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Figma should create a course on Organising our designs like frames, components and pages, as many of the designer struggle with organising their designs.

Every time I come to a topic here about an issue I am having, I see that the topic is closed after a few days, even though the issue is not fixed at all. One good example is this one: Search results are not precise - we get 'similar words' instead of exact match The component search logic is simply terrible, and throws dozens of results when I do a simple icon search with a name like SORT. If Figma keeps these topics open, it will help us to vote and show that many people are having this issue.

Hello, guys. Hope you are well. I use math on my designs at Figma everyday, specially the useful feature of inputting arithmetic math on the properties values. Example: Width = (80 * 2) + 8. The things is, in Auto layout both Horizontal and Vertical padding, I can’t do the math by adding spaces between the values an operator. Example: “80 + 2”. Instead, it only works with the operator close to the values. Example: “80+2”. This is not a big ideal in my everyday work, but i think it would be nice to have this way of inputting the values, as it already works with the properties Width, Height, and such 😁

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The recent section never shows ‘recent’ files. I can never find the files I was working on yesterday or day before. I would like the recent section to show files in order of most recently opened to the old file. I dont know why I cant see the names of files as well. I would like to see the files in the order I had closed them. Meaning - if I closed a file just now, it shows up as the first thumbnail. This thumbnail shows the screen area where I was working or stopped working at - this thumbnail becomes the first file, at the top left corner in the grid. the file that I had opened and closed before this one, will be the second file in the grid. So probably yesterday’s file will be in the second row may be… that way I can quickly find files easily.

As user coming from Sketch I am missing additional measurement information. To be precise I am talking about the horizontal offset of seperate elements while pressing option key. Am I the only one who’s missing this feature?

Star or favorite a component to add it to the top of the components list. Whenever you quickly add a component or do an instance swap, these components would appear first. Great for components that are used all the time like buttons. Do not require swapping back and forth in lists like the way the “Recently Used” works. Thanks!

I should be able to copy-paste a gradient and retain all properties of that gradient (aka.: all colors within a gradient and its orientation). I know we can save gradients as styles, but sometimes we don’t want to have a gradient added to the library, but we want to use it in multiple places. Please add this feature! Would save us lots of time.

For folks that need to log hours or reports / proof / ideas of what they worked on, I’d love to have a quick time lapse of my Figma screen, showing what I did in a given work “period” as defined by the user. For granularity, I’d love to ask it for these lapses between certain hours. For instance, 9am - 6pm work day - the default would be it records the any time some is working for more than 1 minute… Imagine an AI driven world where I could ask Figma “hey Figma, what did I work on last thursday between 1pm to 4pm?”. The resulting feedback would be a quick timelapse (say a snapshot every minute). Once I had the output, it would be great to be able to attaches “notes” or meta data to that work. So the hole exercise would be about extrapolating evidence work done / what was achieved, etc.

When selecting an element, a toolbar displays every time in a different location really annoying. Please create a pin button to pin the toolbar.

Hi! 👋 I work with someone who is new to Figma and was asking me what all the icons in the layer panel meant. I thought if you hovered them it would say the type (i.e. why it has that icons) but it didn’t, to my surprise. There are many threads like this with people asking what different icons mean: What does this layer icon mean? It is hard to search for this information because it is visual. What do you think of this idea? 🤔 Thanks! 😃

One of the reasons that Figma is such a pleasure to use is that the interface manages input focus intuitively and consistently. There’s rarely a case where I feel hindered by focus management. That said, the zoom menu/panel is one such case. I expect to click on the menu button, which displays the current zoom level, to first give focus the zoom input field. However, while the input field is decorated with a blue outline as if it has focus, it does not. There is no keyboard accessible way to focus the zoom input field. I expect tabbing to move my input focus—e.g., from the input field to the first menu item (Zoom in). However, tabbing immediately closes the menu. When the zoom input field has focus, I expect Up and Down keyboard arrows to increment and decrement the zoom in 1% increments, or—if I hold down the Shift key—by 10% increments. Just like every other numerical input field. However, the Up and Down arrow keys move focus to the last and first menu items, respectively. (BT

The new tab has become a very common place for me to find myself. Most of the time if I have to open a file, I create a new tab which gives me the ability to search through my files with a single keyboard shortcut: very fast, love it! The problem is that I have 2-3 accounts in my Figma at any one time, so if I need to open files across accounts, now I have to switch to home, click on my profile, change the profile, and usually just press cmd + t again because it’s so engrained as the search file shortcut. Would love if search worked across profiles, or if there was an easy way to switch between profiles from within the tab itself (even better if it could be done with the keyboard 👀 ) Could be as simple as a profile switcher:

Send a figma.on('close') message to the current plugin when the Figma document is closed while the plugin inside it is open. Without this it’s impossible to properly clean up after the plugin in all cases, because when I reopen the document, it still contains my plugin’s helper objects that should have been cleaned up.

