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How to convert an existing website into a figma design

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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?

Try Figma for free by clicking here.

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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Transcript

Hi everyone. In this video we're gonna look at a really cool plugin. Are we looking at the Apple website? Are we looking at a Figma file? Look, outline view. It is a Figma file.

All the text is editable. What is it good for? It allows us to throw in any URL  and it will try its best to convert it into a Figma file. Great for those projects  where you weren't involved in the initial design. Maybe it wasn't even design of Figma, maybe it was Photoshop  or Illustrator or Microsoft Paint something else  and you have to go and start recreating parts. I'll show you in this video, we go  and grab that button there and we make it a cool auto out.

Convert it into components  and start using it in our process. It's also really handy for going  and borrowing images, pulling out colors, icons, logos,  a general all real cool fund tool. The tool's called H TM L to design  and let me show you how to work it. Alright, to get started, I've just got a empty uh, document. It's in giraffes. I'm gonna open up the plugin.

The one you're looking for is something called  H TM L to design. Hit run. There is a free and a paid version. I'm gonna go through the version of uh, free  that is available to me. Now this will probably change by the time you get to it. Okay?

I'm gonna use apple.com. You can type in any URL you like. You can ask it when it's checking the website to ask for lid  or dark mode and what size. Okay? This is not coming directly from Apple,  it's just saying well would you like us to try  and load a tablet size version of it? Does your website have a version that has tablet?

Does your website have a tablet size? It does. Well, at least Apple does. Okay, so pick that, then hit import  and you can type in any URL. You can see here some of the upgrades for pro,  but we can get a lot what we need in  the free version at the moment. Now depending if you have the fonts, okay,  like we looked at earlier, you can go  and download the fonts if you need them.

Okay, I have a bunch of them. I have the Vertica that I need  and now you've gotta prepare yourself  'cause there is amazingness  and then there's stuff that isn't so amazing. Okay? So things that would be useful if I needed,  let's say the logo, okay, I can maybe command  or control click and kind of click into stuff. I could easily copy that  and paste it into my other document, okay? With all my uh, logos.

Okay, maybe a master components. Okay, there we go. We might have to tidy it up. Oh no, that one's come through really nicely. Uh, are the things that might be more painful. Let's say I want this button.

Okay, so I can keep clicking. Just double clicked a few times. I've gone inside all these div tags, found the button. Unfortunately if I keep going in, this is actually not text,  it's just uh, shape. Okay, the Nest vg. Why?

I have no idea. I would assume it would've been text on the website,  but apparently it's either the plugin or it's Apple. They're rendering it as a vector  and not actual editable text. Other useful bits is images. Okay, I can command click okay, find that image  and I can say, let's export what I've got selected. Let's preview it.

Okay, as a P  and G, sure jp sure hit export  And we've got that image. Or just copy and paste it into a different document. Super cool. Other cool things is you can start  rebuilding some components. So let's find a button. Let's use this one here.

I'm gonna come and click the outside. So I gonna grab the wrapper of this thing. Maybe you can drag this out. Okay, I'm gonna copy and paste it. It's just so I've got my own version over here  and we'll see how good this is. There are going to be times  where it's just easier to rebuild it.

There are gonna be times where you can just use this plugin  to get you close enough there  and there's gonna be some tidying up. Now first of all, I want to check if this is text. Perfect. So it is TE is text problem is, it's not auto allowed. So I'm gonna select the parent shift A for an auto layout  and it's kept all the padding looks great. Um, the only trouble is that this isn't lined up  and the trouble is this thing here is kind  of trapped in some sort of weird mask.

So I could turn clip contents off. Okay, might get us there. What I might do is actually just used,  remember all the keys plus R to resize  to fit command option shift control, alt shift on a pc. And it will just kind of like redraw around the outside  and that's kinda lined everything up nicely. Let's have a look at the background. It's got ginormus, uh, round of corners on it.

That's fine. I can turn it down to two or 20. Okay, so I would say that this was worth the effort  of grabbing it through the plugin  'cause it only took me a little bit  just to kind of get it ready. You can see how amazing it is  for a website that you've inherited. You might have turned up with a job. Nobody's using Figma  or at least it was designed in say, Photoshop or Illustrator  before anybody was making components.

We just can't find the files anymore, download it  and start recreating them. If nothing else, it's great for grabbing logos, icons,  colors, and recreating some of these components. Alright, that's it. The only warning is I've made this feel  like it's perfect and works really good,  works really good on the Apple site  and a few sites that I've tried, I've tried other sites  and it just, it's actually too hard. There's just bits all broken up  and the depth of all  of these layers here, a little confusing. But I feel like you might be at a point now this far in the  advanced course where you're like,  actually I know what I'm doing.

This is super useful. Alright, that is it. I'll see you in the next video.
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