How I Get Inspiration For Ux Projects
Lesson 30 from: Figma UI UX Design EssentialsDaniel Walter Scott
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How I Get Inspiration For Ux Projects
Lesson 30 from: Figma UI UX Design EssentialsDaniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
30. How I Get Inspiration For Ux Projects
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
How I Get Inspiration For Ux Projects
Hi, everyone in this video. I'm going to show you where I get inspired for my projects. OK. Everyone's going to have their own places. I figured I'd show you where I go. Uh So before we do that though, let's quickly talk about the transition we're making, we're transitioning from wire frame. OK. Low fidelity to high fidelity, something more like this. OK. This is where we're gonna end up. Uh You know, so it is hi fi high fidelity looks like it's gonna work. OK? It's a, you know, a closer prototype to the finish thing, all fonts, all colors, all images and yes, yours will get this messy too. Uh Well, it depends. Mine always end up looking this messy. I tidy them up when I send them to clients or colleagues. But uh ideas end up spilling off the frames and I break all my own rules. Look, nothing's in a frame do as I say, not as I do, but there's no point pretending you can get a little messy. OK. So our wi frames being finished, it's being tested and now we're ready for, you know, going o...
ut to this. Hi Fi now how do I get inspiration? Ok. There's the usual suspects. Ok. Dribble be h ok. Go to these places type in like UI kit is a good term and just see what appears. Ok. You can be very specific like you saw before. Ok. I typed in headphones and what you're doing is you're not looking to copy. That's not what we're doing here. We're looking to get ideas of like, oh, I never thought of that or oh, I didn't even know we had to have that kind of U I component and just start taking screenshots. Anyway, the behan to search for U I kits and you will get lots of ideas and it's also useful even if you're not going to go and buy like a premium kit from something like MVA elements or Adobe Stock. OK? It's good to go and do a search U I kits and just have a little look, take screenshots be inspired by color and fonts and just get a bit more into it and just take lots of screenshots. Don't forget to actually go out to the actual products as well. Like I've left my move board um uh the screenshots that I took to get me inspired for this course material. OK. They're all in here and some of these last ones here are actual, just actual companies, ok? That are selling headphones on their own. Ok. And I just took screenshots from my phone, ok? And uploaded them here. Just so I've got some idea of like what, you know, like sometimes in those U I kits, they could be a little bit like, hey, there's no chance I can use that because A it's not accessible or b where's all the terms and conditions and all the boring, ugly stuff that you need? Ok. Sometimes they simplify them to look really pretty but maybe not that practical. So go out, check out competitors and even like parallel businesses to what you're doing, especially if you're new to the area. You know, headphones is not terribly new to me. But if I had to do something in the construction or shampoo something I haven't used for a very long time since my twenties. Uh I'd have to go and explore the um shampoo advertising. Anyway, I make myself the other thing you can do when you are getting into this inspiration is you can get quite deep, it's getting better and better to find like quite specific unique things. So let's say that in this project, we are doing like, it's pretty, it's fun because we've got like a big project. You know, we've got a full ecommerce website to build often though as a designer, you're like, hey, can you redesign my sign up page? And you're like, of course, I can, it's exciting from a UX perspective because you've probably already got um existing kind of conversion rates and you can make changes, do A B tests OK, to kind of see. Can you make it better? Have you made it worse? What language works? Ok. So those are exciting in different ways. But in terms of a design way you, let's redesign the sign up page, you can go to places like this is a one that I use. There might be better ones out there and this might be gone. Ok. It's full of ads is my problem with this one and the images aren't high res, they're kind of a little bit low. But anyway, and this kind of spelling of patterns, what they've done is they've got a really cool thing where you can say actually, I've been asked to do calendar, OK? You can click on calendars and time and there's a bunch of U I kind of screenshots from apps. OK, which is used for me in my web design as well, just the different sites and how they approach calendars, you know, because you're like, as they are, they all gonna look like the traditional one like that? OK? Or look at that one. We've got days of the week kind of stuff. So that let's have a look at maybe you just got to do a simple notifications as part of your team project. OK? And you're in charge of this. It's just interesting kind of like how to deal with notifications in different kind of instances. Charts is another one in here. OK? If you're in charge of doing some sort of data representation, OK? Some sort of infographic going on. There's some cool stuff. Another good one for that type of thing and getting into the weeds is awards with three Ws, OK? You can, let's say in awards go to menu. I want to look for nominees because it gives you the not the winners. I want to look at all the people nominated for the category of um I don't know. E-commerce. Perfect. Using the tags of Footer design because that's what I've been put in charge of. You have to redesign the footer Dan. You're like, okey dokey, I'll do that. No problem. Um, and what you'll have to do is you have to dig in and have a look, ok? You can open it up, have a view, you can see, click on that button there. They do change the site as well, so have a little look around. You'll be able to open it up, go have a look and check out what they've done and hopefully they haven't updated the website since they were nominated in this award. Ok. You can dive in there are screenshots. Where is this? Amazing, um Footer? Let's have a look. Have they changed it or? Ho ho that is cool. Let's have a look at their footer. Yeah, it's pretty cool. 00, look at that. Ok. I don't know how they're doing that and I wouldn't sell this into my client because my developer might kill me. Um Yes. All right. So other good places that I look at from time to time CS S Design Awards and one page love.com. Ok. They can be broken down into different things as well. Um But yes, that's where I get my inspiration, lots of screenshots and then I'll show you what I do with all those screenshots in our mood board. In the next video. Oh, little note. Uh Leave in the comments if you found other gooder better like this one where you can get quite in the nitty gritty of apps and websites. Ok, let me know. Um let us know in the comments, share it with everybody if you've got a good site that kind of breaks it down to this like very granular level of weird stuff of like I need a login screen. Look all the logins. Alright. That's it. 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!