Mistakes Designers make with Figma Components
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- Note that with the introduction of variable properties, some suggestions like the base structure one are outdated.
Can’t stress this enough, most of these problems are horrible! Avoid them at any cost.
The last one is not a big deal and can be avoided for some components, but can be very useful for others.
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▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 - Intro
0:27 - 1. Not creating components for resuable elements
5:05 - 2: Not making components resiable
6:14 - 3: Not using variants
6:56 - 4: Not understanding variant properties & correct names
8:32 - 5: Not using a base structure in components
10:36 - Creating the base structure
12:46 - 5.1: Not keeping the text layer name consistent on variants/components
15:28 - 6. Not using Interactive Components (less critical) .
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Brother... I made so many design system without making a base button for variants. O my god. Thank you for that tip!
I started using Figma by just exploring and without taking any proper courses! and I've been finding ways to properly create components but couldn't really find it. This is very very very helpful!!! Subscribed to your channel and gonna go through the videos that you have! THANK YOU!
I love this video so much! I started with Figma a few weeks ago, watched some tutorials a this one really helped me understand the components. Thank you!
Awesome video! Please do more videos on design standards! I am learning Figma well but can’t find any info on standards of practice. This is just what I was looking for
Hey, sure, I can have a look at it.
Maybe you will look once at my tutorials
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Great video, thanks for sharing!
great tutorial video, so much to learn in a single video. it really helps us where we lack.
This is amazing i was learning and this one video thought me a lot. I was making these mistake and didn't knew why and how things are working. Much help thanks man.
Great tips, thank you!
Super useful easy and needed video!!!!!
Thanks!
Awesome video! Thank you!
Thank you so much! It is very useful for newbies!
That's a great video for someone starting to learn Figma. Thanks!
Appreciate your point of view, great pointers!
Brilliant video. Thank you for the tips!
Thanks man , keep the good work up
Thanks a lot! Having a Base Structure is really gold!
Great video and really helpful! I couldn't get a grasp on how the setuper works but it's all clear now.
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Wonderful and informative.
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Really helpful!
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Taking time to avoid huge maintenance issues afterwards. Tks a lot.
super clear and helpful. thanks so much !!!
Thank you!
Behtareen bhaijaan, I was getting the same issues, keep posting these types of issues
Very insightful.
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Yeah, definitely worth to remember about those things!
That was amazing. Please make more videos like that.
Will do sir :)
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Hello sir, I am happy that I found you on youtube. Such a great and very helpful channel for learning Figma. Sir, I have a very humble request to make a video explaining "The correct usage of Constraints & resizing while applying Autolayout- What happens if we use the Fill container, Hug content, and so forth". This is the crucial topic, I guess, we newbies mostly go wrong with them, so I am hopefully looking forward to you for the great help as usual. Thank you very much, sir.
yes i do agree with you
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Practical content. Keep it up
Well explained
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Means a lot :)
helpful tips, thank you so much !!!
You're so welcome!
Thank you so much, very well explained, useful tips! I am also curious if I didn't add a base component from the beginning, can I do it afterwards and "attach" it to existing variants or I have to recreate everything from scratch?
Thank you Alina. You can attach a base component afterwards but that will mess up the instances that have been used throughout the product.
So if you haven't done that, you can leave them, it's not the end of the world, but try to do that the next time you create a component to save yourself time and effort.
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Well, I'v e made some of these mistakes but I think my biggest mistake was not creating a base structure. That is genius and will be doing that from now on. It makes so much sense, I've never seen that before in an video. I think Figma should be promoting that in their office hours videos too. I see to many people create a lot of extra buttons and having to make multiple changes. THANK YOU!
thank you so much Sir.. Specially for 5th one..
Very helpful, wish I saw this earlier
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Thank you for the helpful video. If possible please add the shortcut keys which you have used, that will also help us.
Thank you very much
It was great as always. If you can make a practical video on how to use colors in user interface design.
Sure Yusef, I can have a look at that.
Hi! Many thanks 🙏
Amazing video! I don't have the resizing option in the right side, why is that?
Great video!! But how did you convert the icon name text into its corresponding icon using a text style?
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Couldn't agree more!
Stellar tutorial mate. I unfortunately fall into the first boo boo! LOL! It's videos like yours that help make us all better designers. Want to WOW your design team? == add small component interactions like AM did in his menu example (#1) The little things like this make a designers day/week. I can attest to this in real life.
