Suggest a Feature

Hello, I would like to suggest an idea: When working with others designer simultaneously, it could be handy to add a poll to a comment / thread and let the others give back preferences when we hesitate over multiple concepts.

Figma prototyping desperately needs some more functionality to keep up. It’s good, don’t get me wrong and we can hack a lot of interactions together. If we just got timeline animation (think Principle) it would have the super powers needed to keep up with framer/origami with 1/4 the effort.

Hi y’all. I was thinking, why do the titles for frames scale when you zoom? If I had the option to set them at a fixed point size, that would be nice. For instance, if I wanted to make all of my frame titles stay at 9, then I could input that option in some settings, and then when zooming in and out of the board, the frame titles would stay the same height. I could turn this option off if I wanted. Thank you for considering!

While prototyping, if you draw a connection to a new frame you get a popup with a bunch of transition options like “on click”, “on drag”, “delay”, etc. It can take a bit of time to set this up for each transition. The problem is, every time I draw a new connection, I have to reselect every choice even if all I want to do is create another transition of the same kind. This makes creating long flows, especially those that rely on delays and have a lot of similar screens, really cumbersome to create. Suggestion: Preserve menu selections for each user per project file, don’t reset the popup menu. For example: User creates a new connection and sets it to Delay (10ms), Smart Animate (Ease Out, 100ms). User creates another connection, it is already set to the same settings so the user doesn’t have to do anything more than draw a new connection. (Delay 10ms, Smart Animate: Ease Out 100ms is already set) Include an option to revert this setting and reset the menu, for those who prefer the orig

On the web, we create components based on font-size by utilising the em unit. A Button’s padding or margin, or maybe even fixed height for example is relative to its font-size. This is not possible in figma at the moment, but an essential paradigm in current modern UI/UX design. Small Elements with a single text line can at least have their height (or vertical padding) be font-size relative, by setting a %-based line-height, but this fails on the horizontal axis, where we have no way of making anything font-size relative. This would be fine to be confined to auto-layout for the start imo. Having more relative units that mimic mediums like the web platform would be great in general, but maybe being able to define spacing/padding as 2em to have it relative to font-size would be a good start. Of course implementing the cascade would be even better, but I think confining font-size relative sizing for certain attributes in components would be enough to start. It would bring figma closer to

I think it would be better to have a dedicated ‘Variables’ panel not just a ‘local variables’ button. Fix: View menu boolean to toggle on/off of variables panel or change ‘local variables’ to just ‘variables’. The variables can be segmented by local/library or by filename using a file tree or drop down within the variables panel or modal.

We use Design System components in Figma. When we hand off frames for development, QA also uses them to verify implementation. As the implementation is happening, we might continue working on the project, making additions or changes to the design. While that happens, some master components might change. As we want to keep the number of files for each project to a minimum, we work on the handoff file on a ‘work in progress’ page. This means that if we update our component library (pull the updates for the design system library) or make changes to any master components used in the file, that will automatically update those components in ‘ready for dev’ frames too. If we detach the components, so that they don’t get updated, then we lose the opportunity to add properties through annotations. So that’s a bummer… It would be awesome if with the ‘ready for dev’ toggle we could also freeze the component updates (meaning prevent them from happening)

Hi, sometimes it would be useful for me in the desktop app when opening a new tab with cmd+t to be able to paste a Figma link in the search bar and open the file with enter. I use the search bar a lot, it’s been a great idea and is awesome when working with a lot of files! ❤️ @Kapil_Moon Alternatively it would be great to have this option to open in desktop app immediately, unfortunately it does not work with multiple accounts. @dvaliao Link Post @Geiras_ES @tank666 @Kyrylex @Hazel Connected Topics: Feature request: insert figma links into desktop app Share an idea When my co-worker sends me a Figma link, I want to open it in the desktop app immediately. Currently I have to click the link, wait until it is opened in the browser and then wait for a suggestion to open the document in the desktop app, which appears in ~30% of cases. Instead, I could copy the link, paste it into the search field of my desktop Figma client and see it opening right i

Quality of Life request. Can Figma’s variant panel be smarter to understand when there’s a nested instance that is toggleable and has been allowed to expose it’s variants? It would greatly help designers find the component in the list as they’re turning them on versus hoping the component creator named both the toggle and layer the same. Example

Add oppotunity to create collections of files (drafts etc)

There are billions people using Android, but we still don’t have any Android frame size or any Android device that is compatible with Material Design 3. Dear Figma please add this feature, that will be really helpful and make Android devs happy. 🙏 🙏 🙏 Another solution could be let user create custom frame sizes and devices and save them on the right sidebar along with the other frames and prototype devices.

