From what I've looked up, this is currently impossible in Figma. This means that it can control or influence any child objects you place within it. Combining it with Auto Layout lets us improve our design workflow even further. In Figma, we can make all our components behave predictably by tinkering with constraint settings. It’s really great at adding simple spacing and managing multiple components within a group such as a navbar or dropdown, but you have to get creative to go much beyond that. Auto Layout: Add Auto Layout to Frames to create dynamic layouts that respond to their contents Prototyping: Create interactive prototypes that move between Frames in your Canvas A Frame is a parent object. Constraints help us focus on the actual design instead of mere pixel pushing. I currently have a love-hate relationship with it. I also need it to clip the text (here the W and S) transparent, via a stroke or similar. Auto Layout an amazingly interesting feature. In fact, we designed it this way - to be as neutral, flexible, and scalable as possible to use as a kickstarter for any project. I need an item (here a notification count), to auto-layout at the end of a text layer. You can use this UI kit in unlimited projects. We’ve thought of everything you need to design modern and beautiful UI and websites and have wrapped it into one neatly organized package. Here, for example, is a simple frame which contains some shapes: By selecting the frame, then clicking the Auto Layout button in the sidebar, the shapes within the frame are arranged more efficiently and the frame itself adjusts in response to the area they. It's also the boring part in the design process! Figma Auto Layout allows you to create dynamic frames which adjust to their content. We were sick of rebuilding the same common components over and over again. We needed an “ultimate starter” kit for new freelance projects and design systems, rather than having to start from scratch each time. We tried a bunch of Figma UI kits, but found they lacked in size, flexibility, or quality - usually all three - and we ended up having to remake all the poor-quality components. Then it becomes an asset you can use in unlimited future projects. Auto Layout lets you create dynamic frames that respond to their content.With the new updates, you can stretch in any direction, control padding independently, and distribute objects evenlyall. It can 10-100x your workflow.Ī good way to frame it is to ask the question, “will this UI kit save me a few hours of work in a project?” If the answer is YES, it’s probably worth the investment. A good UI kit saves you time and money usually spent on meticulously building the same components over and over again. You don’t realize the power of a good quality UI kit until you start using one. Good question! We used to ask this all the time.