Interactive graphic design system to enable creation and use of variant component sets for interactive objects

A network computer system comprising:

• a memory sub-system to store a set of instructions;
• one or more processors that operate to communicate the set of instructions to a plurality of user devices, wherein the set of instructions include instructions that when executed by each user device of the plurality of user devices, causes the user device to perform operations that include:
• providing a design interface that includes one or more tool panels and a canvas, the design interface enabling one or more design users to specify design input to create or modify a design under edit on the canvas;
• enabling one or more users to interact with the design interface to (i) define a variant set, each variant of the variant set including a set of properties that defines a respective state of a run-time object;
• (ii) define one or more interactions for the variant set, each of the one or more interactions specifying a variant of the variant set that is to change to another variant of the variant set at run-time, in response to a particular trigger event;
• and (iii) create the user object as an instance of one of the variants of the variant set;
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• providing a run-time rendering of the user object changing states in accordance with the one or more defined interactions of the variant set.