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Cristian_Banu
Cristian_BanuActive Member
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Link components in a frame to a grid size (column width and gutter width) to resize and reposition elements quickly when changing the grid size

Hey guys, This is a feature request. Let; say I am designing a website. I create a certain grid (column/gutter) and I start adding components, aligning them to the grid I previously created. Let’s say I have quite a few pages, all of course using that same grid. When I finish all the 20 pages of the website, let’s say the client wants to change the grid size. That means I have to resize and reposition every component on all 20 pages, it’s a huge waste of time. How about an option to “link” the components to the grid I created, so that when I change the grid size (column width, gutter width), all the components and elements resize and reposition properly based on the new grid size? It could be checkbox in the frame “Link to grid” and whatever components I size initially based on the grid, those would get resized and repositioned correctly any time I change that grid size. Thanks, Chris

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Isaias
IsaiasNew Member
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Access variables list from padding and gap options

This is the first of three features I want to suggest.When you have your spacing variables,  This is what we currently see but what if we see this instead of having to go all the time to the right panel, see below: I find it so annoying and time consuming having to go to the right panel. I hope you guys can consider this, thank you!

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Kevin Consen
Kevin ConsenNew Member
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Incremental height/width

I’ll keep it short and sweet;I’d love a feature in which it would be possible to set the height and width of an object to be changed in multiples of a set number of pixels. So if you’d increase in height your grid would remain the same.

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Phu_Nguyen
Phu_NguyenActive Member
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Right align variable names

As you all knew, if you have a variable applied to a layer, it will be displayed with full path with every group it is in, like thisExtended Design panelBut when I resize the Design panel to a narrower size, it will truncate the text at the endMinimized Design panelI feel it is time consuming every time I have to hover all the variables to make sure the correct variables are applied. In most cases, I noticed they have different names, despite of they are in same or different groups. So I wonder if it is more convenient to right align their names like this, to prioritize showing the name, not the group: 

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Adam_Rodriguez
Adam_Rodriguez
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Copy & Paste variables is bad

The new feature of copy and pasting variables over to new collections is a great addition, however its not currently usable. One major improvement that needs to happen— when pasting into the new collection the order of the variables is completely messed up, it should retain the organization from the original list. Also better yet it would be immensely helpful to just have a duplicate collection option. Thanks for all your hard work Figma team.

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Moritz_Kuhn
Yael_Hausner
Yael_Hausner
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Suggested feature - Priority/Labeling for comments

As a product manager, I often comment on a design file, I would like to have an option to label the comment with priority - critical, high, medium, low or 1-5, so the product designer will know what to focus on first. Furthermore: Each priority color/icon should be really clear on first look over all comments to help open the most important comments. The notifications section should allow sorting the comments by priority. Also, labeling the comments could help for versions division - adding “next version” tag / “current version” tag, or in general, costume tags that match the team internal process.

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mvasilieva
gokuls
gokulsNew Member
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Reg : Figma Slide deck

 I made the gif and wanted that to be blurred slightly, but after i apply blur all the text added which is also getting blurred either that should be controllable with sent to back/bring front options or if there is layer option where we can organize object in the layers To control the objects visibility & make the editing easy we need the selection control bar      

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Heather New
Heather NewNew Member
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Invite a user to join my location in the figma file

The Ui in figma is easy, the project files and folders is simple, navigating is simple.Yet an account person I’ve worked with can’t seem to ever find the current page. Sending a new link doesn’t kick her into the current page, she’s still in the page she dug out of the archives. I’d be fine with this and understand and be patient with her EXCEPT she is complaining about all the links, asking me for links each time she wants to get in and is pointing the finger at figma like it’s figmas problem. We are only circulating two files guys…I try to get her to highlight my person, it’s like..leading horse to water...Give me the capability to grab my coworkers cursor and place them in the correct page PUH LEEZE. I’m loosing my mind. I will settle for a pop up invitation that takes over her screen and gives her the option to “Follow The Person Who Knows What they’re Doing”

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Heather New
bubbles1
bubbles1New Member
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inline nested canvases

it would be so incredibly helpful if i could open up nested canvases right inline as i’m working on a design.so for example, i’m working on a screen with a component stored somewhere else (like way off to the side on that same canvas or in a diff page in the same file or even in a separate design system file) and then be able to press a button to open the main component in a nested (or “popup”) canvas so i can edit it, then close the nested window and continue working on the main design. this would help me to not break context and stay in my flow.would also be very cool if i could create instances of those nested canvases manually too. if i could define a happy path series of screens and then underneath them create a button/link/something that opens an “error states” nested canvas, then i could keep the main design clean & clear and still allow people to jump into details without leaving the current context. this would also really help me as i’m designing to have a separate space t

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Jason_Oliveira
Jason_Oliveira
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For annotations, Keep the "Properties" dropdown open

I typically choose multiple properties, but I have to keep clicking open the dropdown. TONNNNNNS of clicks.

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Hyson
HysonNew Member
posted in Suggest a Feature
Title to top of prototype mode

I wanna present the prototype like slides. It will be benefit to have the title on top and differentiate subtle interaction on screen. Sometimes I get lost and need to go back to design mode.

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Hyson
Jerry_LOL
Jerry_LOL
posted in Suggest a Feature
Auto page number

Please add the auto page number function. I’ve been expecting this before Figma slides 🙂

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Hyson
Alicemck
AlicemckNew Member
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Figjam stickies need more colors, customizable colors

We use Fig Jam for user research analysis and there are only 9 colors of stickies so it limits us to how we can use them.  We should be able to customize the colors of the sticky notes, or at least have more colors!

