Components and Variants in Figma – Designing a Search Component

Learn how to use components and variants in Figma to design interactive, stateful components as part of your design system. This is a step-by-step tutorial where I'll be walking you through the process of creating and organizing components through a hands-on design exercise!

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Components allow us to reuse existing parts of our design, saving us time on otherwise lots of duplication. The concept is borrowed from engineering and it's used across all the popular interface design frameworks. Composition is fundamental to both design and engineering. If this is the first time you come across the concept of components, I HIGHLY encourage you to give this a read.

It's been over 4 years since Figma launched components, and at this point there's lots to uncover. In this video, my goal was to bring together the most important principles and practices related to components to help you have a solid foundation for your own projects.

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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Search - Home Variant
8:44 - Search - Results Variant
24:53 - Implementation
27:03 - Conclusion

[JaviAlaves]

Hey all, thank you for joining me during this tutorial and watching! Don't forget you can follow this tutorial by downloading the file from the link in the description. If you found it helpful, let me know by giving it a like and dropping your thoughts in the comments. If there's anything I can improve to make these videos more useful or entertaining, any feedback is appreciated and I'm really committed to improving with every video. Catch you in the next one! ✨

[ZaidRasid]

This made everything come together for me. Thank you again Professor Javier!

[AnaisUrlichs]

Awesome video! Thank you so much for creating these tutorials :) so much work going into them...

[ashikurrahman]

Nice videos ..I really Request to you to bring such kind of videos and continue this Figma series .please....

[jiaxinxie]

What is the element inspect tool in your Chrome? The one with the scope icon.