My First Variable: Creating your first variables

In this video, we will start creating variables!

Luis will show you :

1) Where variables live within a file
2) How to create color, boolean, text, and number variables
3) How to use modes to manage theming and densities

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[alaaadm]

MAN U ARE THE FIRST ONE TO UNDERSTAND THIS TOPIC FROM THE WAY U DESCRIBE IT ONE BY ONE SLOWLY THANK YOU

[AvanaVana]

These are some great tips for best practices around organizing and using variables in Figma.

I actually had no idea that each collection could have its own mode—that is incredibly useful. I assumed that the modes stayed the same across all collections since there is a limit to their number without an organizational account/plan, and never looked into the issue. This always limited my use of modes in my work—I can’t wait to put them to better use now!

[samsmithux]

Luis, thank you so much for creating this playlist! You've concisely shared everything I have learned (mostly from you 😋) about variables in the last 9 months in less than hour. Bravo and thank you for your dedication to the community!

[MoritzFischer]

Thank you for making these lessons. Very useful ❤🎉

[TheNoambhs]

That was wonderful, I had a hard time understanding variables before that and Luis did an amazing job ♥

[cponmtv]

It's great youre making a condensed video too but please utilize time stamps!

[Uxashish]

Hey figma! This is just awesome it would be great if you can provide the working file to follow along

[muhammadqusayyubasyrendraa]

Hi Luis this is a very interesting feature👍🏻. However, for the starter you can only use 1 variable mode. So to create day mode and night mode we have to create 2 collections, which is not efficient. Is there any other alternative? or please correct me if I forgot another tutorial.

Thank You

[polsterboy]

What's the advantage of setting the booleans up in modes instead of a boolean property in the card component?

[thomasmarcozimmermann]

hey Luis, many thnaks for this - helps a lot :-) Would be great if you could share the file.

[Futureshucks]

Trying to watch these in sequence, would be very helpful if you numbered each one in the title,

[williamguerra]

Share the file please to practice 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[eJw]

You should have provide the design in the video as a template, so viewers can play around premade materials.

[wakaoh]

I'm still struggling to understand what to do with the plethora of variants and full-page templates, which are themselves variants, used in our design files. Adding these boolean variants would have been good at the start, but if I want to convert all of these boolean variant properties into variables will I end up breaking tons of our page templates?

[hanzzyolo]

Figma is incredible... g.o.a.t. designer program

[Bertrandism]

its so hidden, right-click the eye icon to add a variable? come-on Figma

[johnnnyfoley]

Thanks - super helpful. I only wish you'd vertically centre-aligned the word DESIGN and the word WHINE within those pills, my designer brain can't handle it 🤣