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Figmate
Tim_Roman
Tim_RomanNew Member
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Screenshare Privacy for NDA projects

When I share my screen - I don’t want my customers see the NDA projects and teams I work with. Here’s my solution:

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Martyn_Bowis
Martyn_BowisActive Member
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Videos that play in Design view, like Miro Talktrack

Please enable playing of videos in design mode and dev mode, not just prototype mode. As a designer, I want to be able to include videos that viewers may play, So that my viewers/designers/devs may better understand what I have designed. As a dev, I want to be able to include videos that viewers may play, So that my viewers/designers/devs may better understand my thoughts visually Better still, I can then link videos to take people on a narrated tour of my design. Currently, videos do not play inline on the design, but need to pop up in a preview modal. Not great UX from a UX platform. Check out Miro Talktrack for inspiration: Create a Talktrack in Miro

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Jesus Suarez
Billykerz
BillykerzNew Member
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General Font Replacement Tool

The Missing Fonts replacement tool that becomes available when you are missing a font in Figma is really useful. Why not make it available all the time for any and all font replacement?Could be an easy feature to add since the tool already exists.

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Billykerz
Doug
Doug
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Lock Mirror on Frame

I would like to have the mirror feature be locked to a specific frame so that i’m able to see direct changes on the device of choice. What happens today; I select a frame that i want to view, go to edit another frame ( this could be a component ) and mirror switches aautomatically. All i want is a way to hold the focus on the one frame until i say so. It would make life so much easier especially during meetings where changes are requested on the spot and the test device will then switch between too many different items which ends up distracting the stake holders. So much pain! Thanks.

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Ben_Gregory
daneb
danebNew Member
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Red dot new comment indicator in open file tabs

I usually have 3-4 Figma documents open and it would be super helpful to have a quick indicator as to which documents have new comments in them. The toolbar’s comment tool icon has the red dot indicator which is great, but having it in the tab itself would be even more useful.

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Celine_
Figmate
claus.stadel
claus.stadelNew Participant
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Add Show/Hide when publishing setting to the component configuration view

Add it as a toggle here, so you don’t need to go trough the Assets panel and right click on the component. 

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Gayani_S
Figmate
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Dylan21
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Ability to change default settings on new files

Is there a way to set default settings to newly created projects? Most of the time I use Figma to create desktop webdesigns, so I’d like to have my prototype to have a custom size device (1920x1080) and a different background color. And perhaps have a predefined grid.

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Jan Kovarik
Jesus Suarez
Jesus SuarezNew Member
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Hold Z key + mouse click for zoom

This functionality exists in Photoshop and it's pretty useful, especially for those of us that use a tablet and pen instead of a mouse on a daily basis.Having to do the keyboard shortcut to zoom in and out gets repetitive very quickly. Simply holding the “Z” and left click up/down or right/left to zoom would be huge

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Jesus Suarez
cihad
cihadNew Participant
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Shortcut Contextual Indicators for Easy Editing Experience

Hi, Shortcuts are great but not enough. I’d like to share an idea for improving the editing experience in Figma.This concept is inspired by Windows Explorer. When you press Alt + Space, a context menu appears, and some shortcuts are underlined for quick access: A similar approach could be implemented in Figma. For instance, pressing Alt (or Option on Mac) could underline available shortcuts, like this: This would provide a more intuitive navigation experience and reduce the learning curve for users.Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!Best regards,

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Alexman
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Add background blur when opening overlay

Steps to reproduce Click to add an “Open overlay” interaction. Two options will be shown: Close when clicking outside Add background behind overlay (see screenshot in the end) Existing functionality: “Add background” only has the option to add a color. Desired functionality: “Add background” also allows to add a blur effect to the layer on the background. Possible workaround Suppose Frame1 contains the overlay content Put Frame1 inside Frame0 Resize Frame0 to take the full size of the screen Make it so that “Open overlay” targets Frame0 instead of Frame1 Manually position Frame1 (the overlay content) inside Frame0 (the overlay) Add the desired background color and blur to Frame0 Problems with workaround The “Close when clicking outside” functionality is lost since Frame0 takes up the whole screen. Manually adding an on-click “Close overlay” interaction to Frame0 would not work as intended. This is because the entire Frame0 would respond to the click, not just the part

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Amy_Pham
Amy_PhamNew Member
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Plugins in Prototype Mode

I’d like to request enabling plugins in prototype mode. I’ve been working on a plugin called Punchcut Audio Player that allows users to prototype audio in design mode, and we’ve received numerous requests to extend its functionality to prototype mode as well. Prototypes are becoming more than a click-through of screens. We’re using them as story-telling tools, interactive exercises for user research, and demonstrations of multisensory/multidevice systems. With the addition of variables, prototypes could evolve even further. Given the current limitations of prototypes, my team is looking to other tools and workarounds to keep up with our changing prototyping needs, but we do want to stay within Figma. Over the past 2 years, it looks like others have been requesting features that would be solved by this as well: Audio In A Prototype Voice Prototyping On Figma Give Us A Way To Snapshot Prototypes And Send Snapshot Links Bringing Automated Testing To Figma Prototypes Communicating Between

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xiduzo
Nate_Gervenak
Nate_GervenakNew Member
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Generate SymLinks in Windows File System

It would be great to have a way to store a ‘File’ or link to a file directly in the file system. This way, when organizing projects you can place a  Figma ‘File’ into a folder that would link directly link to a Figma project. This would enable ‘storing’ files in a standard workflow. This way, we say “You will find all project files in the project folder” 

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