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- grafician-1
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- bogue0
This is a big deal:
- duckseason1
@jay
Let me know if I'm understanding this correctly...
You want the 4 frames on the left (body, graphic, URL, CTA) to populate the mockup on the right, and you want to be able to edit those 4 frames and have the updates reflect in the mockup?If so, you need to think of Main Components as the source of truth in your designs. Meaning that you typically wont be building with them directly, rather you set them up and use the instances of each to construct the larger whole. This way if you reuse your CTA in 50 places, but want to change the font, color, corner radius etc, you can do it once on the Main Component and see the changes reflected in all 50 places at once.
I took a stab at rebuilding what I *think* you're trying to achieve. I setup individual components for each part. And then combined the instances of those parts into a new component, which I then dropped into a mock-up. Red arrows show instances being used.
If I missed the mark, ignore me, but happy to continue and try to help you figure it out if needed :D
- utopian1
Figma’s cloud-based designed software has been a growing headache for Adobe over the last few years. It’s cheaper (there’s even a free tier), easier to use, collaborative and modern, and has been spreading like wildfire among designers at companies big and small. Annualized recurring revenue is poised to more than double for a second straight year, surpassing $400 million in 2022.
“This was a significant threat to Adobe,” Lo Toney, founding managing partner of Plexo Capital, which invests in start-ups and venture funds, told CNBC’s “TechCheck” on Thursday. “This was very much both a defensive move but also an eye towards this trend where design rules and design matters.”
That’s why Adobe is paying roughly 50 times revenue following a stretch this year that saw investors dump stocks that were commanding sky-high multiples. For the top cloud companies in the BVP Nasdaq Emerging Cloud Index, forward multiples have fallen to just over 9 times revenue from about 25 in February 2021.
- maquito0
Figma Schema - Live broadcast happening:
https://schemavirtual2022.figma.…
- zarkonite1
A single Mario Bros screen made in Figma.
(Press spacebar to jump)
- nb7
Reposting because this is so well organized for experienced designers who are new to Figma and just need the straight dope on Figma
- oey_oey0
Just downloaded it.
Learning it will do me no harm on the contrary I guess so...
- canoe0
Only used for wireframing, and assembling jpgs into a "what would it look like version".
The project managers now use it to outline the pages, keep notes, post links, and basically we now do all of our project management in one central place - cut down on TONS of emails and bullshit. We use Slack to chat.
Pretty useful tool, but I'm too old school to think about switching out of illustrator and the creative suite.
- Al_dizzle0
^ yeah they have version history... but not quite version control.
I can probably get away with not having robust version control in the first 3 or 4 months... but im worried about future state... if I get the team to 4 + people. Is updating a master design system going to be a manual process?
- nb0
Have you looked at Figma Master Components? And Libraries?
I ask because I'm not sure what you meant by "manual process"
- oey_oey0
Ma che Fig(m)a
- utopian0
Figma vs Sketch vs Adobe XD: Which Is the Better Design Tool?
https://www.codeinwp.com/blog/fi…
- Al_dizzle0
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Well even with master components and libraries, there needs to be some governance around those.Designers need to be able to play with those without fear of effecting all the other dependencies. Which is where automated branching comes in handy.
You could manually duplicate artboards for that type of exploration, but eventually you'll have to take the new and approved components back to the original "master" library for everyone to use. And that seems like a lot of manual work if you have multiple contributors making changes on the fly.
- bocadeets0
Cool to see how everyone is using it (for stuff I never even imagined, like illustration below)