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Getting Started
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Auto Layout - Level 1
55:49
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Advanced Workflow Tricks
35:51
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Grids
20:20
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Simple App Brand
19:52
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Nested & Responsive Auto layouts
48:11
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Animation - Level 1
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Prototyping - Level 1
1:26:31
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Advanced Layers
29:26
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Components & Variants - Level 1
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Typography
57:38
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Imagery
1:03:59
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Video
33:47
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Color
17:38
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Styles & Libraries
34:20
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Drawing, Stroke & Fill
36:19
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Auto Layout - Level 2
34:07
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Components & Variants - Level 2
18:22
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Prototyping - Level 2
1:01:57
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Variables
33:57
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Design Tokens
29:28
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Animation - Level 2
16:52
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Accessibility
11:01
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Working with Stakeholders
49:39
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What Next
21:49
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!
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SECTION: 1
Getting Started
5:42
SECTION: 2
Auto Layout - Level 1
55:49
SECTION: 3
Advanced Workflow Tricks
35:51
SECTION: 4
Grids
20:20
SECTION: 5
Simple App Brand
19:52
SECTION: 6
Nested & Responsive Auto layouts
48:11
SECTION: 7
Animation - Level 1
1:11:43
SECTION: 8
Prototyping - Level 1
1:26:31
SECTION: 9
Advanced Layers
29:26
SECTION: 10
Components & Variants - Level 1
1:07:49
SECTION: 11
Typography
57:38
SECTION: 12
Imagery
1:03:59
SECTION: 13
Video
33:47
SECTION: 14
Color
17:38
SECTION: 15
Styles & Libraries
34:20
SECTION: 16
Drawing, Stroke & Fill
36:19
SECTION: 17
Auto Layout - Level 2
34:07
SECTION: 18
Components & Variants - Level 2
18:22
SECTION: 19
Prototyping - Level 2
1:01:57
SECTION: 20
Variables
33:57
SECTION: 21
Design Tokens
29:28
SECTION: 22
Animation - Level 2
16:52
SECTION: 23
Accessibility
11:01
SECTION: 24
Working with Stakeholders
49:39
SECTION: 25
What Next
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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.
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
- 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
Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor
instructorI 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, in this video we're going to look at... something called Absolute Positioning... this comments box here, can you see, it's an Auto layout... and it has this avatar inside of it... means I can move it around, comes along for the ride... because normally it does this, you try and put it in an Auto Layout, it goes...
"I need space"... you're like , "No, no, just go over there," and then it pops out... and then it's in again... we're going to fix that with Absolute Positioning in Figma. To get started I've got a circle, going to open a plugin called 'Content Reel'... I used it just a minute ago, so I can use the 'Command Option P'...
'Ctrl Alt P' shortcut to reopen it... and I'm going to go to 'Image', and I'm going to find an avatar... there you go, which one do I want? I don't know... and what ends up happening is, this is fine, the avatar is great... except you'll find that, like a thousand other mockups...
have this exact same woman in it, that's all right. So what I want to do is I want it to be kind of there, on the top, there... we know that I can hold space bar, so I start dragging, hold space bar... I can put it there, it's not part of this gang though... I can make another component wrapper on it, and it's just a bit of a pain... I want it to be part of this, but I don't want it to be in the flow...
so what we're going to do is we are going to put it in the flow... kind of where you want it... and then we're going to use this magic thing here... it's called Absolute Positioning... if you're a Web Designer you'll know the term... if you're not, kind of makes sense, bit of a nerdy web term...
you click on it, you can absolutely position it anywhere you like... I'm going to put mine up here... you can end up accidentally dragging it outside of my comment box... it's not what I want, I'm going to undo that. So there's a couple of things I can do... one is, I don't want it to be clipped...
so I'm going to hit 'Shift Enter' to select the parent, which is my comment box... I'm going to say, do not clip the contents, which is showing me the edge... double click to go inside of this... now so it doesn't pop out who remembers the shortcut so it doesn't leave that... remember, space bar still works, so I can get it here... but the cool thing about it is it's still part of that comment box...
look, comment box, you come along for the ride... I can turn this whole thing into a component and that will remain there. If you in the past have done like some zero height tricks... this is the replacement for that now... if you've never heard of a zero height trick... to try and make things like this work, be thankful.
Couple of things I want to do to tie it up... is I'm going to drag it over here, holding space bar... I want to play around with the padding of this to kind of give it some space... so I'm going to click on this, there we go... and I'm just going to give it some extra padding for the top... to allow room for my avatar...
then I'm going to spend ages trying to line it up, you wait there... we got a Drop Shadow, but I don't like, anyway, we're going to leave it there... that is Absolute Positioning in Figma.
"I need space"... you're like , "No, no, just go over there," and then it pops out... and then it's in again... we're going to fix that with Absolute Positioning in Figma. To get started I've got a circle, going to open a plugin called 'Content Reel'... I used it just a minute ago, so I can use the 'Command Option P'...
'Ctrl Alt P' shortcut to reopen it... and I'm going to go to 'Image', and I'm going to find an avatar... there you go, which one do I want? I don't know... and what ends up happening is, this is fine, the avatar is great... except you'll find that, like a thousand other mockups...
have this exact same woman in it, that's all right. So what I want to do is I want it to be kind of there, on the top, there... we know that I can hold space bar, so I start dragging, hold space bar... I can put it there, it's not part of this gang though... I can make another component wrapper on it, and it's just a bit of a pain... I want it to be part of this, but I don't want it to be in the flow...
so what we're going to do is we are going to put it in the flow... kind of where you want it... and then we're going to use this magic thing here... it's called Absolute Positioning... if you're a Web Designer you'll know the term... if you're not, kind of makes sense, bit of a nerdy web term...
you click on it, you can absolutely position it anywhere you like... I'm going to put mine up here... you can end up accidentally dragging it outside of my comment box... it's not what I want, I'm going to undo that. So there's a couple of things I can do... one is, I don't want it to be clipped...
so I'm going to hit 'Shift Enter' to select the parent, which is my comment box... I'm going to say, do not clip the contents, which is showing me the edge... double click to go inside of this... now so it doesn't pop out who remembers the shortcut so it doesn't leave that... remember, space bar still works, so I can get it here... but the cool thing about it is it's still part of that comment box...
look, comment box, you come along for the ride... I can turn this whole thing into a component and that will remain there. If you in the past have done like some zero height tricks... this is the replacement for that now... if you've never heard of a zero height trick... to try and make things like this work, be thankful.
Couple of things I want to do to tie it up... is I'm going to drag it over here, holding space bar... I want to play around with the padding of this to kind of give it some space... so I'm going to click on this, there we go... and I'm just going to give it some extra padding for the top... to allow room for my avatar...
then I'm going to spend ages trying to line it up, you wait there... we got a Drop Shadow, but I don't like, anyway, we're going to leave it there... that is Absolute Positioning in Figma.
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