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As a Linux user I feel really alienated when using Figma! I love Figma and I love Linux (I’m not willing to give either up) - but you can’t seem to do a lot of things with Figma that others can if you choose to run Linux - no desktop app, no plugin development, and now no local fonts? What else? I understand there are sometimes workarounds for things but not being able to use the same things in the same ways as other users (ie: easily and conveniently) is just rude! So I want to use google fonts in my designs. I’m not sure if it’s even the right solution but I find a reference to a font helper and instructions to install it. But when I find the place in Account Settings it tells me…

Figma needs to add a distort/warp text, image, vector feature, a lot like Kittl.com’s distort feature on their platform, it would be really helpful.

When design system maintainers remove a variant from a component, there is a replacement variant that is intended for all current instances of the removed variant to map to. However, currently there isn’t a built-in way in Figma to prompt consumers in their files to make this global update. The missing variant remains as the instance, and there is only a button to “restore component” in the properties panel. My suggestion is to have a “Missing variants” modal, similar to the “Missing fonts” modal, where consumers in their file are prompted to make a decision globally in that file to either keep the removed instance or replace/re-map them to another variant from that component set (or maybe even another component entirely). Quickly mocked up how this could look, following design pattern in “Updates from Main file” modal when resolving conflicts in branches:

The annotation feature in Dev Mode is a game-changer. However, it would be exponentially more useful if each annotation was visibly timestamped so our devs could quickly glean how “new” the annotations (and the changes they’re indicating) are.

I just want to know whether people who have the file open are actually viewing it or the tab is inactive. Very similar to Google Docs, Miro and other collaborative apps.

Hi all, I would appreciate it if i had the option to apply a Figma variable directly from the variables panel. I know this is possible with token studio and it just saves a lot of time because now i need to make the variable, select the layer, find the variable i created and apply it. If i could do a right click from the variables panel and apply to fill, apply to stroke etc - that would be a real benefit to speed up my workflow

Would be nice to drag and drop plugins for example under the export option. Just like photoshop has it with the drag function and the blue highlight bar appears.

We create various components in the library and make screens with a combination of component instances. Currently, we need to write Annotate and Measure functions in the library component in Dev Mode and make them visible in the instance. If multiple designers use Annotate and Measure functions in each project, there is a high possibility that they will write different guides. We need to improve it so that we can manage the guide in one place.

Hi, I have a suggestion to display all related tokens of the component and link them with each other, so developers would be able to automatically locate the relations between tokens (click on one token and be redirected to the ‘parent’ token). Would be also very helpful to export tokens to code (keeping in mind they can be defined in different files). Example: we have defined company brand colors (that change really rarely), then app colors (that use only some of brand colors and will change from time to time), then created semantic colors (they use part of app colors, can change more frequently) — all of them are connected with each other and defined like variables in different files. Unfortunately in dev mode we don’t see the relations between tokens (we see only the last level token) so developers should manually find the relations — that is really annoying as we have big color palette. Developers want to define in the code the similar color logic as we have created in Fi

It would be very helpful for UX Researchers to organize their research on Figjam just like on Figma. Multiple pages would be very helpful for us doing research stuff to have a clear navigation on the steps in doing our research. Thanks!

Currently unused nested components still show up in the layer list (as “hidden”). In Dve Mode they show up “normal”. The ask is not to show them with the closed eye icon as “hidden” but instead do not to display them in the layers list at all.

Add special window for refinement notes, to get them from there right into Refinement table. No one will see your thoughts before you share it. The interface would be more ergonomic

On the “Members” page of the admin section, it’s possible to filter the list by one or more criteria. One of these filters is “seat type”, with the values “viewer”, “full”, and “viewer-restricted”. The problem is, the “seat type” filter doesn’t really do anything: Filtering by “viewer” shows both “viewer” and “viewer-restricted” seats. As a result, it’s not possible to distinguish which people could be upgraded by anyone vs. those whose upgrades require admin approval. Filtering by any value applies the value to any seat type (design, dev, FigJam). So it’s impossible to distinguish between who has a “full” licence for design seats vs. dev seats vs. FigJam seats. “Full” shows anyone who has a full licence for anything. Worse, since our organization has a policy to set “viewer-restricted” for FigJam, selecting either “viewer” or “viewer-restricted” filters (see my first point, just above) shows… everyone. The “Members” page was already a bit difficul

I use my drafts to spin up quick Ideas I might want to mock up in HTML and dont want to commit those files to the company folder structure since they are drafts. The only way i can go and view properties now is if I share the doc with myself on another account.

