Designing an App in Figma - A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners (2024) 

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amazing tutorial, super clear and straight to the point! I really love your structure as well it was insanely easy to follow along! Good job

thanks, this was a really great explanation/use of auto layout. i totally get it now. i was grouping before but this makes so much more sense. Also, you can change the color of the icon in icons8 *before* you add it to your document. unfortunately, you can't change it after, but i suppose you can re-add it if you need to.

This was very helpful to me. It's painful getting through some other RU-vidr's tutorials, but I like your style. Thank you!

Really awesome video. I not only learned the basics of how to set up wireframes for iphone, but also your tips and keyboard shorcuts to quickly spin up things. I loved the video!

am new to figma and I just wanted to create a wire frame for an app. the basics are explained clearly and straight to the point. Thanks a lot

Super easy to follow along and a lot of helpful tips about shortcuts and next steps. Thanks for making this video! I’m new to Figma and feel more confident in my ability to use the tool

I’d love to see a Figma to Code video, where designs are made with the intent to generate code for it using a plugin. Bernardo Ferrari’s “Figma to Code” is really great for it, but without a methodology to your Figma process like components or groups versus frames, then it doesn’t work as intended. I think this would be an effective, efficient, and scalable way to learn coding. Or if you want to hire me to do it that works too.

you can change the icon color even for PNGs at the upper right most side of the plugin palette

You made it so easy. Like the style with which you presented. keep 'em coming

Super nice video tutorial!!

Amazing tutorial to get started for us Figma beginners 😊

This is super helpful for beginner to follow. Thanks!

Great tutorial! Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for your video tutorials

The middle icon on the bottom of the screen is the target icon in Icons8

Very nicely done. A good intro to get started. Well spoken and easy to follow along with. Couple of constructive crit's (if you don't mind!): - have you considered editing some portions? There were a couple instances where you needed to go back and fix a mistake. When following along for the first time, new users may make get confused in the long run process. - maybe slow down for the first time we're introduced to a new tool, or sub-set menu. There may be times when new users are continually pausing, rewinding, squinting at the screen to see what you did. I know experienced users tend to fly by so fast because the action becomes unconscious. However, with users new to something, it's easy to miss. - (this one is a personal preference!) no need to see the commentator's face; it is distracting and also masks parts of the screen. Some people may not mind, or even like seeing the face! Everyone is different. Again, nicely packaged together and an efficient, easy way for newbies to get started. Also, the using of analogies (like the guitar) was a good one, too!

You have saved me so much time. Super helpful, thank you sir!

Thank you so much for this tutorial, I learnt a lot

Great teacher. I thought I might design an app on my own, but now I know, while I am sure I "could" based on your tutorial, I definitely do not want to spend my energy navigating those tools; so I can outsource that item. Thank you for this amazing tutorial.

Great video! Thank you for sharing your knowledge

Can you be more specific when it comes to shortcuts? Hotkeys can be a variety of different combinations so saying hotkey or press k as a shortcut is very vague. Or a shortcut sheet would be great! Otherwise great content!

This was super helpful. Thanks!

Finally a working method

My best video yet! 👍

very helpful, thank you for well explaining.

I know nothing about Figma, and excited to develop my first web-based application prototype using Figma But I am not sure, whether I can develop it using Figma as I still cant project how Figma could assist me Are there any way I can see the demo on the final product / output of web-based apps using Figma?

Great tut, please make a full video on requirement gathering to finish design product 😇

Thank you for this video. Well simplified and easy to follow. But please i can't find "spacing mode" on my advanced autolayout setting. Any idea what I'm doing wrong or not doing?

Nice tutorial.... Very helpful

Don’t be afraid, just embrace it.

great video!

Around 21:00 changing the padding moves "Today" for me, but the "menu" and "more" keep staying where they were

Thank You!

Thank you!!!!!

Thank you for your reply!

Thank you

thank you so freaking much oh my god

Thank you!

Thanks

hey great vid! is there a way to change the time on the iphone status pluggin?

It works for sharing.

how can i detach instance in latest version of figma

Thanks 😊

As always, everything is super. Waiting for new cheats from your side

It seems they restricted the Free plan to 3 files and 3 pages recently?

Do you need to learn Figma as an iOS developer?

22:30 / 54:49

putting in....they are only visible on the mini soft roll preview, I can’t do sNice tutorialt without seeing what notes are being played...i can’t even

Are the IOS Glyph icons found in Icons8 exactly the same (including naming conventions) as those found in SF Symbols app?

bro do you kmow to built an OS

What if you're designing in the landscape position. How do you define the layout in that scenario?

could you share your presentation please? thanks for the videooo

Is it the last build? Can't find live version :(

just dropped by to say that your buttons on the thumbnail are on the wrong side of the iPhone... 🤔

Stick with it it gets easy over ti

but there is a benefit in it))

basically

I'm not gonna say you do or you don't. I'm not a doctor butttttttttttt...... I had a similar problem when trying to learn new tNice tutorialngs and it helped

Nice tutorials 😢on it

14:36

Wish i was

the best hack

You’re not explaining the things you do , you need to explain them to people who doesn’t know

chris, i think xd is better than Figma, what's you thought?

I don't think it is necessary to introduce shortcuts for beginners.

did u learn?

liked subbed and would donate LOL

So we still out here struggling with ourselves or has anyone conquered? Lol

Not one of your team's best videos. this should have been broken out into smaller videos and go a bit slower and deeper into the settings.

pls bring back chris - this guy says that we dont have to worry about almost every option - well then why are you giving this tutorial?

possible if you demonstratring or explaining pls avoid reapeating the words cz it makes ppl confuse heheh .

Foreal lmfao

Nah i am a sigma not a figma😂 jk

that was a amazing class for me as a beginner thankyou @codewithchris hope to see more videos like advance feature