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

Scale vs Selection Tool in Figma

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

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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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Okay, let's look at Scaling versus the Selection tool, because you're going to need both of them, and they're a bit quirky from other programs that I've used, and yeah, caught me out at the beginning, so let's do it together. 

So with my Selection tool I'm just going to click on the rectangle, I'm not in Object Editing mode, remember, and all I want to do is, I've got this tool here, the default tool, and I can click the edge, and I can drag it around, that's kind of how you imagined it, and that's most of the time what you want to do. 

What you'll notice is that the Stroke stays at 2 the whole time, and if I do something else, let's say that I select both the text and the rectangle, and I'm like, I want it to be bigger, and I drag it out, huh, that's weird, maybe if I hold Shift, hold 'Shift', still doesn't work, that's where the Scale tool comes in. 

So there's times where you actually want to just make everything bigger, Stroke, Type, everything, and it's this tool here, hiding underneath the Selection tool, click, hold, drag, don't hold and drag, just click and hold, and there it is there, the Scale tool, click on that, I've got both of these selected, and I can just click and drag this, the corner there, and if I hold nothing down, it does it kind of proportionately, scales it up, both the Stroke, can you see, the Stroke got bigger, and the font, and the rectangle. 

So there's times when you need both. Let's say, in this case I've drawn this too big for what I need it to be. So I'm going to go to my Scale tool, and I'm going to make it a bit smaller, and both the font, because I use that as the rectangle, and my little stroke gets smaller. I'm going to bring it to the front using my square bracket. Even if you group stuff first you still got to use the Scale tool, what I mean by that is, let's say that we do-- what have we got? These two, select them both, I'm going to right click it, I'm going to say, you have grouped that selection, and I'm going to use my normal old Selection tool, it still does the same thing even though you think I've grouped it, still does the weird stuff. 

So you've got to switch to the Scale tool, and you do it so often, that there's a shortcut, and you're like, "Excellent, that's easy to remember." It's probably S, because it's the Scale tool, nope, it's K, I don't know why, but don't worry, the S tool, if I hit 'S', it's the Slice tool that nobody uses. There's people out there, probably use it, but I never do, it's a big waste of a good shortcut, so we have to use K, that's just the way it is. So V is the shortcut for the Selection tool, and K, you end up toggling, I go , again, I'm trying not to do too many shortcuts, just the ones that are really helpful, and I'm going to, I'm going to beat them into you throughout this course, so you're going to go to the end, and be like, "I know it's K, I know it's V," because they're helpful, and it's hard to remember them sometimes, so you need some beating. 

All right, so K, and you can scale them up, perfect. So back to the Selection tool, and off to the next video.

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