Clicking between two pages is inconvenient – there should be a hotkey for that.
Context — I have components in Page A and need to see the changes I make on Page B. I make lots and lots of small iterations to my design and want to swap between Page A and B quickly to see results.
Solution — A back and forward button (or hotkey) that let’s you jump between pages you’ve last visited and forward again.
Worst is
0. having 20+ tabs open (enterprise work default)
Gotta add my vote here. I’ve inherited a large doc and am refreshing the design system (Page 0) constantly. Right now there are just enough pages that I can mousewheel up to page 0 and then back to the page I was working on. But that is not sustainable.
I’m so used to IDEs like VSCode or IntelliJ where you have a simple back to previous edit point hotkey. It’s essential for exactly the same reasons.
How do we get this on the roadmap before my brain explodes!?
Come on Figma please implement this!
True, even that would be better than nothing, a proper history navigation would be more general and effective (back and forward buttons like in any browser).
Definitely need this. For me, it’s not even about time-saving (making it quicker to go back). I often literally cannot even REMEMBER which page I was previously on, so I need to go back, but have no way of knowing where I came from. Happens when I’m working on one thing, the n I spot something that needs fixing, so I go to the component, but sometimes that leads me to fixing something that was NESTED in the component so I end up on ANTOHER page… and 2 hours later I know that I need to go back to the original task that I started with, but no longer know what it was.
I found Framehop
https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1319412441392289036/framehop
So thanks to @addisonjames for developing this plugin 🙏
Thanks @Fred_Tinsel !
Reading through everyone’s comments here- I think FrameHop can help solve a lot of the pain points mentioned. It’s free, i just made it to speed up my own process.
I’m working on an update to it now, so feel free to send me any feedback/suggestions.
It would be nice to have a back button when you go through different pages, like components, and then a back button to return to where you were before.
You’re welcome 🙂
Happens to me all the time!
That sounds great! Unfortunately my organisation has banned the use of plugins…
It looks like this specific flow has actually been solved by Figma 👋
I have the new UI, but I don’t think this is fixed? 😅
It looks like i answered to the whole thread - but this was just a reply to a specific ux flaw 😅
Adding simple forward/backward navigation to easily jump around a document with a lot of pages. I’m currently working within a file with probably 50 pages and it would be super helpful to jump back to where I was. This would be very similar to Slack’s navigation next to the search bar.
this has been a request for 3+ years, any chance we can get it built in, Figma? We have back buttons for navigating the community, this is much more necessary!!
Back Button plugin is a decent workaround but I’d appreciate build-in implementation and keyboard shortcut.
It’s a hassle having to manually switch back and forth between pages in Figma.
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