Master Table Design: Tips for Interactive Hover Effects

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Petra Smolčić

• May 13

Designers, I have the ultimate question. How do you design tables?

The "proper way" would be to have cells combined into rows so you can easily add and remove columns...

But how do you do then the hover in prototype so the whole row hovers?

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Anita Autorino

max

• May 13

@Petra Smolcic Great question! If you're referring to prototyping interactions like hover effects, especially in Figma, the key is to create variants within a component for the row. You'd have one variant for the default (idle) state and another for the hover state with the row highlighted....

Alex Nicolai

pro

• May 13

@Anita Autorino @Petra Smolcic This is my approach as well. I create a cell component with multiple variants (text, icons, hover states, etc) and swap them out as needed in the prototype. Feel free to reach out and I can help you on call. Here's my calendar → https://cal.com/minutedesign/15min (Ignore the 15min intro thing).

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Petra Smolčić

• May 14

@Anita Autorino Ohhhhhh, that's smart! So the cells are individual components of versions and the row is a component with states. 🤯 Thank you so much! 😁