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How to get a video play when you hover 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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Hello everyone, in this video we're going to create a video... that plays only when you hover on it... a very important note is that I'm hovering on a mobile phone, which is impossible... you can only do this on a desktop version... where somebody's got a mouse that they can actually hover over... but I'm putting mine on the phone because that's what I had lying around...

it's the frames that we've built... so let's jump in and I'll show you how to hover and play. So I'm going to import a video, I'm going to bring in Video 2... I'm going to get roughly the right size here on my board... I'm going to hold 'Shift' while it's coming out... to make sure it's the right aspect ratio...

the height, and width aren't smooshed around... and I'm going to go, holding 'Shift'... get it to kind of match my thing down the bottom there. Great, now the weird thing is that I can't do this... I can't say, you, under Prototype, have an interaction that says... when I am-- this, is what I thought I was going to do, like, while hovering...

I want to play the video... you're like, On Tap, on--  this might change, so check this way ... because it's a lot easier, the way I'm going to show you... but at the moment you can't do video plays while hovering, in this interaction... there might be a workaround, let me know in the comments... if you figured it out better than I have here...

and I'll come back and re-record this video, for the moment though... I'm going to get rid of that interaction, I'm going to say, video, come down here... I'm going to need to make you a component... I'm going to rename it, let's call this one "Video Hover Play"... whether it's 'Command R', or 'Ctrl R', I'm going to need two variants... let's name them as we go along, so I'm going to click on the 'Component Set'...

go back to 'Design' we have a property called Property 1... let's call this one "Playback"... and we have got two variants, let's have a look... we've got Default, which is the top one, and this one's going to be "Pause"... so I want it to be pause by default, I'm tabbing down... and and the second value is going to be Play, so I need to make that happen...

this is an interesting thing, just in videos, in general... watch this, if I select on this top variant... let's pause, I need to move it above because it messes with my head... I need the same order as over here, Pause on top... if I go to Prototype, which is 'Shift E'... I haven't got that Autoplay from before, you're like, "Hey, where is that gone?"  It's weird now, because this is a variant it's actually wrapped up...

so the video's in there... and there's my Auto play... but if I click on just the outer wrapper, which is my variant... you can't see a lot of that stuff so just be mindful that... you're looking for the video deep down inside of it. So the first one is Autoplay off, and the second one...

double click to get inside... or hold 'Command', or 'Ctrl', click to dive inside... and make sure Autoplay is set to 'On'... I'm probably going to get the sound off, depends what you want to do... I don't think there is sound on this video but know that you can turn it on and off. So now we need the interactions, I'm going to click on this top one...

and I'm going to say, when you go to this one... I want not On Tap, I want to go, 'While Hovering '... but now I can go to 'Play/Pause', and it lets me, did not... you there, On Drag, no, well, have I got, already got one, I've already got one... so there's this one here, let's get rid of that... I've got, While Hovering, no, I don't want it on hover, jeez...

my brain sometimes... so we don't want it to On Hover what we want to do is say, On Hover... I don't want it to Play/Pause so let's get rid of this, start again, Dan... you'll do it, so I'll leave this in here, so On Hover... I don't want it to Play/Pause, I want it to just switch to this variant... so we're going to switch to, 'Change To', to 'Playback' to the 'Play' version...

which is the bottom one, so while hovering change it to that... then this is set to Autoplay, and it should go... let's drag out a duplicate, hold down the 'Option', or 'Alt' key... drag any one of these out, it actually grabs the whole instance set... not just that one part of it... and other than it doesn't line up oh, lining up now, let's give it a preview...

I've already got my preview open, I do not... dancing chickens... let's start this flow here, and watch, ready to go, look at that... here you go, it's a rather staged, well lit DJ set right there... but there we go, cool huh? All right, that's it, just remember that you can't hover on a mobile phone...

we're just doing it because that's what we have lying around in terms of frames... that's it for now, I'll see you in the next video.
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