How To Change The Thumbnail For Figma Files
Daniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
104. How To Change The Thumbnail For Figma Files
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 To Change The Thumbnail For Figma Files
Hi, everyone in this video, we're gonna go from the thumbnail here that we've been using. OK. Which is for me, not pretty representative of what we're doing. OK. From this one to that one. OK, which is a little bit more representative of the actual file inside. Sometimes it can be very obvious what's in the file and sometimes not so obvious. So a customized thumbnail can be handy. Let me show you how OK, it's probably driving you just as mad. Uh The thumbnails here are fine. OK? Sometimes, but then they end up like like the moment it's showing me stuff that I made a long time ago. It's on my kind of task flow slash brief page. OK? And it's not really indicative of what's actually in the document. That one not helpful. OK. Basically this thumbnail is using the first page in your documents. So open it up. I just find it hard later on to go. Which one was I working? Like that's not helpful. It's just too small. OK? So what you can do is you can modify it. So uh I'm gonna go into it. What ...
it's using at the moment is whatever's on the first page, on the first frame. OK? So I was using this thing online. Uh So what we can do to update it, we can just go to a frame and say right click and say you are us a thumbnail. OK? There's a way of doing it. Problem is it's only gonna use that one frame. So what you tend to do is you make a whole page for it, you're gonna call this my cover page or cover thumbnail. You know, you can call it anything you like put it at the top. OK? And in here there is a frame default under fig a community called file cover. That's all we want that matches the size back out here. OK? So um and you can put anything you like in there. I'm reluctant to go and start copying a chunk of this. Why? Because I don't know, I've got more instances of these things and what I tend to do you can you just copy and paste this and stick it on that page. OK? What I tend to do is just do a screenshot of kind of appropriateness. So I'm going to do on a market its command shift four on a PC. I think you print screen and then paste it in something. You'll have to double check. OK? So I'm going to uh screenshot that, go to my cover page and dump it on there. OK? So command shift K import I got a screenshot there it is. OK? And I'm going to help her because I click once, not rubric. OK. So I'm gonna stick it inside my frame. What I'm gonna do is like, I don't know, it feels like part of the legend of being a UX designer. OK? Is you need to, it has to be t it on the side like a, like a gun in like movies, you need to kind of, you're not a real UX designer. If you have your stuff straight has to be on the side. Cock to an angle. OK. So OK, so that's gonna be my one and then I can right click this and say, set his thumbnail, it's the right size. And what you'll also see is can you see the icon changes? There's this teeny, tiny little, I don't know what that is. It's the little, little um was it the card that appears in here? Now? It never, well, for me, in my version, I'm using a beta version. So this could just be in mine. It doesn't update straight away. Uh I close this down and open it back up, wait there and we're back and it worked. OK. So yeah, look at that all on the side and customized. Look at us, obviously, some of them work just fine, but there we go. Another thing you can do is let's open this up. You could take a screenshot of the actual um presentation OK, you might wanna see it inside of the frame which might be nice. Not that page. Uh Here we go. This one here. So if we do this and present, take a screenshot of this page might look nicer. Still has to be on an angle. How much of an angle I'm not sure the degrees. I'm not in the high echelons of UX designers yet to know the degrees. It's like a secret recipe formula. Anyway, I'm waffling. That is how to update the, uh, thumbnail in fig A files.
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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!