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How to add iOS battery wifi notch status bar to Figma

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177 lessons / 16 hours 46 quiz questions 21 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Hi there, aspiring Figma enthusiasts! Are you ready to embark on an exhilarating journey with me, Dan Scott, as we unlock the full potential of our Figma skills in the dazzling realm of UX/UI Design using Figma Advanced?

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This course is tailor-made for those who have already mastered the fundamental principles of UI/UX Design using Figma. If you've triumphed over my Figma Essentials course or have a sneaking suspicion that there's a treasure trove of unexplored tools, tips, workflows, and updates awaiting your discovery, then look no further! This course is your golden ticket to taking your UI/UX prowess to the next level.

Together, we'll start by delving into the depths of multilevel nested autolayouts, and unravel the secrets used by UX professionals by learning:
- Workflow techniques, managing design assets, styles, components, grid and column layouts like true virtuosos.
- Learn how to use Variables and put them to work creating even more complete prototypes.
- Use variables to make Light & Dark Modes + Compact & Comfortable spacing versions of your components. 
- You’ll then take your new knowledge of variables to understand and create your own Design Tokens. 
  • - Unleashing the magic of advanced animation techniques, captivating users with animated background gradients and Houdini Text.
  • - Harness the power of Lottie animation files, breathing life into your designs.
  • - Crafting responsive elements that effortlessly adapt to any device, proving your design prowess knows no bounds.
  • - Unleashing the full potential of powerful images & video masking techniques, amplifying the visual impact of your creations.
  • - Mastering advanced typography features, transforming words into captivating works of art.
  • - Embracing the realm of AI, infusing your process with its genius to elevate your skills as a UX designer.
  • - Elevate your prototyping game, conducting user tests with finesse using advanced techniques.
  • - Unveiling sticky scroll buttons that stack, animated anchor points and booleans, and a host of other captivating effects.
  • - Creating enchanting dropdown menus, hover grow effects for images, and expanding search bars.
  • - Discovering the right accessibility tools & techniques, ensuring inclusivity and usability for all users.
  • - Becoming a variant boss, expertly taming unwieldy variants to just 1 or 2.
  • - Unveiling the secrets of seamless collaboration with designers, developers, and stakeholders.
  • - Mastering the art of exporting production-ready assets, bringing your designs to life beyond the realm of Figma.
  • - Unearthing professional workflow tricks & shortcuts, saving you precious time and skyrocketing your efficiency.
  • - Plus much more exciting advanced Figma goodness along the way!

As you journey through this course, you'll acquire the skills wielded by UX professionals, gaining a profound understanding of the UX Design industry. From concept to a highly polished finish, you'll confidently manage your own UX projects ideal for your portfolio.

Throughout the course, I'll assign assignments and projects that nurture your skills and empower you to create your very own unique UX design masterpiece for your portfolio. Don’t worry if this all seems overwhelmingly advanced right now, because the BYOL crew stands ready to support and guide you, ensuring your questions get answered.

It's time to embrace the call to upgrade yourself and transcend from being a good UX Designer to a bona fide Figma UX Superhero! Unlock your potential, save the day, and let your design prowess soar!

Requirements:

- A copy of Figma (a free plan is available on the Figma website).
  • - Basic knowledge of Figma is required. I recommend watching my Figma Essentials course prior to embarking on this epic adventure.

Who this course is for:

  • - UX/UI adventurers who already have a basic understanding of Figma.
  • - Self-taught Figma enthusiasts yearning for structured guidance.
  • - Graduates of my Figma Essentials Course, hungry for more knowledge and skills.
  • - Visionaries who have developed their own unique Figma approach but crave exploration of the vast universe of tools, updates, and time-saving techniques.

