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Daniel Scott
Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor
instructorI discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.
Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.
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Hi everyone.
We're gonna start the course looking at a feature
called First Draft.
Okay? It's AI driven.
It's a great way to kind
of get templates, get kind of started.
Um, it's more useful once you've got a few more
of the skills from this course to kind of take it further.
But I wanna show it now 'cause it's awesome
and it got ready to get started with projects.
So you can see down here I've got the prompt open, okay?
And I'm gonna say it's a basic app.
Make a checkout page for a music event app
and boom, there you go.
It's made a checkout page.
I could play around with the styles and fonts, okay?
But it is something generated from scratch,
from Fig MA's ai.
Let's jump in and look at the pros and cons of it
and how to kind of get it working for you.
We'll also look at the AI feature for ADD interactions.
Alright, let's go.
Alright, so I'm in a new blank design file.
I'm in design, this little tab on the bottom here,
and I'm gonna go to actions.
Now this one here is a paid feature.
Um, so just watch if you're on the free one.
It is, uh, where is, it's called First draft,
so you might search for it.
I've found mine here under Design Tools. Gonna click it.
Okay? The cool thing about it, you can kind
of give it some guidelines as in,
do I want a basic app or a wire frame?
Okay, does it need images or not?
You know, uh, basic site or a site wire frame.
Okay, we've looked at that before.
High fidelity, low fidelity.
Um, so I'm gonna do an app
and I'm gonna say I want it to be, um, it's an event
listing app for music
and just click, make it stand back.
Watch the AI bots do the little thing.
Oh, that was quick thought.
We might even have to jump cut and fast.
Oh, Coldplay, Taylor Swift, I'm out it Sharon, Billy Eilish.
It's not my music. Um,
but what you can see here is it's actually built this
unique app for you.
Um, it is generating, uh, these images.
These images are like it's AI engine making them.
That's why sometimes they can take a little while
and they're kind of like sparkly,
but oh my goodness, it's made an app.
Look at it. This is cool. Let's prototype it. Let's go. Yep.
Okay. And so a look, I like it.
What works, what doesn't? Okay, it's just kind of mocked up.
Doesn't do a whole lot. There's not of, um, interactivity.
You can like in the essentials course go,
you actually, let's look at something else.
Um, let's, at the Colors watch at this.
That's the first colorway. Okay?
You can see, you can go through and say,
oh, I like these ones.
It's a great way to get started.
And once you'll finish this course, the advance one,
you'll be able to add all the interactivity
and all the right ways to kind of get it out for designs.
It's like working with a template except the template.
You get to be very customized, okay?
Especially for things like the colors, things like,
it's like make changes as well.
Look, you can say actually rounded corners.
I want super rounded corners. No rounded corners.
We're going for the boxy look, okay? The spacing.
We want to open that up. It's just very cool.
Oh, what kind of fonts do you wanna use?
Okay, you can work through it.
You can prompt it as well to say, um, can you, uh, add
a large hero
Box?
I dunno if this is gonna work, by the way, okay?
But you can start prompting it to do stuff.
It would be probably easier for me to do a lot
of small changes myself, okay?
'cause it's done a version of it.
It's not the thing I had in my head.
So that's gonna be the tricky part. So you can prompt away.
And sometimes it's easy just to make it.
Let's have a look, uh, under assets, okay?
It has got no assets for this particular, um, document.
There's no library, there's no styles for it.
Maybe that'll change by the time you get to it,
but now there's still a lot of work to do.
But very cool way to get started.
Once you've got some skills, you can't just
be a UX designer.
Go, all right, I've learned nothing about fig.
I'm just gonna use the prompt.
Maybe that's possible in the future.
I don't think so, but I wanna show you that there.
The other thing I wanted to show you from the essentials
course was, let's say we wanna make another page.
Let's go you and let's select it all and delete it.
And this one here, we're gonna go back to our prompt again
and we're gonna say, uh, we got first draft.
Okay? And I'm gonna say event
and listing in detail.
C oh, spell it right Then here we go.
Alright, it's gone. And here it is.
It, oh, it has made a new page rather than trying
to use the one that I made for it.
But you can see here, has it used the same fonts?
Let's have a look. Uh, public sands.
And this one is, uh, no outfit. So it's gonna get better.
You know, I'm looking forward to the time
where I just need a really basic page, like a T's
and C'S page or a checkout page
that looks like a really trustworthy one.
And it can take the styles
that you've already got and then apply them.
That's probably not too far in the future,
but for the moment it's kind of more idea generation.
Um, and you fixing it up and changing it around after. Now.
'cause like everything is different.
But what it can do is we can do, uh, this part here.
We go into the actions
and we can say, I'd like to look at add interactions, okay?
Uh, between you and you add interactions.
Okay? And it did it. Okay?
So it's add the little menal interactions.
So let's give it a prototype.
Now, let's start with this guy
and go to plate and let's have a look.
I can't even remember which button it was.
Oh yeah, it worked. Okay. And then go back to the home.
All right. So those two little things can be powerful okay?
And will be better later on.
But I just wanna show you earlier on in the course, the kind
of new things that are happening with Figma.
And I can come back and update this video in the future.
It's not taking our jobs,
but it is short cutting some of the things we used
to do in terms of like, all right, I wonder
what a good form looks like.
You can start working with, make a first draft
or like normal, go back to home on the browser version.
Remember go up to the F and go to home,
which is at the top, okay?
And you can go to the templates.
There's plenty of templates out there.
It's kind of the way I'm using it at the moment.
It will get better, but it's new, it's fancy
and it will be more handy when your skills are even handier.
And you can kind of like take what that makes
and make it, uh, you know, connect it all up with styles
and auto layouts and variables.
Oh, it's gonna be fun. Alright,
that is it for the first video.
What did you think? Have a play around with it.
I will see you in the next video.