Color Inspiration & The Eyedropper In Figma
Lesson 35 from: Figma UI UX Design EssentialsDaniel Walter Scott
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Color Inspiration & The Eyedropper In Figma
Lesson 35 from: Figma UI UX Design EssentialsDaniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
35. Color Inspiration & The Eyedropper In Figma
Lessons
Introduction to Figma Essentials
02:53 2Getting Started with Figma Training
03:06 3What Is Figma For & Does It Do The Coding?
03:46 4What's The Difference Between UI And UX In Figma
05:22 5What We Are Making In This Figma Course
09:18 6Class Project 01 - Create Your Own Brief
04:01 7What is Lo Fi Wireframe vs High Fidelity in Figma?
02:34 8Creating Our Design File & Introducing Frames In Figma
08:29The Basics Of Type & Fonts In Figma
10:51 10Rectangles, Circles, Buttons And Rounded Corners In Figma
06:50 11How To Use Color In Figma
05:45 12Strokes Plus Updating Color Defaults In Figma
09:28 13Object Editing And How To Escape In Figma
01:47 14Scale vs Selection Tool in Figma
02:39 15Frames vs Groups in Figma
09:24 16Class Project 02 - Wireframe
03:00 17Where To Get Free Icons For Figma
09:10 18Matching The Stroke Of Our Icons
05:16 19How To Use Plugins In Figma For Icons
04:31 20Class Project 03 - Icons
03:48 21How to Use Pages in Figma
08:31 22How to Prototype in Figma
10:46 23Prototype Animation and Easing In Figma
10:53 24Testing On Your Phone with Figma Mirror
05:40 25Class Project 04 - Testing On Your Phone
03:51 26What is Smart Animation & Delays in Figma?
08:44 27Class Project 05 - My First Animation
02:01 28Sharing & Commenting on a Figma File with Stakeholders
07:10 29Sharing & Editing With Other Ux Designers In Figma
06:58 30How I Get Inspiration For Ux Projects
06:39 31How To Create A Mood Board In Figma
05:33 32Class Project 06 - Moodboard
01:26 33How to Work with Columns & Grids in Figma
13:54 34Tips, Tricks, Preferences, and Weirdness in Figma
07:21 35Color Inspiration & The Eyedropper In Figma
06:34 36How To Create A Color Palette In Figma
09:02 37How to Make Gradients in Figma
07:09 38How to Create & Use Color Styles in Figma
08:01 39Class Project 07 - Colors & Columns
04:00 40Fonts on Desktop vs in Browser in Figma
01:30 41What Fonts Can I Use? Plus Font Pairing In Figma
06:01 42What Common Font Sizes Should I Choose In Web Design?
11:30 43How to Make Character Styles in Figma
06:36 44Lorem Ipsum & Placeholder Text In Figma
04:28 45Useful Things To Know About Text In Figma
09:35 46How To Fix Missing Fonts In Figma
02:42 47Class Project 08 - Text
05:19 48Drawing Tips And Tricks In Figma
09:38 49Squircle Buttons with ios Rounded Courses In Figma
02:48 50Boolean, Union, Subtract, Intersect and Exclude with Pathfinder in Figma
07:25 51What Is The Difference? Union vs Flatten In Figma
03:36 52Class Project 09 - Making Stuff
03:29 53Smart Selection & Tidy Up in Figma
08:40 54Do I Need To Know Illustrator With Figma?
04:15 55Tips & Tricks For Using Images In Figma
06:11 56Masking & Cropping Images In Figma
09:12 57Free Images & Plugins For Figma
02:31 58Do You Need Photoshop For Ux Design In Figma?
10:40 59Class Project 10 - Images
01:17 60What Is Autolayout & Expanding Buttons In Figma?