What you'll learn:

  • - Diving deep into multi level nested autolayouts. 
  • - Robust components that are easy to update and hard to break. 
  • - Component properties. 
- Variables
- Design Tokens
- Advanced Prototyping using Variables
  • - Learn Workflow tips and tricks for managing your design assets, styles, components, grid and column layouts.
  • - Advanced animation techniques
  • - Animated Background gradients. 
  • - Houdini Text
  • - Animate along a path in Figma
  • - How to add Lottie animation files in Figma
  • - Build responsive elements ready for any device size.
  • - The best shortcuts & plugins to make you a more efficient UX designer.
  • - Absolute Positioning of Autolayouts. 
  • - Powerful images & video masking techniques. 
  • - Advanced typography features. 
  • - Learn to use AI in your process to make you a better UX designer. 
  • - Advanced prototyping techniques to level up your user tests. 
  • - Make prototypes better and faster using tricks & shortcuts. 
  • - Sticky scroll buttons that stack. 
  • - Video playback controls. 
  • - Animated anchor points and booleans.
  • - Create a Dropdown menu
  • - Create a hover grow effect for images.
  • - Create and expanding Search Bar 
  • - Learn the right accessibility tools & techniques  
  • - Become a variant boss. Cutting down those 100 variants to just 1 or 2. 
  • - Learn the best ways to work with other designers, developers and stakeholders. 
  • - Build a UX project from beginning to end ready for your portfolio.
  • - Export production ready assets.
  • - Learn professional workflow tricks & shortcuts.
  • - Forum support from me and the rest of the BYOL crew.
  • - All the techniques used by UX professionals
  • - 160 videos of detailed Figma Advanced Content.
Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I 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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  • Complete and pass the Knowledge Quiz
  • Don’t forget to request your certificate when you have passed the quiz and completed all your projects

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We're awarding 'Distinction' level certificates for this course.

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  • Watch the course videos
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  • Complete and pass the Knowledge Quiz
  • Complete the Distinction Certificate Project - look out for the video marked with
  • Upload your Distinction project to the My Projects area in your account
  • Don't forget to request your certificate when you have passed the quiz and completed all your projects

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Transcript

Hi everyone, in this video we're going to look at... how to add these status icons up the top here... Battery, Wi-Fi, Network, we'll add the time along the top here as well... we'll look at how to deal with this notch that's on some phones... and although this video is 10 minutes long the quick answer is... just go and steal it from the Figma community...

in this case I stole a sweet one from Wayne Dahlberg and I pasted it in. Why is this video 10 minutes long? I'll show you how to steal it good... and by stealing I mean appropriating... because that's what's amazing about the old Figma community... all right, let's jump in.

So let's do it, let's go and appropriate somebody else's status bar... trick is, community is the best place to find something like this... so go to the Figma community, and in the Search... what you're looking for is to put in... whatever the latest iOS or Android version is... in this case, Material, or whatever device you're looking for...

try and pick that, because you want to look like... the new one that everyone's using. So, there you go, Status bar is the other word that you want... and for me I want to go, not FigJam and Figma, just Figma... and then you go through, and what I tend to do, is I'm looking through here... and this one might be great, but it's got 0 likes, and only 8 downloads...

I'm looking for something that has a lot more, this one here has loads... has 525 likes and has lots of downloads, and I've already checked it... so I know it's good. So you open it up, you're going to open it in Figma... and basically that means you taking a copy of it... and then we're going to go steal bits from it...

so that's our cover, we're going to use 'PgDn' to get used to the shortcut... to go to this other page that he's created, who's he? we saw, it was Wayne somebody... go back here, there you go, oh, it's Dahlberg, there you go, Wayne Dahlberg... thank you very much for making this, because it is awesome... and basically what you're looking for, is let's go through his assets...

so 'Option 2', or 'Alt 2', let's have a look, there's only two of them... there's lots of stuff that's embedded in it, fine... but what we want to do is go, I want this, Status bar... let's drag out a copy... actually, what I want to do is, actually, grab the main component. So we don't have to kind of keep jumping back and forth into here...

to maybe do changes, not that I plan to. 'Command 2', or 'Ctrl 2' to jump back to that tab... and what I need to do is just paste it in... paste it here in my main components one, it should be on its own page by now... but it's starting to get a bit unwieldy... that's right, wait there for the moment...

so I should have in my Assets, I'm going to type in "stat"... to kind of cull down my assets, there it is. So what I want to do now is add it to this top here... I could add it to each individual, but we know that that's a bad idea... we want to add it to the... main component, which we can find by right clicking, and saying...

go to main component, here it is, there... now we're going to add it in... did it go in? Maybe... oh mine ended up backwards... oh, that was a neat trick, how did I do that?

