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Figma autolayout vs my old group habit, 60 files later I switched for good
Three weeks ago I redid a client dashboard in Figma using autolayout for everything, even small badges and tags. Took me maybe 2 extra hours upfront in Portland, but the last round of client edits took 10 minutes instead of my usual 2 hour fight with overlapping groups. The before and after difference is wild, stuff just snaps into place and nothing drifts when someone changes a label. Anyone else rework their older files to autolayout or do you only use it on fresh projects?
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henderson.hugo19d ago
Did you run into any weird stuff with text layers when you first switched? I redid a settings page last year and the labels kept breaking out of their frames because I forgot to set the resizing to hug contents, so everything looked fine until the client typed a longer name and the whole row fell apart. My trick now is to build one little badge or tag correctly, then just copy that sucker everywhere so I never rebuild the rules from scratch. For older files, I don't redo the whole thing, I just fix the pieces I touch when a client asks for a change, and slowly the mess clears up on its own. The ones I leave alone are the finished projects nobody will ever edit again, no point wasting a Friday on those.
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