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How to hide color font styles & components from team library 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 you have passed the quiz and completed all your projects

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Hi everyone, in this video I'm going to show you how to hide components... font styles, color styles from your library... so that when you publish them other people can't access them... you can still work on them, it might be that it's a work in progress... or it's just something that you're using... and you don't want to confuse the team with...

I'll also show you a couple of little things that might catch you out... people are already using the components or styles... but for the moment let's jump in and hide some styles and components. So I have published this library from this file here... and used it in this untitled document here, I can see all the bits... Button A, B, C, D that we made...

if we want to hide any of those, so that other people can't use them... there's two ways... you can find it in your Assets panel... so remember, 'Option 1' is Layers, 'Option 2' is Assets... I'm going to go to my buttons... and the easy way is to right click it and say, 'Hide When Publishing'...

what happens is it comes out of here and goes down to this folder that says... Hidden Stuff, there it is, in there... but I've got to republish it otherwise this person can still see my button. So I'm, I'm going to call this guy Doug... Doug can see Daniel's file, I'm going to have to publish this... there's no quick easy way to publish, or at least no shortcut, go 'Option 3'...

'Publish 1 Change', it's this thing here, has been modified, Button A... now 'Command 3', or 'Ctrl 3', it's gone, can't see it... now with styles it's slightly different... 'Command 2', 'Ctrl 2' to get back to this tab, I'll stop doing shortcuts... styles, it comes down to naming, so I've got nothing selected... over here if I don't want Doug to be able to see this 900 style...

I'm going to click on it, and what I need to do is, at the front of it... add an underscore or a period... you'll see, people-- or a full stop, it depends... I don't think it makes any difference... I see lots of people using both... I use underscores, you can use a dot at the front...

don't think so, let me know in the comments if you've figured out a difference... all I know is that I can still see it, but when I hit Publish... remember 'Option 3', 'Alt 3' on a PC... or you could use your Quick key to go to Publish Changes to Library... that might be the shortest way of doing it... you can see there, it has been removed...

and now let's go check Doug. Doug, when he's creating something, can go through, grabs his Fill colors... but he can't see the 900, it's gone... so, for components, let's go back to components... we did the right click, you can actually do the same naming trick... so let's say that I want to hide button, this one here...

what button are you? Button B... so what I could do is, right click it, 'Publish When Hiding'... or if I want to keep that kind of underscore consistency, I can rename it... remember, 'Command R', 'Ctrl R'... and I was going to put an underscore or a period in front of it...

and what will happen is, when I publish, not until you publish... quick actions, 'Enter', 'Enter', 'Enter'... because I've done it all before, let's publish that one... let's go check out Doug, he's gone... there's no real better, if I go to Assets... can you see, they all ended up in the hidden section...

except the name of this has changed... I haven't really decided which way I like better... sometimes it can be clear when there's an underscore... that it is not meant to be part of the library. Now one thing that might catch you out... is that if Doug already uses this, so if Doug goes...

says, "All right, I need the pink button"... what is that? Random box... uses the pink button, and then back here I say, actually... "Quick, before Doug goes and use the pink button... I'm going to remove it from publishing"...

I'm going to publish this file, 'Command /', 'Ctrl /', there it is there... quick, phew, glad nobody used it... aha, over here, Doug still got it... it's not something he can drag out, but it doesn't like remove it... so once somebody's got it already, it's kind of in those documents... I, as the creator can't make changes to Doug's button...

unless I publish the button again into the library... and then it'll connect back up and push changes along. One last little thing is, if you're messing with libraries quite a lot... like intensely, like publish, unpublish... link, unlink, doing lots of that sort of stuff... some, and you're having, and you're like, "Man, it used to work"...

I have found, like mainly, just not in my normal kind of design practice... but making this course, Figma freaks out... and I just have to close it down, open it back up again... basically, what I was doing is, I was turning them off here, I was doing that... and publishing, and they were staying in Doug's file, I was like... "Huh," I'm like, "Maybe I've done something wrong, I've broken the internet"...

turns out I just, I don't know... I think I was a little intensively going through the libraries... and I just had to close Figma, give it a little nap... just for a second, little sleep, then woke her back up, and everything worked again. All right, that is it, that is how to hide components... colors and fonts are just the same, just put underscore in front of them...

make sure you publish the library... and anyone else won't be able to have access to them... unless they've dragged out instances... then they'll have an instance in their own, used in this file library... there it is, Button D... all right, that is it, I will see you in the next video.
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