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

Squircle buttons with iOS rounded courses in 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

Hi everyone, in this video we're going to look at squircles, which is, this is a squircley one, and that one is non-squircley. So it is a great word, it kind of, can you see the roundness difference on here, this is kind of an iOS, smooth rounded edges, this is just a regular old geometric rounded corners. We'll learn how to do that in this video, we'll also do kind of like individual rounded corners as well, plus a few shortcuts, all right, let's get squircling. 

So let's start with squircles, because it has the best name, we're going to start with a couple of buttons down here on my Home page. I'm going to grab the Rectangle tool, which is the R key, I'm going to drag out some sort of button, I'm going to pick a color style, a good enough contrast, I think it's all right. 

We'll have two of them, and what we'll do is, we'll do both of them with a rounded corner of say 10. Now the squircle thing is, actually called something called Corner Smoothing in here. So what we're going to do is we need to click on this, it says, transition these from all connected corners to independent corners. 

Now we can see all this, and here, it is in here, they call it Corner Smoothing, and what you can do is just drag it right up. Can you kind of see it there, that, I'll keep dragging it, and I'll get the editor to zoom in, can you see, it kind of like flexes, so that is squircle, not squircle, squircle, not squircle. 

So it is kind of a square, kind of a circle, what do you think in comparison to this one? It's a very Apple iOS thing, is where it's from,you can use it anywhere, but it's borrowed from them, they did some, yeah, they did it, and it's cool. I found this to kind of give you a bit more of a better visual example, it's from Figma, if you Google "Figma squircle", if you can spell it, and it'll bring it to something like this, so yeah, you don't have to do squircles, what you might do is, you might do independent rounded corners though. 

So remember, you can go independent rounded corner, you could say, actually, I want, can you see over here, if I click, you see those icons, it tells you which one. So up the top, I might go, you go back to 0, see this little kind of tab thing on it, I might do it over here, so you can do that manually by typing it, or you can do it over here. I've got my rectangle here, if I hold down, the 'Option' key on a Mac, 'Alt' key on a PC, and I just click and drag one of them, you can kind of just work on this. 

 All right, that's going to be it, corner smoothing or not, let me know in the comments, is it worth it, are you-- can you see the difference? I like it, it's got so much more personality for a button, anyway. All right, on to the next video.

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