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Hello Figma Team,Our team is currently developing multiple applications and working on multiple design projects within Figma. Because of this, we have a diverse group of collaborators (including stakeholders and non-designers) who need quick access to essential files but can become overwhelmed by the “Recents” view. I’d like to propose the following enhancements: Show Starred Projects in Their Own Rows (in Home View) Within each block, show up to four of the most recently updated files for that project. This makes it easier for stakeholders and non-designers to locate critical projects at a glance, without scrolling through everything else. Hide or Relocate the Large Top Buttons The “New Design File,” “New FigJam Board,” etc. buttons at the top are frequently clicked by accident, often leading to unwanted drafts. They also slow down loading times and occupy valuable screen space. Moving them to a dropdown menu or a smaller icon bar could streamline the interface and reduce uninten

Currently the ‘Add Background’ setting under Prototyping Overlay Settings doesn’t allow to select a color from variables library. It would be prototypes to be more on brand. An in practice, this setting should be universal to the ‘flow’ with allowance to be adjusted on particular interactions. In general, the availability of the color variables has been extremely inconsistent and missing in key places.

When making components, you can create a show/hide toggle for people using the component. This used to exist in the appearance pane before the redesign, but is now missing. Where did she go? I am mad, Dylan! 😩

When the members tab is filtered on devmode, the table doesn’t show the last active column, like for the other products. This makes it harder to review inactive members during the true up period. Can you show the last active column for devmode user too?

In the administration panel, you can manage the default modes for each workspace (image attached). Is there a way instead to also manage the visibility of modes by workspace? Example: The library has ‘Mode 1’ and ‘Mode 2’. For workspace B - we set ‘Mode 2’ as the default mode and prevent Mode 1 from being visible. In a file in that workspace, the designer will only get the library in Mode 2 and will not be able to switch to Mode 1.Thanks 

Hey guys, random thought—what if Figma had a built-in timer? Like, you start working, hit play, pause when needed, and keep track of your time. Could be useful for managing workflow and even showing clients how long things actually take.What do you think? Would you use it, or is it overkill? 😅

It’s difficult to toggle between editing board content and moving the board, because you have to either click the hand tool button or use the keyboard shortcut. Similar tools I’ve used allow for holding the right click to toggle to the hand tool, making it easier to go between moving the board and editing board contents. I’d love to see that feature introduced to make it easier to move the board around as I’m editing. I haven’t been able to find a way to do this, if it’s available already, please let me know how to enable it! Thanks!

Being able to right-click drag to pan around the canvas seems table stakes for infinite canvas and whiteboard-type products. It would be helpful and easier to be able to do that than trying to use the middle mouse scroll wheel button or holding spacebar.

Mapping out flows as part of UX design is critical. There are plugins for this, and we can copy shapes and connector lines from FigJam into Figma… but they can be much more accessible than they are today. In current state, I need to open a FigJam file every time I design so I can copy stickies, shapes, and connector lines into my Figma file for annotation and user flow mapping. It would be great to just have this toolbar directly accessible in Figma files, too!

I would like to make a suggestion for the layout section of figma. A frame rotation function should be implemented by simply clicking an “invert” button from the layout section in such a way that the frame rotates by 90° without changing the frame's rotation indication, in order to avoid incorrect autolayout behaviour and movement of elements within the frame.

The emoji is far too prominent and distracting. I feel like it's laughing at me while I'm working and it’s lowkey annoying.You may change it to something more neutral, like 👍.   

Why is placing images so tedious! It doesn’t have to be this way, Adobe XD makes it SO much easier to place images into a design file. For example you should be able to: Drag and drop images directly into a shape When manually selecting an image, the folder that opens up to select form should be the same folder that was most recently used in that file, so if I am placing multiple images from the same folder, I don’t have to navigate to the folder multiple times We should be able to select multiple images and drop into multiple shapes at once

When working on design iterations, I often need to create new versions of components by duplicating and tweaking existing ones. The problem? Simply modifying the original risks breaking existing instances across my designs.Right now, the workaround is:Create an instance Detach it Convert it into a new componentBut this is a lossy process—it strips away properties and variants, making it harder to maintain consistency and requiring unnecessary manual fixes.What I need is a “Duplicate as Component” feature that creates a true copy—preserving all properties, variants, and interactions—so I can iterate faster without losing key functionality.

