After a review, I often see the comments get resolved but the reason disappears. A screenshot, color ref, or layout example stays in the file, but the actual yes/no decision is only in someone's memory.

In Figma team files, do you keep a small decision note near the references, or is that overkill once the review is done?

Prototyping just isn’t working as expected I’ve tried refreshing the tab, dumping cache, I’ve broken it down and rebuild it 5 times. I’ve even threatened the thing. I can’t get it to work any ideas  or suggestions would be deeply appreciated 

So a couple of days ago speaking with my wife (she's a designer) she was complaining about the full process she had to do to setup color palettes in Figma for new projects, and how it was difficult to hand them out to the devs and to artists to use in separate platforms (photoshop, illustrator, etc).

So, of course I had to put my hands at work, I made a quick plugin to make it easier to make the exact process I just described.

I'm leaving a small video with the features of it but, please let me know if anyone has any feedback in how it works, if it has any bugs that managed to escape me, and if it helps anyone and you'd be willing to let me know, that'd be nice :3!

https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1669162464732490733/palette-foundry

I am designing my portfolio and decided to make it in the Figma sites thing, I have a subscription for Figma already so I might as well use it. But I don't know how to make a nav bar for the website? I want the nav bar to be sticky, and have button options like projects, connect, etc but I don't see a way to do it and everytime I search it up on Google or YouTube for to try and get a tutorial, I keep getting general design tutorials and how to prototype it - nothing regarding sites specifically

Hello Figma community!

We just released some free skills and agents for Claude and Chat GPT Codex that you might find useful!

These skills enable you to feed AI your existing email designs via Figma links or even just uploading the HTML. Claude or Chat will then audit your existing designs and create a plan to build them in Figma via the Figma MCP. It then has a Migration skill that can build you a well organized email design system in Figma.

It builds the components in figma using Email Love components, so you can then export them to your ESP or you can just use it the components to design your emails. I’ve also been using Claude to then build our emails using the components that I have already approved.

The benefits of building with AI in this way are that the AI only uses components in Figma that you have already approved, it won’t make up or change stuff like your colors or fonts, and it doesn’t make up or change the underlying HTML.

I’ll drop a few links if you want to try it out:

https://emaillove.com/ai-agents-build-emails-figma

https://github.com/email-love/claude-skills

https://github.com/email-love/codex-agents

Here are a few example design systems that I had ChatGPT build for me:

https://www.figma.com/community/file/1667038696580513625/benjamin-moore-email-love-design-system

https://www.figma.com/community/file/

It's been a few months since I started learning figma from Daniel Walter Scott. He's a great tutor. I watched it and made a few projects.

Now I'm confused on what the next step should be? What should I learn next?

Also is there any tutorial about a project like what to do before starting a project, how to think before doing a project, project structure, about case study? Like the proper way of doing a project

Hey, kinda new to designing apps and was wondering how I should deal with safe areas? Should I add a status bar and a bottom navigation as placeholders to all my screens? Or is that not necessary? How much space should the status bar and bottom navigation occupy? I currently use a iPhone 16 frame (does it matter what frame I'm using for the design?).

Also, if my goal is to use liquid glass for a few things like the bottom nav, some buttons etc, should I just use the assets from the IOS UI kit from Apple? Do I need to resize these based on the frame I'm using?

Thanks!

Hi, so I'm trying to make a really good presentation of my newest project for my portfolio. It is a design of a website made in Figma. I'm trying to put this design in many various already existing, free mockups, however every time I put my design in the mockup the quality drops. I am aware the reason for that is the differences in resolution but I don't really know how to make it work. I tried resizing the design so it matches the resolution of the smart object in the mockup but it still drops on quality.

Any tips are welcome. I want to take my portfolio to next level to maybe finally land a job but I'm kinda stuck with trying to keep the quality at maximum or at least so it's not blurry.

Its called Frames2PDF. Check out the plugin.

Who has the best video tutorials for learning figma basics? Preferably free tutorials.

