Variants are when you combine components into a single component set. A component set can share properties, and have different combinations of values for those properties.
Combining components as variants allow to configure the values in the right sidebar of a component instance.
In this article, you’ll learn five awesome tips and tricks that will help you improve your workflow.
To copy a layer or frame style to another layer or frame, press Command + Option + C on the source object. To paste on to your desired frame or layer, press Command + V.
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Identifying common issues your design team may face.
Decision making process for leaving your current design job (or any job really) or for deciding to keep at it.
This blog post by Rubrik will walk through how they recently approached modernizing their design system to dramatically accelerate development while tackling the scaling challenges we encountered as their product portfolio expanded.
Lessons on how to make an impact beyond our products, how to collaborate beyond Zoom calls, how to organize ourselves beyond our bubbles, and how to improve our craft beyond art…
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Variants are a new way to create, organize, and use components. If you’ve ever created multiple variations of a component, you’ll want to give variants a try. This playground will walk you through everything you need to know to start working with them!
The Home Depot IX team successfully piloted remote design sprints last week and we wanted to share their learnings.
With this latest Mac app update, we’re introducing three features that we think you’re going to love. First, Color Variables — a long-requested feature and a foundational building…
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A catalog of first run user experiences in digital products. The first run experience is what greets newcomers when they come to an app, website, product, or service.
If collaboration between design and engineering were easy, everyone would be doing it and you wouldn’t be reading this. The hard truth is that the effort to facilitate effective workflows between disciplines is as real and challenging as the rest of our work. In fact, it’s an entirely new way of working. Fortunately, there are steps anyone — from an individual contributor…
We migrated from using Sketch + Zeplin to Figma, and sharing the project file has left our viewers (product managers, developers, and executives) lost and confused. This has been a consistent theme that we have received feedback on when we shared out links to Figma. Unlike Zeplin, viewers can see all of your pages and the contents inside each of them, as opposed to directly seeing single pages of the design. Additionally, each designer had their own page structure of how they organized their Figma file which made viewing the file even more confusing.
To ease the frustration, we came…
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Aneel Bhusri, the CEO of Workday, runs an employee-first company. He believes taking care of employees translates into better business results. And Workday — which supplies customers with HR and other business software — seems to bear this out. In 15 years it’s grown into a $40B+ business. And it tops Fortune’s “Future 50” list which identifies companies with the strongest long-term growth potential.
In this episode of Leadership Next, Bhusri and Alan Murray talk about the challenges of building company culture while everyone is working from home. …
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