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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, let's take about interactive component knowledge a little bit further... and make this prototype that has the line that appears, that I'm mesmerized by... look, bounces back and forth, follows where we're going... let's jump in and get it working. To get started we need three separate pages... I've called mine "Today", "This Weekend", and "Newest"...
it's going to match this navigation along the top here... and I have actually just duplicated the card that we made earlier... and all I did was change the images so it looks like we're changing pages. For you, for the moment you might just put text on the page... just so you know you're jumping from different pages... what I also did was, I went and created three bits of text, that's all they are...
and a frame here, could be a rectangle... it is just a line, which we'll name... 'Command R', 'Ctrl R' on a PC, I'm going to call it "Line"... that's going to be the thing that jumps around. So first things first, is let's grab all of this... and let's convert it into a component...
let's set up the navigation to jump between them, and test that first... and what I'm going to do is I'm going to move the component off... or the main component off, because I can't - Shift E to switch to Prototype. - I can't get Today to go to itself... because it's kind of inside of itself. So what we need to do is grab this component...
main component, you can stay up there, let's give it a name, 'Shift R'... that turns on rulers... it's 'Command R', and 'Ctrl R' on a PC, let's rename this one, and go... "Nav-Sub', it's like my little sub navigation. Let's put an instance down here, 'Option' or 'Alt' dragging... and what I'll do is I'll copy and paste it on all of them...
so click you, hold 'Shift', click you, and just go 'Paste', there we go... so that's all the pages, let's test it to see if it works. I've already got my prototype open here, you, you, you, you, nothing's working... why isn't it working? Let's go back here, oh, we didn't actually add the navigation. So when Today's clicked, I'm in Prototype mode, you go there...
when Weekend is clicked, you go there, and when Newest is clicked... sometimes, if you can't see the page... because you've got so many, you can just go, actually... instead of dragging it, 'Add' an interaction... so when it's tapped I want it to navigate to... my page, called Hot and New, or just New, where is it?
Newest... up to you, same, same. Let's try it now... Today, Weekend, Newest, all right, so that parts work, test as you go... and the cool thing about doing it this way... is that we've done it to the main component...
so that the interactions are done inside that component... so that all the instances come along for the ride... rather than trying to drag them all out... but we know that, that's good practice... but we need to stop it from jumping-- we need that line to move. Now this brings up a good point...
we can change instances, we can do stuff like... the Today, I can change the text of it... so this one's going to say, "Yesterday"... so we can change the text, we can change the text color... "Great color change, Dan," that's better... so there's some things we can change about instances some things we can't.
One of them is layer order, and physical movement, watch this, if I go... all right, on this instance I want it to be here... but on this instance, where did it go? Undo, undo... undo, I did something... on this instance I want to-- double click it, great, we've got it, just move it across, we can't move it...
it's all grayed out, because the main component... is the boss of movement, and layer order... we can do topical things, like text change, and we can do color change... but some things we can't, so how do we do this? For this particular one, what we need to do, on our main component... we need multiples of this, so it doesn't actually move...
it kind of does, so I'm going to make... I'm just 'Alt' dragging out, so I've got multiples of these... I'm going to get them to line up... and we're just going to turn them on and off for each of these... I'm going to reset this one... reset all changes to get back to this...
so it kind of moves, what ends up happening is... as long as the names are the same... so we've got Line, Line, Line, that's important... if you're copying a frame, and it's got Frame 1, 2, 3, or Rectangle 1, 2, 3... rename them to be all the same, otherwise Smart Animate doesn't work, right? So what we're going to do is, say you, I can't move you, but I can turn you off...
and I don't even want to turn you off, I just want to hide you, there we go... turn the eyeball off, use your own sound effects... and for this one, when we're on the Weekend... we want this one on and these two off, so I'll speed through this. The shortcut is Command H... sorry, 'Command Shift H' on a Mac...
that's 'Ctrl Shift H' on a PC, just to automatically hide them... or you can make the nice little noise, and close the eyeball. So that's working, and as long as the name's the same... it should be working, should be, let's go... we don't, one thing we're going to do as well... is we're going to actually go to Prototype mode...
and there's a flow up here... I don't need a flow up there, I don't know how that one got there... yours might be down here, you might not have one at all... I'm going to say, actually, flow, it's going to be here, please... going to start this flow, so it jumps to the right page... and then it still doesn't work...
I know why? It's doing it, kind of, what we want to do now is Smart Animate... so which bits do we smart animate? We could do it between here... we could go through and say, Instant, change it to 'Smart Animate'... but we'd have to do it for every instance...
we can do it to this main one here, our main component, so you... it's doing it right, it's gone to the right page, but it's going Instant... yours might have defaulted to Smart Animate... kind of remembers the last thing you did... so let's go 'Smart Animate', let's go now... are you ready?
Ah, the glory, look at it, changes shape to fit under the different ones... and moves along, kind of a nice little micro interaction... to help the user know where they actually are. All right, going a bit deeper with our interactive components... adding a little bit of animation... we did a line underneath, you could obviously do a line over the top...
"Oh, good class challenge, Dan," I'll see you in the next video... actually, before we go I want to show you... well, let's just do some batteries in because that's kind of cool... but it looks way better when the easing is one of these, or a custom one... I'm going to use 'Quick'... and you can experiment with yours, let me speed through this.
Much better, that kind of like little bounce... kind of back and forth, oh, it's nice, I love it... okay, here we go... don't worry, haven't forgotten the little challenge that I've decided to do... and you're thinking, "Dan's challenge needs to be to line this up"... look, why is it so close to that side?
