12 Column or Grids
Daniel Walter Scott
Lessons
Getting Started with XD
02:21 2What is UI vs UX
06:19 3The UX Brief & Persona
11:22 4Wireframing (Low Fidelity)
01:58 5How Wide for my Website
13:06 6Existing UI Kits
07:49Working with Type
09:09 8Basic Colors & Buttons
14:14 9Free UI Icons
11:45 10Footers & Lorem Ipsum
05:27 11New Pages & Artboards
04:20 12Class Project 01 - Wireframe
11:11 13Prototyping & Interactivity
08:53 14Create a Popup Modal
07:57 15Prototype
02:54 16Groups & Isolation Mode
02:30 17How to Use Components (Previously Components)
17:19 18Production Video - Left Nav
03:52 19Repeat Grid
05:27 20Updating Components & Repeat Grids
08:54 21Prototype Tricks
06:03 22Navigation Tricks & Tips
04:48 23Class Project 03 - Components
04:07 24Mocking Up an App
09:40 25XD App on Your Phone
08:04 26Fixing the Position
01:01 27iPhone & Android Status Icons
03:10 28Production Video - Login
06:45 29Sharing Wireframes
13:32 30Recording Your Interactions
03:13 31Class Project - Wireframe Feedback
01:21 32Mood Boards
07:43 33Class Project - Mood Board
00:59 3412 Column or Grids
04:57 35Working with Colors
09:02 36Tricks for Using Colors
06:34 37Gradients
03:50 38Class Project 06 - Colors
02:14 39Use Web Safe Fonts
18:00 40Character Styles
06:59 41Font & Text Tips Tricks
05:43 42Plugin Lorem Ipsum
05:39 43Paste Properties
13:15 44Class Project 07 - Text & Buttons
02:21 45Draw Custom Icons
04:13 46Strokes & Lines
14:28 47Pen Tool
14:34 48Drawing Practice
07:15 49Production Video with Tips
12:27 50Illustrator in XD
09:34 51Class Project 08 - Custom Icons
01:49 52InDesign in XD
11:38 53Pros & Cons for Images
03:58 54CC Library Connection
11:01 55Adobe Stock
05:20 56Free Images
01:48 57Masking
06:44 58Photoshop in XD
08:41 59Infographic
12:12 60Class Project 09 - Hi-Def Mockup
05:38 61Mobile Phone Mockup
18:08 62Class Project 10 - Mobile Website
01:24 63Hidden Features for Repeat Grid
05:17 64Plugin - Content Generator
04:29 65Plugin - UI Faces
03:15 66Plugin - PhotoSplash
04:31 67Plugin - Copy Cat
03:19 68Advanced Asset Panel
04:37 69Advanced Symbols
07:52 70What are Micro Interactions
07:21 71Button Grow
06:13 72Animated Image Gallery
06:39 73Full Vector Change
08:19 74Class Project 11 - Micro Interactions
05:12 75Time Delay Transitions
04:42 76Popup Menu or Modal
12:16 77Animated Mobile Side Nav
03:26 78Drop Down Menus
03:24 79Drag Transitions
07:19 80Number Ticker Scroll
06:51 81Alexa Voice Commands
09:37 82What is User Testing
16:53 83Unmoderated UX Test
12:07 84Class Project 12 - User Testing
02:23 85Mocking up in Photoshop
09:21 86ProtoPie
02:40 87Add Animation Using After Effects
09:39 88Export Images & Assets
12:56 89Export Code Using Design Specs
10:49 90Class Project 13 - Roar Cycles
10:29 91Conclusion
05:32 92Final Quiz
Lesson Info
12 Column or Grids
Hi there. This video is all about creating something called a baseline grid. Some of you will know where that is. Some of you won't basically, it's lots of squares like this to add a bit of visual consistency where things start lining up, allowing the design to kind of breathe a little while you're working. Everything has its place, everything is lined up nicely. Let me show you how to make one and why you might use one. All right. So we've done a little bit of this before, but we're going to go into a little bit more detail now, especially with the grid. Okay. And something called a baseline grid system. Let's do the columns first because they're easy and they just kind of recap. So I'm gonna click on my word homepage. I'm going to say I want a grid. I wanted to be layout, I want it to be, I'm going to turn it to one and I want to make sure that it's my 13, 66 wide. Okay. So then I know I'm kind of within those gaps. If you do then want to use a 12 column grid, which a lot of designer...
