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Logos using Iconscout: How to use Iconscout to create logos 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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Hey everyone, in this video I'm going to show you how to make a placeholder logo... we're going to use, well, I've used an icon... from this plugin here, called Iconscout... now it can't be a registered trademark... because it's a free icon from the internet, so anybody can use it... but it'll do great for our kind of portfolio piece here...

also, getting some of these icons can be a little tricky... so I will show you just some--  you might have run into some troubles in the last video... I want to show you to take something like the seemingly simple bird... that actually has quite a bit of grouping and masking going on... I'm going to show you how to just like smush it down into... like a really simple vector...

that might be a little easier to use, plus we'll give the bird a Mohawk... we'll also make our top Nav a component... as well as putting our logo in there as well... which will also be a component, all right, let's get going. The icon that I use, at least the plugin that I use is called Iconscout... we can hold 'Shift I' to open up this, like Resources panel here...

and it will just default to whatever the last one you had selected... so that's 'Shift I', both Mac and PC... and you can see there, Iconscout... now Iconscout might not be the most popular when you're looking... I use Iconduck sometimes as well... there are lots of different icon plugins, the way that I pick...

is, generally I just look to see, used by how many people... when something's been used by only a few people... I feel like it's not as good as the one being used by loads... so it's not a great measure, but anyway, I'm going to use Iconscout, and then... there we go. Now with Iconscout, and most of them...

there is an option for free and premium... so I'm going to go to 'Free' and I typed in "bird"... and I scroll forever, and eventually found my guy somewhere, down... somewhere, I can't remember, but I found it, there he is, hello. The cool thing about these is, like let's just pick another random one... let's pick this guy, he looks cool, so let's have a look at him...

so there's the creator, Loritius, thank you, very much... and often it's part of a pack... so if you're looking for other animals, or other icons in similar sort of styles... you can often go to the pack and have a look, and say, "Oh, yeah"... a little crown in this particular app means they're paid... so they're giving away some free stuff...

but if you want the whole fairy tale pack... you get to go Pro, and decide if that's worth it for you... way easier than drawing all of these. One thing I'm going to do is, let's go into it... and this one here has an SVG and a PNG... I'm going to insert the SVG, and let's pick another one...

let's go to bird again, "bird", is it free? It's not... I'll just use this guy, he's free... let's do this one again. So I'm going to show you the difference between these two... I looked at these earlier, and they're kind of different...

when you haven't done a lot of drawing in Figma that can be a little tricky... this one here is easier, look... so I've got these two, bird, and bird, frames... inside of this one is just two... there's a vector drawing and then there's a dot for it's eye... that's pretty easy to understand and start manipulating...

you decide, actually, I don't want the eye, click on it, I can turn the eyeball off... there you go, goodbye, eye... if I want to double click on it and grab the head, and say, he needs... Duckmohawk, perfect ... and in this case you can see, it's getting clipped out of the top... so I'm going to click on my frame...

and I'm going to say, don't clip the contents... and what I might do with the frame is... can you see here, this option here says, Resize to Fit... resize my frame, so it can fit all the bits inside. This one's pretty easy, this one's trickier... let's have a little look inside, let's zoom in, 'Shift 2'...

and inside of this frame, called Bird... is a path group... inside of this group is another group... and inside of this group is a bunch of different vectors... that are easy enough to understand... there is a mask going on here...

they can get really complicated depending on who drew them... so what we can do, just to, like--  I find it's easy just to go select on it, the parent frame... right click it and say, let's 'Flatten' this, 'Command E'... anybody do that from - hands up - from Photoshop? Just smoosh all the layers together... it's still vector, which is cool, it's just a tidier vector...

there's not so many group upon groups, and upon groups, it's up to you... it'll depend on your Figma experience... my one's got a black border now... so what I'm going to do, is double click it to go inside my vector... I'm going to click on the outside part... I can 'Shift' click all the corners or I can just hit 'Del', and 'Del' again...

I did not, I'm going to click more, goodbye, parent frame... and now I'm going to click 'Done'. I've just got this more simple thing that I understand a bit more, up to you... 'Command Option P' will open up the last plugin that you've used... on a PC it's 'Ctrl Alt P', will open it up. The last thing I want you to do is, 'Shift 1'...

let's look at, what we're doing here, 'Shift 2'... is, hold 'Command', or 'Ctrl', scroll wheel... and let's have a look at this. I'm going to turn it into a component... so my component is over here... where is you?

There it is, there... it's my main component, I'm going to get it to fit the frame... and instead of just calling it Logo let's call it "Logo Mark"... and my one is called "Limerick Techno". So have your component outside of your first frame... put it over here in a kind of a beginnings of a top Nav...

make sure our grid's on, so 'Shift G'... and just make sure that this frame here, for my background is... snapping to my 16-point grid... find something that works for you, find a logo size that works for you... and position wise, oh, that looks good... 'Shift G', turn them off...

this whole thing should be a component... so 'Command Option K', 'Ctrl Alt K... it's called Frame 2, let's call this one "Nav-Top"... and we should keep the original over here... and put an instance back over this way, there we go. Last thing I'm going to do before I go...

is my zooming's backwards... so I use my scroll wheel, like I mentioned earlier... hold 'Command' down, or 'Ctrl' on a PC... you can use a scroll wheel to go in and out... mine's operating backwards... everyone likes their scroll wheel to do something different...

I'm used to mine going the other way, I'm going to go 'Figma', 'Preferences'... or we can go here and go to 'Preferences', and... please hold... 'Invert Zoom Direction', that's what I want... because I prefer to do it this way, it's just--  it means, when I-- all I've done is toggled the way the zoom goes... you understand, right?

So now when I scroll my wheel it zooms in... instead of it zooming out, which didn't feel right, anyway... all right, that's how I got my logo... the only thing you really need to do is just make sure... that your logo and your nav are two separate components... all right, next video.
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