What you'll learn
- Figma Component building.
- How to build responsive (size to media) components.
- Master components for forms and buttons to easily change states on the fly.
- Client Changes - quickly shift design by editing master components.
- Buttons - master responsive button components and secondary buttons and more.
- Floating Menu - We change the original menu and build a floating menu.
- Button With Icons - building buttons with multiple icons and active states.
- Selection components - radio buttons and check boxes with active states.
- Tab components - using responsive components to easily add new tabs.
- Tables - Using components to speed up your design build and dynamically change..
- Block-quote callout - How to make a block-quote design with three different areas and how to make it responsive to the content.
- Pricing tables - 1 component to build out a quick 3 column pricing table.
Requirements
- Download the free Figma program
Description
Give yourself an edge in the UI design world by learning the basics of components and how they can help your interactive design. Quickly create components (like symbols) in Figma that work for you by stretching for responsive design, build easy compositions, and edit on the fly. This class walks through the entire system of components, and how each are built in a step by step process. This class also goes deep into how to use components to speed up your User Interface Design process and easily create different variations of the same component. By breaking each component down into separate videos, you can quickly jump to components that you need help with and not get overwhelmed. This Figma beginner class will give you the tools to launch your User Interface Career.
This class dives into these breakout sessions:
Menu Components and setup.
Form Components and how to build master form components.
Client Changes - quickly shift design by editing master components.
Buttons - master responsive button components and secondary buttons with different states.
Floating Menu - We change the original menu and build a floating menu.
Button With Icons - building buttons with multiple icons and active states (social media buttons).
Selection components - radio buttons and check boxes with active states.
Tab components - using responsive components to easily add new tabs and show the active state.
Tables - Using components to speed up your design build and dynamically change the content.
Block-quote callout - How to make a block-quote design with three different areas and how to make it responsive to the content.
Pricing tables - Using 1 component to build out a quick 3 column pricing table that shifts to your design.
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Resources
Connect with Brian on his website, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter
Who this course is for:
- Beginning User Interface Designers. Print designers wanting to dive into UI Design. UI Designers wanting to speed up their workflow and protect their designs from client changes.
Course content
- Preview00:43
- Preview16:15
- 27:50Form Components and how to build master form components.
- 06:54Client Changes - quickly shift design by editing master components.
- 22:37Buttons - master responsive button components and secondary buttons and more
- 07:43Floating Menu - We change the original menu and build a floating menu.
- 08:32Button With Icons - building buttons with multiple icons and active states.
- 07:01Selection components - radio buttons and check boxes with active states.
- 06:26Tab components - using responsive components to easily add new tabs.
- 13:53Tables - Using components to speed up your design build and dynamically change.
- 03:13Block-quote callout - How to make a block-quote design with 3 different areas.
- 16:41Pricing tables - 1 component to build out a quick 3 column pricing table.
Instructor
Brian is the creative director of Brian White Design. He directs the studio’s strategic and creative growth while also serving as senior designer on many client projects. Enthralled by the color, layout, pattern and typography of branding, Brian loves to apply this outlook to clients and businesses. He brings an abundance of national branding industry and user-interface experience to the table and has developed a strong foundation in interactive brand strategy. Brian enjoys connecting and collaborating with outside agencies and design studios that share similar loves in brand and interactive design. Some of the companies Brian has worked with include: Motorola, PBS, Sprint, Dell, Capital One, Geico, Microsoft, Kansas University, Arizona State University, Coupons Inc., American Cancer Society, Mayo Clinic, SAP, American Society of Diabetes, Legacy, AFT, Dairy Farmers of America, Verizon, WatchGuard, and more.