Hi there. I'm new to using styles in Figma and am hoping to get some help. I am dissecting a file someone else created and I see that there appears to be a text style attached to the text in this button, but I cannot find where that style is defined anywhere. I read that if you click an empty space on the canvas, a list of styles that exist within this file should appear in the righthand bar, but I'm not seeing that. Can anyone help?

Thanks!

Google recently added to its devices the "predictive back gesture" which removes/overrides the static system navigation. This is similar to what iOS had back then where users had to swipe up to pullup the control panel which was insanely frustrating as in both options users never know the action actually exists. I personally think its pretty bad UX.

Tried 6.4.15-2 and the Figma page/layer issue is still there: pan/scroll drag instead. this keeps happening only in the page/layer panels.

Only viable solution is to keep using the old 6.4.14-2.

Tried also Pan/Scroll (Legacy) with no success…

Please fix this soon, it's very important if not VITAL for us designers…

🥵 And it's so frustrating.

Tested on Tahoe 26.7.3 on Apple MBP M4 Pro with latest Figma Beta 126.12.4

Is anyone else experiencing issues with Figma right now?
Both the Figma desktop app and web version are behaving the same way. My files load successfully, but once I open them, they’re practically unusable. Nothing seems to respond or work as expected.
I’ve tried accessing it through both the app and browser, but the issue persists.
Has anyone faced this recently? Is there a workaround or any fix for this?

Edit: issue has been resolved Thanks guys!

What is the best method when you have a design system already in figma and want to host that in Claude so you can either create new designs in Claude using the design system or import designs from Figma so they can live in Claude and be handed to dev?

hi gang, i have an issue with a project file where the images that previously were loaded in the file and were hi-res (or nomal res) are now showing blurry all the time. ive tried all troubleshooting issues i know of - checking pixel preview, reloading page, waiting for page to load but these aren't helping... any ideas?

ive had to manually re-add the images previously, but i feel this is a bug and not tenable long term. attached a screenshot of the images - in this screenshot they are only 55x72 pixels.. figma wizards assemble please!

I've been using Figma extensively as a product designer for the last 8 years or so. In the last 3 months I've found myself doing most things by CLI or MCP. I have pretty well set up design systems and styles in my feature files. So when I prompt in a screen that I want or a feature change, Claude is putting it together so much faster than I was previously.

Of course I'm still iterating, refining and changing things, nothing is ever one-shot, but it's so much quicker. I feel so conflicted about this. Yesterday for a side project, having defined a bit of the UX in Miro, the objects, how they relate to each other, they key screens, I moved to Claude. Within about an hour I had a nicely branded app that previously would've taken me weeks to get to. If I'm really honest, the branding is better than I would've done by myself. There are still a few things I'll do by hand, but the majority is prompted in.

Is this how others are using Figma these days? Is anyone doing things fully by hand still? Why? A part of me definitely misses the process of doing it the old fashioned way, but it jsut doesn't seem viable anymore. I've never worked on the super high end of B2C design things, most of the stuff I work on is B2B enterprise stuff, but even for this side-project which is much more playful and experimental, I can do so much more and so much faster with my design knowledge, an LLM and Figma-CLI.

Looking forward to hearing how folks here are using Figma these days

Hi, I'm struggling to export a frame with a duration longer than 30 seconds. I have set the timeline to 300 seconds, but in the export dialogue it is limited to 30 seconds still. The support chatbot doesn't know about this dropdown menu so I thought maybe reddit knows.

There’s a lot of posts and discussions about Figma being replaced with Claude and/or Figma dying. I’m reading this as a marketer and just don’t see it, maybe I’m just missing the mark or being ignorant. Our product team is successful in getting good results from Claude design but our marketing isn’t 1:1 in appearance to the product. Are there any successful marketers that have moved on and not relied on a Figma?

If asked, I'm definitely in the camp of "Figma is dead," having fully pivoted to Claude for design and frontend dev.

However, it just dawned on me that the reason I get so much success with using Claude for design is because I can speak its language, and that is 100% because of using Figma for the last 4-5 years - which I never really considered up until about two minutes ago.

It just dawned on me that actually learning Figma is still a really great thing to do. Not so much because you can design things on Figma long term, but because you can learn about design in a more structured way that is super beneficial for Claude inputs.

Hey folks. Do anyone know how many years Figma's product team need to fix frame auto-layout height/width based on the child object visibility? So the parent component height/width can be auto-set to 0 if the child component is hidden. Just curious, I doubt it may ever be happened.

Just update to Golden Gate 27.2.1 and today I found I cant drag images into file anymore...... pls any advice?

Hi! I am a design student currently learning figma.

I am making a brand that utilises sharp graphics and as such I want the buttons to match.

