Figma teaching us all to become developers year by year lol

Miggy is a true story teller. And for Ricky, that's a remarkable moment of her career. Congrats !

Thank you so much dear Ricky and dear Miggi. This video was awesome because you explained the premise so well.

Hi Miggi, please publish your demo file to the community. Thank you so much

Maybe this will finally make more designers care about prototyping and creating more sophisticated experiences

Miggy you are my life savor! Thank you Figma team for these videos!

This is actually game changing! So keen to play with this.

Great work, bridging the gap between design and dev!

I've successfully transitioned my carousel galleries with multiple nested components to a single component that uses variables+conditionals. In just one component, well two if you include the main component that holds the images.

Thank you so much for these features! Excited to see them expand in the future.

Great to see this new feature although the demo still doesn't solve one of the most common needs... SELECTING A SINGLE ITEM FROM A LIST. How can you create an interactive component (such as a group of radio buttons, or a navigation menu) that can select a single item from a list of 12 items without needing to create 132 connections?

This is actually game changing! OMG

Thanks Ricky for the conditionals!!

Navigrate. Confishionals. Love it.

Amazing spekers and features ... love it

Except from some rare contexts I don't really see how this solves an endless amount of linked frames for the most part. 90% of the times I don't make counters and stuff like that. I make common interaction patterns that we all know is the bread and butter of UI design. They need to make working with interaction simulation much easier. Also, prototyping needs to be more stable. Every time I hit that prototype play icon I expect to see linked frames skipping left and right, up and down, when clicked. They don't stick to the same position. Same if it's 100% view or zoomed, each click change results in the frame changing position, either alot or slightly. Figma is great for operating DS's and for collaboration but for UI prototyping it still sucks on a daily. I miss XD every time I need to prototype something but I'm forced to use Figma now due to the project. I gave these variables a try and it didn't work, it didn't connect to my existing color tokens, it didn't find any of the established names in the token section, it didn't work basically. Bugs bugs bugs. There's Figma for'ya.

UXPin and other platforms have had this for YEARS, glad Figma has finally caught up.

Loving the Zelda Tears of the Kingdom references at 39:00 😊

What about text input / text strings?! Would love to be able to support keyboard inputs to set a variable.

After working a while with variables, it really strikes me that there is just a global scoping context form them. You just can't use them in components or variants :/

Got it!

Awesome! but can you give some example of using color variable?

The loop back demo is such a clusterfuck. How can they demo this with a straight face? And how can there not be "local" component specific (instance) variables that can be set via actions? I can probably solve my "group selection" problem a little bit easier now using the loop back hack, but this still feels like a giant missed opportunity to fix prototyping in Figma. Luckily for them, no one else seems to get it right either...

Bone Thugs! Yeaaah!

21:17 this is what i learned first day at C language class😮

Wow :) Figma can do now coding :) visually kinda .. why not open up a coding window to edit code directly? If the designers really don't want to touch code and do developer's job, then is this visual coding with variables so much of a departure from coding? A desinger would have to learn a little bit of coding after all no matter what to make the prototyping more complex and effective. Perhaps one day AI will do both design and code so the creator (desinger+developer) would only have to give prompts to the AI tool to prototype and create apps.

Wow Awesome! really would like to play with it.

Great

Hi Figma, thanks for the updates. Where can I find the Miggi's example Figma files? I am stuck at 34:12 so I want to expand the collapsed interactions to see the whole interactions. How was he able to assign the string type variable, "load_percent" to a number type variable, "load_value"? That's the part that's confusing.

I don't know why figma is developing these features. Figma is not a final product. You can save much time just by communicating directly to developers rather than multiple clicks for prototypes.

I dont have smart animation in my gallery, when i use variable button's

One thing comes to mind. Feature creep.

Wow Can I upload this on my channel

anyone has link to the calculator's file in community? I can't find it anywhere

Copying and pasting the prototype doesn't work for me, it copies the button and pastes it inside my component, I clicked on the left too, but it doesn't work for me, someone please help me

Has anyone been able to successfully copy and paste the prototype interactions like the demo? I tried following the Figma documentation by using CMD+Control+C, but it doesn't seem to work.

I wish it didn't have a million bugs!

Wow

Does anyone remember Macromedia flash?

Now we can't flex our gigantic spider web to devs..which had only 4 interactions

These are cool but SOOO BUGGY right now. Can't set Change To as a later action after Set Variable. Can't assign transition types on instances that are tied to variables. Changing the size of an object based on variables ignores Constraints. But the biggest one thats driving me nuts is that I can't assign Variable to an instance unless that instance is NOT nested in another component (seriously??) These features need way more time in the oven.

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

So basically you copied a lot of Axure's features into Figma.

Another thing I won’t use.

lots of fancy words, over a decade behind in your approach.

Why the people need to show there support to the pride months, we support many activities but don't show.