No fluff — just the actual workflow, the tradeoffs, and where the manual approach breaks down.
The manual copy-paste method, why it falls apart past a handful of icons, and how to do it properly at scale.
Variants, consistent framing, and naming conventions — what actually makes an icon library production-ready.
Importing an entire icon set at once instead of one file at a time, and what to check before you do.
Most downloadable icon libraries combine every icon into one giant variant set. Figma's own documentation says not to. Here's the model that actually holds up.
Adobe XD is in maintenance mode with no new feature investment. Here's the part of the migration that's actually simple — your icon library — and the parts that aren't.