I don't know... let's start it again... I know that sometimes I do things like... like flip horizontal, I do that all the time... 'Command P', let's go horizontal, is that what I did? I'm not sure.

So we've got it in here, let's look at my layers, 'Option 1', or 'Alt 1'... and it has ended up in my main component, so it's going to appear on everything... other than that we've got to push the logo down, that's all we do... let's look at our prototype over here... needs to be kind of smooshed over there a little bit... there you go, it's got a Status bar.

Now I know we've got to do some laying up, but that's it, really... if you're like, "How do you do it?"... you go steal it, borrow it, appropriate it, it's better words... but Wayne's made this for us to kind of save time, which is cool. So you can go ahead to the next video now... I want to dive in and have a look at this component...

just because it's pretty interesting, what's been made... and we'll look at the notch. So what I'm going to have to do now is... I'm going to have to go through, make sure, working on my main component... give myself enough room... I'm going to turn on my grid...

to make sure it's kind of, yeah, I'm kind of sticking to my grid pattern... I'm going to grab my logo... and I'm going to drag it down... going to get rid of my grid because it's hard to see... oh, I need to show something over here, that's previewing... so I'm going to use my left and right...

that one looks better... just want to find one where I'm kind of like laying it out... everything's not overlapping... and that looks like it's going to be a good distance from the notch. Now you can preview the notch here, that's coming from Figma... when we are doing our prototype...

the notch is coming from the phone that we've picked... and they're all different, 13... like an 8 doesn't have a notch... so that notch is coming from there, you can use that to kind of preview it... or you can turn it on in this particular Status bar... because Wayne is awesome, he went -  let's go back to Design mode.

- and created a variable for dark mode... he also went in, and in this Status here, can you see... there's a notch, if I click on it... there's a notch, that's visible... it's not the right size of the notches that I need, bad way... but you might just want to see it here so that you can kind of...

design around, or at least know, like how far the logo feels from this notch here... I don't want it on, I'm happy to just see it over here... cool, let's dig in as well, we got time. This one here has a variable of... let's go green, you see the little ticker that goes around it, go back to 'Clear'... also, in here there is...

indicators for like, is the microphone on, is the camera on... let's have a look into the Status bar, this little part here... and in here there is, remember, you can drag this in and out... there is a digital network, so let's have a look at the network one... 3 bars, nope, where I live there's only ever 1, rural Ireland... the Wi-Fi signal, you can obviously turn up and down as well...

it's pretty well built component, don't we think? It's the kind of thing that you would put the effort into it, potentially... when you are making stuff... let's look at the battery... for me, I live life on the, always be charging my phone, life... my wife on the other hand likes to only charge her phone when it dies...

that's how she does it, and then once it starts back up... she goes from status normal to charging... I'm a paranoid charger, how about you? Anytime I get, get a little bit charge... let me know in the comments, are you a paranoid charger like me... or you are, let it run till it dies, and then charge it, person.

That is using somebody else's community project to put in our Status bar... that's what you do for a lot of... kind of system UI bits and pieces... we'll do one more in a video next... but for the Status bar go find somebody else that's made it... or if you're a crazy person you can build it yourself...

but also, my opinion is... does it add to the, you know, the demonstration? Maybe for, like final portfolio looking pieces... but for actual testing it doesn't help... I don't find it, like there be no difference between... having the status bar up there, and not having it there...

when I'm getting people to do some user testing... so leave it up to you whether you want to play the game of like... leaving space along the top here in all our designs... for that status bar, and the notch... all right, that's it, I will see you in the next video.
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