Figma Components articles and design guides

Componentize once, thank yourself forever. Under this tag we get deep into Figma's component model: variants, properties, boolean toggles, instance swaps, and auto layout behavior that stops your buttons from breaking when the label grows. We cover nested instances, exposed nested properties, and how to keep a library from turning into 400 unmanageable variants. Written for designers building and maintaining component libraries who are past the basics and now dealing with scale. If you've ever detached an instance out of frustration, these pieces are the fix for the frustration.

We also cover the maintenance side nobody puts in a portfolio: auditing a library after six months of drift, deciding what deserves to be a component at all, and the migration path when a naming scheme has to change under a hundred live instances. None of that is glamorous. It's the work that keeps a system trusted.