Do I Need To Know Illustrator With Figma?
Lesson 54 from: Figma UI UX Design EssentialsDaniel Walter Scott
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Do I Need To Know Illustrator With Figma?
Lesson 54 from: Figma UI UX Design EssentialsDaniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
54. Do I Need To Know Illustrator With 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
Do I Need To Know Illustrator With Figma?
What are we doing in here? This isn't fig a, this is an illustrator. Do I need to know illustrator to work in fig A? The answer is no, OK. You can get quite far with fig a drawing things, drawing icons, drawing, logos, illustrations. It's got all the basics in there, but there will be a time where actually you need to do some custom stuff. We'll demo it a little bit in this video just to kind of show you and then show you how easy it is to kind of flick back and forth between fig A and illustrator. So no, to be UX designer, you do not need to know illustrator, but it's a handy tool. Let me show you why. OK. So I'm going to show you a little bit of illustrator to show you the where kind of like fig A stops. You can get by with fig A to do a lot of what illustrator does, but it's not made for it. So illustrator does pick up quite quickly and you're like, actually, maybe I do need to learn illustrator. If you already have the skills, they're not wasted if you don't have the skills you mig...
ht join my illustrator essentials or illustrator, advanced courses, check those out. Anyway, I'm just going to draw this and I'm gonna, I guess just show you a couple of the things that make illustrator, why I come back to it, especially for logo or icon design. OK. So I'm just gonna, I don't know, I'll zoom through this, but I'm just gonna like this is a drawing that I've done. It's one of the things we do in one of the courses case of drawing it and I'm just gonna build it out with circles. You wait there. OK. So I'm just kinda like making a bunch of circles. Uh Let's carry on again. Alright. So I've just got a bunch of circles. Let me turn, let me show you the background layer off. OK? And it's just handy because you can select them all. And one of the kind of my most favorite tools is the Shape Builder tool. In one of the previous videos we use kind of boolean kind of like pathfinder in here and it's fine. But ooh Shape builder, are you ready? Uh So let's hold down the option. Counter Ma UL on a PC and just kind of like drag through the stuff we don't want w ho how fast and good this is, right? And now that I wanna color it actually, yeah, I wanna color it. I'm gonna go through and just pick some random colors for this. One. Start with the light one and there's air in here instead of holding down option, hold down nothing. And you can join things up. Look at that. Work my way through the colors. The defaults kind of good for a fox though. You're kind of impressed. Oh, it's fun, love illustrator. And the reason why as a UX designer, it's still often part of the kind of tools you need. Ok, select it all gonna have no stroke. OK? And the cool thing about it is what this working with in fig A or like kind of transitioning back and forth is super simple. So I've selected that it all copied it and I'm gonna jump into fig A and I'm just gonna paste it. It's a bit big, move it over here. You can see it comes through as a frame which is awesome and it's even more awesome because I can go inside that frame and it's all still editable. I can make adjustments in here. So you might do your drawing work in the OK button here. You can still make adjustments, but I can also go through and actually start picking my kind of uh at corporate colors. So you wait there, I'm gonna color it and remember if we've got colors, I need one like another color OK to go darker. So I can click on this one and actually just break the link and go, actually let's just go a smidge bit darker. For this one. Cool. So, uh working between illustrator and fig A is super easy. Just copy and paste. You don't have to export and it remains editable and scalable and good. We have no reason for this folks. I just, it's in here. All right. That's it. Maybe after this course, whether it's my training or somebody else's go check out illustrator if you haven't already, if you are a master of illustrator or at least maybe you're self taught. Check out my illustrator advanced course. All right on to the next video.
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Ratings and Reviews
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!