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

What is Lo Fi Wireframe vs High Fidelity 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 talk about the difference between Wireframes and High Fidelity, well, it's pretty easy, you can see. 

Wireframes are pretty budget, and High Fidelity mockups look really nice, and they'll call them Hi-Fi, Lo-Fi, generally though, they'll call them Wireframes, and Hi-Fi is High Fidelity. This one's going to be really quick and easy to make, and test, and do not try and skip, if you're new to UX, skipping the Wireframe section, of your kind of design process, at your peril. 

You can probably knock up a Wireframe in a few minutes, always high fidelity, you can end up kind of, like playing with a tracking, and leading for hours and hours, and you will not get a better, you know, test out of your potential kind of audience, you know, we're being assigned a task flow, we can really easily create a Wireframe, and test that task flow even on the app. I'll show you how to do that, like on a phone or on a website, super quick, super easy, and no distracting, like, "Oh, is that the right image, is that the right font?" "I'm not sure about the colors," you're talking about the task flow, like the actual mechanics of how this is built underneath, and we can test it quickly with Wireframes. 

Wireframes don't have to look like this, that's my Wireframe. Another Wireframe that I downloaded, a lot prettier, buttons got color in them, ooh, pick one color only, gray, and a color if you want, or stick to gray, you want to take away the design elements here, you spending time doing it, or at least, you know, the client going, "Oh, I don't like pink, or this blue is not the right blue," you want to take all of that out of the equation when you're designing Wireframes. 

Keep it simple, pick a boring font and a boring color. Another Wireframe, slightly nicer, yeah, somebody spent some time on lots of kind of headings and stuff, and yeah, you can, there's no reason you can't take your, you know, Wireframes further than what we do in this course, a really simple one, that's kind of removed all the text, another sketchy one, ooh, kind of sketchy. I think that's too close to Comic Sans for me, but I like the sketchy lines around the outside 

So they're all Lo-Fi Wireframes, Hi-Fi, it's in the same document, this one looks a lot prettier though, this one here, another Hi-Fi, a lot more time and effort going into this one, but for testing you only need the basics. So that's why we're doing Wireframes, and you have to do it because that's the beginning of the course, we're going to learn lots about how to use Figma, building the Wireframes, before we start building our super beautiful things, a little bit later in the course. 

All right, let's actually get started with Figma, and do something.

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