Figma Education Designer Rachel Platt is rebuilding her design system components using slots, Figma's composable content mechanism that replaces rigid variant trees with flexible placeholder architecture.
The video covers four concrete use cases in under five minutes: slots for repeating items, freeform content areas, multiple content areas, and full page-level templates. The most technically interesting section is the bonus segment at 04:16, where Platt identifies where slots are NOT the right tool, which is the kind of honest scoping most component tutorials skip entirely.
If you work in design systems and are drowning in variant counts, this is a direct case study from someone inside Figma's own education team. The specific patterns she demonstrates, particularly the page-level template approach starting at 03:10, represent a structural shift in how Figma components can be architected.
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