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 refactoring styles to another design file 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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  • Complete and pass the Knowledge Quiz
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  • Complete and pass the Knowledge Quiz
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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 we're going to look at relinking styles... or some people call it refactoring... we're going to tidy up all of our styles, out of our working document... pick them up, move them into a completely new document... nice and tidy, all on its own... and we're going to use this file to build future apps and websites from...

not the crazy person working document... that is a bad place to have all your main styles... especially when you move on to the next project... let me show you how to pull them out, put them into another document... whilst still maintaining connections that you might already have... to design files you've already created, like this one here...

they need to know where the new home for these styles is, automatically... all right, let me show you how to do that. So this is the original file that I've created a lot of my styles in... I've used those styles in a separate document... I've used some of the text styles, some of the color styles... components, we'll do in a next video...

but what I want to do now is I want to actually... grab all my styles out of this document... and put it into a main styles and components file... I just created a new document and gave it that name... there's nothing special about it... except that it can't be in Drafts...

so that it needs to be in a team library... styles will work on the free plan... if you want to be working with components... maybe you have to be in a Professional or above... basically, any kind of paid plan... so that's the kind of structure you need....

the main thing is that this can't be in Drafts otherwise it kind of breaks. So I'm going to go to this one here, this holds all my styles... I want to get them out, so I got nothing selected... I'm going to grab my primary color, all of these, in this group... and you have to use Cut, so 'Command X' on a Mac, 'Ctrl X' on a PC... you have to cut them, not copy them...

move them to your main styles and just paste them... hopefully, this appears down the bottom here, and let's go to 'Publish'. So we have to publish these because it wants to--  it says, let's move to this file... we're going to publish this, so that all the other files... like this one here, that is affected, should update, let's have a look. So now up here, let's have a look, let's review...

the color primary has moved from Event app... there's no visual changes, it's just moved... the way to prove it is, now if I click on this and I go to my 'Style'... and I click on the 'Settings' for it... I can go to the Style Definition, which used to point to this first tab... now hopefully, it'll point to the second tab...

there you go, tidy, tidy, look at us. let's go and do all of these colors... we can't grab, 'Shift' click... both the text and the colors... you got to do the grid separately from the colors from the text... let's say I want this, I want all of these colors, except for this...

except for creepy Dan... I want to hold down my 'Command' key on a Mac, 'Ctrl' key a PC... so I want these, I'm going to, remember, cut them... move them over here, paste them... it's going to say "Publish", "Yes, please"... move to this file...

remember, you'll get an indication on any app that you've used those colors on... that things have moved, but also on the original one you took it from. So I've taken it all from this, and this one is updated now... it says, "Hey, they've all gone"... I'm going to review it... these colors have moved from this file all the way over to this other one...

we can double check, this one here is now, oops, this one here, there he is... he is... there... he is, 'Settings', and go to 'Style'... they've all moved across, so any file that has used the colors... even the originating one, needs to be updated.

All right, let's finish by getting all of the grid styles as well... remember, it's cut, not copy... paste, publish, publish... and any files that have been using it... when they open up, will come up with that option to say it needs to be updated... either the originating file, or this one here.

What else we got? Let's get the Text Style, let's cut you... and put it in here... 'Publish', you get the idea. All right, so that is how to move your styles from one document to another... to kind of tidy them up, get them out of your working document...

and show everybody what a super efficient UX designer you are... with your master document... all right, that's it, I'll see you in the next video.
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