Great tip, its good to plan ahead in terms of "consumption" like you mentioned, I wonder if Figma should add a subtle divider to visually separate each group when the components properties becomes similar to the last example you showcased.
This is such an important topic!! And a great demonstration of how bundling different icons together as variants makes an objectively worse experience (always keep those guys as separate components!): - Having to select an icon by name alone VS getting a visual preview (offered by the instance swap menu) hurts discoverability. - The droplist of variants has no search input (unlike the instance swap panel) - You can't "escape" to another library or area of the file if you're trying to grab an icon that lives elsewhere - You can't set up preferred selections Great preview of the quality Figma Academy provides 🔥 thank you Ridd!
Hello, when I make an animation in frames in figma, it contains the pulse and a hand simulating a touch screen. But when I want to export by lottie I only see the pulse animation and not the hand, does anyone know why that could be?
You briefly mentioned an "annotation component" and I'm intrigued! Is that preferable to raw annotation in dev mode? Is there anywhere to learn more recommended best practices around it? Thanks!
This is a gold mine! Thanks @Ridd, now I see the value of variables and variants in taking prototyping to the next level! You explain concepts in a way that's easy to understand (just like you do in the Figma Academy courses!), and I really appreciate this. Excited to apply these to my projects. <3
Hey, I'm wondering about the layers under the icon. Do you "outline the stroke" to make it a single vector or do you keep using strokes? I've tried using strokes, but the icon wrapper doesn't maintain the stroke thickness consistently. When I resize it to a larger size, the stroke thickness stays the same as the original size instead of adjusting to the wrapper size. Any tips on that?
Figma Academy gave me such a burst in working smarter, more lean and agile, and getting a better understanding. Just started 2.0 and just enjoying it yet again. Thank you 🙏
Hey, Ridd! Great content! If I could make one suggestion would be to incorporate "purchasing parity", because although I'd LOVE to take this course, it's simply not viable pay 300 bucks working from Brazil, since the ration between our currencies is currently 5:1. Good luck!
@@cloned81 what phrase would you use? I kinda always feel silly but it's basically between pricing parity and purchasing power parity from what I can see and I'd rather go with two Ps than three Ps lol.
This is great. How would you set two (multiple values) if a condition is met? If FILTER == ABC then set RED to FALSE and GREEN to FALSE 🤔 Likewise, how can you check for multiple conditions? If FILTER == A or B or C?
Hi Ridd, awsome presentation of the Figma Academy. I've been thinking for a long time that I want to get better at designing. There are so many courses out there and it's hard to choose especially when you are on a tight budget. What I see in a lot of courses is the UI part that is explained but not so much the UX - and what I understand by UX is the research, user interviews, user persona creation, user journey, user flow, wireframes, empty states, design systems, ui kits, tokens. I am aware that what you are presenting is called Figma Academy and I would expect it to be about all things that you can do in Figma. Maybe what I mentioned above it's a bit more than that and no one course can have it all. I think the reason I am reaching out is because I really enjoy watching all your videos here on youtube and you seem quite a trustworthy guy and I need some guidance. Is Figma Academy right for me? I want to be able to create user interviews and usability test, user flows, user journey etc. I am quite a visual person, and I would say I am quite good at typography, branding, colors, design systems. Thank you and wishing you a lot of success in all your current and future projects!
@@ridd Thank you for your reply and transparency! Makes sense and I am sure from all the small sneak peaks on the Figma Academy I've seen so far that it's a great course for many. I'll check your recommendation. Keep up the good work! Really appreciate your message!
Holy Molly, 14 screens for a single Modal. For a 30+ screen basic app, this would entail over 400 Screens to share with the devs. Any tips on how to expedite the creation of these screens other than alt+drag and manually reorder and resize everything?