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Very helpful video from someone coming from XD. When using the base structure component for a set of components, let's say a button with a right arrow, hover and inactive states, and in the future, a left arrow variant is needed. In this case would you have to add the arrow to the base component and then delete it manually from all the component variants that don't need it?
Yea, In Figma you can’t delete items from an instance like in XD, so you’ll just be hiding the arrow.
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Very useful video, as a person who used to create all designs in Adobe XD, there is one feature I can't seem to figure out how it works in Figma.
In Adobe XD there is a feature where you can create a component and use the instance of that component and add elements to that instance while still preserving the style of the master component. However in Figma, it does not see that's possible to add elements to an instance but only change / delete elements that already exist.
Is it possible to add new design elements to an instance of a component without touching the master component but the instance itself?
Thank you very much, this is very informative and helpful. But, autolayout is terrible to use in parts. Definitely missing options for better use here from my point of view. Especially for nesting objects and more complex layouts
Thanks for the feedback, it definitely has limitations, but in my opinion, it’s much better than going all without.
It works like flexbox so if it doesn’t work in auto layout it’ll probably be difficult to impossible to develop.
The only thing that is missing is a z-index of some sort but you can get around that with image fills and regular frames
Actually, auto layout make much more sense because that is the way how code works in web( CSS ), iOS( SwiftUI ) or Android (Jetpack Compose). So better think in advance than afterwards.
@@figurich That is all clear to me. Autolayout is great. When I create complex boxes and have to interlace them with others, I often have to edit all the constraints again (in detail) because the responsive behavior doesn't work anymore. Maybe this could be improved overall... Like "keep settings / behavior" ONLY that is the point ;-)
What UI kit or template are you using that has all of the color and font styles you're using here? (Great video!)
I think its tailwind Ui Css from some Figma community file.
Thank you so much for tNice tutorials video. I was so confused and overwheld when I first opened soft soft and now I understand how to finally
This is the approach I’ve been trying to get my team to adopt!
They just look at me like I’m crazy 😂
AHAHA, they will learn over time, if you get a chance, create a component for them, and once that's done, they may probably understand its value over time, especially when they have to make changes.
Thanks - very important tips here starting off much appreciated (too bad no one told you before recording this a bird crapped on your hat:)
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This is so useful, but complicated! Im a newbie, so is it possible to make a slower version of this video where we can follow along?
You can check some of my other videos where I show you how to create components.
Figma Noob to Pro! 04: Components
ua-cam.com/video/tDOGUC6L7Vo/v-deo.html
Etc
I recently have also started creating a design system playlist, so do check it out
I've been struggling to find an soft soft tutorial. I haven't watched yours yet but if the actual company is telling you nice job, then I'm
Some suggestions like the base structure setup is no longer relevant with the new Figma properties update.
So do check that out.
ua-cam.com/video/cOGyjb9qgBw/v-deo.html
Additionally, now even different text layer names may not be an issue if you link them with a component text property.
Great video, thanks for sharing. However, creating variants using this base structure I don't appear to be able to change the border radius as a property. So do I need to create a separate button base structure for rounded, straight, pill etc ? Many thanks in advance.
You can change the border radius, that shouldn't be a problem.
@@AMDesignAndDev Thanks so much for the prompt reply, I've now fixed this. However I have another question - is it possible to add a hover colour to the base structure of a button which - when changed - filters down through all the different button variants? The reason being that I plan to use the same button styles throughout multiple projects but the colours will change all the time depending on the project and I'm trying to avoid changing all the colours for each variant each time. Thank you.
@@rookie1969 You can if you want to, but the purpose of the base structure is to define the sizing etc.
If you want a base structure for states separately, you can create 2 levels of base structures, but I would not recommend it.
So I'd say, do not do that, and have the state specific styling on the main component itself.
@@AMDesignAndDev Thank you, you clearly know best as I'm pretty new to all this, advice taken :-)
Where do you get all those nice colors you had?
Valuable advises!
I'm curious how would you create a calendar with components/variants when it is selected a circle with the number will appear. I've done this and let's say the component is 1 default and 1 click with circle background, or whatever. But when I select, for example, another number 12 or 28...etc, I get the same number as in component - 1 circle (and not the initial number I need to be as selected). Should I make all the numbers default and selected as variants?
I think that’s happening because you have not renamed the text in your component in correctly you only need to create the variance once and then if you apply those variance in different components or different date it should work without the text reverting back to the original variant text
@@AMDesignAndDev Thank you for the explanation. Appreciate.
Hey there! I have a question about the ' Not creating components for reusable elements' part.
