A reusable design element that maintains consistency across your project, from simple buttons to complex navigation systems. Components create a single source of truth—update the main component and all instances reflect the change. In Framer, components can have variants, responsive states, and interactive behaviors.

A dialog overlay that requires user attention before interacting with underlying content, used for alerts, forms, or focused tasks. Modals should have clear purposes and obvious dismissal methods—don't trap users in unexpected dialogs. In Framer, build modals as overlay components with appropriate entrance and exit animations.

Creating a new project based on an existing template or shared design, inheriting structure while enabling customization. Remixing accelerates projects by building on proven foundations. Explore Framer's community for remixable templates and components.

An enhanced component with logic, state management, or interactive capabilities beyond static visual properties. Smart components respond to user input, fetch data, or manage complex state. Build smart components with code when visual tools aren’t sufficient.

An invisible clickable area overlaid on designs to add interactivity, commonly used in prototypes for click-through demonstrations. Hotspots enable quick prototyping of interactions without building fully functional components. In Framer, prefer native interactive components over hotspots for production.

A collection of reusable components, guidelines, and standards that ensure consistency across a product and team. Design systems speed up development, maintain brand coherence, and enable designers and developers to speak the same language. Framer supports design systems through components, variables, and styles.

Related AI terms: Find Similar Designs and AI Layer Renaming.

A methodology for building design systems from smallest elements (atoms) up through molecules, organisms, templates, and pages. This approach creates reusable, composable components that scale efficiently across large projects. Framer's component system naturally supports atomic design principles with nested components.

Component Properties are exposed settings on reusable components that let editors and designers change values like text, states, visibility, or variants.