Hello. Let's make this, it is just a helper spacer guide  and it is an answer to a question I get a lot. Like, how far apart should things be? What spacing should they be, what size should they be? What's really common? It's these and what does this do?

It's nothing. It's just a visual cue. So when we're designing something,  we're like, how big should it be? You can look at this and go, it should be about  24 actually 32. How far apart should it be? Ah, let's use six, let's use 16 plus.

It'll give me a reason to show you a really cool plugin. Okay, that'll help do all this kind of documentation for us. It's good for this little spaces here,  but also when you get on further  and start making things like design specs for your developer  and maybe a design system. Alright, boxes and plugins. Spaces between boxes. Let's do it.

Alright, so let's make a grid. I'm gonna do it over here. A little spacing grid. I'm gonna use the R for the rectangle tool. Hold down my shift key on my keyboard  to get the heightened width the same. And I want, my first one's gonna be eight.

This is a good kind of like base level. Uh, if they are linked, they should both become eight. Okay, the width and the height. And I hit enter on my keyboard. Excellent. I'm gonna pick a really high contrast color  and what I would like to do is just have multiples  of eight as we go up, okay?

Zoom in a little bit and  what we can do is hold on the option key alt key on  a PC to duplicate. And I'm just gonna drag it out a size  and I'm gonna use my math over here  because I'm not good at math. And to say plus eight, here we go. 16, okay, I can do that math, but let's do another one. Let's go plus eight. And I'm just gonna keep going up  to a size that becomes too big.

Let's do that. I wanna do this in speed mode. Alright, that's probably enough. Um, in terms of spacing, okay  and things away from the edges of other stuff. I feel like that is a big enough. Once we get it to 48, it's pretty massive.

You can keep going up to you. I like to see the spacing between things as well. So this is good for like units of things. How big should your icon be? How big should that image box be? How far away from the edge it should be.

Another way is the spacing in  between can be quite visually helpful when you're making it. And there's some common sizes for that too. So I've got my first box. How far away is the smallest distance? The smallest is zero, so we don't need zero. We can all imagine zero.

Let's look at the first one is four. Okay, so four pixels across, how do I know it's four? Okay, it's if I zoom in, can you see the grid there? I can see it's four. You can also double check. So with this selected, hold on the option Ke mac,  alt Kiana pc and you can just kinda like hover over stuff  and you can see, look, I am four pixels away.

So four six is the next one. That's the next really common size, not divisible by eight. I know this, but it's a really common spacing between stuff. There you go. Six. The next one when we get  more pixels away.

Okay, so eight away from something is,  it's easier probably just to drag it next to it. So completely next to it to say X  and Y please move plus four pixels along the X. That's how you can get your spacing done. Okay, so there's some small ones. 4, 6, 8. And then basically we go in either whole  or half divisions of eight.

So I'm gonna go 12 for the next one. So 12, the next one's going to be  16, which is two eights. And my last one, I don't have a last one. I probably need a 20 in between them. So I'm gonna go, this one uh, is gonna be plus eight. Plus eight and I'm going to make it 20.

It's another spacing that I use. Now again, these aren't the rules, rules,  but often these are really good sizes for things  and these are really good spaces in between things. Now that's handy. Um, but it's hard to note. Well you can actually click on it  and say, oh yeah, that's 48. And then go off and do stuff and look at spacing  and go, okay, how far the way should  that be from the top about that?

Hold down your option. Ke mac, alt ke pieing. Okay, that's 12. And then go back over there. But it'd be nice if they're all  labeled, you could write them out. That is boring and tedious.

Let's look at our first, um, plugin for the course. So plugins can be found in this little  icon here under resources. Okay? And we're gonna go to plugins  and the one that we're gonna look at is design  doc for this case. Now there are lots of competitors to this particular app. Find the one you like and design doc might not be  working in a little while.

Basically when I make these courses, it's about the time  that whoever decided to make this plugin decides  to not update it anymore. So again, this is more of a for instance than an actual. Um, go and use this particular one. So I'm gonna find it by searching for design doc. One word, I'm gonna run it. This thing opens up.

It's pretty sweet. Watch this. If I click on this one, let's move it over here  and say I want, gimme the height above it. Look boom. This one here, I want the hide above it. Boom.

You can't see it, can you? There you go. And it just makes it nice and big  and easy so I can not have to go and measure this. Here we go. We can use this on future  projects once we've made it. What I also wanna do is click on this and this.

I'm holding shift to select two things  and actually I want show me the outer spacing. Ah, very well designed app, uh, plugin. Okay, I'm gonna do that for all of them. Be back in a sec. Alright, so that is a sweet app. Um, quick little shortcut, command option p Ctrl.

Alt P is to open up the last plugin if you're using it over  and over and some of them close down after you've used them. That's a good shortcut. I'll make sure  that's in the shortcut sheet. Okay, with this app here, it's great. It's made this, can you see, it's kind  of made an overlaying thing. I want them all mixed together  and I probably want them all in their  own frame at the moment.

They're in a group that's a little dotted line there. So I'm gonna select off, grab my f frame tool, draw a box  around it all and say you have a fill of this dark color  and I'm gonna have to play with a layer. Order it, grab a few of my rectangles  and some of the container. Not all of it. It's a container. You go above all of that.

I've got all my rectangles here. We'll do layer, madness, layer on,  uh, later on in the course. Okay. For the moment though, we'll go caveman style. Just drag them into the right place. That didn't quite work.

There we go. All right, this is gonna be my measurements. Awesome. So handy plugin, both for  what we're doing just here. And later on when you start doing specifications  for the developer, either a handover document  or maybe a design system. So this will be what we'll use as a visual guide  as we're going through this course.

Um, yeah, to help with our spacing  and knowing how big things should be. Alright, onto the next video.