Create flexible components with Slots

By Figma

Categories: Design, Product

Summary

Slots transform rigid design systems into flexible, customizable components that adjust to varying content. With slots, designers can freely add and modify assets within component instances, increasing efficiency by up to 50% and reducing development costs.

Key Takeaways

1. Slots allow designers to add, modify, and organize assets directly inside component instances without detaching.
2. Slots support a wide range of content, including text, shapes, frames, and other design elements, not just existing component instances.
3. Preferred instances help reduce guesswork by communicating which components are intended for a specific slot.
4. Auto layout applied to slots ensures content adjusts automatically as changes are made, maintaining a consistent and responsive design system.
5. Slots enable designers to freely explore and experiment with different layouts and content, while system authors can maintain a flexible yet consistent design system.
6. Implementing slots can increase designer efficiency by up to 50% and reduce development costs by streamlining the component customization process.

Topics

• Design Systems
• Component Flexibility
• Design Workflow Optimization
• Responsive Design
• Customizable Components

Transcript Excerpt

Add flexibility to your design system with slots. Slots are customizable containers within components that let you add, modify, and organize assets directly inside an instance. Without slots, building components that support free form content or repeating items required workarounds like instance swapping, hidden layers, or extensive component sets. These workflows often force designers to detach instances altogether, severing their connection to the main component and preventing access to future...