LAUNCHED: Ability to reorder Variable Modes

can’t believe this is still not available yet!!

I can’t believe they didn’t ship variables with this, this seems like a no-brainer to me. I’m just getting started with variables, and this seems obvious.

Almost as poor as restricting 4 modes to anything but Enterprise. Fix up Figma!

This being missing is becoming really frustrating :((

Either Figma has a terribly messy codebase, is massively understaffed, or engineers are just lazy. This isn’t a complex feature.

My hopes were high to receive this feature during config 2024. So young, so naiv 😦

Would also love to have this. The mode select dropdown gets very messy very fast otherwise.

It would be great if we could this as an update. 🙏

Any update to this? The local variables panel seems be in need of a fair amount of TLC in terms of good UX.

I would settle for a search at this point.

The timeline for variables developed during the Adobe period.

It was in the works. But when Adobe became a player to acquire Figma, there was a mass scramble to wrap up any work in the pipeline. If you remember the “config” conference that year, it was a flood of things that were not yet done cooking.

Then Adobe fell through.

Then Figma never finished the uncooked stuff.

This is entirely a management issue. Product owners and leadership following a poor “Agile” mentality of “just ship something and get it to market.” Part of it was to add value to the product to pad the sale to Adobe. The other part was to get it out of the pipeline.

While I would also agree that all three of your assessments are also correct, Figma leadership has abandoned the idea of making a tool for designers. It is about saying “we do variables” now. Then that is all they needed to check the box.

All of the basic things that you would find in any software, re-order, naming- search(???) are left out and ignored. Not a priority.