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How do you sort your variants?

  • April 11, 2025
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Facem_Graphics

I previously asked if anyone at Figma is in fact using components with more than 10 variants and care about sorting them? I asked why they did away with the pill-shaped list that was better? Looks like they keep pushing this absolute garbage vertical list that most of the time cannot be reordered and the same time waste a lot of space on the right hand side of the variant names.

I reported this several times, sorting of variants is either not working or is at best clunky when it does.
Today, yet again, I am not able to sort / reorder my variants. This keeps coming back again and again, it’s ridiculous already.

Now I genuinely ask myself if this is actually a Figma feature or I am very, very stupid? Since I hover over a variant, click to grab it, drag it around, and not only it will not scroll down in that garbage list but will also release that variant IN A RANDOM PLACE. Like what --?

So I would like to know if this works for You and IF it does -how you are doing it / where I am wrong?? 
Are you dragging only inside the current view, release, then scroll the entire list a bit, and then drag it a bit more and so on, until you get past 50 other items? 


 

 

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Facem_Graphics
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  • April 17, 2025

Figured out this happens only in the mighty shiny new UI that is being rammed down our throat.
So I find myself going back to the old UI again and again.
What I get is that if something just works, you can bet Figma will be quick to fix it.
How swell!


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