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 create a minimum width height button 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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  • Don’t forget to request your certificate when all your projects are complete

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  • Complete the Class Projects - look out for the videos marked with
  • Upload your class projects into the My Projects area in your account
  • Complete and pass the Knowledge Quiz
  • Don’t forget to request your certificate when you have passed the quiz and completed all your projects

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We're awarding 'Distinction' level certificates for this course.

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  • Watch the course videos
  • Complete the Class Projects - look out for the videos marked with
  • Upload your class projects into the My Projects area in your account
  • Complete and pass the Knowledge Quiz
  • Complete the Distinction Certificate Project - look out for the video marked with
  • Upload your Distinction project to the My Projects area in your account
  • Don't forget to request your certificate when you have passed the quiz and completed all your projects

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Transcript

Hi everyone, in this video we're going to look at... minimum and maximum sizes in Figma... so I've got a button here, it's an Auto layout, if I make it smaller... eventually, it can't get any smaller, it's got a minimum width... and likewise, I can type lots of stuff, and eventually it won't get any bigger... it's called Min and Max Widths, great for things like buttons...

but you can use it on anything as long as it's an Auto layout... let me show you how to make it. Hi everyone, this is an updated video... because they've just released a better Min/Max... there was a hack to do it before, so things might look a tiny bit different... so what we're going to do is, like normal, an Auto layout button...

can get really small or really big, so we want to add that minimum and maximum... to do it, don't do it to the text box, do it to the parent... remember, you can hit '\', so you get the parent, the Auto layout here... and mine's an Auto layout, yes... and the new button is, over here, under Width, there is this drop down now... and you can add Min and add Max, that's it...

just make sure it's to the outside and not the text box on the inside. So let's add a minimum, what should your minimum be? It's up to you... it's really common for 44 pixels to be a minimum button size... and 32 for an icon, just kind of like... people need to be able to touch it, especially on a phone, great...

let's look at the maximum, so let's go, drop down, let's... not that one, let's go back up to 'Width', and say, add a 'Maximum Width'... how big? I'll just use multiples of 8... I have no idea what a good size for a giant button is, but 160 seems about right... and now I can start typing, and it will keep going and eventually break.

So I've got a maximum size, which is awesome... let's center our text... and what I want to do is just make you aware that-- I'm going to grab a frame... and I'm going to draw out something that's kind of the same size as this... what you'll notice is that, when they do minimum and maximum on the widths... they include the padding...

you can see there, that's 44, like my minimum was there... but it doesn't include the Drop Shadow, the Drop Shadow here is... I just made something fancy... well, it's just 2x2 pixels with no blur... it gives you that kind of really cuboid Drop Shadow... but it does not get included in the frame.

The other thing to note is, let's give it a Fill color... I'm not sure why I got a field color, but this here... a frame can't have minimum and maximum at the moment... neither can a plain old text box, neither can a rectangle... it has to be an Auto layout, which is this option here... remember, you can be an auto layout...

now I can have the drop down for Min/Max. Another thing you can do, because this is the Advanced course... is you can drag it to a size... you've already got existing buttons on your design... they're already the right size, what you can do is go up to here... make sure it's an Auto layout...

then under width you can say, I'm going to add a minimum width... but I'm going to drop it down again and say... set it to the current width, whatever you've got... so that'll use, yeah, the existing dimensions for width... and you can do the same thing for max. We've only done width but obviously height works the exact same way...

and if you're like, "What are those diamonds... they've been in the course, and Dan hasn't mentioned them"... they're kind of new, let's have a look at one, frame... I'm going to cover these later in the course, called variables... it's a new thing, there's a whole section on that later in the course... so we'll get to the little hexagons, they're not diamonds, there you go.

That's minimum and maximum sizing in Figma, the new version... little side note is, guess how long it lasted, that hack... the course comes out in about... I don't know, 10 hours from now... course is not even released... and the new updates have made me go back and re-record the Min/Max video...

good work, Figma, you guys wait till I record stuff, then go and change it... anyway, it's up to date now, enjoy... I'll pass you back to regular Dan, who you know, and love... I'm future Dan, back to regular Dan, bye.
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