Are Figma's components terrible (or is it me)?

over 4 years ago from Roman Pohorecki, UX designer

Problems I keep encountering:

Editing a big component takes forever because you always have to click into it and drag-selection is impossible.
Overriding a component takes forever because you have to click into it to locate the element you want to override.
Organizing components is confusing: they don't go to a centralized place at creation but remain where ever you created them.
If you delete a master component and recreate it, it will show up exactly where it was first created. Apparently that's forever.
Nesting components doesn't appear to work reliably.

Am I doing something wrong? Why isn't Figma copying Sketch's symbol model, which is logical and easy?

6 comments

Alejandro Dorantes, over 4 years ago
CMD + Click to select object directly
3 points
Andrei Urse, over 4 years ago
It's just you.
1 point
Roman Pohorecki, over 3 years ago
After using Figma for a year and switching back to Sketch I now appreciate simpler Figma's model. It was me after all ;)
0 points
Gavin McFarland, over 4 years ago
What's logical to you is nonsensical to someone else.
0 points
Daniel Golden, over 4 years ago
I like them a lot, and prefer them to Sketch Symbols.
0 points
GOOD LUCK, over 4 years ago
They want to be different, sometimes it is good to copy LOGICAL models like you mention (from sketch), but the notion of differentiating yourself is stronger (sad).
It's not just you.
0 points