Note: If you have a different UI than in the course, you can change it back by clicking the '?' in the bottom right corner of Figma and select 'Go back to previous UI'. Happy Figma'ing!

How to archive and restore previous versions of Figma files

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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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Hi everyone. In this video we're gonna look at archiving certain  parts of a design file. Let's say you want to delete components or delete pages  'cause they're not used anymore, but you wanna be able  to go back just in case. The big thing to remember is if you are on a free plan  or if your file is in drafts, it doesn't matter. There is only 30 days of kind of history and saving. Even with these archive versions, you need a paid  or organizational enterprise plan  and these archive versions will hang around forever.

Basically we're gonna leverage the version  history, lemme show you how it works. Okay? So archiving, uh, old work,  there's no like official uh, archiving section. Basically we're gonna utilize  what we know about the version history,  but there's a good practice to follow to make sure it's easy  to go back and feel confident when you,  especially when you're deleting stuff from files. Okay, let's say that we've moved most of our components  or everything we need out to a separate file. So I've got this page here that I do not need.

Okay, so I'm gonna right click it  and I'm gonna delete the page and freak out  'cause I'm like, what if there's something in there? So what I'm gonna do is save a version history. Remember a shortcut, command option S or Ctrl Alt S on a pc  and let's call this one archive,  okay? Achieve anyway, archive. Okay? Uh, and we're gonna put the date.

So we're gonna put in May. We're gonna put it in the 3rd of May. What was changed? Okay, this will be handy for future Dan. So we're gonna say, uh, deleted  the actually speed through this. Okay, we'll add some documentation.

The cool thing about that is that now I can say,  now delete, it's gone. Can go about my work. Keep working, keep working. Know that it's there. Okay? I can go back to my version history, okay?

And say, look,  even though I've done stuff, I can go back here. How do I go back here? I can click on it  and I can go to the little dots. I can click on it actually and just work my way around. You'll see that the component's page is back. So I can go through and just review it  while we're in this mode.

Remember, okay, we can zoom and look and check,  but we can't copy and paste anything out. We can't manipulate stuff. If you want to do that, you can either do restore  to this version, grab the stuff you want,  and then jump back to the current version. Or you might want to separate it out  and duplicate it so you've got another separate file  or create another Figma file a copy, okay? And we can rename this now something more appropriate. I'm gonna leave it messing up my drafts folder, okay?

And when you're finished, let's click done. So I can always go back there to make it even handier. Let's jump back to our version history. Now, if you have version history, you have  to have nothing selected, then go to the little Chevron. Okay? What you can do  to be a bit more professional is you can click on it,  click on the little dots and say copy link.

Okay? And then we can create a change log. Hit done. Okay? We're gonna create a new page. So I just quickly whip this up.

Uh, cover page and here are my archive versions. Okay? Now there's one little bug with this check. It works  Now. 'cause what  would be really handy is  to go, all right, today is this. I'm gonna select to the text, I'm gonna add a hyperlink.

I'm gonna paste in that, but that doesn't seem to work. Like you can click on it for sure,  but it does it, it links to the same page. It just has problems at the moment. So at the moment the workaround is, it's just to paste it  as a URL, which is not beautiful, okay? 'cause that is not, not a beautiful file name,  but people can copy and paste it out. I'm gonna make it quite small  and we might have to add some notes there of like copy  and paste this to go back to this archive.

Check that they haven't fixed it though. You can even see by default  that it's made it a clickable link, which isn't still good. Okay, so I'm gonna break the link to it. Actually hit that link there. Break it. So it's just text so people can't click on it.

Hopefully that'll update where you can actually click on it  and it'll actually go to an archive version. But I can copy and paste it either in view mode  or in design mode, paste it into a browser  and you will see it's gone back to this archive version  and people can go  and decide whether they wanna restore this  version or duplicate it. There you go. That is how to archive stuff. And be careful it doesn't disappear forever. Just give it a name.

That's really all you need to do. You can be a bit fancier by grabbing that link,  putting to its own page. There you go. That is archiving your work without having a  panic attack.
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