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How to compare changes in component with overlay in 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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Hi everyone, in this video we are going to look at what happens... when somebody updates a library that we are using... how do we go and review the updates, before we commit to them... we get to here where we can do a side-by-side comparison... very clear what's changed... or we can do this, cool, like little overlay...

where we could say, let's see the difference... it's very clear, now we're going to update... all right, let me show you how to get in there and use it. All right, so I got two files, this is the file that's creating my library... and this is a file that's going to be using my library... so I'm going to grab a couple of components from that library, great...

I'm using it, but then some updates come along... so back to the original file, let's make some small updates... so from 8 to 16 extra pixels on the padding... this one here will change quite a bit... all right, changed it a lot, remember the shortcut for changing the weight... just a reminder, 'Command Option', and use the '>' and '<'...

that's 'Ctrl Alt', '>' or '<'. So I've made some changes, I'm going to publish it... remember, 'Option 3', or 'Alt 3' on a PC... let's publish those changes and let's see what happens over here... like normal, we get our updates available... we can go to Review, instead of updating them all...

the interesting bit is, instead of clicking this click on this little arrow here... you end up in the Comparison view, so not that, that... I'm going to show you how to get to that individually... instead of doing every single one... because you're like, "Man, I need to work through these step-by-step... to see what the updates are," and how much they affect me.

So what you can do is, let's work on the blue button... and you can see, I can update these individually... there's an update available for this, great, I'm going to click on it... instead of updating the instance I'm going to review the update... and this is handy, you can see, Current, Updated... and I can say, "Yeah, I want that."  Let's look at the next component...

the problem with this is, it looks exactly the same... you're like, "Has anything changed?"  So what we can do is we can switch from Side By Side here to Overlay... and you can turn the Overlay on and off, on and off, and nothing has changed... did I change anything? I swear I did... oh, you can see it over there...

look, the padding's there but it's not in this, oh man... oh, let's just update and see what happens... I've done this loads, and it works every time... and I've even demoed this video... this is about the third time I've recorded it... to try and get a bit of good flow going...

but some reason today it's not working... update, let's go have a look, it got bigger, that was weird, huh... normally it just shows you the padding... and the whole excuse of this was to show you... that the overlay is handy to see when it's just really small changes, like padding... but for some reason it didn't work there.

I'm going to leave this in the course because sometimes it happens... I'm going to close down Figma, open it back up... and jump straight back to that screen... to see if it works again, you wait there. So I've gone back and changed it back to 8 from 16, let's publish it again... publish that one change, and let's have a look over here...

there's an update, we can review it, we'll go the other way... instead of hitting Update click on the arrow... and let's do Overlay, and now it's working, look. So it's given me a little bit clearer idea about what the change is... it could be just the pixel, and you'd be like... "There's no way in this view to go, there's a pixel change"...

you can kind of see it there now that it's obvious... but sometimes it's hard to see unless you go back and forth with this Overlay... I'm happy with that, I'm going to update it and close it down... and there you go, that is how to do some previewing... of changes that have happened to a library that you are sharing... and what happens when it just doesn't work sometimes...

close it, open it up again, good as gold... bugs like that seem to get cleared up quite a lot with Figma... like the ones that, you know, I'll go and report this now to Figma... and I bet you in a update in a month or two, that glitch will be gone... some engineer will go through and fix it... or you might be doing it yourself, you might run into it...

but now you know, turn it off, and on again, the truth to fix all technology... all right, that's it, I'll see you in the next video.
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