What are Components in Digital Design?

The term components in the design of digital user interfaces (UI) refers to distinct, reusable building blocks or elements that are used for creating the visual that a user experiences.

Examples of components include buttons, dialogs, lists or carousels.

Oscar de la Hera Gomez
Written by Oscar de la Hera Gomez
First published on 08/07/2023 at 14:11
Last Updated on 08/07/2023 at 16:35
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The term components in the design of digital user interfaces (UI) refers to distinct, reusable building blocks or elements that are used for creating the visual that a user experiences.

Examples of components include buttons, dialogs, lists or carousels.

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"Components are interactive building blocks for creating a user interface. They can be organized into categories based on their purpose: Action, containment, communication, navigation, selection, and text input."

Read Google Material's Take on Components

For an example of how components shape the user interface of a final product, consider the two images below.

  • The first shows all the components used in our Price After app.
  • The second shows how those components are used within the Welcome Tutorial and Camera experience screens.

Please note that in some cases components are used as UI elements within other, higher order components. These are known as Organisms in Atomic Design.

The boxes that surround the components and screens indicate that these components have variants.

What is Atomic Design?How to create component variants in Figma
<p>A screenshot of Figma showing the Components that we use for our Price After mobile app.</p>

All the components in our Price After app.

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<p>A screenshot of Figma showing the Welcome Tutorial and Camera Experience of the Price After app.</p>

How those components are used within the Welcome Tutorial and Camera Experience in Price After.

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