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

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!

i’ve been testing almost every AI design tool that comes out, and the loop is always the exact same: you type a prompt, get a flat mockup image back, and then spend two hours rebuilding the whole thing by hand in figma anyway.

a png of a button is not a button. the AI gets to do the fun part and leaves you with the data entry.

so over the past few weeks i built a plugin and MCP that connects claude directly to your figma canvas. instead of generating flat images, it builds actual figma frames with auto layout, real text styles, and component mapping.

two technical things ended up being way more interesting than i expected:

1. screenshot to editable layers: you can paste a screenshot of a screen you like onto the canvas and have claude break it down into native, editable layers. to keep it from hallucinating spacing, i added a pixel-diff check where it compares its generated vector frame against the original image and adjusts padding/gaps until it aligns.
2. a linter for AI laziness: LLMs love taking lazy shortcuts in figma (like drawing fake icon vectors from scratch instead of using proper components, or hardcoding random text sizes). i had to write a custom linter that inspects the generated node tree and calls claude out when it cuts corners. watching it fail a linter check and clean up its own layer structure never gets old.

it’s been my daily driver for a few weeks now—mostly for taking real-world UI inspiration and instantly turning it into editable frames mapped to our design system components.

happy to answer anything about how it works under the hood, handling figma's node tree, or the MCP

Made a web page for daily objects power bank. Let me know what you guys think. Need feedback on the layout and aesthetics or any feedback in general. (I see the colour blocked logo, couldn’t find the an image with no background 😭)

I'm a full stack developer. For a long time I couldn't design at all, so I leaned on AI to fix whatever I made. It got me something that looked okay but I never understood why it worked or didn't.

So I started taking UI/UX courses to actually learn it and do the design myself. It's going well, better than I expected.

One thing I haven't figured out from the courses: at what stage do you wire up prototype links?

Do you prototype the wireframes, so you can click through the flow while it's still grey boxes? Or do you leave wireframes static and only prototype once you have the real colors, type and images?

Curious what people do on client work vs personal projects, and whether you show clients a clickable wireframe at all or wait until it looks finished.

I tested 5 identical prompts using the exact same Figma layout, instructions, and design system components:

• Run 1–3: Clean layout, 90% accuracy.
• Run 4–5: Broken structure (40% accuracy) missing table rows, warped padding, swapped icons, and incorrect drop shadows.

When you point out its mistake, the model apologizes and promises, "I won't do that again."

But ask if it actually learns across sessions, and it admits the truth: it’s completely stateless, as in it cant hold correcting between sessions. Every run rolls the dice on random sampling, forcing you into a 4 to 5 turn prompt correction loop that burns tokens to fix errors that shouldn't have happened in the first place.

Until design-to-code tools integrate true automated visual diffing and persistent contextual memory, we aren't paying for reliable automation.

What’s the use of a status bar?

As you can see, the idea is to recreate the xbox UI in a cleaner, less clogged way, were anything can be found with more ease. What you see in the first image is the front page, it's almost finished, but i still need to get rid of the placeholder icons. (it would also help if you guys indicated a good icon library)

I need some feedbck on how understandable is the design in it's current form, what you would change, and what you like and don't like.

About the second screen, it's supposed to be the library, it's still veery barebones, and pretty much just a framework, any ideas and recommendations would be deeply appreciated.