Create scalable web page layouts in Figma

Blow-apart diagram of the nav bar, content, and footer elements fitting together like Lego blocks.

Imagine a world where your pages will grow and shrink to fit its content with perfect alignment, even when you have a side navigation bar or static elements. All of a sudden, you can grow from managing ten pages, to a hundred pages or more without ripping your hair out. Gone are the days of manually resizing your pages and Components in order to accommodate that last-minute change and align properly in preview mode.

I’m going to show you how it’s done.

Benefits of scalable web page layouts

Illustrating how quick it is to add more content and keep it aligned perfectly.

There are a few key reasons you want to set up self-scaling web pages:

• Focus on designing, not pixel-pushing — when you let Figma worry about alignment, you can concentrate on the arrangement of elements. It only gets faster if you use full-on Components.
• Interactions will line up perfectly—when running your user research any minor misalignment will make your prototype less immersive, and in turn, you’ll observe less genuine behaviours.
• Reflects more closely on how web pages are coded — in Figma, it’s easy to forget the limits of what’s possible. Constructing it closer…