Could you please add a time stamp for last edited to the conflicts preview on each branch. It’s practically impossible to recall which of two seemly identical tiny preview designs was the latest. Time stamping, as a basic MVP feature, could help improve the experience radically. Thank you. 

I created several “simulated overlay” menus and would like the option to prevent accidental clicks on content behind the layer. From a UX perspective, I’d like a checkbox option that says “ignore all interactions behind this layer” when the layer is visible.In my case, I am creating a pseudo overlay experience using my own hack method. You create a modal (for example) on a components page. You put an instance of the modal on another page (separation of concerns from components and prototype pages). You then toggle the visibility of the modal instance on the prototype page where necessary. For example, a command menu that is displayed on button click.Why do it this way? Because the default modal/overlay experience is bad. They lack responsive design support, they have to be attached to every component instance on within a page (rather than just on the master component), and they can be buggy from time to time.There are other cases I would also like pointer events turned off, similar to

If we can tag comments to a frame, group or component rather than just the canvas area such that one can simply search comment history for both resolved and active comments by clicking the element.

Google Slides allows this and I love that feature. I can highlight the important things that I must talk about and they catch my attention when sharing my screen. Would be amazing if Figma allowed this as well. 

Hello there, I’ve been trying the prototype features. When switching from one frame to another with smaller height, it aligns the smaller one to the center of the screen. There should be a way to set the prototype positioning. I would like to align all my frames to the absolute top.

With the rise of generative AI, designers are busy making prototypes of chat-bot user interfaces. Instead of faking it, what if Figma provided a way for prototype users to interact with a real LLM? There’s two different ways you could do this. Easier Way - add a ‘generate text’ option to the list of actions in the ‘Interaction’ menu (in prototype mode). Once ‘generate text’ is selected you would need to: Select a text layer (similar to selecting a destination frame for the ‘navigate to’ action). This could be an empty text box or a text box that already has some text in it (in which case the generated text would just come in at the end). You could format the text box however you want but it would make sense to give it a fixed width and a height that hugs the content so that the box can continue to grow vertically as text is generated. Type in a prompt. This is the prompt that the AI generated text will be responding to. This prompt will hit the LLM once the designated trigger is set

Small piece of feedback after testing out Interactive Components. Ordinarily, I’m able to create a new instance of a component by copying-and-pasting it. This is nice when I’m creating components on-the-fly, as I can then quickly add them into my design. If I copy-and-paste an Interactive Component, it creates a brand new, identical component, rather than an instance of that component. Would be nice to see this fixed so that it behaves the same as a normal component. Thanks! Michael

I’d like the ability to stamp today’s date! 

Please, can we have alternating row colors for variables? I just need a little zebra striping to help me see what I’m working with. The system I work in has many color tokens in several themes. Adding alternating row colors is a small UI change which would greatly help the usability of this modal. I have a lot of other problems with the variables modal (it’s too small, lacks functionality, etc). All of those problems require higher-level design thinking. By contrast, implementing zebra striping is an easy win! 

Hi, Crop tool should snap to image border instead of being able to go out of bound. Thank you

It would really be amazing to bring the branching functionality to FigJam. My team is using FigJam to manage some very complex diagrams. And, to add complexity and stress, we are using the Figma APIs to use FigJam as a logic management tool (backend) for a feature we are building, so these complex diagrams are extremely valuable to us. So we would love to have the ability to branch → approve/reject → merge changes.  Is this something that is on the roadmap?

I’ve noticed that the “Dev resources” section is enabled if I’m in a main file but it's disabled while in a branch file. Is this an expected behavior or is my version buggy? It's the same issue either on web or desktop app. Thanks in advance.