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!

What's the difference with Images inside frames vs fills vs Masked 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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  • Don’t forget to request your certificate when all your projects are complete

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  • Upload your class projects into the My Projects area in your account
  • Complete and pass the Knowledge Quiz
  • Don’t forget to request your certificate when you have passed the quiz and completed all your projects

Good luck!

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We're awarding 'Distinction' level certificates for this course.

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  • Watch the course videos
  • Complete the Class Projects - look out for the videos marked with
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  • Complete and pass the Knowledge Quiz
  • Complete the Distinction Certificate Project - look out for the video marked with
  • Upload your Distinction project to the My Projects area in your account
  • Don't forget to request your certificate when you have passed the quiz and completed all your projects

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Hi everyone, in this video we're going to look at|... these three different options for putting images in a box, how exciting... it's super important though, because it catches a lot of people out... especially when we move further on in the course... because you can have a frame that has nothing inside of it... just an image, as a Fill...

this one here is a Frame that has an image hiding inside of it... and this one here is a Mass Group, inside of this is a lot more complex... there is a Masking Object and an image, and the Wrapper Mask group... you will stumble across all use cases of this... and they all operate slightly differently... and after this video you'll know how they work...

so you don't get caught out too much, all right, let's jump in. To get started I've made three frames, that's it, Frame 17, 18, and 19... and some text underneath, for no good reason... let's look at the different ways of putting images inside... so the first one, and the most common one, the most useful, most flexible... is just having a frame, and giving it a Fill, not of this color...

but of a solid, no, of an 'Image'... choose the image, I'm going to get it from our 'Exercise Files'... under 'Images', it's one called 'Product 1'. The cool thing about this is, by default it's set to Fill... so it means that it kind of stretches and does good stuff for responsiveness... we can go through and say, actually we want to crop it...

I can grab the edges and change the frame... or click the image and mess around with it... and kind of rearrange it in here, it's quite flexible... I'm going to 'undo'. The other way of doing it is, putting an image inside the frame... whereas this one here, can you see the layer structure...

there's no little, chevron there, I can't-- there's nothing in here... it's quite tidy, it's just the Fill applied to the Frame... let's bring in an image, let's go 'Command Shift K', 'Ctrl Shift K' on PC... or hit the 'Convert to Component', which is very similar, 'Command Option K'... I do that all the time, whoops... I'm going to bring in 'Product 2'...

and I'm going to wait for a second and then just paste it in here... the difference is, first of all it's giant, second of all is, can you see here... my Frame has the same old Fill color, I can get rid of it... doesn't really do anything... but the image is inside of it, there you go... it's a separate object, that's why it's not scaling, kind of resizing...

and if I want to resize it to fit inside of this Frame I can double click it... realize it's way too big... zoom out, there it is, hold 'Shift'. So it's just a worse way of doing it... but you end up doing this way all the time, and sometimes it's easier... rather than trying to do this...

and trying to do the Crop, and trying to fit it in here... can you see, the image has a Fill applied to it, I can copy this... get rid of it, hit 'Del', grab my 'Frame', which kinda... actually get rid of the image layer there... go to my 'Frame' and just paste it in there... now it's kind of a lot more connected and easy...

but that's where a lot of people get stuck... especially as we go on through this course... probably better to be a Fill... if you want to do the whole separate thing inside of it... you might want to do a Mask, so let's do that as a last option. So I'm going to bring in 'Product 3'...

it's going to be way too big, going to hold 'Shift' and drag it out... stick it on top of my Frame, click the 'Mask' button... and there you go, you end up in a similar place... it's a lot different kind of structure here, we've got this Mask group now... inside of it is my image... and then this is the thing that is masking it...

so I can work on these independently, I'm going to click on the 'Frame' to say... you are my Mask, and I can work on my image to resize it and reposition it... so we end up in a very similar place... we can do all the cropping, whether it's a Fill... whether it's image inside of a Frame... whether it's a Fill of a Frame, whether it's an image inside of a Frame...

or it is a Mask that has two ingredients, the Mask... the thing doing the Mask and the image itself... but when we're looking at it from, like this, they all do the same thing... but kind of different methods of getting there, mostly do this, images of Fill... but anyway I just wanted to point out the differences before we go too far on... because it catches a lot of people out, all right, that is it...

image, Fill, Fill, Fills, I'll see you in the next video.
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