"If you're still manually resizing buttons, creating a dozen variants for a simple icon swap, or managing colors by hand, you're using Figma like a glorified version of MS Paint. You're wasting hours every week on grunt work. The difference between a good designer and a great one isn't talent; it's leverage. This guide will give you the 10 advanced Figma techniques that provide maximum leverage, letting you design better, faster, and more consistently."
"In the early days, we had hundreds of component variants. A button with a left icon, a right icon, and a loading spinner, in different sizes and states. It was a nightmare. A simple copy change meant updating 12 different components. It was slow and stupid. I spent a weekend deep-diving into component properties and variables when they launched, and rebuilt our core components."
Manual resizing of buttons, creating many component variants for simple swaps, and managing colors by hand wastes hours each week. Leverage, not raw talent, separates efficient designers from average ones. Ten advanced Figma techniques provide maximum leverage, enabling designers to work faster, more consistently, and build screens rapidly. A real-world redesign of a Content AI platform's design system revealed hundreds of variants across buttons with different icons, sizes, and states, causing slow, error-prone updates. Rebuilding core components using component properties and variables reduced the library by 70% and allowed entire screens to be built in minutes instead of hours. The result is a fundamentally different, more efficient way of working.
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