Figma Slot Components: why and how to use them

Edward Chechique
UX Planet
Published in
5 min readApr 25, 2022

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Using slot components in Figma is a technique that many designers have started to adopt. Here is how it works and why it is worth using it when you build your UI KIT in Figma.

As you are building your Figma UI kit, you will realize that some components need more flexibility than others. Figma is a great design tool and today it offers us the great ability to use variants and component instances, but for some components, you might want…

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