10:27 61Class Project 11 - Buttons
01:15 62Auto Layout For Spacing
05:47 63How To Use Constraints In Figma
08:22 64Combining Nested Frames Auto Layout & Constraints in Figma
11:54 65Adding Text Box Autoheight to Autolayout in Figma
08:27 66Class Project 12 - Responsive Design
02:19 67Nice Drop Shadow & Inner Drop Shadow Effects In Figma
05:56 68Blur Layer, Background Blur & Image Blur in Figma
05:57 69How to Make Neumorphic UI buttons in Figma
07:37 70Class Project 13 - Effects
01:53 71How To Save Locally & Save History In Figma
05:42 72What are Components in Figma?
06:19 73Updating, Changing & Resetting Your Components
07:47 74You Can’t Kill Main Components In Figma
07:22 75Where Should You Keep Your Main Components In Figma
05:02 76Intro To The Forward Slash / Naming Convention In Figma
08:55 77Class Project 14 - Components
00:44 78How To Make Component Variants In Figma
06:41 79Another Way To Make Variables In Figma
06:14 80How to Make a Multi Dimensional Variant in Figma
11:13 81Class Project 15 - Variants
01:41 82How To Make A Form Using Variants In Figma
12:52 83Class Project 16 - Form
01:27 84Putting It All Together In A Desktop Example
19:44 85How To Add A Popup Overlay Modal In Figma
03:03 86How To Make & Prototype A Tool Tip In Figma
07:26 87What are Flows in Figma?
05:39 88Slide In Mobile Nav Menu Overlay In Figma
03:55 89Class Project 17 - Prototyping
01:10 90How To Pin Navigation To The Top In Figma
10:17 91How To Make A Horizontal Scrolling Swipe In Figma
06:36 92Automatic Scroll Down The Page To Anchor Point In Figma
04:50 93What are Teams vs Projects vs Files in Figma?
05:18 94How Do You Use Team Libraries In Figma
11:03 95The Difference Between Animation & Micro Interactions
02:55 96Animation With Custom Easing In Figma
25:36 97Class Project 18 - My Second Animation
01:54 98How To Make Animated Transitions In Figma
12:34 99Class Project 19 - Page Transition
01:31 100Micro Interactions Using Interactive Components In Figma
05:54 101Micro Interaction Toggle Switch In Figma
04:23 102Micro Interaction Burger Menu Turned Into A Cross In Figma
04:23 103Class Project 20 - Micro Interaction
01:35 104How To Change The Thumbnail For Figma Files
04:10 105How To Export Images Out Of Figma
07:40 106How To Share Your Document With Clients & Stakeholders
07:09 107Talking To Your Developer Early In The Figma Design Process
03:55 108Sharing Figma With Developers & Engineers Handoff
06:07 109What Are The Next Level Handoffs Aka Design Systems
03:18 110Class Project 21 - Finish your design
04:57 111What Next?
06:08Lesson Info
Color Inspiration & The Eyedropper In Figma
Hi, everyone in this video. I'm gonna show you the places I go to for color inspiration. Ok. A bunch of different ones and I will show you then how to kind of get them into fig A. Ok. Using both the eyedropper tool, copy and pasting codes. Plus we'll install a plug in that will make me look bad. You'll see why in a bit. I eventually worked out how to use it. All right, let's get started. All right. Uh, to get inspiration for color, you can just type it into Google color inspiration websites. There are loads of them. Uh, I'll just show you the ones that I use is Co hunt.co. It's nice. The colors are great. They are, there's four of them that work well together. Ok. Um, same with, uh, color.adobe.com. Ok. If you go to here, they're both free. Um, I like this one where you can go to explore and type in things in here. It's quite nice. You can say, remember Sarah is uh eco conscious. I realize it's a bit, I don't know, it doesn't have to be green to make it ecofriendly, but you might be us...
