Tips to
fasten
Figma
workflow.

Quickly swap out assets or add in components by replacing selected objects with another object that you’ve copied to your clipboard.

Press Shift+⌘ + V or Shift+Ctrl+V to paste to replace.

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Migrate existing design system components to Figma Variants

1. Name existing components with ’/‘ to create hierarchy. e.g: ‘Button / Primanry / Default’, ‘Button / Primanry / Hover’
2. Select all symbols and press Combine as Variants
3. Rename properties to make it more meaningful
4. Search and try your new component setting

How to share quickly share a frame without selecting and exporting it?

1. Select a frame
2. Right click -> Copy/Paste -> Copy as PNG or ⇧(Shift) + ⌘ + C
3. Paste (⌘ + V) and share

Fill an image with Crop is a very helpful option. Here is a quicker way to access it

1. Select a shape/image element
2. Hold “⌥ Option” keyboard and Double click right mouse
3. Move/resize the image to adjust its position

Group

When resizing a group, its child elements will scale as you would expect vector artwork to scale.

Frame

When resizing, a frame’s bounds will be resized independently from its child elements. So each elements can have different constraints.

Learn more about Frame & Group

The fastest way to bring an element to a dedicated position, by paste above on layer.

1. Copy an element with “Copy + C”
2. Select a layer
3. Press “⌘ + Shift + V”

1. Navigation to the Assets tab
2. Search for a Symbol / Component you want to replace.
3. Press “Option + ⌘”
4. Drag that symbol and drop it to the area where you want to swap the symbol (The dropzone is highlight with a Purple border)
5. Done.

Along with duplicating an element, we can copy the style. It’s super helpful when we want to overwrite an element in a component.

1. Select element you want to copy. Press Ctrl/Cmd + Option + C to copy element’s style (color, shadow, border radius,…)
2. Select destination element, Press Ctrl/Cmd + Option + V to pasted

1. Press ”⌘ + Shift + K”
2. Select your images
3. Drop them on any type of layers

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When resizing frames, hold Command (⌘) on macOS or Ctrl on Windows/Chrome OS to ignore constraint settings for all objects inside that frame.

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