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11 steps to keep Figma clean

We all probably already know how it is to receive a project from someone else. Not everyone works the same way, it’s what makes our field so varied. We need to spend some time focusing on adapting.

Matt Jedraszczyk
UX Collective
6 min readApr 25, 2022
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In this article, I will go over 11 steps that may help you and your teammates in organizing your work in Figma.

1. Figma variants

An animation that show how button change states based on a variable like having an icon or not.

Let’s start with a simple one. Figma variants let you create different variants that you may later use. For example a button. We may have different states of a button - primary, secondary with an icon or without an icon.

All of these options can be nested within variants of one component in Figma. Remember to do it each time you see a new variant and also remember to add auto-layout. It will greatly accelerate your work.

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Written by Matt Jedraszczyk

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