What We Are Making In This Figma Course
Lesson 5 from: Figma UI UX Design EssentialsDaniel Walter Scott
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What We Are Making In This Figma Course
Lesson 5 from: Figma UI UX Design EssentialsDaniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
5. What We Are Making In This Figma Course
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 We Are Making In This Figma Course
Hi, everyone in this video, we're gonna look at what we're making. Ok. We are gonna start making some wire frames initially. Ok. Then we will make some high fidelity versions. Ok. That look a little prettier. That one's actually pretty messy. Let's look at this one here. Ok. See the screens down the bottom. Ok. So we're gonna work on these. We're gonna build styles, components, all sorts of goodness. Let's have a look at one of the mockup versions. So yeah, it's uh this is going to be what we make. We'll design it, we'll add some interactivity, we'll make a form, people can purchase stuff. It's gonna follow our brief, both our persona and our task flow. So let's talk about what those things are. So we are going to focus on the software fig but I will throw in some kind of G UX design advice for people that are quite new. So what are we working to? We've got a company called Scott Headphones that wants us to design a few pages uh for this task flow. The task flow here in this case is th...
ey want a home page that uh goes to some features about the product, those um that product can be added to a checkout and then once the credit card details are filled in confirmations, that's what they've asked us to build. They've given us a persona. So let's quickly talk about what a persona is. So this is just a bare bones kind of persona. They can run to one whole page, two whole pages. Um But this is going to be enough for this particular course. What is it for? So I'll read it out, you can read. But um our ideal customer is a woman named Sarah. Sarah is in her twenties. She has a bachelor's degree. She works for herself. She's married with kids, uh and she lives in Ireland. She has never bought anything like this before. And uh some of her concerns is that she is very eco environmentally and waste conscious. So why do we have a persona? It's to allow us to be specific? Ok. Not specifically to Sarah herself. Sarah is representative of a, a type of person. OK. A group of people that are gonna be using this website and it helps me distance myself. Otherwise I end up building uh things that I would like, OK, based on my own history and the way I know the product. So this gives me boundaries. Otherwise you end up either for yourself or for everybody and then nobody wins. OK? Because you end up with this generic thing that doesn't actually work for the target audience. So our persona helps us to find that audience. It also helps when you are dealing with the client or stakeholders as well because you can detach your own kind of personal preferences. Like I want brush script, they want times New Roman. But what does Sarah one like we need to have for her and her situation and her experience with the product? And it does, it helps with those conversations to be separated from what Dan likes as the designer, what the client likes as her or himself. And let's talk about what's right for Sarah. And that's through to like uh color fonts, uh language types of imagery, organization of information, like what features should be shown earlier based on, you know, some of the preferences she has and some of the knowledge of the product. Now, this is just like a super quick overview of persona. It's a we're kind of learning UX design here in FIG A OK. A UX researcher. OK, will spend a lot more time and potentially produce uh you know, a lot more documentation around and understand Sarah a lot more than kind of what we've done here. So I guess it's a kind of a broad overview if you're new and if you are new, my advice to you is to spend some time. OK, now or after this course, researching personas what they for. OK. So to get a better understanding and just know that this is a very simplified version of it, but good for what we need for this course. Now, task flow, if you haven't heard of it before, OK. Tas flow here, we've been given uh instead of designing all of the mobile website, we've been asked to design a certain kind of important critical feature. OK? So we have to design this home page shows the products uh or the product features, a checkout page and a confirmation page. So this is a nice simple task flow. They can be a bit more complicated. OK? They can be less complicated. It might be like uh you know, task flows could include things like how you know, how does a person cancel this product? What is the process there? OK. You might be designing the cancellation process, maybe it's the sign up process, maybe it's how to change your password, how to download or upload a document. It might be a specific thing that needs to be done on your particular app or website. So that's considered a task flow. And also actually let's throw in this other term kind of his buddy. So task flow versus user flows comes up quite a bit. OK? Um There's this great article here by Erica Hirano. I'll put a link on the screen here but um after this uh video or after this course, do spend a bit more time understanding these, but I'll give you the brief rundown. So basically task flows. Have a look. They've got the pancake task flows. I'm gonna look at this finding a recipe version. OK? Very simple kind of like what we're doing in our course homepage, search for pancakes, search results, find the super banana pancake recipe. Simple task flow. It's step by step, it's sequential kind of linear. Whereas a task flow OK is a lot more complex. Let's have a look at this one. So this one here, can you see um we end up with a, it's the same kind of process. So you start at the home page and you end up with super banana pancake, but there's a lot more uh ways of getting there. There's more than one option which we know is always the case like this option is like the big one here. The first one is, are they going to use the search bar at all? They task low up above. OK. Said, assumed using the uh search option, but there is going to be your persona might not be a search bar kind of person. OK? They're gonna go this way. So, no, they're not gonna use the search bar. So then we're gonna have to build out and mock up. OK? Uh The browsing the categories and there's a breakfast category and then there's a breakfast page. OK? And they're finding pancakes within that breakfast page and then they click on the recipe that they want. OK. And they've ended up back at the same place, but it's a different way of getting there. OK? There is, you can see the key up here, there's decision nodes, OK? And the different shapes, OK? For different actions, OK? These are our pages, these are interactions between the user and the interface and these are decisions and I've got the start and stop there. So user flows are more complex, show different options. So you've got to make sure that you are designing for the right thing. If you're designing a user flow, it's gonna have more to it in a bigger job. Whereas a task flow can be quite a simple boundary option. Now, you will have task flows within this user flow. Can you still see our home page uh search results? Um Banana is still there. OK. It's just kind of baked into this more complex or different pathway that the user might follow. A user flow will help you find more things like any sort of dead ends or where people get stuck in a loop or don't know where to go anymore. OK. So yeah, that's the brief uh user flow versus task flow. Another thing to mention is that we've been asked to design a mobile uh website version of this, not an app. So an app you just have, you know the one mobile size screen. OK? Because it's a mobile website, it means you're probably gonna have to design out not only the mobile version but maybe a tablet and a desktop version as well. So that can often catch you out when you're new. And you're like, if somebody asked you to design a desktop website, you're gonna have to, the developer's gonna wanna see what, you know how the site breaks down to a mobile version or up into a desktop version. So take that into account. But our focus here is the mobile version. And lastly, this is a pretty bare bones in terms of, you know, we've got a persona, we've got a company name and a task flow. But and often a brief can be a lot bigger than this. OK? Like designing a whole website and sometimes you can get a lot of details around it. Ok? So for me as a designer, what would be hard with this particular one is how much do I know about sky headphones? Not very little at this stage. OK? I would like to see, I'd like to talk to them or have my product manager talk to them or you know, whoever's in charge, talk to them about, you know what they're about, you know, um what are their values? What is their mission to help me uh kind of help with this persona to kind of build another level on there and sometimes you won't get that information. OK? And sometimes you will, if you get given something from a bigger company, they're probably gonna have values emissions. OK? So you can go off and find that and add that to your kind of tool set when you are designing this thing to have better conversations with the stakeholders. When you are referencing what you're doing versus where they're going as a company equally, you're gonna get jobs where there is no values and there is no mission and they haven't really thought about it and you're gonna have to, you know, do your best with what you've got. And as you get more experienced, push back for those types of things, it's probably conversations that I want to have more and more, the more experienced I get like, uh not just a persona but like, why are we doing this? Where is the direction we're going? OK. Uh You know, who am I helping? Why are we helping uh to really influence my design work? But anyway, uh this is a good starting point for this course. Um Let's, let's move on.
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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!