Wanted to share a bit of the process of building Selection Colors, a little @figmadesign feature I feel rather (maybe strangely) proud of.
(This was originally meant to be a blog post, but the Covid-19 situation is sapping my energy…)pic.twitter.com/qD7Us8dq2V
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Selection Colors allows you to see all the colors and styles in your selection, no matter how far deep they reach. It’s meant to help with quickly changing palettes, promoting colors to styles, cleaning up your design system, and dealing with multiple colors in text.pic.twitter.com/hNVILlckRm
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This is my original (simple) pitch for Selection Colors. I talked to the design team, received some encouragement, and filed it away in a stash of ideas whose time is possibly to come.pic.twitter.com/EIhVYTht01
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(I also got immediate feedback that the last part – “removing” a colour and presumably replacing it with a closest surviving one, to clean up the list – was just confusing.)
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I honestly didn’t think a lot more about it at that point. It was one of the many explorations that designers throw around. But in the weeks and months after, I kept thinking about how nice it’d be to have something like it.
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Some months later,
@SickingJ (an engineer on the editor team) approached me, proposing working on something together during Figma’s maker week. We both realized we wanted to build something more real rather than exploratory, and chose SC from a bunch of ideas.pic.twitter.com/Sthi8dqvWW
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For a few days, we plopped both of our computers and monitors at the same desk, and worked on this together. Jonas did more back-end work, and me front-end UI wiring, with a big overlap in the middle – and a lot of conversations.
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I wish I took a photo. :·)
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