierarchy in the dropdown + the prefix before the “/” is cut off. But then when I select it… it shows up in the panel… It’d be great to haver a similar behavior in Slides as in a native Design file…  

Currently, when working in Libraries, Figma picks up changes and in the modal to Publish, you are basically forced to Publish any changes that Figma picks up. There’s no way to “reject” those changes. This adds a layer of complexity because Figma doesn’t say how things got changed, it just says that something changed. So often times, we’re not sure why Figma is saying it got changed when visually things look the same. We also keep our editor list rather small but it happens often where I log in the morning, see there are changes, ask the team did anyone make changes, and they all say no they didn’t do anything. From that point on, there’s nothing to do but publish those changes which has negative downstream effects to our entire design org who uses our libraries. They see that they need to update their libraries but for no good reason. We do add comments when we publish so we have to say stuff like nothing actually changed, Figma is just picking up changes when there are none. Does any

The comments feature is very handy amongst the colleagues. It would be nice if the comments bubbles would stick to the object instead of sticking to the position within the frame. Since we are moving stuff around ( adding or subtracting elements ) the comments made should stick to the proper parts of the design. Otherwise, when we move things around, the comments don’t make sense anymore because they do not relate to the object’s new position.

It doesn’t look like there’s an obvious way to change the order of exposed nested instances. Right now the order seems to be based on reverse layer order. It’d be great if the order can be manually adjusted.

Just putting this suggestion here for the ability to indicate what symbol / value to add to the end of truncated text instead of just the ellipsis (...)Technically there is support for this in code via the text-overflow CSS property, so it might be good to also bring that functionality within Figma Design.Additionally, hoping it could also be possible to change the way text is truncated, where we wouldn't be limited to just text lines, and have the ability to switch to set the truncation via number of characters in the text layer.

 안녕하세요. 초보자가 “MAKE”에서 웹을 개발하다 보면 너무나 많은 버전 히스토리로 인해 웹페이지 로딩이 느려지고 있습니다. 이미 FIGMA 팀의 도움을 한번 받은적이 있는데,앞으로 자주 사용하다 보면 매번 FIGMA 팀에 도움을 요청하기가 부담스러울것 같기도 하고,시간적인 소요도 제법 있는것 같습니다. 사용자가 스스로 버전 히스토리를 삭제 할수 있는 기능을 구현하는건 어떨까요?

Is it possible to add comments in Figma, I shared the prototype to few folks wondering if there is a comment feature.

Hello,We currently are creating annotations utilizing the native Figma annotations tool, but we also need to recreate the annotations to create a format that we can export to pdf for client review and approval. If we could make it possible to turn on Annotations and have them visible along with the frame elements, so they could be proofed by others not within Figma that could be exported as a hard copy, that would be an amazing feature. Currently we need to move them every time the layout shifts. It isn’t very user friendly.

Is there any plan to be able to create the gradient itself as a variable? For example, if I wanted some themes to have a solid background variable but others to have a gradient?

I have been playing around with creating variables but realized I would rather have groups in separate collections, but cannot move them. I would like to be able to duplicate an entire collection so I don’t have to manually re-create values and can remove what I don’t need from that collection OR simply be able to move groups into other collections.

Lately, I’ve been trying out asking Make’s model for design feedback and collaborate on ideas, BEFORE I want to make actual (code) changes. This is a good workflow people use with more experience with prompting.Unfortunately, I’ve noticed that when I ask it to “not make any changes” because I’m asking for ideas first, it just gets stuck on “Reasoning...” 😅 💡 Proposed solutionHaving a Chat Mode that can be toggled, similar to Lovable, would probably be a nice user-friendly way to provide this type of functionality, without having to prompt for it.

Kind of what this says really. Figma Make is a brilliant tool even in Beta.I have a workflow of taking screenshots from Make and putting them into FigJam and sketching over them with my iPad, so it would be great to have the copy to PNG function that exists across the other products (even if it was an interface button). It’s also useful when needing to paste a screen back into the chat to provide feedback.In terms of working with Cursor it has great conversion of images. Ideally there needs to be a way to export all screens (or a selection) to an image folder. At the moment it’s painful having to take screenshots and then deal with the external organisation of these. Exports should have some form of naming logic too (date, time, screen, etc...)

I’ve been playing around with converting figjam notes into slides. Would be great if Figjam could talk to the custom templates. For example, a sticky labeled insight #1 should use the Insight slide format from this Custom Template

If you open a lot of projects the tab strip gets crowded. Chromium browsers solved this by allowing to group tabs, maybe Figma could do the same ?

It looks like there’s only one input field in the settings to set the language, and there isn’t a button to add multilingual variants. What should I do to create a variant in another language? Or can I handle it another way by directing to different URLs? For example, I want users with their system language set to English to open mydomain.com, and Spanish-speaking users to open mydomain.com/es.

It is unfortunate that the ability to export assets is tied to the ability to copy code. My developers need to be able to copy code from my mocks in dev mode but it would be best to be able to separately NOT allow asset export to force development to pull the assets from our internal repository.

Right now, overlays in prototypes only work if the trigger and the overlay frame exist on the same page. This creates big limitations for real-world workflows: Many teams work with a WIP page for ongoing design and a Presentation page for final client delivery. Moving frames between pages breaks all prototype connections. Centralizing overlays in a dedicated page is not possible, since prototype actions cannot target frames outside the current page. This forces designers to duplicate overlays on every page, which is error-prone and makes maintenance harder. 👉 Feature request: Please allow prototype links (including overlays) to reference frames across pages, with persistent connections that don’t break when moving components or screens between pages.This would massively improve scalability for large prototypes and save hours of re-wiring interactions every time we restructure or clean up pages.

So, in our design system we want to apply variables to our text styles to ensure consistent letter spacing. Since we want to use different letter spacing depending on the mode (light mode/dark mode), we’d like to apply these variables to the text style and assign different values to them.However, as Figma uses percentages for letter spacing, it’s not really possible to achieve this properly. Variables can’t hold percentages, and therefore we can’t fully make use of this feature at the moment.I hope Figma will soon allow us to choose the format we want to use for letter spacing globally.Does anyone have a solution for this problem?

Publishing and updating has become more specific and more powerful (I think) with each update. It also has become more cumbersome equally with each update. We publish/update every 2 minutes if we’re unlucky and that takes a lot of clicks currently. Go to the right tab in the library, open the publish, pick what to publish, avoid the extremely subtle “Make” banner, click the right button, etc. etc. etc.. Updating is the same.So I would love to just have a magic button that does it all for me on the highest level. Although I’m sure there are plenty of edge cases where this idea might fail, but for me it would be great to click the magic button and having it publish all tabs that are open, have changes and are a library. At the same time, update all open tabs that use one of these libraries.Food for thought?