Hey, Figma experts, you are still Designers.

Designers love tools. Tools, plugins, templates, inspirational and mood boards, addons… you name it.

Also, Designers suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder. 30% of their time is allocated to reorganizing and renaming layers, frames, pages, and components “ad eternum”.

Today’s technology allows us to identify the most suitable tool for each design task to be performed: Magazine, Photo Editing, Logo, Icon, Typography, UI, Flowcharts…

UI designs are no longer done in Photoshop or Illustrator. Not even Sketch, Studio, or Adobe XD. Figma!

Figma and its components and variants capable of driving any designer to ecstasy are the new obsession.

Designers no longer focus on learning good Design. They are all-in in being Figma Experts in building reusable, flexible, and scalable components.

Delight your imagination with this: 1 input field and 1 button as the foundation for more than 400000 other different components. Ufff, don’t know about you.. But I got all goosebumps!

A short story about something that happened to me yesterday.
Whenever I have a demanding design challenge, I like to fly to Lala-land, where there are no complex or unfeasible things, timeframes, or technical limitations. One of the elements that came out of this trip was a button with an unusual shape.

Moments later I started preparing components and found myself unable to transform that button into a dynamic component.

The solution that crossed my mind for 2.3ms? Give up from this new shape and revert to our old beloved but Figma-ready standard rectangle!

In the end, I didn’t. I failed my OCD and stuck to my weird lovely button.

The goal can’t shift from building a better world, disrupting, or innovating to creating the best Figma system and library.

We get now more excited with building systems for ourselves than making the user’s life easier, more accessible, and more fun.

This text was written for myself, just as a friendly reminder of what really matters.