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Problem: When dealing with lots of instances in our files it can be very time consuming to select the correct layer that contains the instance we want to modify. Current workflows: Command + Click on a child layer of an instance, then Shift + Enter until the parent instance is selected Repeatedly double clicking the canvas until the instance is selected Clicking on a child of an instance, and then the “select instance” button in the Design Panel or navigating the Layers Panel Command + Right Click and choose layer from popup menu All the above options require multiple steps and don’t feel efficient (aka supafast!). Suggested Solution: “Instance Select Mode” When this mode is active, the cursor would strongly favor Component Instances when hovering over layers. The smallest instance that exists at the mouse location would be selected when click

The new properties feature is great. However giving it a name past some character length feels crowded and the ellipses do not help. I can scale the UI as documented in here but that does not help us laptop users. So I wish I could resize the panel to better see the name of the property, similar to how I resize the left (layers) panel.

I’m talking about this change: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039234193-Review-and-accept-library-updates Please bring back library update notifications. Tiny little low contrast blue in a corner of a big screen as a sign of libarary updates guarantees that nobody notices to apply updates uness they were the one to make the changes and need them applied immdiately. Library updates were a buggy mess already and this only makes things worse.

Select matching layers seems to ignore hidden layers. I’d love an option (perhaps a checkbox in the settings) to be able to select matching layers whether they’re hidden or not.

Hello, in the same fashion you have the possibility to change multiple colour styles in a document (which is called “selection colors”). It would be great to have a list of the different text styles used inside a text box and be able to change, break or create text styles based on this list.

I don’t see value in being able to sort the property values order independent of the variant order. These lists are identical, why is their order not? I’m tired of manually syncing these two lists.

This is a common mobile interaction so it feels like a big miss to not include it. This has limited my ability to test some things in the app I’m designing which is a bummer.

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We have pretty big design files and several libraries with components and styles. When applying libraries updates, especially if the file is an older one and has a lot of updates queued up, Figma just freezes for a significant amount of time without giving any feedback. It would be much better if there at least was a status message, like “Applying updates, please wait.” Or, ideally, a progress indicator.

Greetings! Can I use Figma on Linux Mint? How do I install it correctly? Are there any special features?

Problem: In the file browser, the only context I have around the contents of the file is the file name. If a file contains multiple pages with multiple types of things, or a lot of different but related things, the filename is probably going to have to be generic in order to even describe the contents of the file. It would be useful to have a description field for individual files in the browser, to more accurately describe the contents of a file. Example: I have a file called “Data Table Improvements Sketching” wherein I have a page for row height exploration, a page for improved filtering pattern exploration, a page for improved pagination patterns, and so on…for many pages. Let’s say I’m also building a library as I work through things, so I can easily swap cell types, cell states, row heights, and so on. I don’t want to put all of these exploration pages into their own files, as I want to keep all of the work in the same place. A

Hi! I got the new notification design for library updates. For context, I’m managing a design system that’s consumed by several other designers. And it’s already difficult for me to get everyone to keep their files up to date, even when you had the “annoying” notification saying there was an update on the bottom right. Honestly this new design that hides it almost completely behind a dot on the top right of the UI is going to bring me a lot of headaches. I’m gonna have to bother the rest of the team announcing every time I push an update, because that notification is sooo subtle. Are there any plans to improve the updating experience to avoid that? Like forcing automatic updates on the design files, or SOMETHING. I’m dreading how out of date all the design files are gonna become. Thanks!

I use Miro for Mindmaps because it has very comprehensive and easy to understand shortcuts to quickly create Mindmaps. Tab to go 1 level deeper. and Enter to create a sibling element. Would love to see the same in FigJam also

With Google Jamboard ending, I want my FigJam to work like Jamboard and be able to present so that my students can see and interact.

Small thing ; but causes frustration nonetheless. Make the Figma search for Plugin / Widget / Component the same as the FigJam search. Every-time I start typing before considering whether its for Widget / Plugin and I have to fix the search. My mental model is to search for components under Assets so I’m never going here for it so it’s also frustrating that it is the default. FigJam has the experience right in my opinion; so Im not sure why this has deviated from it.

It would be super helpful to be able to see when a page was last edited in the pages panel. Also be able to see when a section was last edited.

It used to be possible to select frames outside of a section and align them with frames inside a section. That was super helpful for organizing screens to present without having to place them in the same section. Would love to have that back. Or hear suggestions for how to achieve this without placing things in the same section.

As you may know, you can add alt text to an image while in Dev Mode through the Property field. It would great if we had the ability to add hidden text to contextual elements in the same manner. Right now, we have to either not use the dev mode option and include alt text in the same manner as hidden text, or we have to have alt text in 1 location via Dev Mode and hidden text in Comments or Annotations. Thanks.

This could be a very simple but welcomed adjustment from Figma that could have great impact on the way we work. Hundreds of times a day we select either a color, text or effect style. The problem is the amount of unnecessary scrolling we have to do to get to the values we want to use. It seems like a very simple code adjustment that would greatly speed up our work.

Hi There, sorry if this is repeated feedback but I tried to search for it and couldn’t find one that matched exactly what I wanted to share. I am working on a component that is basically a ListItem with a padding of 12px. But this component has a boolean toggle to activate a secondary line of text and when this happens the padding should be 24px. To do this I have created a variable to change the padding size, but I have to change this manually when toggling on the secondary text line. The suggestion would be to have the Layer Variable directly on the Boolean Property panel so we can link a toggle with the layer variable for this scenario. Like in the screenshot. If this is already possible to do let me know how 🙂 but since I couldn’t find a way to do it I decided to open this suggestion thread.

Hey everyone, not sure if this has been asked before. It would be great if we could save autolayout settings like a style, to keep consistency for things like lists and other ‘laid out’’ UI elements. So everytime you click autolayout, you have the option to apply an auto-layout style that defines spacing, direction, alignment, padding etc… I know you can apply variables, but it’s a manual process for any of the above parameters, and you can make a variable for direction and alignment. I hope it makes sense! Thanx!

Hello all 👋 I was wondering if it’s possible to make a frame adaptable to the browser screen height dynamically when prototyping. I found a plugin (Auto resize height) but no sure if it’s for this purpose, anyway, it’s seems to be broken. Thanks for your help!

Having the ability to create a dataset and then apply that to a component or frame. How? Example: I could have a dataset which would sit alongside variables for colours; each item in the dataset would have a title and hex code. { title: ‘Purple’, hex: ‘#A020F0’ }, { title: ‘Red’, hex: ‘#FF0000’ } Then, you could choose a frame and attach a dataset to the frame; anything inside the frame would automatically apply the data, so now I have two cards inside a frame that have the data applied. Why? One of the annoying things to manage in Figma is components and content. You have to manually go through each element to change and update text or find and replace, but it’s not a simple job. Whereas you could just have a dataset you change, and all designs would update accordingly. I know you could specify string

It’s a pretty straightforward idea. I just copied a color and created a square, but the square was gray, not the color I copied. Would be nice to skip a couple steps.

Currently, you can use prototyping features to change between variants of a component via the “Change to” interaction. However, a component may have properties other than variant properties, i.e., boolean, text, and instance swap. I would like to be able to modify these properties, too, when prototyping. For my specific use case, I have a component with a boolean property that toggles the visibility of a child element. I realize that I could turn this boolean property into a variant property and be able to prototype the desired interaction via “Change to”. However, this would double the number of variants that I have (each existing variant in the off/false state and in the on/true state) which is not desirable, especially if you’re working with several boolean properties and the number of variants will grow exponentially.