Figma’s new Components make editing multiple design instances incredibly easy

Figma, the interface design app with real-time collaboration chops, is adding a new tool to its arsenal today. It’s called Components, and the idea is to make it much easier to replicate and modify design elements. Creating a Component is just like any other object, but duplicating it is when the fun starts to happen. Rather than just a simple static copy, duplicates create another active instance of that component. That means changes that you make to one instance component will apply to all in real time. Where things really get interesting, however, are with overrides. Applying an override allows you to modify…
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