Hi, everyone in this video. We're gonna talk about what are teams and what are projects and what are design files and those design files? What's the difference between ones in the project part of your website and the differences between the ones in drafts? All right, let me show you all how that works. OK. Let's talk about the differences. So, files are what we've been working on so far. That's this project we're working on. OK. You can have a bunch of different files, files can live in drafts or they can live inside of a project or as a project. Um Well, actually let's jump to team. Team is like the company name or let's say that it is, uh you're working at a really large company. It might be like a division, it might be sales or marketing or, I don't know, Asia Pacific. OK. That could be your team inside of that team are different projects. OK. Ecommerce website might have. So this is my project inside of it. It might have that website that we're making the mobile version. It might h...

ave another file that we create. So we're working on E Comverse V one, there might be another design file in that project called V two. There might be an app version, there might be an I OS and Android version. There also might be files in here to do with the launch of the website. OK. So this project, it's kind of like a high level one of the company for the free version, you get as many teams as you like. OK? But you only get one project. OK? So if I go here and I say I want another project, please, it says, hey, you've already got one, you're only allowed one on free. OK. And what you do is you share teams with people so I can click on sky headphones and say, OK, I'm working with another designer, not maybe my client. OK? Because I'll talk about that actually in a second. So other team members. OK? I can add the other designers that I'm working with. OK? And they will have access to our different projects. And these projects over here, these projects allow us to kind of uh separate all the work we're doing rather than just dumping them all into kind of like one big file. So why do we have drafts and then why do we keep files in both our, yeah, both our projects and our drafts. So drafts is a nice place to have your stuff before anybody can see them. Because obviously, if I share my team, they can see inside my project and see my half finished work and then they could be judging me. I'm not ready to be judged. Ok. So that's one reason you can keep things in draft. Nobody else can see them just yet. And I guess that's the reason you have this project is that you can edit. So the other team can find it. You don't have to kind of send them a link every time. So here's this other file that's an email buried somewhere. OK? They all just appear here and any other UX designer or marketing or sales that are using fig A OK? They can jump in or your developers can get in here and actually have a look at the files for e-commerce project. OK? To see everything in here. So private, public uh public with the people that you, you've shared the team with. Does that make sense? You might be thinking, well, I'm just going to keep you anything in drafts. OK. And then just share it like this and that's fine. You can get a bit further like you can get reasonably fast so I can share it with people that can view. OK? But I can't get them to see uh if I want to add somebody else to edit it, be able to copy and paste things from it, make amends inside of this file. It has to be in a project. And remember you've only got one project for a team for the free one. But yeah, in drafts, you can only do a couple of things. I can share it out. Remember we did it before we shared it with Doug Doug added he could view it and he could comment on it, which is cool, but there will be a point where you're working with another designer like I do and I have to actually share the file with them. So it has to go into a project which is part of a team. One of the other limitations for free is at the moment is that um I can only have three files here in my project. So one project, three files that I can share with my uh other design buddies. But as uh like a freelancer, I'm gonna have more than one team. So that is the company that I'm working on. OK? I need to have, you can have as many teams as you like. OK. So say I'm working on another company. Furniture, furniture. Hello? OK. I can add my collaborators to this team. I'm gonna skip that for now. I have got a paid version. OK? Um But I'm just using the free one for this course. OK. So you can have as many teams as you like at the moment, but only one project, one file. So if you're a super frugal designer, OK. And you can get kind of by, by having just lots of teams, one project. The trouble is you have to share like a bunch of different teams with people. And I don't know, it gets to a point where actually depending on your professionalism, how much work you're doing in it, that it's actually just too hard to try and manage all these different teams. One project three files, you know, let's say you get four files, you have to create another team, share that team with that same person. And yeah, that's where it can get messy. But remember these things do change. And also if you are a student or an educator, like I am, you can get a free version, go to fi a.com and check it out. There is a free option for educators and for students. But if you are feeling frugal, there is one thing that might push you over and it's library. So I will um show you libraries in the next video. So you're ready. Teams kind of like company name. You have different projects, you can have files in those projects. All right. That's it. I'll see you in the next video.

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What are Teams vs Projects vs Files in Figma?

What are Teams vs Projects vs Files in Figma?

Lesson Info

93. What are Teams vs Projects vs Files in Figma?

Lessons

Introduction to Figma Essentials

Getting Started with Figma Training

What Is Figma For & Does It Do The Coding?

What's The Difference Between UI And UX In Figma

What We Are Making In This Figma Course

Class Project 01 - Create Your Own Brief

What is Lo Fi Wireframe vs High Fidelity in Figma?

Creating Our Design File & Introducing Frames In Figma

The Basics Of Type & Fonts In Figma

Rectangles, Circles, Buttons And Rounded Corners In Figma

How To Use Color In Figma

Strokes Plus Updating Color Defaults In Figma

Object Editing And How To Escape In Figma

Scale vs Selection Tool in Figma

Frames vs Groups in Figma

Class Project 02 - Wireframe

Where To Get Free Icons For Figma

Matching The Stroke Of Our Icons

How To Use Plugins In Figma For Icons

Class Project 03 - Icons

How to Use Pages in Figma

How to Prototype in Figma

Prototype Animation and Easing In Figma

Testing On Your Phone with Figma Mirror

Class Project 04 - Testing On Your Phone

What is Smart Animation & Delays in Figma?

Class Project 05 - My First Animation

Sharing & Commenting on a Figma File with Stakeholders

Sharing & Editing With Other Ux Designers In Figma

How I Get Inspiration For Ux Projects

How To Create A Mood Board In Figma

Class Project 06 - Moodboard

How to Work with Columns & Grids in Figma

Tips, Tricks, Preferences, and Weirdness in Figma

Color Inspiration & The Eyedropper In Figma

How To Create A Color Palette In Figma

How to Make Gradients in Figma

How to Create & Use Color Styles in Figma

Class Project 07 - Colors & Columns

Fonts on Desktop vs in Browser in Figma

What Fonts Can I Use? Plus Font Pairing In Figma

What Common Font Sizes Should I Choose In Web Design?

How to Make Character Styles in Figma

Lorem Ipsum & Placeholder Text In Figma

Useful Things To Know About Text In Figma

How To Fix Missing Fonts In Figma

Class Project 08 - Text

Drawing Tips And Tricks In Figma

Squircle Buttons with ios Rounded Courses In Figma

Boolean, Union, Subtract, Intersect and Exclude with Pathfinder in Figma

What Is The Difference? Union vs Flatten In Figma

Class Project 09 - Making Stuff

Smart Selection & Tidy Up in Figma

Do I Need To Know Illustrator With Figma?

Tips & Tricks For Using Images In Figma

Masking & Cropping Images In Figma

Free Images & Plugins For Figma

Do You Need Photoshop For Ux Design In Figma?

Class Project 10 - Images

What Is Autolayout & Expanding Buttons In Figma?

Class Project 11 - Buttons

Auto Layout For Spacing

How To Use Constraints In Figma

Combining Nested Frames Auto Layout & Constraints in Figma

Adding Text Box Autoheight to Autolayout in Figma

Class Project 12 - Responsive Design

Nice Drop Shadow & Inner Drop Shadow Effects In Figma

Blur Layer, Background Blur & Image Blur in Figma

How to Make Neumorphic UI buttons in Figma

Class Project 13 - Effects

How To Save Locally & Save History In Figma

What are Components in Figma?

Updating, Changing & Resetting Your Components

You Can’t Kill Main Components In Figma