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Front End All Attendees Gaige Hall 204

Figma Libraries 101: Streamlining design with components

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Jennifer Smith

Co-founder at American Graphics Institute

This session is for those who have some basic knowledge using Figma and want to learn more about reusable components and styles. This session will take you through building and organizing nested components organization in a mini-design system. Naming and component organization will be discussed, as well as creating and using variables and exposing component properties. 

Building objects in Figma

  • Building a basic object using auto-layout features
  • Naming and hierarchy

Saving components in Figma

  • Managing components
  • Applying instances

Creating variables

  • Creating variables
  • Exposing properties

 Exporting

  • Using dev mode
  • Exporting assets

Additional Details:

  • Audience level: All Attendees
  • Topic: Front End
  • Room: Gaige Hall 204

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