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clayton_fussell
New Member
September 29, 2025
Question

Preserve component connections and instances when copying between Figma Make and Design

Figma Make recently added the ability to bring generated ideas into Figma Design files. This is great.
I started developing a workflow where I:

  1. get Make to generate the initial concept (with linked design system)
  2. Copy the generated frames into a Design file to tweak (as this is quicker than crafting a bunch of prompts) - and create components.
  3. Copy the updated designs back into Make and continue adjusting.
  4. Repeat steps 2 and 3

This feels like a good hybrid approach to working alongside the AI to craft interfaces.

Between steps 2 and 3 - on the second iteration - where I have pasted the updated version into Make, made more changes and then copied that version back into Design - all the component instances have been converted into frames. 

When working on long term projects I want to be able to do some of the work in Design and some in Make - right now I have to chose one or the other due to this limitation.