ing kind of words from the company's kind of values. It might be that it is about brightness and equality or, uh, travel or I'm trying to think of things that would have a good color, um, unique color color palette to them. It might be corporate. You might put in corporate because that's the feeling that you have that this thing needs. Ok. And like a lot of these, find one you like. Oh, it's hard from this lot. Uh I'm in the zone. OK? And what you can do is click on them and you can see if I don't hover over them. See that hexadecimal number, that hash number, that's what you can copy and paste into. Uh fig M. Same with here. You can see the codes if I click them. Um Let's click on that code there. It's copied. It's the same thing from here. You can copy them and then in fig A you just go all right. Um Sarah's Eco Friendly. So she's going to light green. Let's go to our desktop version. I'm going to draw a rectangle and I'm going to fill it with. That's it there. You can paste it in with the hash and figure we'll sort it out. There you go. Is that green? You can copy and paste some colors in from these kind of more official color. Uh inspiration places. There are loads of them. Now, another one for gradients. OK? I use gradient quite a lot and there are lots of these around as well in terms of uh gradient color sites sort of gradients in in probably the next video. But you can just start to see really nice kind of gradient colors. And down here you can see the hex of a decimal numbers. You can copy paste these in for your ingredients. So color inspiration is not something we're short of now. These things in isolation are fine often what you end up doing or what I end up doing is going to things. Remember our inspiration mood board earlier on. OK. I'm going to be using screenshots from Dribble and even it's just colors. It might not be the right content but the colors are good. What you can do in fig is I'm going to go to my mobile Lo Fi OK. This is up here. OK. You remember my uh dodgy mood board, do the same thing. Rectangle, grab this and we're gonna grab the eyedropper tool and just grab anything out of here. You can see I might be using this. I'm gonna draw another rectangle. OK. You eyedropper something lighter. Is there a lighter version of it? Yep. OK. And just do something like this. Pull the colors from that group. You can see hints of where I got my colors for my final one. You've kind of seen the final one already and that I mocked up getting ready. I kind of pulled some of these colors out and then design my own, you kind of start with other people's and then you start using it and you're like actually too bright, not bright enough, not enough contrast. Um out of the scope of this class accessibility in terms of color, in terms of contrast is quite important. OK. It depends on where you're going and how much it's enforced. You should as a UX designer really be concerned with accessibility. You know, people, not everyone is, some people are color blind. Some people a little bit color blind. A lot of men uh my age are color blind a bit. OK? And the visually impaired need a really kind of high contrast ratio. So Adobe color is kind of helpful for that and you might have a read of this kind of outside of here. But here's an example, this one and this one has a contrast ratio of 3.331. OK? Put in your two colors and you can see 17 point or below with that color with regular text on that green fails the accessibility ah kind of test here, OK? The contrast between these two with this 18 point and it's bold, those colors work. OK? Again, it's probably just we're we're creeping into doing too much in this course. So accessibility is outside of the scope of here, but just know that it's part that it should be part of your process and add that to the list of things to learn as a UX designer. All right. One last thing is there's bound to be a plug in for it. OK. So I'm gonna go to browser community or we can go over here community. I can say plug in and I'm gonna say color using the American spelling. Here. I look at the ones that have the most downloads that seems to have lots of downloads. I've never used this one. So let's uh figure it out together. So it's installed, which is great. Back to this one here. I'm going to go plugins, color pellets and I imagine there we go. Color palettes and it's just, I guess built in rather than going out to those websites. So you, you looks, oh, looks amazing. I think I've just liked it. I don't know how to use this. Nice choice. Pretty good choice. Looks amazing. What has happened. I have no idea. I have to read the documentation. Did it appear down here? It did not, I've added it. There we go. We'll work that out eventually. Those are just regular old rectangles that are grouped. OK. We can start picking colors from. So all plugins work slightly different. Thank you. Color palettes. You made me look like. I don't know what I'm doing. Here you go. You get the idea. Colors are everywhere. You should be pulling colors from your discovery kind of sessions with the clients. You know what they're looking to do. They might already have corporate colors and you're kind of stuck using those. But sometimes we get all the freedom and we can go look for color inspiration and use that eyedropper tool to steal colors from images. All right. That's it. Color inspiration. Eyedrop, a tool learned and done.
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Mahyar Hassid
Great class, Daniel drops so much knowledge in every video and in all the in between unexpected moments that helps speed up your process!