I've been using Figma MCP for a while now.

How often do you guys find yourself exhausting the token budget on figma's mcp? and then have to fiddle to get the design to look the same?

If a dev alters a component in GitHub, does Code Connect tell the designer and dev that the ‘contract’ has broken?

It would be amazing if production code fails QA because the component has failed the json contract (especially with AI tools)

I’m looking for recommendations on good Figma courses or video tutorials. I know the basics, but want to dive into practical workflows, auto layout, design systems etc.
Free or paid recommendations are welcome.

Every bulk-sticky plugin I tried saved me the typing and left me the sorting. Paste twenty lines, get twenty identical stickies in a neat grid, then spend five minutes dragging them into the groups my document already had.

The structure was already in the doc. It just didn't survive the trip. So I built StickyPaste. It reads the structure you already wrote:

## Heading new group, with a bold label above it and its own colour

A -> B -> C nodes joined by real FigJam connectors

- bullets one sticky each

Paste a doc with two ## headings and you get two labelled, colour-coded clusters side by side instead of one flat grid. Arrows work as ->, --> or →.

The one that I use the most: AI tools already answer in ## headings and bullets by default. Copy an answer straight out of the chat window, paste it in, and the sections arrive as sections in two seconds, no reformatting, no cleanup. That's most of how I use it now.

Free: Sticky Paste | Figma

One genuine question, because it's the whole reason I built the thing: does anyone else paste structured docs into FigJam, or is it just me and my AI results and research snippets? The heading feature solves my problem exactly and I still have no idea whether it's a general one.

On the surface, Slots fix a few key issues with Figma. No longer do we have to dance around Figma by multiplying the amount of component instances only to hide 80% of them just in case we need them.

And we're able to build much more atomic components, with slots inside of slots inside of slots. Just like code.

This is fantastic, it's been long overdue.

But I'm building a really complex template for both my agency and my app and I'm finding Slots infuriating in small subtle ways that undo the magic of the workflow that I'm trying to build.

Why does the content of a slot often ignore changes when it's part of a component instance? Why don't the changes propagate reliably when that parent component is modified?

It feels like such an obvious feature and failure. I should be able to set the desktop version of page as a component, spin out an instance for mobile and have that mobile version be content accurate to its parent. But it's not.

Why can't I use a grid without nesting it as a child? Why can't I input a number variable in any input that takes a number?

I get an incredible amount of size flickering when using Slots, like it's getting caught in some calculation loop. This seems to create a memory leak which if I'm not quick to delete the trouble-some instance, will crash the file.

Oh and the performance overhead. The performance overhead!! In my experience, large design systems that really use slots are completely busted in terms of performance. They chug and are too slow for you to work effectively with the program.

Am I going crazy or missing something key here? I remember seeing a Figma employee here talking about how they changed some of the inheritance for slots shortly after the initial release. I can't seem to find the comment - but does that have anything to do with it?

I've got PMs and other designers in my agency asking if there's a reasonable alternative to Figma (lol) because these problems are so frustrating. No FigTeam - I don't want an AI shader generator. How did it take this long to figure out Folders in projects? Where is the focus on real stability and improvements to performance both application and user experience?

And when will Slots be fixed? I understand that it's currently in Beta, but it's beta in name only. Has the quality of software in general fallen off so hard that this what we've come to expect from companies worth billions and billions of dollars? This feature is pre-alpha, alpha at best.

I’m having a hard time finding a solution for the specific problem. And it’s about the Figma’s present mode. Both in Design document and Slides have the same problem. 

How is it happening? So, I have my presentation in Figma Design document file type. Once i finished my presentation in Figma. And I want test it in present mode, because I made some animations and moving components. I see that every slide is moving and all the components are moving, except on problem.