It's driving you mad... I didn't notice it, it's driving me mad now too... I'm going to shovel the navigation across, but I'll do that in between videos... I'll see you in the next one.
it's going to match this navigation along the top here... and I have actually just duplicated the card that we made earlier... and all I did was change the images so it looks like we're changing pages. For you, for the moment you might just put text on the page... just so you know you're jumping from different pages... what I also did was, I went and created three bits of text, that's all they are...
and a frame here, could be a rectangle... it is just a line, which we'll name... 'Command R', 'Ctrl R' on a PC, I'm going to call it "Line"... that's going to be the thing that jumps around. So first things first, is let's grab all of this... and let's convert it into a component...
let's set up the navigation to jump between them, and test that first... and what I'm going to do is I'm going to move the component off... or the main component off, because I can't - Shift E to switch to Prototype. - I can't get Today to go to itself... because it's kind of inside of itself. So what we need to do is grab this component...
main component, you can stay up there, let's give it a name, 'Shift R'... that turns on rulers... it's 'Command R', and 'Ctrl R' on a PC, let's rename this one, and go... "Nav-Sub', it's like my little sub navigation. Let's put an instance down here, 'Option' or 'Alt' dragging... and what I'll do is I'll copy and paste it on all of them...
so click you, hold 'Shift', click you, and just go 'Paste', there we go... so that's all the pages, let's test it to see if it works. I've already got my prototype open here, you, you, you, you, nothing's working... why isn't it working? Let's go back here, oh, we didn't actually add the navigation. So when Today's clicked, I'm in Prototype mode, you go there...
when Weekend is clicked, you go there, and when Newest is clicked... sometimes, if you can't see the page... because you've got so many, you can just go, actually... instead of dragging it, 'Add' an interaction... so when it's tapped I want it to navigate to... my page, called Hot and New, or just New, where is it?
Newest... up to you, same, same. Let's try it now... Today, Weekend, Newest, all right, so that parts work, test as you go... and the cool thing about doing it this way... is that we've done it to the main component...
so that the interactions are done inside that component... so that all the instances come along for the ride... rather than trying to drag them all out... but we know that, that's good practice... but we need to stop it from jumping-- we need that line to move. Now this brings up a good point...
we can change instances, we can do stuff like... the Today, I can change the text of it... so this one's going to say, "Yesterday"... so we can change the text, we can change the text color... "Great color change, Dan," that's better... so there's some things we can change about instances some things we can't.
One of them is layer order, and physical movement, watch this, if I go... all right, on this instance I want it to be here... but on this instance, where did it go? Undo, undo... undo, I did something... on this instance I want to-- double click it, great, we've got it, just move it across, we can't move it...
it's all grayed out, because the main component... is the boss of movement, and layer order... we can do topical things, like text change, and we can do color change... but some things we can't, so how do we do this? For this particular one, what we need to do, on our main component... we need multiples of this, so it doesn't actually move...
it kind of does, so I'm going to make... I'm just 'Alt' dragging out, so I've got multiples of these... I'm going to get them to line up... and we're just going to turn them on and off for each of these... I'm going to reset this one... reset all changes to get back to this...
so it kind of moves, what ends up happening is... as long as the names are the same... so we've got Line, Line, Line, that's important... if you're copying a frame, and it's got Frame 1, 2, 3, or Rectangle 1, 2, 3... rename them to be all the same, otherwise Smart Animate doesn't work, right? So what we're going to do is, say you, I can't move you, but I can turn you off...
and I don't even want to turn you off, I just want to hide you, there we go... turn the eyeball off, use your own sound effects... and for this one, when we're on the Weekend... we want this one on and these two off, so I'll speed through this. The shortcut is Command H... sorry, 'Command Shift H' on a Mac...
that's 'Ctrl Shift H' on a PC, just to automatically hide them... or you can make the nice little noise, and close the eyeball. So that's working, and as long as the name's the same... it should be working, should be, let's go... we don't, one thing we're going to do as well... is we're going to actually go to Prototype mode...
and there's a flow up here... I don't need a flow up there, I don't know how that one got there... yours might be down here, you might not have one at all... I'm going to say, actually, flow, it's going to be here, please... going to start this flow, so it jumps to the right page... and then it still doesn't work...
I know why? It's doing it, kind of, what we want to do now is Smart Animate... so which bits do we smart animate? We could do it between here... we could go through and say, Instant, change it to 'Smart Animate'... but we'd have to do it for every instance...
we can do it to this main one here, our main component, so you... it's doing it right, it's gone to the right page, but it's going Instant... yours might have defaulted to Smart Animate... kind of remembers the last thing you did... so let's go 'Smart Animate', let's go now... are you ready?
Ah, the glory, look at it, changes shape to fit under the different ones... and moves along, kind of a nice little micro interaction... to help the user know where they actually are. All right, going a bit deeper with our interactive components... adding a little bit of animation... we did a line underneath, you could obviously do a line over the top...
"Oh, good class challenge, Dan," I'll see you in the next video... actually, before we go I want to show you... well, let's just do some batteries in because that's kind of cool... but it looks way better when the easing is one of these, or a custom one... I'm going to use 'Quick'... and you can experiment with yours, let me speed through this.
Much better, that kind of like little bounce... kind of back and forth, oh, it's nice, I love it... okay, here we go... don't worry, haven't forgotten the little challenge that I've decided to do... and you're thinking, "Dan's challenge needs to be to line this up"... look, why is it so close to that side?
It's driving you mad... I didn't notice it, it's driving me mad now too... I'm going to shovel the navigation across, but I'll do that in between videos... I'll see you in the next one.
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