What's The Difference Between UI And UX In Figma
Lesson 4 from: Figma UI UX Design EssentialsDaniel Walter Scott
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What's The Difference Between UI And UX In Figma
Lesson 4 from: Figma UI UX Design EssentialsDaniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
4. What's The Difference Between UI And UX 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
What's The Difference Between UI And UX In Figma
All right, let's talk about what U I versus UX is. If you already know you're allowed to skip this video, it's OK. And this is not gonna be a very like detailed, just give you an understanding of like the differences between the two cos it comes up a lot. Um So U I designed the simple way. This is all very simple. OK? The U I user interface versus UX, the user experience, OK? The U I is the way something looks and the UX is how it works, how somebody uses it. OK? So often the way it looks how it's used. And now in terms of being a U I designer, like U I designer is in charge, like up until UX became part of my life and a lot of us, it's kind of a newish and I did a lot of U I design. I designed a website and it was based a lot on my intuition like oh buttons should be this big and it should be over here. And traditionally things go over here in the N A. OK? So there was a lot of that and I'd give it to the client, they'd like it. Great. OK. But there was a big element missing the UX. O...
K? There was very little testing. OK. I had a, I had an idea of what would work. OK. But it was totally an idea. It was like a, a hypothesis of how it should work. And the UX part of being a UX designer is the taking that kind of U I OK? That layout and getting it in the hands of clients and testing it. OK? That part of it turns you from just a U I designer into, you know, the beginnings of a UX designer is getting it out there and actually testing that, did it work, did it do exactly? You know what I hoped it would do, you know um is the client when they click this button, do they go where they expected or were they surprised? OK. Is the language like let's say U I designer designs the button, OK. And the rounded corners and the beautiful gradient OK? Or the and the text in the middle, OK. The UX designer says that's great. Let's go and test that and says, you know, is it big enough, can they click on it? Is there enough contrast? Is it accessible for people? Maybe that have uh that are visually impaired? OK. It is, you know, is the hierarchy of buttons? Is this one too big because it feels like it should be doing something else. There's a lot of that side of things is the UX. Now, in all honesty, this course is based uh mostly around U I design cos we're learning fig A fig M is the creation of these things. The testing side of stuff, I'll give you a um you know, some ex some insights as we go along about what I would do at different testing phases. OK? But it is broader than what can be covered in this course. OK? But we'll do U I with a little bit of UX, OK? But fig A basically is we're learning software is why you signed up probably. OK? So it doesn't make you instantly a UX designer. The UX part is the, you know, taking it further than just moving pixels around on the screen is like giving it out there and getting it tested and changing things and testing things. That's UX. My little example that I'm kind of running through at the moment example. It's a, yeah, my bank updated its website and its app and it looks beautiful. The U I amazing. The UX is terrible. OK? I'm sure it went through some testing. I imagine it went through lots of testing. Not right at the end though because there's just, it's just simple things like um let's say that I'm typing in my password type type type, hit, enter, enter, enter. No, you gotta get the mouse and click the enter button. So I'm like why you know there's a in code. It's not hard. That kind of, I can't remember what it's called. When you get to the end. It will know that when you press enter, you mean this button here. So that's just one thing. Ok. Another thing you go into like updating, uh, I went to update a person in my standing orders like a direct debit or I'm not sure what you call it in your country, but a regular payment that I'm making. Ok. So went to find how to edit it. I'm like, have to delete it because I couldn't find anywhere, you know, and I'm tech savvy. I know how to use computers and I'm like, I couldn't find it. So I was like, oh, well, maybe I have to delete it and I've been doing this a few times. I was like, I'm gonna email them. Um and they're like, I just got to click the name of the person to edit it. I'm like, oh, that sounds simple. Go and have a look and you do. If you click the name of the person, it does go to edit it, but it's missing a couple of things, any sort of indication that that's possible, underline arrow, big sign tool tip. And the other weird thing about it is, you know, when your mouse mouse is kind of moving along and when you go over something clickable, it turns into the little hand, it doesn't do that. You just click it with the arrow and it's like, start clicking everything that must be hard to turn that thing off somehow it's off. There is a million in one of those little things. It's just come out. But I do have a problem with it anyway. I'm burbling and red won't do red again. This feels very ominous. Um, my little colored light, I just bought the colored light. You're going to see it all the way through this course until I get sick of it. Um But yeah, that's my UX story at the moment. You'll have them as well and that's the kind of thing if you're new to UX is keep those ideas open like they're terrible and they're a pain in the butt, but it's kind of language and stuff that you're gathering as a designer so that when you're working, you can avoid some of those things or at least, you know, when it comes back from testing, you're not surprised you're like, oh yeah, that thing that I hate as well is in this thing. So you are UX, that's my explanation for the moment. Alright. 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!