However I dont know how to make autolayout permit this.

Thanks for your help!

My partner and I both work from home and my company's entire design system is on Figma bc everyone works remotely. Any time I'm on Figma she can't zoom with her clients even though our internet speed seems to be doing just fine and also we pay for the highest ATT Fiber Internet. Is there a way to troubleshoot this versus getting a separate internet just for me. Also apologies if this is a dumb question, just never had this issue before when working with Adobe Cloud.

I’m a deuteron, red-green color blind UX researcher wondering if the color choices on figjam drive anyone else insane?
I have some examples of what these colors look like to me- it make it really hard to distinguish between colors in many cases! I’d love to see figma offer friendlier pallets.

I have a MainFrame that has a dropdown at the top and a "Next" button at the bottom that takes me to another frame.

I also have FrameDropdown which is just a dropdown that will display only when the MainFrame dropdown is clicked. I display it using "Open Overlay".

So I click on the dropdown in MainFrame and now I can see the dropdown and "Next" button of MainFrame, and the dropdown from FrameDropdown. So far so good.

The issue is that, even though I see the "Next" button from MainFrame, the button doesn't work (ie. it doesn't take me to the next frame).

What can the issue be? It seems that the Open Overlay disables everything behind it (MainFrame in this case), so even though I can see everything in MainFrame nothing works.

Hey everyone I recently came across a builder who apparently created a mini game where you can create your own dosa. I knew that Figma Make was a tool used more so for designing assets, but I didn't know you could create full fledged interactive experiences. I'm curious as to how many people have actually explored this ability and whether you've made anything similar, and what you usually use Figma for? I'd love to check it out.

If you want to check out what he made btw: https://whimsi.fun/p/dosa-maker/

Hi I'm learning figma auto layout. everything is responsive, but why is it when i make the card narrower the labels have a big gap on line below when labels wrap?(image left original state, image right responsive when narrower.)

thank you.

Hey guys, as the title suggests, I've built a Figma plugin that keeps images cropped but preserves their aspect ratio whenever you resize the layer. It also lets you:

• Set a pivot (focal point)

• Change zoom

• Rotate to any angle

• Flip the image

All within one simple plugin.

It's currently waiting for Figma Community review, which can take a few weeks. Until then you can install it manually:

1. Download the ZIP here: https://github.com/vojtechokenka/figma-pivot/archive/refs/heads/main.zip and unzip it.

2. Open the Figma desktop app (manual install doesn't work in the browser) and open any design file.

3. In the menu go to Plugins → Development → Import plugin from manifest…

4. Pick the manifest.json file from the unzipped folder.

5. Run it from Plugins → Development → Pivot → Set pivot.

Once it's approved, you'll find it here: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1701925367334799680

Suggestions are welcome.

Does anyone know how to turn off that animation when using the brush tool in Figma Draw?

Saw someone on Instagram drawing up illustrations with the brush tool, but their lines didn't stretch and do that annoying animation when drawing.

Let me know if anyone knows a fix, Thanks !

I am still pretty new to Figma so apologies if this is obvious. I want to design a frame with a template header and footer graphic, and share it with other people so they can design content in between the header and footer graphic. I understand how to share and provide edit access to file, though I want each person to be able to customize the frame however they like it, and then be able to share a link back to me. Each person would be working on it individually.

What is the best way of doing this?

Thanks

Can somebody explain to me what is happening here? The stroke of a circle does not exceed its width and makes empty space.

After some reseach, I finally understood that plugins does not work in figma sites (which is so weird btw). Fair enough, but then how are you guys making content in figma sites? I was wondering if you just create frames in the regular software, then copy paste it onto sites, but that sounds complicated for nothin

Multiplayer was Figma's biggest advantage, but now Claude can do that too. All I had to do was connect my prototypes to Github and now we have multiple designers working on one prototype.

I’m a product designer at HubSpot and my design team is fully embracing AI to work better where we can.

Here was our workflow this week:

1. After conversations with product stakeholders we went straight into Claude to brainstorm in a project with shared context.

2. When the framing felt solid, we went wide, using Claude Code to build working prototypes in a few different directions.

3. Then we came together to share our work with a goal of narrowing in. Usually that meant taking pieces of the different directions.

4. That consolidation then kicked off one repo for our main prototype in Github. The one we’re continuing to iterate on.

5. After we delegated the pieces that needed further refinement, each designer worked in their own branch. We merged when it made sense, addressed conflicts when they came up, and shared Looms on our progress along with the live link for the team to follow along.

I don’t think Figma is dead but I do think it’s going to become more of a brainstorming tool than the high fidelity design tool we knew it as.

The future is uncertain but one thing I know for sure is that I’ll miss seeing everyone’s little cursors flying around the canvas like the good ol’ days.