I was noticing that Dev Mode doesn’t show if there’s a prototype done for the section they are viewing. I think its important for them to se how the whole interaction of the User flow comes to life 😊

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Since the introduction of variables, collaboration between programmers and designers in our company has significantly improved. We want to express our gratitude for this fantastic feature. We’re eagerly anticipating upcoming features, such as the ability to set variables within strokes. Many frontend design systems and frameworks rely on SCSS, where it’s common practice to automatically darken or lighten a variety of colors based on the original color using the tint() and shade() functions. It would be fantastic if this could also be achieved within the context of variables. Currently, this only works in one direction. The tint() function blends the current color with white proportionally, which can be closely approximated with opacity. However, there is currently no straightforward way to apply the shade() function. It would be great if Figma could support this when setting variables. Here’s an example: (key: value) primary: #0d6efd primary-dark: shade(primary, 20%) = Primary color bu

I’m programmatically setting a hyperlink in a Text object with the href property in my widget, Button. When the hyperlink points to a layer in the current file, clicking it from the widget always opens the link in a new browser tab, instead of navigating within the file. However, if I set the same hyperlink on a TextNode layer in the file, it navigates to the target layer within the file. Would love to see Widget text hyperlink behavior be updated to match TextNode hyperlink behavior for easier in-file linking. Thanks!

When using the Find and replace in Figma, is there a way to preserve font styles (bold, italic. etc.)? Every time I use it, I end up losing those styles 😦

Figma should provide the ability to preview a font usage (in a frame, etc, this should be configurable the same way that pixel preview is) with subpixel font rendering (perhaps OS dependent unless something can be done to make an agnostic subpixel rendering system embedded into WebAssembly - which can be derived from existing solutions) rather than the grayscale preview that we currently get in general, or with pixel preview, exporting to a bitmap/raster, etc. This would be useful for previews and bitmap exports for demonstrations, as it would allow for font rendering to be WYSIWYG. Subpixel font rendering often isn’t just a handy thing that is done by many renderers to boost readability, sometimes it is required for readability, and in common programs such as Windows File Explorer, with a font size of 12px and Segoe UI, this text: would already be very hard to read for certain viewers at 100%. This is not even a small example in comparison to the 9px subscript texts you see quite oft

I may have worded it incorrectly, but it would be great if I could choose the direction I wanted an component to expand in auto-layout. Nothing fancy: top to bottom, bottom to top, left to right, right to left-the basics. Right now getting something to expand from right to left is a pain, and it doesn’t play nice with auto-layout. Please, please add this. Cheers!

First and foremost, I want to express my deep admiration for the incredible work you’ve been doing with Figma. It’s a phenomenal tool that has revolutionized how designers and developers collaborate. The platform is intuitive, powerful, and incredibly versatile, making my day-to-day significantly more productive and creative. While I’m a huge fan of the platform, I’ve noticed an area where I believe an additional feature could make it even more powerful: the ability to modify design elements directly through Figma’s API. Currently, the API is mostly read-only, which is fantastic for pulling data and integrating with other systems. However, the ability to make programmatic changes to a project would open up a whole new world of possibilities. Imagine, for instance, a system where users could update texts or images in a Figma design via a web form. This would enable deeper integrations with CMSs, databases, and other tools, making Figma the definitive hub for any design workflow. I under

have make an experiment with a bouncy button, you can see it heretwitter.com I wondering it will be more cool if there any sound effect provided by Figma, people not only see with their eye, but have a ear to hear. Thank you!

Somehow, I would love to have a different icon (or even a different color?) to easily distinguish between local component instances & instances from external library components. This would help when joining a team or project or when revisiting a file after some time. Looking at the layer tree right now, you have no chance to know if a selected component instance is local or from a remote library. Only in the right-hand Design pane you can see if you can click through to the component master in the same file or if it will open another file. My first idea would be to simply introduce a new icon that plays well with the existing master/instance icons Building on this, a separate color for remote components could be even more beneficial, since you could then spot remote components just by the color of the selection in the canvas. What do you think?