In the new annotations feature in dev mode, the annotations get minimized into an almost unnoticeable dot. I frequently have developers who are moving fast and miss notes even when called out larger. I shouldn’t have to expect my engineers to zoom in to 200% to see that there are multiple notes because only one is shown by default. I’d like for there to be a toggle on/off or something more prominent when minimized that shows there are annotations that must be reviewed. In its current state I likely won’t use annotations because it won’t be prominent enough and I’ll go back to the old manual way of leaving notes.

Frames sometimes work as folders, would be great to be able to create pages inside pages.

I already unchecked all email notifications and I still get them after a few weeks. Please add an unsubscribe button in your emails. Thank you! 😃

Hi! I’ve been learning how to prototype using Figma and I couldn’t find a proper way to use Smart Animation with an Instant Transition for unmatched layers. The only workaround I could think of was using Instant Transition to navigate + an After delay Interaction which triggers the Smart Animation, but it requires a lot of extra frames and configuration. I think it would be nice to have this feature in the future. If it’s currently supported, I apologize and greatly appreciate it if you can tell me how. Here’s a playground I’ve made to demostrate it better: https://www.figma.com/file/UrYrZnXlLu9cY4YLgAuqwR/Instant-Transition-support-for-Smart-Animate?type=design&node-id=0%3A1&mode=desig

Hi, We just realized that this marvelous feature can be quite confusing. Showing Status in the Pages preview looks like there are subpages, especially in our case (see photo) but also in general. Also combined with this request it could make sense to add ‘mixed’ icon in the Pages preview beside of all requested ones.

It would be great to have the possibility to align selected Preferred values. I have a simple component (a row for settings for mobile app). The title is on the left and the button (component) is on the right side. I add some other Preferred values to the button but when I change the button with Toggle (for example) I can’t set its alignment. The button is wider than the toggle. When I swap them, the toggle displays in the center of the place where a button was. PS I tried putting the button in auto layout with align set to the left but it didn’t work PPS I understand that this feature was more for using different icons but it would be useful to upgrade it

Is there any solution to disable this feature? It’s very annoying!

If I click on ‘add child’ on ‘Lorem Ipsum’, I expect it to be in between ‘Lorem Ipsum’ and ‘Amet’ as ‘Dolor Sit’. But instead, it adds as a sibling to ‘Amet’. It would be better to have two different options, the current ‘add child’ and ‘add in between’. Significance? - Imagine there are 50+ items next to ‘Amet’ Note: This is from Mind Map widget

Hi I suggest that Figma includes a “Copywriter” permission level, allowing designers to grant edit access to copywriters for text editing only, preventing displacement of elements. This would enhance collaboration between designers and copywriters, who play a vital role on product teams.

So, we have Frames, Groups, and Sections, but I am still missing something. The next level of structuring: swim lanes to get a better overview of users in a flowchart. I’ve recorded what I mean from another software, and it’s pretty spot on! The neat feature is that the label of the swim lane remains fixed to the left when zooming and moving up and down the lanes. This makes it very easy to see where I am in the user flow as a specific user. Problem Definition: It is difficult to see which user in a flowchart I’m looking at. There is a need to have a prefix on every Section or Frame that clarifies which user the actual screen correlates to, i.e., Resident login screen, Supplier login screen. Request: Possibility to create a Swimlane, just like a Section but where the name gets fixed to the left when panning/zooming the canvas. And maybe later on, the possibility to collapse and expand swim

I saw where on the new Figma update, there’s a light/dark mode. I don’t see it on mines. I have the PROFESSIONAL Version