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What are some advanced color tricks 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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Hi everyone, in this video we're going to look at color tips and tricks in Figma... loads of shortcuts, a little bit of informational knowledge about color... like Dynamic Color... and in the end we devolve into color lore... funny color memes from the internet I think they're funny, anyway... where somebody decided to name all the colors, all right, let's jump in.

The first one, easy one, is using the I key... to get to the Eyedropper to steal colors... so I for Eyeball, you get it... but the only warning with this one is, this one over here, if I click this... this is a style for my primary color... if I want to steal it using the Eyedropper tool, 'I' for Eyeball...

and I click on it... it actually brings through the Hexadecimal number, not the actual style... which is a, I don't know, feels like a bug... there's a lot of people complaining about this... hopefully it'll be updated when you do it... but at the moment it doesn't take the style...

just the Hex number, so you got to be careful. You can use it and update it in a big sweeping update color styles... which we'll do in a, in a video or two... just to make sure they are using the styles... there you go, that's the Eyedropper tool, I for eyeball. The next tip is with something like this...

if I hit my number keys... it will jump through opacity, you probably already know that... so just the numbers on your keyboard, 3 for 30, 9 for 90... 0 turns out to be 100% opacity... and to get to 0% opacity just hit '0' twice... sets to 0, 0 once is 100%, double 0, 0%, confusing, Dan, 2...

0, you get the idea. A reminder that you can actually nudge color in here... so I've got it open, I can use my up and down arrows... can you see, it goes down across the colors, hold 'Shift' to speed it up... there you go, up and down... I don't find that particularly useful, but the scroll wheel on the mouse is...

see my scroll wheel here, you might be using a touch pad or something else... but I can rub my scroll wheel up and down... and we can change the hue... if you hold down the Option key whilst doing the same thing... it changes the opacity... I don't use that at all, but there you go...

these are color tips and tricks, you might need it. One of the things that I use a lot, Hex is not very good... I use it for copying and pasting from programs, but I find HSB... so RGB, I don't really understand, I know it's Red, Green, Blue... but I can't really type in the color I want... CSS colors, if you are a developer you can copy and paste, from code...

if you're using RGB, and A for Alpha, that's how transparent it is... you might be copying and pasting, you can so switch to CSS, just dump it in there... same, I don't use HSL, I use HSB... so Hue, Saturation, Luminance; Hue, Saturation, Brightness... basically, the same thing... like this because I can play with the hue, maybe don't play with a Hue slider...

but let's say that I get to a color that I like... but I know that's the saturation, I can hold 'Shift' and hit down... and it just kind of lowers it down, I find it's useful for picking colors... when I'm trying to pick maybe a color to complement the one I've got... and the brightness, you'll see it there, it kind of moves straight across... and this one here, if I up and down, I find those handy...

so scroll wheel, left and right, to when I'm rubbing my mouse wheel... and this one here to go up, down... to get the saturation up and down, and then tab across... hold 'Shift', up and down to get lightness and darkness. Another interesting factoid about color is that... you can programmatically, now in code...

get what's called a Dynamic Color, let me show you that real quick. So I'll leave a link to this in the Exercise Files... but it's just good documentation of what dynamic color is... the short version is, is that when you are loading content... into say an app or a website, you can, in code, go and say... "Hey, look at the image, find me a color from it"...

like a general color, most used color, and set that as the color theme... so let's say that's our album cover that gets loaded into our music app... and instead of being this, this might be your default colors... it actually goes and checks the image and readjusts its color based on it... you'll see it loads when, let's say this bottom bar here... will be pulling colors from this...

you can't do it in Figma, you can't like magically do it... you could just use the Color Picker to mimic it... you just need to work with your developer to make sure that... it's something that happens, you know, it's something that you've identified... and you want this to be dynamic... require some documentation and speaking with the developer...

it's not hard to implement ... it might mean that your color scheme is not perfect... but, I don't know, it can be quite sympathetic and give the illusion of... lots of stuff going on, and lots of design choices, when really... it's just kind of pulling colors from the image. The last one is naming colors with words...

this isn't essential, this is more fun... if you think design color nerdy, history, stuff is fun... I think it's hilarious, like you can type in the word "red" if you want red... is that handy? Kind of, is interesting to know... the fun part is that somebody at some stage decided to name all the colors...

there's millions of colors, they're not all named... but it's part of the kind of UI design folklore... so like this one here I love, somebody decided this is Blanched Almond... there's some really weird kind of color naming in here... and I guess I share it with you because it is... one of the fun kind of design memes and you should know them...

don't find it funny, that's all right, skip ahead... but if you're a color nerd it's interesting to see what... like you can spell gray with an "a"... or gray with an "e", same, same. This one here though, like let's type in "dark gray"... dark gray is lighter than regular gray, oh man, it's weird...

need a pink, there you go, it's a pink, need more pink, what about hot pink... that didn't work, no spaces, hot pink, there we go... deep pink... there is Fuchsia, I can't spell Fuchsia so I'm not going to type that one... another one of my favorites is Aqua... and it's very different...

Cyan, exactly the same color... and probably most famous of the colors, is not peach, peach is useful... is this one here, Peach Puff... one of the best named colors of all time... so the next time you're at a design conference... and somebody starts referencing Peach Puff...

or the X11 color naming system... and dark gray is lighter than regular gray, you're in on the joke... all right, that is it, color tips and tricks over.
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