Suggest a Feature

I'd like to suggest being able to select different colours for different measurements, for instance blue for 8px, pink for 16 px, so on and so forth. It's easier to standardize my designs, and to help people quickly get the different paddings and margins. Thank you 🙂

Measurements should always display above everything in the UI including annotations. Currently, when I try to get the distance between some elements, it is becoming difficult because it is being hidden by the annotations I have added. Also would love the ability to change the location of the annotations and if they should display to the right/left/top/bottom of the element you are annotating.

Currently, it’s possible to hide both sidebars. I usually work on a smaller screen, in which this feature becomes helpful when trying to review designs on a canvas.I think it would be useful if we are able to hide either just the left sidebar, or just the right sidebar, along with the current feature of hiding both. Hiding the just left sidebar would help designing be more efficient on smaller screens, as having access to pages and layers is not always necessary.

Figma Buzz looks very promising for our team, but there are a few features that our team will need in order to use this product.Autolayout on the parent frame. Email graphics are a great use case for Figma buzz, but often times assets need to adjust in height based on the headline or copy length. Persistent linked data. If I click out of the import pane, all the text linking I did just disappears. Linking groupings of pages. A simple application is a card with a front and back side. The variable data might only be on one of the sides, but I’m still going to want to export the front and back for each card. I need a way of grouping the front and back as a single multipage document that applies to bulk creating assets and exporting them as multipage pdfs. Batch process using template based on data. For example, use the HR department business card template when the field in the “department” column is “HR” and the Finance department business card template when the field in the “department”

I want to favourite some files. But I don’t want to always switch teams in order to see them. That should be a personal favourite that will always show. Regardless of team switch. 

While cleaning up my file, I hid a frame that I didn't want visible at the time. I didn’t want to delete it because it was still useful. Months later, I needed that screen again. I tried searching for it using keywords, browsed through pages, and even looked through the version history.I ended up reviewing five months of version history, scanning for keywords to locate the screen. I eventually found it—it had been hidden all along. The content was never deleted. But because it was hidden, it didn’t show up in search results.This was frustrating. Search is supposed to make it easier to find things. Just because an object is hidden doesn’t mean it stops being part of the file. Excluding it from search reduces the usefulness of the feature.Request: Please make sure hidden elements are still indexed and searchable. At the very least, give users an option to include hidden content in search results.

Following a change in logic or flow we have to update the same thing in various screens, but they’re not always right next to each other. In bigger files it can become hard to keep a good overview, and designers might miss instances where something would’ve had to be updated. To avoid this, I have to manually add a new comment to every single instance, which makes it really messy and hard to keep an overview if there’s more than one change to be done in different screens. IDEA:It would be great if I could tag screens within a page that relate to one comment / action item, so the designer can see right away all the screens where the same action has to be done. 

Hello,We’re currently migrating our studio portfolio to Figma Slides.Our main concern is ensuring clients (who will discover the portfolio for the first time) can navigate through the slides easily and intuitively.❌ The problemWe’ve noticed that new users often struggle with Figma Slides’ default navigation, especially when trying to go back to the previous slide:They must use keyboard arrow keys, which many people aren’t used to anymore (since most sites and tools are fully operable by mouse)Or they have to hover on specific screen edges to make small navigation arrows appear👉 Overall, the default navigation is not intuitive, and this creates friction that undermines the purpose of a clean, user-friendly presentation.✅ Suggested improvementsWe believe the following features would significantly enhance the experience.Each is useful on its own, but ideally, they could work together for maximum flexibility:🖱️ Better navigation toolsAbility to add navigation buttons directly from the to

This, but in Figma.Making it possible to paste elements into an already existing component. Im not talking about instance swapping. That would mean creating new components for what i wanted to put into my component. I dig the way webflow is handling it.   

在设计文件内部增加文件夹功能，且可以多层嵌套，这样方便对不同模块的页面进行分组管理。

First and foremost, branching is a great addition to Figma, thank you! Here is some background on how our Style and Component libraries are setup: Project: Design System File 1: Styles (text/color/other token styles) File 2: Components (primitive components, larger organisms, and some templates) What I’d like to do is create a branch in File 1 and change our brand color and add some text styles. I’d then like to “stage” this branch so that I can reference it in File 2 (another file) and test some of the changes downstream in components to see how they might look before merging and publishing File 1 (in case there are things I need to change/add). I would love some suggestions on how I might accomplish a workflow like this, or if it’s something that might be supported in the future. Thanks!

It would help with the prototyping and testing workflow to allow users to select multiple colors in the “Selection colors” section of the property sidebar on the right. When you select colors you will be provided with an option to “create styles form selection” and to “add to variable table...”This will enhance the initial UI testing and research phase of UIX design allowing you to easily and quickly apply your final styles and colors to a design system’s style set and variables.

