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

Fonts on Desktop vs in Browser in Figma

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Tips & Tricks 7:21
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Working with Illustrator 4:16
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Saving & History 5:42
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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

Hi everyone, this is a special little video for those of you who have decided to use Figma on the browser, rather than the desktop. I said there's not many differences, this is one of them, even if you are a desktop only version user, there's loads of times where you end up jumping in the browser, and fonts is going to be one of the things that are a little strange. 

What I mean by that is, let me show you, I've got the desktop version open on my computer, and I've got the browser version, they look very similar, except for, there's this little house button, remember that earlier in the video, where I jumped back in, it was this video, that I realized, ah, there's a little house here, and it's not on the browser version, remember, it's over there, anyway. 

So the other difference is that fonts that are-- when I'm working in the browser, let me explain it better, and I go, my Type Tool, and I start typing, what you'll notice is that the fonts in the browser version, is less than the amount that you have on your desktop version. 

So to fix that problem, to make sure that, all the fonts on your system end up inside the browser here, all you need to do is go to Figma, the website, and do a search for, at the moment it's in Downloads, this one here, but have a look for the Font Installer, and just install the version for your operating system, and it will then suck up all of your fonts from your desktop, or your computer, or laptop, and put them into the browser version, and all will be well. 

All right, that's it, short video, I'll see you in the next one.

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