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Marie Kondoing for UX Designers: Figma files
I am forever grateful for all the ways Figma has made me a better designer: The collaboration across disciplines, the flexibility in the components and the all-in-one design, prototype, comment and code has been game-changer for my team. Oh, and don’t get me started on everything being automatically and magically saved in the cloud!
Figma is a great collaborative tool. But one of the challenges that come with collaboration is the fact that now your messy workspace will have to make sense to other designers, Devs, PMs, Researchers, Producers….you name it. In college, I had a professor that always told us “If you want to stick around in a company, or be the favorite employee in the company, always, always name your layers!”.
With cross-collaboration, the flaws of a messy workspace became really apparent. I found myself scrambling in a meeting to find the right Figma file in my overflown folder, My devs were constantly linked to the wrong iteration and kept implementing older versions of my design, and I even caught my PM showed the wrong screens in an user-feedback session. It was time to clean up my files to make them easier for everyone to understand.
