Great idea 😄

If it helps, while there’s no native feature, you can use the Find & Focus plugin:

It would be awesome to have a way to search for a layer in the layers panel. Currently, you have to hunt and peck for a layer if it is hidden or overlapped by another layer. Having a way to search for a specific layer would help us to find the layer we are looking for quicker. (Sketch has this feature, it’s great)

I can search between pages in chrome browser with CTRL + F shortcut

However, I can’t search on the desktop App on Windows between pages ?

How can I search between pages in the desktop app (Windows) ?

Yes, that would be awesome. And ideally, we could keep the search open and jump to each instance of the layer we are searching for similar to how you can do it in Chrome.

And then the next evolution of this would be to have a better find and replace. Not only do I want to find layers, I often want to replace them with a component.

This is a nice hack that I’ve tried before, but it really does not solve the problem completely. We really need a true “jump to” feature, which implies search, pick, navigate.

Found the plugin that helps you navigate between pages. It works on desktop app too @AlexPrykhodko @Christian

Searching in Miro is also great to use. And for the record, the share Inspect Mode needs it, too! If it can be implemented in the future that would be much ahead of all UX design tools!!

@AlexPrykhodko @Brian_Clay @BorojiDesignInc @Christian @Ben.Ko (not sure if I needed to tag you all but if this is annoying, sorry 😕 )

Just found the exact plugin that does this for you all.

It works exactly as the Miro search experience, and while there’s no native feature, this works pretty well 😃

Or this one :

Butler

The problem with plugins is that they run in Editing mode only. All of our engineers have view-only accounts which makes the navigation plugins useless.

Another problem is that there is a mixed success among Figma macOS users when trying to assign keyboard shortcuts to menu items (see Figma plugin shortcuts - Johan Ronsse).

Figma is used with projects that contain hundreds of pages, sometimes thousands of frames. Being able to quickly navigate and search those should be a core feature.