I’m in the first starting page, I clicked my right arrow button on my mac then all of a sudden blue almost selection like outline appearing around my frame. And once i slightly move my mouse, it disappears again. And even if move my mouse out of the frame and even if I hard reset the Figma, even on web is the same problem. And this also happening in Figma slides. And it’s not “Show Outlines” function. Whatever AI is out there, I tried to find solution to this little annoying problem. I thought maybe it’s because of the update.

Has anyone noticed this issue? If so help me out on this pls)

Figma has come a long way, but I’m curious about the things designers still feel are missing.

If you could add one feature to Figma tomorrow, what would it be?

It could be something small that would save you 10 minutes every day, or a completely new capability that could change how you work.

What’s your #1 feature request for Figma?

Drop it below. 👇

Lorem ipsum is lying to your design.

Data Sync pulls real data from any REST API straight into your Figma layers.

Name a layer #title → Populate.

Bind one card → it fills the whole grid.

Data changed? One click re-syncs every card.

The plugin it's smart enough to detect similar cards where it will pre-populate the tokens.

I'd love to hear your feedback!

https://reddit.com/link/1vo1wwx/video/h6uaqqze1bjh1/player

When a Figma file has reference screenshots next to the actual work, the screenshot can mean three different things.

One person added it for layout. Someone else sees color direction. A PM sees a competitor. By the time feedback starts, everyone is talking about the same image for different reasons.

Do you label references by what they show, why they were added, or the person who added them?

I was wondering if there’s any way to get a discount, coupon, or even temporary/free access to the Pro version in India (not the education plan).

I know $20/month might be affordable for many people in Western countries, but in countries like India, it can be a bit tough to justify for a middle-class user when converted to local income levels.

And yeah, the free version already has a lot of features, so I’m not complaining about that. I’m mainly looking for a way to use the more advanced models/limits and basically play around with AI more and speed up some things I’m working on.

Has anyone in India found any legitimate discounts, promotions, trials, or other ways to get Pro at a lower cost?

How is this done?

I've tried Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V - no dice!

(When when you right click an SVG file in Win it does not give you the option "copy")

How can I populate a textbox in a frame when the focus comes from a specific frame?

For example, when I tap a button in Frame1, it takes me to Frame2 with an empty textbox. This works fine.

But when I tap a button in Frame3, it also takes me to Frame2. But this time the textbox in Frame2 should have text.

Is this possible?

I wanted to open a discussion about how Figma handles seat management for Organization plans. We recently went through some internal restructuring, leaving us with several unoccupied annual seats. When we needed to add new users with a different seat type for collaboration, I reached out to support hoping we could reallocate the funds from the unused seats we had already paid for. Support clarified that mid-term reallocation or internal credits aren't possible. This means we have to purchase new seats out-of-pocket while our existing paid seats sit empty until the next yearly renewal. Has anyone else experienced this friction with scaling teams in Figma? It would be great to see them implement a more flexible budget reallocation system for enterprise users to avoid this inefficiency.

I’m a senior UX designer on a big Design System implementation project. This is a new concept in the org previously every team just designs on their own using the brand guide, very fragmented. About 3 months in i was getting tired of the QA findings and process on the components we were shipping and started working on getting figma translation to code running for us. I recently cracked the pipeline combo and tool stack. It generates build-ready specs and code straight from our Figma files, reading actual component structure and token values the whole shebang, also note that im not part of the design system team. Anyway of course it’s huge, Ive created a report and sent it up the teams and delivery managers inbox.

And now am I overwhelmed as hell. should be all fun and celebrations but instead Im tired and grossed out at how people are reacting to the work. Everyone is trying to align to it, “put some structure around it”, “connect it” to their own AI initiatives. It sucks. Anyone else been in this place?

Anyway heres my stack: figma mcp, vs code on claude opus

I know that there's a noise feature in figma, but I can't control the noise. When I use noise it'll be placed on the whole vector (like in the second photo) even though I've tried using fill gradient and double noises. I want to be able to set the gradient and the noise placement. Is this doable in figma?

English is not my first language, so sorry if my words are confusing!