Swapping Variants Using Variables | A Figma Tutorial

[@BhuvanaNarayanamurthy-rb3mi]

Very clear explanation! Thank you! I landed on your tutorial after looking through a bunch of others.

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[@SoulaORyvall]

I would suggest setting the name of the variables to semantically match the options. So "Starting Active/Inactive" in this case would become "Notifications Yes/No". At 5:45 the action would read: "Set variable 'Notifications Yes' to inactive", which is much easier to maintain

[@UICollectiveDesign]

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[@Shteuf]

Excellent, scrolling through a dozen videos: those with logic made it even more complex than the ones without. Your take is brilliant, well done! Following your channel now, you've got awesome design tips, and you're very clear. Kudos to you sir!

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[@suniljadhav1889]

Its true.......Nice series.....Thanx

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[@mirkocaccia9388]

Thanks for the video!! I think in this case you don't need the second mode variables (Mode 2), if you delete them it should still work.

[@UICollectiveDesign]

Great call out!

[@SoulaORyvall]

Around 2:22, I believe the issue isn't that the component instance is inside a frame, but it's the fact that it's inside another instance (of another component) named Form

[@UICollectiveDesign]

Great call out!

[@Underhills]

When prototyping that way the radio label is excluded from the hit area, common UX practice is to include the radio label as trigger.

[@UICollectiveDesign]

Great call out! Lots of different ways to build components.

[@chrisronan]

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[@djashawe88923]

Thanks a lot for the tutorial. I tried to do a radio button exercise with 4 multiple choices and it was kind of hard. Although variables are created to reduce the number of variants, due to Figma's limited capabilities, I find that it's just easier to create all possible variants, assign a string variable that matches with one of the variants, use "set variable" to go from variant A to variant B upon clicking.

[@UICollectiveDesign]

Good call out! Variables could definitley be improved on

[@AmirNoyman]

Is there any way to act on multiple options, such as a color picker? with swatchs? Choosing one color out of 12 options...

[@UICollectiveDesign]

Can you elaborate on the scenario?

[@MCbyGracjan]

I would like to do this based on the game inventory checkbox. There are five images, each has a state before clicking and after clicking . How do I create so that the selected image takes the post-click state, and the previously selected image turns into the pre-click state?

[@UICollectiveDesign]

Sorry, can you elaborate on this one?

[@benjamincranwell]

Brilliant video

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Appreciate it!

[@uxdworld]

Great info, thanks 👏

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[@ytRap007]

thanks this is very helpful.

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[@guillaumegoulet1480]

The issue I'm facing is that when adding the component inside another component, the variable for the state gets removed. Any suggestions?

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[@IvanZburlyuk]

You're a genius!!!

[@UICollectiveDesign]

haha thanks!

[@whennn]

Nice !!!

[@UICollectiveDesign]

Thanks!!

[@ossimatasaho5977]

Could you do dropwdown lists that swap variant based on selection of another dropdown list?

[@UICollectiveDesign]

This should definitley be possible!

[@ossimatasaho5977]

@@UICollectiveDesign Any tips for it? Haven't figured it out.

[@UICollectiveDesign]

Let me try to recreate it and get back to you

[@ossimatasaho5977]

thanks👌

[@AjayJaiswal-p4e]

@@ossimatasaho5977 @UICollectiveDesign, if you looking for chnage in the value of the dropdown then it is easily possible by using string variable. Define string variable first and then assign it to the first value from the list of dropdown and then prototype using set variable and then change to select value. Hope this will help.

[@sachinroy11]

I have created two different variable for it ( i have make two radio button on click only one of them clickable for single time to change its stage )

[@UICollectiveDesign]

Can you elaborate more on the problem you're facing?

[@MusabNaveed]

Cant we just make these two options one component (with two states - x highlighted, y highlighted) instead of linking 2 separate components through variables?

[@UICollectiveDesign]

Also an option!

[@marcinukleja]

Do you really need modes to achieve that? Seems like you're just manipulating values of variables; there is always the same mode selected. Or did I miss something?

[@UICollectiveDesign]

Don't necessarily need modes. It's a good variable exercise though.

[@MyDigitalHub]

Amazing

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[@Rahul_Lata_]

i think creating local variables is only for paid figma version ... how can learners do it :( sad

[@UICollectiveDesign]

Variables should be free!

[@jjung]

This is unnecessarily complex. There is no reason to use modes and boolean variables make more sense for this use case.

[@UICollectiveDesign]

Thanks for the feedback!