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 make an expanding Search Bar in Figma

This lesson is exclusive to members

Course contents

Questions

0
0
0
1
2
1
2
1

Course info

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

instructor

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.

Certificates

We’re awarding certificates for this course!

Check out the How to earn your certificate video for instructions on how to earn yours and click the available certificate levels below for more information.

How to earn your certificate

Work your way towards your certificate for this course by following these simple steps.

  • 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 (Merit level courses only)
  • Complete the Distinction Certificate Project (Distinction level courses only) - look out for the video marked with
  • Upload your Distinction project to the My Projects area in your account
  • Request your certificate when you've completed the requirements for the certificate level you're working towards

Good luck!

Pass certificates

We’re awarding ‘Pass’ level certificates for this course.

You can work your way towards your ‘Pass’ certificate by following these simple steps.

  • 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
  • Don’t forget to request your certificate when all your projects are complete

Good luck!

Merit certificates

We’re awarding ‘Merit’ level certificates for this course.

You can work your way towards your ‘Merit’ certificate by following these simple steps.

  • 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
  • Don’t forget to request your certificate when you have passed the quiz and completed all your projects

Good luck!

Distinction certificates

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

You can work your way towards your 'Distinction' certificate by following these simple steps.

  • 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

Good luck!

Downloads & Exercise files

Transcript

Hi everyone. And this video we're gonna make this,  it is our search icon, inner circle. But watch when I click it, oh, it expands. Look at that. The text appears nice. It's got a little bounce to it.

Let me show you how to make this in Figma, right? To get started, I'm actually working on my  main styles and components. Uh, you know, I should be making my main components here  and then putting in them into the various design documents  afterwards through a shared library. Okay? So let's do it that way. And I've got a frame in here that just is a placeholder  for the size that I'm gonna need the search bar.

And I've got these two parts. Uh, I'm gonna select both of them. Okay? So just an icon, a bit of text. I'm gonna lower the capacity  of this one five on your keyboard to lower it to 50%. So both of them shift A  to make it r auto layout doesn't have to be an auto layout,  but we like auto layouts  'cause it allows us to do things like padding.

I'm gonna go 16, tab eight, okay? And I'm gonna give it a fill. I'm gonna use white, okay? 'cause I've got an off white on the background here. I'm probably gonna need a drop shadow  or line around the outside something. The other thing I wanna do is I wanna make it round  'cause I like that kind of  bouncing in and out of that circle.

Okay? So you wanna drag this up,  you can keep dragging it outright, okay? You just need to keep going to a high number, okay? So that it's perfectly round. I just type in a hundred. It's way more than I need, but at least it  makes it perfectly round.

Cool. Next thing I wanna do is, let's make this a component. Do I wanna do that first? I don't think it matters. Let's make it a component. Let's give it a name, search bar.

Okay, I'm gonna get it at the right size to start with. It's gonna say you go out that way. This is probably gonna need, let's put in a drop shadow. Let's start with drop shadow  and I'll show you a stroke in a bit. Okay, drop shadow. Which one?

1, 1 2. The opacity is gonna be 10. Is that enough? Probably not. Just, okay, that'll do. Okay, so this thing now needs two variants.

Okay, so component two variants. This first one needs to be kind of trimmed down  and it should work if I, I know it's not clipping there. We'll clip that out in a second. Let's just see if the mechanics work. So shift E, I'm gonna say U at the top. This bar here.

We want the parent. Okay, so we want this default one  to when it's clicked, switch to variant two  and use smart animate. And I'm gonna use, what am I gonna use? Bouncy. Okay. And when it comes back the other way, I'm going  to use not bouncy.

Let's use quick, let's give it a test. So leave our main component out here. Grab our instance. Not the whole thing. Just this part here. You can't do a duplicate.

Oh you can, I'm in uh, prototype mode. I'm switching back to design mode. Make things easier. So let's give it a preview. Okay, I'm gonna say, yep. Oh, it's kind of working.

The circle's working. What we wanna do for the last part is we wanna  say you at the top here. We could just say that this is set to hide. Okay. Command shift H Control shift H. So it's hidden on this one,  but there on this one, let's have a look.

So, yep, yep, yep, yep. Kind of works but it kind of fades in  and the bounce on liking less and less. So I'm gonna turn the bounce off. Let's go quick and one on the way  back we'll use quick as well. Okay, so let's give it a go. You.

It's not working at all. R for refresh, go back to here. Realize you haven't set a starting flow on prototype so  that we can at least when we hit refresh it comes back  to this page here and it's still not working. Cool. What did I break? You Wait there.

Alright, we're back. Yeah, just closing and opening. It seemed to fix it. I'm having more problems in this course  than I normally have in Figma. Normally it's super reliable  and you might find it super reliable for you  but sometimes you need to, yeah,  turn it off and turn it back on again. So let's have a look.

Okay, so what we wanna do is instead of hiding it,  so let's have a look in variant two. Let's turn the eyeball back on. Nope, the default. Let's turn the eyeball back on this one. Okay, what we're gonna do is actually just say  the default variant. We're gonna go to design view and say clip contents  and let's see if it works.

