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Embedded live previews of Frames in Slack integration


Andy_Merskin

It would be amazing if Figma’s Slack integration offered live previews of individual Frames that you could post in channels. I find myself sharing a PNG copied from Figma to communicate design updates, but when changes happen, I have to rinse and repeat that process if people aren’t jumping into the files themselves.

It’s often easier to just send static images and get immediate discussions going in Slack versus using Figma’s commenting system.

How cool would it be to have live previews of a selected frame from a Figma file embedded straight into a Slack post?

Slack shortcut workflow would be something like:

  1. “Embed frame from Figma file”
  2. Paste URL to Figma file
  3. Select from dropdown the Frame you want to embed

Click Share, and you have a preview that updates at an interval. It wouldn’t even need to be realtime, but maybe having a refresh action/button on those embeds would tell Figma to fetch the latest preview.

Clicking the embedded image would display a full-size preview in Slack, just like other images, and the embed would also provide a link / button to View in Figma.

Thoughts?

9 replies

Dom_Bauer
  • 1 reply
  • September 13, 2021

This would be super helpful!


Sandeep_Virmani1

We need this feature for Figma and Slack, please don’t sleep over this, I posted the same question today to my UX team.


Belle_Chance

Yes please, this feature seems like it would be a given!


Ricard_Chramer

Please add this, need to get stakeholders stoked to click it 🙂


Narciso_Carlos

Linear does this beautifully.


Scott_Baggett

+100 Please make it happen!


Peter_Borell

This is the way. Make it so.


This is so needed! People do not engage with a long hairy prototype link we just want them to eyeball the screen we are talking about. As others have said, I end up posting a screenshot sometimes and it is out of date in 5 mins and then chaos ensues lol


Timothy_Kirby

This is basically never going to happen, is it?


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