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I met recently an issue with the calculation of a footer height in prototype mode. In order to replicate this: Build a standard footer Place as an overlay, above it, in absolute position, an object that is higher than the footer itself Ensure that a mask hides all object parts that are going beyond the dimensions of your footer. Insert this footer in a very long page and reduce the viewable limits to the device window size. Play the prototype. When playing your prototypes, the object in absolute position will disturb Figma: it won’t be able to restore the positions of your objects and it will create huge margins on top and bottom when scrolling. It can be very annoying if you want to use SVG decoration symbols/patterns on backgrounds per example, as you will be forced to use plain image backgrounds instead.

When a developer requests the DEV mode, we receive a feedback that does not match with the original action as it states that the developer wants to EDIT a content. We simply need a box that says that the developer wants the DEV mode, nothing else. EDIT is for EDITORS, not developers.

Current way to manage user permissions benefits from a double entry point that is not logical to me. Can’t we have a unique manner to see all permissions and to add remove/members in an easy and clear manner? See my screenshots.

Save the drawing area in a certain zoom/positioning - almost like in Sketchup - This way we can easily navigate from one sketch into another without having to scroll manually. It will ease all the creation vs navigation process.

This post is a thank you message, The ruler in dev mode is amazing, the simple usage and the usefulness is beyond any other tool, it accelerates my job as a developer by a lot. Thank you Figma team 🙂

For better orientation when discussing screens, an overlay w/ a simple grid could be great. So one could say “Could you enlarge screen ‘H9’, please?”, and it would be clear which screen is meant. And no-one would have to place such marks upfront manually (which is a lot of work to maintain when the screen flow evolves and the screens become moved, and further screens are added). The grid could show up when pressing a defined key (e.g. “g” for “Grid”), and vanish when releasing the key again. Maybe an additional tool button could make sense for showing the grid permanently during a discussion. The lines of the grid could always be the opposite color of the color on the screen (like when pixels covered by a line are white, this part of the line appears black - and vice-versa). Note that this is not shown on the attached screens. The grid could e.g. be always 26columns (labelled a-z)/20rows (1-20), and resizing could shrink/stretch the columns/rows. This would allow to not having to find

Implement a “Refresh” button to update and display newly installed fonts within the system for improved accessibility and immediate visibility in the application.

Implementation of a “Selection typefaces” menu when selecting a frame. This feature would facilitate the seamless replacement of employed typefaces by utilising styles available in designated libraries.

A few improvements for the admin panel/setting up new users: When an invite is sent out, let us pick at that point what access the user will have for Design, Dev, and FigJam. It’s a pain in the butt having to go back to see if/when people have accepted the invite. Also at the new user set-up; would be helpful to have an option for length of time the user can have editor seat(s). Example: we are hiring many 12-18 month contract positions currently. Checking off that they’re a contract employee for 12 months and then admins get a notification around the contract end date as a reminder to adjust the access. Setting up notifications for users who have been been completely inactive for X amount of time - to prompt admins to review and see if user still needs Figma.

Duplicating (copy+paste) someone’s sticky note and turning on author shows the original sticky note’s author—I think it should show the new author. Is this the intended behavior?

Introduce a functionality to display all utilised styles within a file, enhancing the ease of examination of the full project and facilitating the straightforward replacement of incorrect library styles (colours, typefaces, effects).

There was an idea about this in 2022 and I’d like to reopen it since it would be super useful. Attaching the active plugin window to one of the panels (probably the right one) and making it collapsible would avoid having to constantly move the plugin window all over the screen (or close it and then having to search for the plugin again). It would also be super useful to have that panel be one just for saved and most used plugins! original idea: Collapsible plugin panels

1. Describe the bug/issue you’re running into? I love the orange dot sticker. I dream of color-coding it. Please make it happen! Overall, I love the new FigJam tool. Love it love it love it. Just make default stickers more editable. 2. Are you able to consistently reproduce it? If so what are the steps? I just put a dot on the screen and desperately want to right-click it and pick from selection of different colours. 3. Share a screenshot, recording, console log, link to the file, etc. 4. Is the issue only happening in desktop app or a specific browser , or both? Desktop app 5. What OS/version and/or browser/version are you using?

I would like to propose an idea to improve Figma: add an option to "Pin custom % on Zoom/view options in tab. This feature will help to conveniently work with the real size of components on the page, which is especially important in design. For example the divergence in visual size between 13" MacBook and 22" Dell screens I would appreciate your consideration of this suggestion!

Variables are one of my favorite things in the latest version of Figma. However, one thing that I would love to see is to be able to make the font family that all of my font styles are based off of a text variable.

I believe some people forget to vote for what they need, while some topics get large, people need to scroll up to vote (or check if they have voted before). Also, there should be a tag for the forum, just for the sake of improving the forum experience. It’s good, but it always can be better.

DS that runs with external tokens such as Token Studio or others cannot read the properties of the tokens using viewer roles.

It’s time. Clearly AR/VR is here to stay so I love if Figma could allow us to begin testing our UIs in virtual reality. What does this mean? On a basic level… Be able lock UI elements/frames to 3d space Be able to view prototypes in a headset like the Oculus or Vision Pro What does this not mean? I am not looking for any kind of 3d modeling tool. There’s lots out there already for that Being able to do this will help designers explore and move into this new and emerging space. Plus, I am yet to find a great tool for this, so Figma could take the leap and be a ground breaker in this space, making VR/AR interaction design much more accessible to the masses than it currently is.

When a workflow or a screen-flow change I want to have the comparison tool to highlight these changes for whole sections:

In the screenshot above, I have two layers selected with the same color, but the “Selection colors” feature doesn’t show. If I were to group or frame these two layers, the “Selection colors” feature would show. I can’t easily change the color, because 1 layer has a fill, and the other layer has a stroke. I would love it if the “Selection colors” featured supported separate layers. I think this would be a great LBU / “Little Big Update”

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… So is this really some dichotomy where I’m forced to choose between continuing to use Linux (a platform I’ve loved and used for nearly a decade - the only platform I really know in depth) and getting the benefit of using all Figma’s features? More specifically, can I use google fonts with Figma while on th

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.