1. Describe the problem your experiencing and how your idea helps solve this
There is no way to search for a page/frame in a given project. A user should be able to quickly jump to an arbitrary page/frame by typing the page/frame name in a search box. Introducing a “Jump to…” feature similar to Zeplin’s CMD+J would solve this problem.
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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)
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.
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!!
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.
Often I would like to search the contents of a Figma page to find a certain frame or layer, like I would in Sketch (among others). That’s not possible in Figma. It should be. Right now you can only search through your assets, as far as I’m aware.
This seems like a relatively simple feature to add. Please do so!
Describe the problem your experiencing and how your idea helps solve this
After some time use, our design’s page/layer/fame are so many and so a mess, and I can’t use any search function to search/filter anyone of them. The only way I can do is find them by my eye…
Can you add a search function for page/layer/frame?
That will help our a lot, and I think most of Figma users will like to see it.
By the way, Sketch has this function to find some type of layers.1
Add as much context as possible (screenshots, Figma files, mockups, etc.)
Ask questions to bring the community into the conversation
(e.g. Does anyone else experience this? Is anyone using a plugin or workaround to help solve this?, etc.