Do You Need Photoshop For Ux Design In Figma?
Daniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
58. Do You Need Photoshop For Ux Design 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
Do You Need Photoshop For Ux Design In Figma?
Hi, everyone in this video we're going to talk about, do I need Photoshop as a UX designer spoiler? I think you do. Ah but let's talk about how they work together. What's good about FIG A and what you could do in Photoshop. We're going to cover things like scaling down images ready for fim. We will look at clear cutting images. Boom throwing them into fig A. Here's my little headphones here, cutting out people and probably some of the monotony and let Photoshop take a lot of the work away for like extending backgrounds. You've got places for text and logos and filling hero image boards. All right. All of that and more in this tutorial. Let's jump in. All right. Uh To get started. Let's answer the biggest question. Do I need Photoshop skills to become a UX designer or a U I designer? My humble opinion is yes, it is just my opinion. OK. It's just too hard to get away from fig I does some basic stuff. OK. We've done like, you know, click on an image, go into here and you can do like satur...
ation and exposure and stuff and that's what uh Photoshop does as well, but it's the masking. We can do basic masking, which we've done in this course, but it just doesn't go very far. And the other thing for Photoshop is resizing really large images. OK? We've been bringing in these Joe Nomas images and just shrinking them down. The file size is really big. So the prototypes start running bad. If you've got a really big OK? Uh mockup, then all those images do slow things down. The other part is that I know when you're gonna get hired, if you aren't already hired and you're looking for a job often they'll be advertising like, hey UX designer role must have OK. Am fig A might be the UX tool or it might be XD or sketch. OK? They're all similar, very similar. We've got an XD course if you want to do that as well. OK. But uh so that, and they'll also have probably and Photoshop skills. OK? Um There is free alternatives to Photoshop. Gimp is a badly named one. OK. The other thing to consider is it does, how do you work with Photoshop? So the thing it doesn't do is you can't import Photoshop files. I can't go to, you know, my drafts and go import and go PSD and click open cos it doesn't work at the moment, check your version because what a lot of times happens, this might be you right now. OK? People are using Photoshop to do what fig a like what, what we've been doing in this course and it does it, OK? And lots of people do, then they hand it over to somebody like me. OK? Or the new you and they go, here you go. I've done it and you're like, oh, to prototype this thing, there's no like open Photoshop file a prototyping. You gotta rebuild it, which is no fun. So that doesn't work at the moment. Check if there's a plug in, there's not at the moment. OK. PSD to fig A. Keep an eye on that one. If you do run into it, there might be a solution at some stage. So what we end up doing is in Photoshop just making stuff and then exporting it for fig A. So what I wanna do is run through a few exercises of what would be awesome. I like some of the, you know, the unique good things about using Photoshop to get into Fig A. Now this is gonna be a bit whirlwind. Uh This is not a Photoshop course. I just wanna throw in some stuff because I want to show you how you kind of get files for back and forth for the people that are experienced and the people that aren't. I wanna, I wanna try and sell you my, my Photoshop course. I got a Photoshop essentials and advanced. OK? So if you've got some self taught experience, even the essentials is still pretty good. Um, for self taught people, but if you are pretty advanced, check out my advanced course. Um, so let's do some basics. Lets the first one is just resizing images because they're coming through too big. Right? So, if we grab that one, it's 1.4 megabytes, I'm gonna edit into Photoshop again. I'm not gonna give you a full tutorial. So, if you're like, hey, he went too fast. Hm. That's just, ah, yeah, I don't want to get into too much tutorial here. And the basics are if you go to file, OK. And you're looking for this export as OK? This is the amazing one for getting file size smaller in the right format. OK? I'm gonna say actually, I don't want to be like 500 pixels across cos it's going into one of those thumbnails. It's gonna be a JPEG. OK? And maybe it's going to be 60% and then you export it. Ok? And I'm gonna stick mine on my desktop. Messy that up. Been trying to keep it nice and then you can just import that file. Let's kind of compare the two, let's grab another one desktop. Where's my desktop there? It is there. So that same file. OK. Perfectly fine size wise. It's 38 kilobytes. OK? Which is uh zero point yeah, 0. megabytes. OK? Where that is 1.4? So you do that a lot, just kind of tidying up images getting them smaller. And probably the biggest thing is when you are dealing with uh trying to do masking. OK? It just does it so well in Photoshop. OK? So I'm gonna use this one here. I'm going to dump it into Photoshop. I'm gonna rename the background layer to layer zero. And there's this sweet one. Look. Remove background. How good is that? I love showing people who've used Photoshop for a while. That