Adding keywords to variants

I attended Figma’s ‘Schema 2021’ conference, and saw in Netflix’s presentation that they added tags to collections of icons so that users could search broader categories rather than just the exact icon’s name in order to receive multiple results.

I thought this was amazing and would allow users to navigate to icons when a single name might not match their mental model!

However I can’t seem to find any information on this online and am wondering whether this might be a plugin (that I can’t find)?

If anyone has any info that would be great on how to achieve this!

Each variant has a description field. You can type your keyword(s) in there.

You can add tags to the icon descriptions and they will be searchable 😉

Thank you! I have done so but my Icons are all variants so I can pick them by their name from a drop-down menu… just noticed that the 2 solutions don’t work together (or maybe I am doing it wrong?)…when I search a specific tag if that tag exists the result shows me always the same icon…

There are a few approaches on how to build an icon library. I’ve tried working on a library where all icons were variants and it was very difficult to use:

• cannot search within the library
• have to scroll through the long list of icons sorted alphabetically, so you need to know exact name of what you’re after, very ungrateful for hundreds of elements

Simple solution:
Use separate items for a library instead, using a slash-name convention OR just wrap them around a frame with a meaningful name (which would become a label for your library). You can also add description (tags) to each separate icon if you need. This way you keep them together for search purposes and you can search through them 👍

Thank you Adam!!! I edited my icon library and this solution works much better than the variants one.
🙂 🙂 🙂

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