Nayem

The new Assets panel feels like a step backward in organization

I understand the idea behind the refreshed Assets panel, but personally, I prefer the previous organization system.

Before, Components were under Components, Colors under Colors, Text Styles under Text Styles, and so on. Everything had its own dedicated section, which made it easy to find and manage assets.

Now, we can mix everything into custom folders, which sounds flexible in theory. However, when I create a new component, color, or text style, I still need to manually move it into the appropriate folder to keep things organized. Over time, that becomes an extra step for something that was already organized automatically before.

I think the better approach would be to keep the default asset categories while also allowing us to create custom folders when needed. New assets should automatically appear in their respective categories, with the option to organize them further if we want.

Flexibility is great, but it shouldn't come at the cost of convenience. I hope the Framer team considers bringing back the previous category-based organization as an option.

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