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How to Preserve text overrides or not in Figma variant

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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, welcome to the most boringly named video in the whole course... "How to Preserve Text Overrides", or not, in Figma variants... that catchy tune is because, I don't know, I want to make these videos searchable... and you'll be able to find them, hard to know what to name them sometimes... and sometimes they end up being stinker titles like that... but is it worth your time watching?

Totally is... I'm going to show you the two options. By default what happens in Figma is, if I change this text... this is an instance with a variable, there's two of them... one, two, a big and a small title... but they actually have different amount of characters they can use...

by default what happens is, if I go and change this kind of Premium listing...|  that's allowed more characters... and I go and switch it to this other variable... the text persists, comes along for the ride... that's the default, normally that's what you want, but not in this one... I want the user of my component here to know that...|  there's a certain amount of characters... I don't want it to kind of automatically switch out...

that's what this one's going to do... I can change the text here, in the Premium one... but if I switch it to the other variant... can you see, the text for that variant comes along... and overrides what I wrote there originally... that's what you want most of the time, just continues on...

but there are times where you need the text...|  to kind of switch in between the variants... let me show you how to do that. All right, the default action for instances is probably the right one... and by right one I mean this, I'm going to drag out an instance... and if I change the text in here to "Sign Up"... and then I go and change to one of these other variables...

even though this variable says Primary Button... my text change is persistent... so I'm going to go over here and say, 'State' to 'Hover'... it used the background color, and maybe the size as well... but the text is persistent... that text override I made continues along, but there are times where you don't...

so I'm going to jump down to my other page. So what I've got here is, I've got two event listings... and we can pick between a premium one and a regular event... you just get less characters, and not as big a font there... and I imagine it'll be pushed to the top... and to cut to the chase, I'll do it properly...

but to cut to the chase, basically, if I have this one called Message... and this one here called Message... because they're the same, when I turn them into variants... Figma assumes that, "Ah, they're interchangeable"... they're just called Message... if you name them something differently, it will override each other...

let's do it just in case that wasn't clear. I'm going to select this one, I'm going to stick it into a frame... 'Command Option G', 'Ctrl Alt G', same with this one... select both of them, and let's turn it into a 'Component Set'... up until now we've been making a component and adding a variable... we just did it a different way to mix it up.

So let's see how it works by default, the wrong way... I'm going to hold down my 'Option' key, drag out an instance... so the person using this can go through and say, "All right, I'm going to... 'Add my fancy listing'"... spelled it right... and they can go and pick-- actually, let's pick a different variable...

can you see, it changes, but the listing event is still there... and if they put in a really long one, like they can do in the Premium... they're going to run out of characters, it's going to break my layout... so how do I get it so that it changes to the text listed in this other one? As a reminder, and to give everybody a kind of a character count to work to... all we need to do is we need to say, this in here 'Command' click, 'Ctrl' click...

it says Message, let's 'Command R', 'Ctrl R' to rename it... let's go "Message", this is our "Premium" one... this one here is going to be... a "Regular"... cool, now let's reset this... 'Reset all changes'...

let's switch it to our 'Premium' version, now somebody goes through... they change it and they're like... "Oh great, I'm going to use this again for something else"... I'm going to go, say I'm going to use the smaller version... ah, look, the text gets switched back to this event listings... and it's basically down to the layer names being different, that's it.

Now this could be working against you somewhere, and you're like... "Why does it keep switching?"... you can go back and just rename these in the Component Set... find the variable, and just make sure that and that have the exact same name. So that is the end of the best named video in this course... How to preserve text overrides...

or not, in Figma variables, useful... I try to make these title kind of like searchable... so you can go into, and search in the course, figure out where they are... man, that is a really unsexy title, but useful... all right, that is it, I will see you in the next video.
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