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How to create ux color variants using a Figma Widget ?

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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, let's create some color variants... from our primary, secondary, and neutral colors... just so we've got some variants of these colors for different situations... throughout our app design... we're going to use this widget here called Color Levels Generator... it's handy, it creates styles, I'll show you how to kind of tidy up your styles...

sometimes this thing produces a little too many... and we'll talk briefly about what these numbers all mean... all right, let's make some color variants. 'Shift I', I'm going to be using a widget called Color Levels Generator... this is one that I like... but you've got to remember, in the future it might not be supported anymore...

it might not be working anymore, Figma might have changed... there might be a better one out there... so this is just a for instance. So I'm using Color Levels Generator... and I'm going to put it over here, out of the way... the way this one works is, I'm going to grab my primary color...

I'm going to paste it in here... I'm going to, you see that, it made all my color variants, look at that... 500 is their main color, that's the one I've typed in... and then there's less, and then there's more, rather than you--  like we did in the Essentials course... we just kind of like lowered the brightness and raised it up... and this one, going to add a color name this is going to be my "Primary Color".

The cool thing about it is that it's used a really good naming convention... this would be really typical in web design... for both font colors and font weights they use these kind of styles... 500 is the middle, and you have like, 1000 would be a really light font... and 900 would be your black font... what we can do is, we can also hit 'Save Styles'...

that's the cool thing about widgets... is these things are actually doing stuff, and you can see over here... all my styles, maybe if you've got this selected they might not be there... so click off in the background or hit 'Esc' on your keyboard... look, primary color, and I've got all my colors there. Now this is probably way too much detail than I need...

what I tend to do, is do this... can you see, I cut out all the middle ones, so, oh, let's go back... so I don't want 50, it's too light, 100 is the lightest I want... I don't want 200, don't want 400, I don't want 600, don't want 800... you can, like there's no rule for it... but I find that is a good enough spread for me...

I'm going to do the three other colors... you can just duplicate these like you duplicate anything... I hold down my 'Option' key on a Mac, 'Alt' key on a PC to drag it out... and I'm going to add my other colors... I'll get the editor to speed this up... and while speeding it up...

I added my styles, unfortunately, and I called them "Primary"... kind of overrode my color styles. So I forgot to change the name. so I'm going to go 'undo', 'undo', 'undo', and just make sure you change the name... because it overrode my original primary numbers in my Style, so 'undo'. All right, this is my secondary color...

'Save Styles', 'Esc'... is my primary, did I save them, there you go. Now we're going to speed up and do the last one, good speeding, Dan... like the other ones, I'm going to get rid of you, you, you, you, and you... so I've just got odd numbering in here, same with this one, my secondary... you, speedy speed.

So these are my color styles... when you're using them, let's say I've got my--  let's actually just grab 'F' tool for the Frame tool... drag it out, and when you're over here... my Fill Colors, I'm going to hit my 'Fill Styles'... and it can get a bit long depending on how many you've got in here. Sometimes it's nice to just type in 500...

500 is that middle style, that's the kind of like full, full color... can you see here, there's my primary color, remember, 500 is the one that I picked... and everything lower is a little bit brighter... everything above it is a bit darker... so with you, I can just type in 500 here, and it will just give me my... you know, just cut it down to a more manageable level.

Last things I want to do, is I want to add my interface color... and I'm not going to do it through this, don't want all the different variations... just want to add it as a style, this one's going to be called "Interface"... you might not have this, and what you'll notice is... if I click off in the background... I've got you but all these guys are in a group...

now, I'm happy with that, and just a reminder, you can reorder these... depending how, you know, which one you've put in... so you can say, all right, secondary first, well, just in case you got it wrong... primary, secondary, and I'm going to have neutral at the bottom. I can't make the interface go down the bottom there... because it's a separate color, grouped at the bottom...

single color's up the top... anything else? One thing is, is this particular one doesn't work very well... if you don't have the hash in front of it... kind of just, if I type in, say, 'FFFFFF'... kind of just doesn't know what to do so it defaults to what it was before...

so make sure the hash goes in... and do you need these? You don't, you can delete them... so just click on the frame, go away, go away, go away. So we've got some of our colors, but we've also got color variants now as well... going to be handy to build out our app...

all right, on to the next video.
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