From the course: Figma: Designing with Variables and Conditionals
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Organizing variables into groups - Figma Tutorial
From the course: Figma: Designing with Variables and Conditionals
Organizing variables into groups
- [Instructor] The proper organization of data is an important aspect of working with variables, as it is with other aspects of a Figma design document through the use of pages, sections, and frames. We can further organize our variables within each collection into named groups for even better recognition. As you can see right now, inside of the variables dialogue, it has all variables inside of a collection named Collection 1. Let's organize these into groups. So we have our preferences right here. If I hold down the Shift key and click on all the preferences, I can highlight them all, right click and choose new group with selection. I now have a new group that contains only my preferences variables. Let's rename this new group. If I double click on the new group name, I can give it the name of Preferences. Click on all variables once again to access all the variables in that group and without. We're also going to define some variables that go along with everything to do with our…
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