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How to add Lottie animation files in Figma

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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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Hi everyone. In this video we're gonna put in animations from Lotti into  Figma, but to cut to the chase. Uh, at the moment we can't put Lotti files  natively in Figma. We put in gifs  and then we send the developers the Lotti files. So it's a little bit of a workaround at the moment. This will change, I'm sure as soon  as I hit record on this video, okay?

But for the moment, Lotti files can't go in natively. Let's work out, let's look at the plugin  and figure out the, the kind of way  to work around it at the moment. Alright, first up, if you haven't heard of a Lotti file, um,  I'll say it there, my accent, okay? Lotti files. It's really common animation file used, uh,  actually in production on a website or an app. Okay?

Uses JSON as the underlying code. It's, uh, very fast to load. It is very small, which is good  and it contains all the good stuff that we need,  like vectors and we can do all sorts of kind  of timeline animation. Okay? So Lottie is awesome. Um, and like I said at the beginning there, we can kind  of implement it in Figma.

It's like the last video. We can implement a gif  and then send the developer the file that they need. The trouble is gifs are gross. They work actually make, make two files  because the reason they look kind  of gross is when they're on a background  that needs transparency. So let's open, uh, the Lottie plugin. Okay?

So Lottie will require you to sign in, okay? You can set up a free account,  you can get quite far on the free account. I find often just using the website, it's actually easier. You can go in here and say,  I want a loading animation, okay? Instead of spending ages trying to design it in Figma, okay,  there's a bunch of stuff in here  and there's a bunch of free stuff, which is awesome,  but let's do it in Figma here. Let's do it, uh, loading, okay.

Figure out which one you want. Let's say we want this cool thing, so I can insert an SVG,  and that might be what you do. Okay? It's scalable, it's victory, it's good. And what you do is, let's pause that. It's distracting.

You just have to note this. When you're sending it to developers,  like this is an animated file. Here is a link to the js om file or the Lotty file. Okay? So, and you'd link it from here. It's there, there it is.

Okay. So you'd open it up, you'd download it  and you'd say, here is the lot JSO file. Okay? And that might be it. That might be the way you connect both of these together. You just put in A SVG placeholder, send them the link.

But let's say you want to demonstrate the, uh, gif, okay? So what you can do is let's delete that  and at the moment we can't hopefully soon, okay? You might be watching this and you might be able  to click insert Lottie and it might be working perfect. It'll happen soon, okay? It can be done. It was, uh, it's actually in Adobe xd.

So they're doing it. We are on, uh, Figma roadmap. Is it gonna be inserted? I don't know. Hopefully it'll be there soon. Let me know in the comments if it has updated, I have  to come back and rerecord this video.

But for the moment what we do is we say,  actually let's just insert a gif. Okay? I'm going to make what size. I'm gonna make a big one,  Okay? It takes a bit to make  it, and I'm gonna put it in here. I'm just gonna make sure, 'cause it kind  of just dumps it anywhere on the page.

So make sure it's in the frame that you wanna preview. Okay? So I'm gonna close it down now  and I'm gonna have you, I'm gonna preview  you and there it is. It looks fine. I don't know. I felt it looked worse in the past.

This one's actually pretty nice. I've made a bigger file and scaled it down. So the gif looks all right. Okay. Um, there you go. That's an animated gif.

There you go. You put in the gif and then send your developer again. That Lottie js o file. You trouble is, it's not vector. I can't change a lot in here,  but I can do a lot of color adjustments in the Lotty file. I know for the free version, you just take  what you get, okay?

But you can with the paid version, go through  and say, all right, um, let's find my one. It's pretty cool. You can go through  and if you've got a paid version, you can go to customize  and you can pick different colors, okay? And save those animations. Make your own palettes. But for the moment, that is, uh,  you need an individual plan, which is a paid plan,  but there is loads of cool free stuff  and I'm looking forward to rerecording this video when we  can actually put in, uh, Lotti natively.

And then when we do our export, the developer doesn't have  to be, Cass set a separate file. They can get it from the documentation  and from the, uh, inspect panel. That'd be cool if you wanna make your own custom  Lotti file, okay? Uh, you can, you'll need something like Adobe After Effects. That's a plugin called Body Move-in  outta the scope of this course. But if you do wanna check out my After Effects course,  I'll be updating that real soon  and making sure there is Lottie animation creation as part  of it becoming the default.

Alright, Lottie in Figma at the moment, we're just kind  of sticking in a gif and sending the  developer the Lottie file. That's okay. We can make it work  with a slightly crusty edged gif. Alright, that's it. I'll see you in the next video.
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