button. OK. There is a lot of that sort of stuff creeping around in Photoshop now. OK. So if you haven't given yourself some professional development in Photoshop or if you've done my course, high five, you, you might have already ready. High five. Here you go. OK? But if not, even if it's not my courses go through the what's new in Photoshop? OK? It's on the Adobe site. It'll kind of give you a uh a kind of a skim down version of what's come out since 2004 when you last updated yourself. So how do I get this in two FMA now? Couple of ways. Uh The way we just did, it's probably a good way because this has transparency. All we really need to do here is go actually the size can get smaller, not 100 it's too small and the format just needs to be a PNG this one will bring through the transparency and that's really what we want. Size wise, doesn't really matter. OK. I'm going to export it, stick it onto my desktop. Messy that desktop up and then in fig I'm gonna go command shift key or control shift key. Um Where are we to stop? Where is that guy? Come on in. I'm done. Not sure what I did there. Click once there we go. Even 1000 pixels is pretty big, right? Use the K for scaling. OK? Oh You see it, it's already there. I do a little demo just to run through it. Um, before. So it's a little bit more fluid than the ums and the arts. But anyway, I stuck it in between some stuff here to go. I don't know. Just try and look cool. OK. That doesn't work on every single one. I'm like, I found this one because it had nice sharp edges, ah, to try and impress you. It doesn't work on all of them as well as that. Another one. Let's go for like people. OK. We're going to be, where is it? Let's cut out this guy. So, one of the amazing features for Photoshop. OK. Is the select subject. If you haven't clicked it, you should look at that again. It doesn't work on all people all the time, but I'm gonna do it at a layer mask. Oh, so good. OK. And I could go back to my, uh, there's things to touch up, you know, I could work on that mask more. But, so what we could do is we could go back to our file export as and do a PNG if you're just kind of mocking things up quickly and not as official you can. So right. Click this the mask and just say let's apply that layer mask. It's gone. It's, you know, it's uh destructive editing. That's OK. I can just use my marquee tool select around Mr's boot. OK? And just copy just using um command C or control CN A PC. And I'm just gonna paste it and let's paste it somewhere over here. How good is it? Look at the edges. Oh Well, it didn't look that good in Photoshop. It is amazing. I can't believe how good it is. All right. So you get the idea right? And one last thing that is super handy for people who are using Photoshop that might not know about it. It's like the content we scale stuff. So um I want to get him back out of there is you might have an image that just needs to be bigger. Uh I'm gonna flip this one around cos that's the image that I've decided to use. Um cos it was in this list. Let's do this one. So I'm gonna add this one to Photoshop. The problem with this image. OK? Is I need more background happens all the time. We need to put text on it. You need at the top there. So there's a couple of ways you can do it in Photoshop. I'm gonna use the crop tool, which is the C uh C chalk up. I'm gonna turn on the content aware. Content aware is amazing. In Photoshop. Do a little bit of time looking at the various content aware. There's about four or five of them. If I do that and hit enter you ready, you said? Oh OK. It's not great, but it's gonna do fine for putting text over the top. It's really amazing that way there's another way of doing it. If that doesn't quite work or you get some weird stuff, I'm gonna use that crop tool again. OK? I'm gonna turn off content away. I'm just gonna make it bigger. Cos you know, let's say you want a really big weird banner at the top of our hero image. OK? Along the top of your hero image. OK? I'm gonna use the rectangle marquee tool and just kind of grab a chunk of it and then go to edit. I'm gonna use content aware but this one's content aware fill. No, not the one I want, I'm gonna hit escape. I want edit content aware. Scale that one. There, I said, Phil, there we go. Scale and look at that hold shift while you're dragging that corner and you just kind of like make stuff bigger. It has to be like background blurry stuff doesn't work on everything. But that is good again, I could just copy and paste this now. Cos I haven't really done any sort of transparency to copy into fig maybe on my desktop version. OK. I've got this nice big hero image. All right, I'm messing things up. Let's go shift two. You get the idea right? Drag it out. Nice big, weird shape. OK. I'm gonna go paste. Will it go in straight in? It? Does look how good we are. Some sweet Photoshop skills combined with some sweet uh stigma skills, professional UX designers menu. OK. That was a long one. I just wanted to touch on some of the Photoshop things that might be useful if you're already a user. I know a lot of you already are and I picked some super exciting ones that definitely worked in this tutorial me just to see if you know, come do the course. It's exciting. Cross out over all. Uh That is Fig A and Photoshop. I'll see you in the next video.
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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!