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!

Figma UI UX Design Essentials

Do I need to know Illustrator with Figma?

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Course contents
SECTION: 1
Getting Started 30:36
SECTION: 2
Wireframing - Low Fidelity 11:03
SECTION: 3
Type, Color & Icon Introduction 1:12:34
SECTION: 4
Pages 8:32
SECTION: 5
Prototyping - Level 1 30:08
SECTION: 6
Animation Level 1 10:46
SECTION: 7
Commenting 14:09
SECTION: 8
Moodboard - High Fidelity 13:40
SECTION: 9
Columns 13:54
SECTION: 10
Tips & Tricks 7:21
SECTION: 11
Colors 34:48
SECTION: 12
Text & Fonts Advanced 47:48
SECTION: 13
Drawing 35:41
SECTION: 14
Working with Illustrator 4:16
SECTION: 15
Images 17:55
SECTION: 16
Working with Photoshop 11:58
SECTION: 17
Autolayout & Constraints 52:08
SECTION: 18
Effects 15:30
SECTION: 19
Saving & History 5:42
SECTION: 20
Components & Instances 36:15
SECTION: 21
Variants 23:04
SECTION: 22
Making a form 34:05
SECTION: 23
Prototyping - Level 2 43:01
SECTION: 24
Teams & Projects 5:19
SECTION: 25
Libraries 11:03
SECTION: 26
Animation & Micro Interactions 1:05:40
SECTION: 27
Thumbnail update 4:10
SECTION: 28
Exporting 34:21
SECTION: 29
What next 15:53

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Course info

114 lessons / 12 hours 29 quiz questions 22 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Hi there - my name is Dan Scott & welcome to Figma Essentials.

Together - you and me - are going to learn everything you need to get started working as a UX Designer using Figma.

You can try Figma for free by clicking here.

We’ll use this UI UX design tool to create beautiful User Interfaces and engaging prototypes. Most importantly... we'll cover the client expectations of you as a new UX designer. 

This course is aimed at people new to design, new to User Experience design. Even if you’re not totally sure what UX really means, don’t worry. We’ll start right at the beginning and work our way through step by step. 

First we’ll describe the brief & how to work with a UX persona.  

Then you’ll learn how to create simple wireframes.  

From there we’ll look at how to implement colours & images properly in your designs.

You’ll learn the do’s & don’ts around choosing fonts for web & mobile apps. 

You’ll learn how to create your own icons, buttons & other UI components. 

You’ll learn some pretty scary terms such as Components, Constraints & Multi Dimensional Variants. They are all really easy to understand once you know how. 

We’ll also make our lives easier by using free UI kits & plugins for Figma which will speed up our workflow dramatically!

We’ll build a simple Style Guide ready for client handoff. 

You’ll understand how to make both simple & advanced micro interactions, page transitions & animations 

Before the end of this course you will have made fully interactive prototypes 

You will take a project all the way through -  collaborating with other team members and exporting the right files ready to hand off to your developer or software engineer. 

We’ll be focusing on the software Figma but I’ll make sure to explain the techniques & terms used in the UX and how real world projects are run. You will develop a great understanding of the industry and will be able to manage your own UX projects.

I will be setting assignments through the course which will help develop your skills and enable you to create something special and unique for your own portfolio. 

Alright - it's time to upgrade yourself & go from Figma Zero to Figma Hero.

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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Transcript

What are we doing in here, this isn't Figma, this is Illustrator, do I need to know Illustrator to work in Figma? The answer is, no. You can get quite far with Figma, drawing things, drawing icons, drawing logos, illustrations, it's got all the basics in there, but there will be a time where actually you need to do some custom stuff. We'll demo it a little bit in this video, just to kind of show you, and then show you, how easy it is to kind of flick back and forth, between Figma and Illustrator. So no, to be UX designer you do not need to know Illustrator, but it's a handy tool, let me show you why. 

So I'm going to show you a little bit of Illustrator, to show you the, where, kind of like Figma stops, you can get by with Figma to do a lot of what Illustrator does, but it's not made for it. So Illustrator does pick up quite quickly, and you're like, actually, maybe I do need to learn Illustrator. If you already have the skills, they're not wasted, if you don't have the skills, you might join my Illustrator Essentials or Illustrator Advanced courses, check those out. anyway, I'm just going to draw this, I'm going to, I guess just show you, a couple of the things that make Illustrator, why I come back to it, especially for logo or icon design. 

So I'm just going to, I don't know, I'll zoom through this, but I'm just going to, like this is a drawing that I've done, it's one of the things we do in one of the courses. So I've drawn it, I'm just going to build it out with circles, you wait there. So I'm just kind of like making a bunch of circles, let's carry on again. So I've just got a bunch of circles, let me turn-- let me show you the-- background layer off, and it's just handy because you can select them all, and one of the kind of, my most favorite tools, is the Shape Builder tool. 

In one of the previous videos we use kind of Boolean, kind of like Pathfinder in here, and it's fine, but oh, Shape Builder, you're ready? So let's hold down the 'Option' key on a Mac, 'Alt' key on a PC, just kind of like drag through the stuff we don't want, woohoo, look how fast and good this is. 

All right, and now that I want to color it, actually yeah, I want to color it, I'm going to go through and just pick some random colors for this one, start with the light one, and this ear in here, instead of holding down Option, hold down nothing, and you can join things up, look at that. Work my way through the colors, just the defaults, kind of good for a fox, though. You're kind of impressed, oh, it's fun, I love Illustrator. The reason why, as a UX designer, it's still often part of the kind of tools you need. Select it all, and have, no Stroke. 

The cool thing about it is, watch this, working within Figma, or like, kind of transitioning back and forth is super simple. So I've selected it all, copied it, and I'm going to jump into Figma. I'm just going to paste it, it's a bit big, move over here, but you can see, comes through as a frame, which is awesome, and it's even more awesome, because I can go inside that frame, and it's all still editable, I can make adjustments in here. 

So you might do your drawing work in there, but in here, you can still make adjustments, but I can also go through and actually start picking, my kind of corporate colors. So you wait there, I'm going to color it, and remember, if we've got colors, I need one, like another color, to go darker. So I can click on this one, and actually, just break the link, and go, actually, let's just go a smudgy bit darker for this one.

Cool, so working between Illustrator and Figma is super easy, just copy and paste, you don't have to export, and it remains editable and scalable, and good. We have no reason for this fox-- I just, it's in here. 

All right, that's it, maybe after this course, whether it's my training, or somebody else's, go check out Illustrator if you haven't already. If you are a master of Illustrator, or at least, maybe you're self-taught, check out my Illustrator Advanced course. All right, on to the next video.

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