Guide to files and projects

From the file browser or within a specific file, the project name is listed beneath the file name.

View all your projects in the file browser.

Open the file browser by logging in to your account at figma.com. If you’re in a specific Figma file, you can access the file browser by clicking  the Figma menu > Back to files.

You can browse your content from the left sidebar.

• Starter and Professional: Go to All projects
• Organization and Enterprise: Use All teams or All workspaces (if enabled). Select a specific workspace and/or team to see a list of projects.

To invite someone to a project:

1. Open the file browser by logging in to your account at figma.com.
   • If you’re in a specific Figma file, you can access the file browser by clicking the Figma menu > Back to files.
2. Open the project page.
   • On the Starter or Professional plan, select All projects from the left sidebar. Then, select a project.
   • On the Organization or Enterprise plan, select All teams from the left sidebar. Select a team, then select a project.
   • On the Enterprise plan with workspaces enabled, select All workspaces from the left sidebar. Then, select a team from the Your teams tab. Select a project in that team.
3. Click Share.
4. Enter in the email address of the users you’d like to invite, separated by commas, and set their project permissions.
5. Click Send invite.

Figma dynamically loads only the page you land on—often the first page. This makes even large files load quickly.

Pages load individually as you navigate

Certain actions may cause the file to load all pages. For example:

• Searching across all pages in a file.
• Selecting All pages when you review updates to components, styles, and variables.
• Running a plugin or widget that needs the whole file. While plugins are usually optimized to dynamically load pages, some plugins need to load all pages in order to run.

For a very large or complex file, it can take a few moments for Figma to load all the pages.

Each Figma product uses its own file format, which can only be opened in Figma.

You can save a copy of a file to your computer in the following file formats:

• Figma Design: .fig
• FigJam: .jam
• Figma Slides: .deck
• Figma Buzz: .buzz
• Figma Sites: .site
• Figma Make: .make

Saving local file copies is useful if you want to back up your files if you go offline unexpectedly, or if you want to move files between Figma accounts.

Every Figma file has a unique URL. The URL includes several components that tell you information about the file.

Consider the following URL:

https://www.figma.com/design/abttA1F3GxZdZlkI9t5s99/Example-Figma-file?node-id=32-9

• design indicates that the file is a Figma Design file. Other options include:
  • proto for Figma Design prototypes
  • board for FigJam files
  • slides for Figma Slides files
  • deck for Figma Slides files in presentation view
  • site for Figma Sites files
  • buzz for Figma Buzz files
  • make for Figma Make files
• abttA1F3GxZdZlkI9t5s99 is the unique file key. Knowing how to find your file key is useful if you’re embedding files in an app or using the Figma REST API.
• Example-Figma-file is the name of the file.
• 32-9 is the unique ID of a selected layer in the file. When you use a URL that includes the node ID of a layer, the file opens focused on that layer.

Drafts are a personal space for creating and experimenting with Figma files before sharing them with a team or moving them to a more permanent location like a team project.

You can view your Draft files for each team from the left sidebar of the file browser.

Drafts are private to you, and only people that you specifically invite to your files will have access to any files in this space.

When you’re ready to share a draft, you can move it to a project.