Are the items (Home, About, Locations etc) in that header just instances of components and the header is a component?
I was just listening a tutorial from Mavi Design called 'Components inside components' and he said that you should create only one item component, define structure and states and then use just instances of that item component in header. Do you agree with that method?
I just wanna clear some things up in my head! Thank you!
Yes. Those items in the header would be components themselves
Thank you for such informative video, but I noticed that the version of your figma is different a bit from mine
You’re right, and as a consequence some tips may be outdated.
good knowledge i learn from this video, looking for more mistakes to avoid.
I've used Figma in the past but have to come back to it now as I need to use it for some projects. This is really useful and up to date which when looking for useful tips for Figma amongst the thousands is hard to come by! So many video tutorials are out of date. However, could you slow down a little bit when explaining? I followed it all and it all makes perfect sense but you talk too fast and thank goodness for no background music!
Sure Karen, I've heard a lot of people want me to slow down, and in my recent video, I've tried slowing down.
So keep in touch and keep letting me know if I should improve elsewhere.
@@AMDesignAndDev Awesome tutorial indeed! I personally don't mind the fast pace, you can always set playback speed anyway, though I agree a slower pace would be better for most.
What I find a bit confusing is your use of keyboard shortcuts. Sure, we can see them flash on the screen, but as this video was intended for noobs, it would be a nice addition to mention them at the very least.
@@XanSintax That's an excellent point. I would consider that for later videos!
Good stuff! Curious to know which components you use base components for aside from buttons. I assume text inputs too. Anything else?
Yup, text inputs, dropdowns, checkboxes, labels, tags, basically a lot of things, anything that's repeated a few more than a few times, I prefer using base components for them.
@@AMDesignAndDev good stuff. With inputs, do you create each atom as individual components (label, placeholder text, input box, error messages etc) and then combine them together into one base component? Or do you just have one single base component that contains it all in one?
@@mrnickb Nops, they can be placed in the same base component, and then only the size can change on the larger versions.
@@mrnickb You can check out these two videos:
Inputs:
ua-cam.com/video/9AYrcB2Yp3A/v-deo.html
Form Group:
ua-cam.com/video/uOLGdkMeAws/v-deo.html
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How about doing a component for the whole navigation bar and make variants with each of the elements highlighted? I believe it would be easier and faster
Nops, a lot of duplicated design if we’re duplicating the navbar for lets say 13 items or more in the sidebar.
how to duplicate auto layout object inside components? is it possible?
So, this is my step by step, until I ask this question,
1. I create an object, ex. Button > Convert to component
2. Drag the button from local component, > Copy button (5 buttons) > Convert to autolayout > Convert to component, and finally, I got a new component and give the name as "tab".
3. Then, I drag the tab from local component, > I try to jump into the tab component, and try to duplicate the button, but nothing happen, it comes to a new component, not like when we create a basic autolayout, we can easily to duplicate the object inside the frame.
I'm just thinking about how best to handle the "base structure" / master component in case I need a primary / secondary button and also a small / large. Is only one master component enough? Would you like some advice? Thanks
You can have a look at my buttons video:
ua-cam.com/video/DOb9CJ9mpYI/v-deo.html
@@AMDesignAndDev Thanks, I write comment there :)
Hello Thanks for this.. i converted the "Header Active and Inactive state to Combine Variants, but when i tried changing the Active and inactive states of some text in the Header, they changed the original texts to HOME instead of maybe LOCATION, ABOUT, CONTACT. please how do i solve that?
Make sure the layer names are the same in both variants.
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Does this same logic apply to bottom NAV bars? Because I've been struggling with prototyping each states
For sure.
Q : Why i can't see Variant column as shown on your screen at 13 : 43 ?
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Aware this is an old tutorial but Figma on their recent building block webinar advised against using base components. The explain some glitches it causes towards the end.
I agree, the base structure no longer works with the component properties
If you put in all possible atoms within a component and just use component properties, is a base structure necessary? Unless you missed a possible atom wouldn't this cover all your bases?
Bas structures are no longer used with component properties. See the pinned comment on this video that I made 9 months ago.
@@AMDesignAndDev Yea sorry, should have looked through the comments. Thanks for your proto vids, its really opened up my thought process on what's possible on figma. Do you happen to do design critiques or have forum like on discord or patreon?
So basically a Large Button should be it's own component with it's own states rather than being a variant within a smaller button? So a mobile width button should again be it's own parent component rather than a selectable variety within a different button?
Yes, now all buttons should be variants as with the new component properties update, base components don’t really work as intended.
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