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July 11, 2023

LAUNCHED: Ability to reorder Variable Modes

  • July 11, 2023
  • 58 replies
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As design systems grow organically, it might be necessary to reorder Variable Modes in the Local variables panel, similarly to how it is possible to reorder variables.

58 replies

Franni
New Participant
August 22, 2024

Still need this x) it’s such an easy fix. Give us quick wins instead of (in Europe) banned AI tools…

Megan_Callaghan
New Member
August 23, 2024

This would be an incredibly useful and intuitive feature. The initial example is exactly the problem my team is running into. Very annoying! Not a must-have, but a very strong nice-to-have.

Suss
September 18, 2024

We really need this! 🙏🏽

Joshua_Mulvey1
September 23, 2024

Reordering modes would be super helpful

JohnnyTran
October 1, 2024

+1 Would love this feature! Our team had 4 modes and needed to add an additional 3 modes in between the existing modes. Organizing this w/out breaking anything would be appreciated!

AntoineP
Active Member
October 4, 2024

Really needed. I honestly thought it was already possible as it seems such a basic feature.

We have created hundreds of variables with four modes and we now want to change the default one (use case described several times above).

Sanket_Chaudhari
October 8, 2024

++ this is much needed.

The local variables dialog suffers from these usability issues that makes it super inconvenient to use on a regular basis.

At this point, I just need some assurance from the Figma team that someone is working on these. 🫠

Jordan_Hughes
New Participant
November 5, 2024

Still waiting to see if Figma will deliver this much needed feature…

Also, if like me and you like to keep things in a logical order, being able to set a ‘Default’ mode for a collection could be super useful.

Maximilian_Hennebach
December 19, 2024

+1 That this is needed. Right now this is not scalable for enterprise businesses.

Mark_McIntyre
New Participant
January 21, 2025

+1 Need the ability to reorder modes as well 

Search functionality would be great too