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Fabian Strien
New Member
April 30, 2026

Show teammate presence and activity in Figma Variables

I’d like to request visibility into where teammates are working inside Figma Variables.

In Figma files, collaboration is already very clear: when someone else is in the same file, their avatar appears, and when they select a frame or layer, that object gets a colored outline. This makes it easy to understand where people are working and helps prevent accidental overlap.

I would love to see a similar collaboration model for Variables. For example, when a teammate is editing or viewing a shared variable collection, their avatar could appear next to the relevant collection, mode, group, or individual variable. If they are actively editing a value, that row or cell could show a colored outline or presence indicator, similar to selected frames on the canvas.

I’ve attached a sketch to illustrate the idea. Hope this can make it onto the backlog. It feels like a relatively simple addition that would make designers’ lives just that little bit easier :)