s do. And you can type it in there and just use this kind of columns to add a little bit of consistency throughout the web pages. I don't want to add consistency for this particular one. Um also you can do six. Does't have to be 12. Okay. It can be four to something that's easily divisible. Okay, But I'm just going to use one now. We're going to introduce this thing called a baseline grid. So you can have both a layout and a square grid. Okay. Both of them. And I'll show you what they are basic. If I zoom in here, you'll see that at the moment. I've got a square grid. Okay. And it is ah four pixel grid. Okay. And I think my colors are, the capacity is quite up quite high. I'm going to turn it up to really strong so you can see it a little clearer on the video. So basically what I've got now is XD said every I'm just going to give you a guide. Okay. Every four pixels is going to draw a little square. And it just allows you when you're designing to add some consistency. We're going to cover this more and more because it's it's not a hard topic but it comes more obvious later on when we're working through fonts and a few other things and you don't have to use a baseline grid but I'll show you what it does. I'm going to switch to our old version of the wireframe. Okay. And in here I'm going to click on the name and do the same thing. Turn on the square grid and I'm using eight here OK. Instead of four. And what it's going to allow me to do is can you see there's no there's no consistency. Can you see this one kind of see the lines here. Just that one kind of they're all just kind of over the place and I'll show you what I'd end up doing. Double click to go inside and what I want to do is I want to china just this so that it's, that's, it will snap okay, so it starts snapping to these grids so that you've got at least some sort of like consistency across these guys. So I'm going to click on him, drag him out so he's lining up and you can see now there's a bit of, it's just one of those things if you're new to design. When I first started in design, I was like, why would you bother? All the grids? Then after a while you start realizing there's just a, I don't know when things start lining up and kind of consistently left and right lined up. There's a relaxing of the design kind of like takes a breath and kind of goes, okay, everything kinda lines up, which is nice, but for a long time I just didn't care. But I do now. Okay, you can see here, I want the spacing is, you know, I want this to be consistent with this, so I'm going to go into this one and just bring it in, especially we're not using columns. A grid system is really handy just to lock it all in, make sure the types all locked in. You can use your Cherokee to type it around your starting filming. That's just a quick little introduction of what use a baseline grid for why you'd bother. We're going to turn it on in this version, we're not going to have it so dark and what side should it be and we'll look at this later on but basically divide whatever your body copy size and by half that's going to make life a lot easier. So I'm going to use 16 point and one for my body copy. I know that because I use point on everything if you don't know yet, don't worry you can change this later on But I'm using 16 points. So I'm going to divide it by two which is eight pixel squares and I'm going to turn this down so it's not so deafening, visually deafening. I'm going to introduce a couple of shortcuts. I might have done this before, but it's command shift and apostrophe. We'll turn on the layout. Okay, so these kind of like giant column. If you do just command apostrophe, it turns on the grid so you end up kind of toggling that on and off quite a bit. So I'm just holding down my command key which is control key on a pc and just clicking the apostrophe key and just goes on and off all the time to get things to line up if you can't get yours to work with that shortcut, it's whatever appears these are the two that you want on your computer and you can see in my case just command apostrophe. Alright, so I've created my columns, I've created my grid system. What I'm gonna do as well before I go is I'm going to turn it on and I'm going to set it, I'm going to make this the default. So whenever I make a new page, it's going to do this. Saying with the layout, I'm going to make this the default so that every new page has this. If you decide to not move on with the grid, I'll understand it's okay. But for now let's jump into the next video.
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Haseebullah Johar
Thank you, Dan Scott, for providing such a beautiful Adobe XD course. I completed the course today and noticed a couple of things that are missing. I want to share them here so that you can upgrade the course, which would be helpful for us. Hover state and toggle state. Dragging pages from 1-2 to 2-3 and then back from 3-2 to 2-1 with dragging is not working. Another thing is that we learned scrolling the website from top to bottom, but scrolling or pushing things from right to left has been completely omitted. These are the things I have noticed, and I would like you to upgrade them so that we can improve our Adobe XD skills.
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