I am looking for an additional Prototype Interaction possibility that allows me to Open an Overlay (so far so good) that is not positioned beforehand but will float close to my cursor like a tooltip does. This way you can easily create tooltips in Prototypes that will open an other frame that remains close to your cursor as long as you are hovering the specified element.

When there’re more than 100 items / comments in the Comments List on the right side of the screen, and each Comment has maybe more than 8 replies, it took me long time to go back and find some specific comments. I want to have a search bar on the top of the comments sidebar and find the information more efficient. Thanks!

I usually work on projects with many stakeholders and receive tons of feedback over weeks. Recently, I came across the summarization feature for sticky notes in FigJam, and I thought this feature would be fantastic in Figma! Each week, we receive around 30-40 comments on our files. If we could summarize them by 1) The person who commented (essentially, their overall feedback), 2) Highlighting the frame that received the most comments, and 3) An overview of the general feedback direction. Manually handling this and responding to each comment individually is quite burdensome. I think this will be amazing for Design Crits and Reviews.

The cursors in Figma’s Presentation View are too faint to be able to consistently observe the scrolls/drags and clicks/taps of others. They’re really only visible when the cursor is over darker backgrounds. You can’t see the cursor at all on light backgrounds on mobile devices. (see lower right quadrant in image below) When watching screen recordings made of the Figma app, the problem is much worse – video compression seems to take out the last remaining traces of the light grey they use for cursors. The screenshots above are from a compressed screen recording. We already love using Figma for user research / usability testing, but improving this would seal the deal in our hearts forever. PROPOSAL: Make the cursor more visible and/or allow Figma users to change color / size / etc. via settings and/or CSS

Hello guys! The hot key cmd+F for Search works on File but doesn’t work on Home page. Please, make hotkeys more consistence. Thank you.

It would be helpful if there was a way to view comments and edit the design at the same time. Since resolving a comment would mostly require editing a design, it is cumbersome to switch between different modes constantly.

Steps: Copy a component or something you want to paste and replace other frames with Select the element you want to replace, then multi-edit to select all the other frames that are the same. Hit Ctrl + Shift + R to replace Figma seems to move your canvas view to the last frame the paste and replace was applied to. My gripe: This is annoying as you have to refix your view each time you do this. It should just stay on the original frame you did the commands on and not move. Perhaps you can zoom out to show that multiple were selected, but once the action is done move it back to where I was working.

I’ve been trying to make a budget for years in google sheets/excel and the format is NOT my favorite. As a designer, I think visually, and my first thought to figure out anything complex is to draw it out on paper or in FigJam. It would be super cool to have basic functions in FigJam in order to have a more visual budget!

Posted this a few years ago, figured I’d bring it up again since the original post is closed. I wish I could add padding values to any element in Figma. It is possible to add padding to any elements on the web. Currently, I need to wrap an element in an autolayout in order to give it padding, resulting in lots of unnecessary nested autolayouts.

Components with more than 1000 variants may experience performance issues. Try breaking out your variants into separate components This is my “text” component, which has 2,560 variants. It takes 10 seconds to rename a property, on a M2 MacBook Air. Is Figma’s performance for this already optimized or an improvement is something I can expect in future?

Add opportunity to make variables as properties, the way as variables can be in many groups (collections) at the same time, without creating main libraries of master variables and after it appropriation value from master collection to instance collections. just made it simple way as you did it for variant sets properties

Just like a developer would use strong, em, sup, sub tags in code, we should be able to create character styles that allow designers to format common inline styles without breaking the entire paragraph style.

Hi! I am working with complex components that have more than 3 level nested components. What would be very helpful when pulling these components in my designs is to group the properties of nested components together on properties panel, preferably with visual hierarchy with an accordion to help with readability. E.g. if I have a main menu with tabs (variants + icon(which is a component in a wrapper itself)) and primary button (with variants, different icons etc). I would like the icon wrapped, which is essentially a separated component, but used within the button, to be grouped with the button. But the icon wrapper, which I use in the tabs, to be wrapped under tabs nested instance.