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 change replace colors in Figma

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

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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 are going to look at changing colors in Figma... that's pretty easy, it's going to get more challenging... when we have gone through this course... and some are using our color styles, and some are using the Hex number... the color looks the same... so we'll do a fine change to make sure all of those are consistent...

we'll look at some of the quirks with color styles when we're looking at opacity... and at the end I'll go through and I'm actually going to change... my primary color from, well, from that kind of red that I've been using, to green... because red is a terrible color for a primary color... you were all yelling that at the beginning of the course... and took me a while to realize that that looks like an error sign...

you'll notice, none of my buttons are that color... so not very good primary color, so I'm going to shift this to my Accent color... and introduce this green as my primary color... there you go, let's jump in. The quick way is to have nothing selected... and then go 'Command A' on a Mac, 'Ctrl A' on a PC to select all...

and then go down to your 'Selection Colors'... and say, show me them all, and then go and change whichever color you want... in here, I could go through and click on this and say... actually, want it to be the 900 now... and it goes through and updates, I'm going to undo. If it's a different color you might have to go figure it out first...

so you might have to go, actually, click on this color here... there it is, there, 7065E4... and do the same thing, select them all, go down to ''Selection Colors'... and you'll get the first ones, there it is, there... and I can go and change this one... using my scroll wheel to change the hue...

going a bit fast, so there it is, there. You'll notice, some of them didn't change, it's okay, I'll show you that in a sec... but that's the quickest and easy way, select all, find it, change it... I'm going to 'Esc' and 'undo'... oh, I'm going to undo a lot... there's a lot of undoing because it counted every scroll as an undo.

So there will be though, some of them tied into this... it's got all my kind of main colors here, and my main styles... you see, there's a bunch of other styles, there's a bunch of other colors... that you might have to dig around in, and figure out what it is... and that's the easiest way to change color... there is no Find Change at the moment in Figma...

there are plugins, I haven't had any success with them so far... end up being just as much hassle... or at least more hassle than actually just doing a Select All, and Change... the only trouble with doing it my way is that you have to do it per page... so if you've got 100 Pages, you have to do it 100 times, and that's no fun... but I haven't found a plugin that is better...

if you do have one that you've had success with, let me know in the comments... have a look down there yourself... see if somebody else has got a cool plugin that might work. One of the other things, that is kind of weird... about finding colors in this program, is that, this... did you notice that, when I said Select All...

find this color, where is it? This one here... is that not all of them changed, can you see... it actually treats - I'm going to undo that again. - it treats this one here, because it has an opacity as a separate color... which means double dipping, which is a pain in the butt...

so 'Select All', what you'll notice is, down here... there's a color, down there with the same number, 7065E4, there it is, there... so you have to change both of those unfortunately... there it is, there, and I can change it... it's considered a separate color... now that brings up a good point, when you're doing your styles...

at the moment that is not a percentage of my main style, why is it not? It's because, just so you know, if I make a color here... I go to my Color Styles, and I say, let's make it for 500... I can't play with the opacity of this, it's just a bug at the moment... if it's here it'd be great, it's the future... and you have got percentages for styles...

but at the moment I can't apply opacity... this opacity to the Fill layer of a style... I have to break it, and then play with the opacity, which is fine... because I could do this, right? I could say, you are... and then I could play around with the Layer Opacity, let's get it down to 50%.

The trouble with that though is, this one here, this, where is it? This has a percentage, can you see, it is set to 80%... it's so that we can see the stuff behind it... to kind of prove it, let's go over here and say... actually, this is, is that what I'm using? Yeah...

so this is my, this one here... is that the version we're using? Yes... so this one here is going to use a Fill of the Style... the Color Style of 500, and I'm going to play around the Layer Opacity... let's get it down to 50%...

can you see, it does it to the entire thing, not just the color... so that's something to note... and is it a bug? It's not really a bug, just something that hasn't been implemented in Figma yet. Another thing about those color styles as well... is that you can't have more than one...

watch this, color style, can I have another one? Nope, just, you can get rid of the color... but you can't have two color styles applied to it with different opacities... if you do want this to be part of your styles, you can create another style... so let's click on this one here, let's find it... and say, you are not currently a style, but we could...

hit the 'Styles' button, hit '+'... and we could call this one "500", and put in 1.8, so, 0.8... so 0.8 is really common, and the way to write percentages... when you're dealing with web... you could write 80%, that's totally fine... though your front-end web developer will probably go...

1.0, is 100%, and .0 is 0%... that is 50%, that is 80%... it is up to you, you'll see both around... I'm going to create a style, click off in the background... get it into the right place, you need to go in there... and you need to go there...

you can see, you can probably instantly see what the problem's going to be here... is that, how many do I create? Do I make a 0.1, 0,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10... I'm just going to put this one in because that's what I'm using right now... and only put in the ones that I have to... because otherwise this is going to look a bit crazy...

and become less helpful. Next thing I'm going to do is, I was being lazy throughout this course... and I applied the style sometimes, and sometimes I went like this... I went, you have a Fill color of Local, and that one... now the trouble with doing it that way is that it uses the Hexadecimal number... so the Hex number is fine...

but I want everything now to be connected to that style... so when I change it, it all updates. So what I can do is, use the same sort of trick... is figure out what the Hex number is, there you are... select it all... go down to 'Show Selection Colors', let's find the color that I want...

there it is, there, and instead of replacing it... I'm actually just going to say you are now that style of 500... and it kind of disappears from my list, they should all have that style applied... I have to do the same thing with the purple, down here... so I'm looking for E4, I'm going to select them all... I'm going to go down, I'm going to find that purple that has E4, there it is...

and I'm going to switch it out for my 500... and now I'm going to add my last color, or my new color... because that red just doesn't work, it looks like an error message, red... so I'm going to go switch that out for green as my primary... and that red is going to become my accent color. So let's rename this one "Accent"...

and this green here, is the one I'm going to use... so you are going to be a 'Style' called... actually, I'm not going to do it this way... we use that plug-in like we did before just to speed things along... so I'm going to grab you, let's open up the plug-in... nope, it was a widget, Color Level Generator, I double click it to open it...

remember this from way back in the course, pop in my color... I'm going to hit 'Save Styles'... Color Name, this is going to be my "Color Primary"... see how putting them in groups is a whole lot easier... than it is naming every single one of them... because it's really easy to name the color group...

and not have to do it for every single color... go you, you, you, you, and you, oh, I want to keep all those... I want to just select the opposites and go 'Del'... so I've got just a tidier set of colors... and here we go, you, thank you, very much, I'm going delete that now. All right, that's it, changing color is relatively easy, select all, change it...

we also went through and just tidied up some of our styles now as well... all right, that is it, I will see you in the next video.
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