Problem:Product Owners (nondesigners) will often times share early work in progress without the designer knowing. This ends up being a headache of dev comments (30+) pinging with comments that designs are not complete or components are not built correctly. Solution:Designer who is the owner of the file can assign specific users/staff so they get all push notifications/emails  Reason:To help each team member own accountability for the consequences of their action. If a product owner wants to share an incomplete file to 100+ people in the organization without communicating the designer. Let’s ensure the push notifications/emails get sent to the product owner that initially share a file too early to help respond to each comment. 

I suggest having this feature in Figma since we are on a paid plan. Especially when we have so many frames/screens to be exported (eg. 170+) it’s a really huge filesize. And it’s not allowed to use an external PDF compressor platform when our projects are confidential. So far, I can only convert the frames into individual PNGs/JPGs, replace the frames with these image files, and export them into PDF. This is so time-consuming and troublesome.

It is now very unclear to see which files a person has access to. When a user has access to a specific file, you can’t see it anywhere in the admin page. It’s not very user friendly. I remember it being there in an earlier version, so please just bring that back. The files a user has access to should be shown in the sidepanel when selecting a user.   

When working with SVG assets within a design system we’re often using named color variables that are part of the design system so that our designs support different color modes (light, dark etc) it would be super helpful if there was some way for these variables made their way into the SVG code (with a fallback for situations or usages where the variable may not exist) So in your SVG export instead of this: <rect x="0.331604" y="0.717941" width="20.9977" height="20.9977" fill="#ffffff"/> you’d get something like this <rect x="0.331604" y="0.717941" width="20.9977" height="20.9977" fill="var(--color-background, #ffffff)"/> which would then be able to be able to be dynamically changed based on what is being set for --color-background in the consuming web app.

recurrent use case. For those who also develop, its a life save to quickly be able to copy the svg code. There is also a repeated use case where devs will ask for it. This used to be possible, but now my only recourse is to export, open in an IDE, copy+paste… I looked for this in dev mode but can’t find it there either.

The background color of the Review updates window does not allow the current and updated components to be compared depending on the color of the components. In example below I am using Figma in dark mode and trying to compare two components that have black text. I am unable to do so because the dark text of the component is not readable on the dark background of the Figma UI. This can be resolved if Figma would allow the user to change the background color of the Review window between light and dark.

I regularly prototype using two desktop screens - I like to design with a prototype open at all times to see it in context to it’s actual size. I love the mobile app mirroring feature because it’s easy to select frames and have the prototype view update dynamically. It would be so so awesome to have a similar mirror feature for desktop, where you have a prototype window as the ‘mirror’ that dynamically updates based on the frame that you select in a separate window. Has anyone else wanted something like this?!

Currently, dashed strokes have ‘trimmed caps’. Is there a way to have all dashes with the same length? Example:

When defining variables (specially numeric ones) there is no way to specify the units.For example a value 16 could be pixels but could be also cm or any other unit. When you consume Figma variables using an API you need to guess which unit is applicable based on the variable name, scope etc., instead of just getting the unit from the API. Is it anything on the roadmap to cover this feature?

Hello, In my design system, I would like to map a container variable that would be a fixed value in desktop but a fill container in mobile.  I tried by setting a fixed value of 0 get the attention of the designers in order to make them change the value on their own but is there a way to automate this directly in the variable? I understand that this is not how variables are working but if there’s a workaround or a way to fix this, I’m taking it <3 Thanks ! 

It would be helpful if we could pick from existing variables when naming a new variant property maybe through a dropdown or suggestion list to avoid name mismatches and improve speed. 

Management of Dev Resource links is critical in our design systems. We are developing a multi-brand design system at Thryv that supports both React and Vue.js, and need to add resource links to a composed Storybook which documents a lot of components.Dev resource links are not editable from branches. We have our main file set to view-only so that design contributors have to branch to work for system integrity. They can’t add the dev resource links as part of their definition of done, putting the weight of that responsibility on the owner(s). Dev resource links can’t be automated easily for repititious components like illustrations that may all use a shared resource, but each component needs a link (and yes, I understand variants -- they are not appropriate for this circumstance). Between being an Electron app and lacking standard accessibility controls, hidden buttons that reveal on hover, and the links themselves changing positions after being saved, it’s challenging to work with some

For sales or anybody that want to show data about his product or company, it would be cool to be able to add line charts or pie chart easily. Right now we need to edit it ourself, but non designers would not be confortable to ajust it. It will be fun to have a tool to create chart where we just have to put our data and it create the chart.