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Maddie
Maddie
April 23, 2021

Support animated GIFs

  • April 23, 2021
  • 8 replies
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I am so excited about Jams. I am just getting my team started on Figma but first I need to migrate over 5 years of work from Sketch, Abstract, Whimsical and InVision.

My team heavily uses InVision boards to hold all of our inspiration and competitive research including a large amount of recordings we converted to GIFs to capture workflows and micro-interactions.

FigJam seems like it would be a great home for all of our InVision board content and future competitive research except for the fact that like in the Figma designer, GIFs don’t animate. Please tell me this is in the works! Please?

    8 replies

    Oliverf
    Oliverf
    New Member
    April 27, 2021

    I really need the ability to play gifs and video files.

      Doug_Wickham
      Doug_Wickham
      Active Member
      April 30, 2021

      Yes. We have been using the FigJams for research and ideation, the ability to add video or links to video of User Testing and Gifs of interactions would be sweet!

        Steve_Grieshaber
        Steve_Grieshaber
        June 24, 2021

        Gif Support would be nice. Also nice if they have option to play or pause. Automatically animating without choice could be overwhelming.

          Ilya_Abramovitch
          Ilya_Abramovitch
          September 10, 2021

          Agreed, this functionality if highly needed.

            Colin_Nickerson
            Colin_Nickerson
            November 15, 2021

            Just wondering if someon from the figma development team can comment as to whether video/gif support is a part of their vision for the product?

              Zishan_Rahman
              Zishan_Rahman
              April 22, 2022

              Play Videos and GIF animation in Figma Prototype. This feature is long awaiting and missing. People want to play videos and animation in their prototypes.

                Matt_Lathrom
                Matt_Lathrom
                June 27, 2024

                It would be great if animated gifs would play without having to go into presentation mode for all Figma products. Slides especially.

                  jameskachan
                  jameskachan
                  New Participant
                  March 27, 2025

                  Agreed here with ​@Matt_Lathrom  and the rest — when I add an animated GIF to a slide (or a movie on autoplay+loop) — I definitely want to get the feel for it while designing — ya know?

                  Needing to go into presentation mode to just get a feel is very annoying.

                  Especially for Figma Slides, animated GIFs should play and loop while designing.

                  Maybe a global pref option could be provided to enable/disable live playing GIFs/Movies (just like View Grid, View Rulers, View Pixel Grid) while designing — just incase they become distracting to other parts of the design process — though I assume anyone using these things will want to see them in action most of the time.

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