Here is a Hack I found on Medium, sharing in case it can help someone making components:
Felix’s article
AI was prioritized over this. Got it.
Another +1 for this. This is such basic functionality! There are lots of components, generally more imagery-oriented ones like icons, for which aspect ratio locking is critical. This is not something we should be relying on plugins or hacks to have.
I like your approach
@dvaliao It would be really great and much appreciated, if your dev team can prioritize this feature.
Thanks in advance
Basic and much needed feature for responsive purpose. +1000
Wild that the community has been begging for this for nearly 4 years now.
This is a basic design requirement and I can’t believe that this hasn’t been dealt with. Figma would rather move the chairs around on the UI than address fundamental design flaws. To the Figma representative that ‘just passes along the feedback’ - please pass it on again and ask why this design flaw is never addressed.
Please release this and de-prioritize lame gen AI features
Thank you @Dan_Shipley for that. I appreciate your reminder that the Product team has lost their way.
We saw Adobe do this with Photoshop and 3D when their marketing department thought that would be the way to sell more subs. Now it seems Figma is prioritizing ridiculous gen-AI stuff over real tools that humans can use to (keep) doing their jobs more efficiently and effectively.
I really would like to see a software company maintain their integrity and just continue to refine and hone in on what made them excellent in the first place, not bow to the pressure of their VCs and hitch their little carts to whatever trendy horse Marketing tells them to.
Sorry for the rant. I’ve been posting way too much in the Figma forums and suggestions lately, and that’s a bad sign.
(I should add that I’m such a huge fan of this software and can sing its praises over AI, XD and yes even Sketch - for UX work - for days. I’m worked up because I have been having this fight for nearly 30 years with software companies that have amazing products and then just get lost and lose focus. Figma has been a fantastic tool, and just needed another year or two’s focus on their UX backlog and technical debt, but like the others, they are chasing the shiny new thing, while users just hunger for excellence and perfection of the existing features and toolset).
The year is 2067. Figma has overtaken Adobe as the premiere Galactic Design Lord Enterprise®. Figma stitches worlds and concepts and relationships together seamlessly in realtime. True Aspect Ratio Lock is a myth that gets talked about from time to time.
Celebrating 3 plus years of Googling “maintain aspect ratio Figma”. Bumping again for the community. I believe in you, Figma folks!
Wonder when Figma will take this on! Its been since 2021
The year is 2149. FIGMAX CORP. ENTERPRISES® has captured and enslaved over 3,000 planets in just this universe. The Figma software has been upgraded to Interdimensional FIGMAX® Multiverse™. Even in the new platform, making an image keep its aspect ratio is impossible. Only heretics dare speak of the evil concept.