Keep testing and it works kind of. Can you see the, the editor will zoom in. Can you see the weird pixelization? Okay, this something that never used to happen. Now what happens? I bet you when you are using  it, it doesn't happen.

I think I know what it is. Is that this one here we set clipping to  and we didn't for this doesn't really need it  but it doesn't like to transfer between the two. Let's have a look. There you go. Now it's nice. Woo-hoo.

Okay, so a couple of things is that it's clipped,  which is great and what I probably wanna do in this version,  so command click actually I went too far into the vector. I want the uh, component of my little magnifying glass. Now I can't move it around  'cause it's inside of an auto layout. So that's where maybe not using an auto layout  and just using a frame with 'em sitting inside  we can make it work. Okay, I can click on this one here. Now if yours is not perfectly round up here,  mine just accidentally ended up being the same  height as the width.

That's why it's um, you know if yours is like this  and it's not quite looking right,  just make sure whatever the height is is the width. Now we can mess around with this top ones padding, okay? And just try and get it lined up in the middle. Okay? You can break it into individual parts  and start messing around with that. It's not gonna affect the second one.

Let's give it a go Now looks nicer. Probably need it a bit smaller there as well. So you are gonna use scale. So the K tool, I'm gonna make it 0.75 about the right size. I messed around with my parent so I'm gonna say you are 40  but instead of hug contents, I'm gonna say you a 40 as well. Yep.

Let's mess around with this. I want you over that way a bit. I think we're good. Boop boop, boop boop. There we go. Very cool.

Scales down, bounces down. I like it. Alright, one problem that I'm running into is watch this  instead of a drop shadow, I'll leave the drop shadow on. But if I add a stroke to both of these  because let's say that I want it to be, uh,  actually let's put a stroke, let's give it a color. I'm gonna use my 300 neutral. Dismiss that.

There we go. And I put the same one on this. I'm gonna go stroke of 300. There we are. Now this gives it a little bit of pixelization as well. Can you see that?

Does some weird stuff with it. Can't deal with it at the moment. Check it for you. Let me know in the comments. Is it still doing the  same for you with the stroke? I can't make it not do that at the moment.

There you go. Let's get ours a little bit more into position. Nice. All right, last thing we'll do  before we go is let's get rid of the stroke  'cause it's making it look ugly. Um, but also we're gonna get it to pop from the right. Okay, so let's, I'll quickly get rid of the  Stroke's like both of them hit minus both of them are gone  and, and what we wanna do is we want it to be over here.

Okay? And let's preview it so it doesn't quite work. It kind of pushes from the other side. Well the defaults from the left. So what we can do is not in the main component. Okay?

We need to do it in the instance. It needs to see the parent frame  and we can say actually let's use, right? It's gonna use that side to push off. Let's give it a go. Hey look at us. Nice.

I need to line it up 'cause it doesn't quite line up  and you can totally do a stroke like when it's actually made  in the app or in the website. Okay? But for us at the moment,  there's just a tiny little mug in there  and Figma, those sorts  of bugs just disappear over time when they get lodged  and when the team gets around to updating them. But for the moment, oh I love it. Okay, the last, last thing, I was looking at it  and I was just about to finish the video  and I was like, oh I can't  live with that not being in the center. And then I was like, oh you know, do I just keep moving it  and going back here?

I'm like, no, you don't do that. Okay, what you do is you go back to this one, okay? You say scroll to the top, find your different variants,  your poorly named variant two, okay? Just switch it to that. Then you can select on it  and get it right in the middle. Okay?

Then switch it back to default and say magic. Now it's perfectly lined up. And the last last thing is,  'cause I've put it on my main styles  of components, I need to publish it. What I'll do is I will get this  and put it in its own section  and the shift s to make a section. Okay, I'm gonna make a section, I'm gonna name it Command R. Is this a field?

Actually can't think of what it should be. Is it a field? Does it go into other,  I'm gonna copy that styling, put it onto this one  and I'm gonna get you, you in the right bit. There we go. I am now gonna publish it. So remember option three, we've done this before, right?

Option three opens it up, okay, alt three on a pc,  our libraries, we're gonna publish this change. Okay, there we go. Just one change. And now with this document here, now that I want  to use it, I should be able to either go  to my shift eye and type in search. Oh search even, okay. Or go to my assets panel and then I'm gonna drag this in.

I'm gonna move you guys all down. And there you go. I'm gonna have to switch this to that variant to get it  to lined up nicely. There's something else I have to remember how to do. So let's switch it back to default. Oh, do you remember what we meant to do?

That's right. We're gonna say left. We're gonna make it right so that it starts over here  and then variant pops out. Is it in the middle? There you go. In the middle.

Back to that one. Now let's preview it. There you go. Doing it properly. Making main components on our main styles and components. File, ensuring them with the rest of the team.

Alright, that is actually it now. A few little bonuses at the end there. Uh, onto the next video.
  • Powered by Marvin
  • Terms of use
  • Privacy policy
  • © Bring your Own Laptop Ltd 2025