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 use the Spring Animations 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?

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

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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, in this video we're going to look at these new presets... or new-ish presets, they're the Spring presets... we'll have a look at all four of these, we'll do Custom in the next one... and what I'm going to do is I'm going to make you build something to demo it all... which takes the rest of this video... but if you just want to see what they do, they do this...

let's have a look at the thing we built... let's go back to the beginning... we're keeping an eye down the bottom here, look... the Gentle Spring, it's gentle, funnily enough, Quick, it's quick... Bouncy, is very well named, bouncy, and Slow, is slow... if that's all you wanted to know, that's what they do, you can move on...

but if you want to build this overlay to practice overlays... and to practice a few of our shortcuts, follow me, let's build this contraption. To get started I've skipped a couple of steps, I've made a new page... I called it "Spring Animation Test"... not to be messing up our lovely page that we're working on... just keep everything separate...

I've added an iPhone 14 frame, make any size you like... and that is it, I'm going to switch to my 'Assets', so 'Option 2'... toggle across to this , remember, 'Option 1', 'Option2', Layers, Assets ... and I'm going to find that Nav we made earlier, you can do with anything... the one thing though is, we're going to set it up... so it pops up down the bottom, like you saw, and that's called an Overlay...

we've done overlay in Essentials, but yeah, we get to do it again here. The one thing for overlay to work is that this can't just be a lonely old instance... so I'm going to switch back to Layers... who remembers? 'Option 1', we just learned that one... so there's my component, overlay won't work unless there's a Frame...

so I'm going to right click it and say, 'Frame Selection'... give my frame a name, "Nav Pop-up"... now let's get the ball rolling. So where does it need to be? It could be anywhere you like... I'm going to put mine at the top...

it just can't be on the page, it has to come in from somewhere else... so this here, I would like to add an animation... so 'Shift E', I'm not dragging it anywhere... you kind of want to do that? You can do that, I guess, and change it afterwards... sometimes though you just want to have this Frame selected, and go...

actually, let's add an interaction manually... to say, when it's clicked, nope, after a delay -  of how long? I want one second  - I would like it to open an overlay... and of Nav Pop, that's where it won't--  if it's not a frame it won't appear there, so there it is, my Nav pop up. It's going to be down the bottom, it is going to be, not Instant... not Smart Animate, going to be Move In, going to move in from the bottom...

and these are the kind of old, more traditional easings... now these ones here, the Spring, they call them Spring... but let's have a look at Gentle... you saw at the beginning, Gentle is gentle... there's a little bit of springiness in there, but a gentle spring. All right, let's give it a test, you, my friend, let's go...

'Command Option Enter', 'Ctrl Alt Enter' on a PC... I'm going to stop saying that before you punch me in the face... no more preview, you had a preview... there it is, popped up down the bottom, I hit 'Refresh'... and it's going to go back to that first frame we've got. So let's fix that, let's say that you have a flow starting here...

so we're going to start the flow... and it means it won't try and jump back to the other frame... because we're in a flow, we're stuck in here... now if we hit 'R', look how gentle the navigation is... oh, it's lovely, kind of comes up and then comes back down a bit... it's a little bit of spring.

So we're going to jump back to the other tab, remember... depending, if you're within the browser... or if you're in the desktop version, like me... hold 'Command' on a Mac, 'Ctrl' on a PC, and 1, 2, 3... depending on how many tabs you've got open... I'm going to go 'Command 2' for mine...

if you are finding that shortcut hard to remember, this is weird... I like to command Figma to change pages, I don't know, so I teach it anyway... I like to control pages, you jump across to that one... and then 'Option' is this one here, kind of within here, it's optional... or alternative on a PC, however this is going to work for you... 1, 2 is Layers and Assets, that's Option, or Alt...

and Command, or Ctrl, is 2 and 3, I'm going to jump between the two now... "That wasn't helpful, Dan."  All right, what are we doing? Oh, yeah... so we're going to duplicate this loads, so we can check them all... and practice making some different animations, and learning shortcuts... I use my Type tool, and I'm going to type in "gentle"  spell it right...

and I'm going to switch back to Design mode... Shift E doesn't work when you're in the Type tool... hit 'Esc', then 'Shift E'... and I'm going to make sure it's centered... and big... and in the middle...

because I'm going to duplicate it... and I just want to see all the different ones, what I'm guessing... so I'm going to copy and paste it, so 'Command D' will duplicate it... and how many do I want? I can't remember... 4, 5?

4, yeah 4... 'Shift 1', see them all... this one's going to be "Quick"... this one is going to be "Bouncy"... and this one is going to be "Slow"... cool...

and because we copied and pasted it from that first one... if I go to 'Shift E' now... you'll see that these all have the same connections made... all we need to do is go... you, after a delay, not Gentle, but 'Quick'... you, after a delay, not gentle, but 'Bouncy'...

you, after a delay, are 'Slow', we'll do Custom Spring in the next video... because what we want to do now is, let's start our flow, Gentle... let's reset it, Gentle, let's make sure they're connected... otherwise nothing happens. So let's go back to this one and say, this one goes there... 'On Click', go to there...

I'm just going to switch it to 'Instant'... so that I can do the same for all of these... you, when you are clicked, to go there, you, when you are clicked to go there... all right, now let's test our flow. 'R' for reset, pops up nicely, look down the bottom here, use my arrow key... Quick, oh, look at that, it's quick...

Bouncy, oh, bouncy, Slow, oh, slow... you showed us at the beginning, and then you made us make this... ah, it's good to learn how overlays work... and we've got to flex some of those shortcuts... man, these things are nice, cool. So those are the presets, let's make some custom stuff...

and learn how that works in the next video... "Will you make us take ages to build something to test it all out?" He will... it's fun, you're enjoying it? Oh, yeah... oh well, regardless, we're on to the next video.
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