Short conversation from a YouTube video (John Rodrigues, uploaded March 29, 2024) about using Figma components to make designs scalable and easy for developers to implement. Speakers emphasize starting with reusable components ("purple LEGO box" metaphor), avoiding perfectionism that blocks delivery, and designing for scale across many screens and users.
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If it's not, I can bought it, I can't use it. But I think the engineers are happy with me because of that makes their job a lot easier and it makes the stuff I'm making a lot easier to implement. So sometimes, you know, perfection. Don't, don't let perfect get in the way of good. You know what I mean? If they need something out the door, they don't need it to be perfect, they need it to be done. And the best way to do that is to start with your purple LEGO box.
Yeah, I just wrote that down, what you said. If it's a comp, if it's not a component, I won't use it. I feel it could be like a T shirt it. And I think that that goes to show how, like, the designers and product designers kind of like need to think of scale. If it's. It's not just for one screen, right? It's going to be for the next hundred screen or thousand screens, and which is used by millions of people as a user, but also internally, like, the developer has to maintain that consistency and everything, which is very, very interesting.