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Luis Ouriach - Strategies for using variables in Figma

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How to Over-Architect Your System

The biggest red flag that even I had done when I'd been playing around is predicting variables that I end up never needing. Figure out based off a screen, for example, what variables you need to support right now and just build them instead of spending months in the corner figuring out something that maybe you don't need yet. So fundamentally, you've got this goal underneath of people being able to use it, minimum amount of variables and different states that you want to cover. That's a lot of work in itself to go and keep yourself busy for a while. It could mean that you are building for a future that never exists. Or your current reality is that loads of people have different names

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