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An old mentor in Seattle showed me why my components kept breaking
Back in 2017 I was fresh to Figma and kept making these huge nested components that would explode every time I changed a padding value. This senior designer at a coworking space downtown finally pulled me aside after watching me fight a button for 30 minutes. She said 'stop nesting everything, just make one master frame and use variants like they're meant to be used.' That single comment took my file from a mess to something I could actually hand off without crying. Has anyone else had a moment where one tiny tip from a stranger made years of struggling click instantly?
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faithrodriguez2mo ago
My buddy had the same breakthrough when someone told him to stop naming layers and just use groups, took him two years to hear that.
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christophermurray2mo ago
Used to swear by naming every single layer, figured groups were just for messy people. Then I tried it on a project with like 40 layers and suddenly everything made sense. Now I barely name anything and my files are actually easier to go back through.
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