"In June 2024, we introduced a redesigned Figma-called UI3. With UI3, some parts of this video might not match what you see in the product today. We appreciate your patience while we update our content. - Find where features moved to in our guide: help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/23954856027159-Navigating-UI3-Figma-s-new-UI - Learn more about overlays in Figma: help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039818254-Create-overlays-in-your-prototypes"
Appreciate the tutorials on overlays! It would be better if the videos can be updated to reflect the newest version of Figma since there's been a significant change in the UI since this video was released.
Figma sadly is a one and done. They say a thing and they treat it like that is the end of their responsibility. You would think a UX tool would have better character to how they support users. Honestly? I think this is something Adobe can improve upon. Sorry...bitter. LOVE Figma. Hate the company and lack of care or support of users. No response seems to be their standard.
For those wondering how to do this in the latest version of Figma (as of Dec, 2023): - Click on prototype and connect your main screen to the overlay screen (note that the overlay frame should only be the size of the overlay, not the screen you want to overlay on) - Click on the arrow connecting both screens - Click on the 'Navigate to' dropdown and select overlay (you'll also get an option to add a background here below the overlay)
We're excited to finally announce Overlays in Figma! If you missed the blog post, check it out here: www.figma.com/blog/introducing-overlays-taking-prototyping-to-the-next-layer/
I love you, Figma ♥ Animated overlays is exactly what i was looking for! Now I can use it in my prototypes. You don't know how much I appreciate your work. THANKS
this helps A LOT. I don’t understand why people don’t talk about this in most tutorial videos. I felt so stressed when I didn’t know overlay existed. (i tried to search for dropdowns and plugins and didn’t know this functionality is named overlay🤣)
Thanks for following up on the nav dropdown video. Sound quality has improved a lot, and I can actually hear it now. Thanks for improving, following up, and sharing a cool tool.
Thanks for the feedback Ira! We're still small and have to be scrappy about when and where we can record our audio, and we're always looking to improve. If you have any suggestions on videos you want to see in the future, let us know!
Omg Thank you guys so much for Overlays. Makes life slot easier. Please could you do a tutorial video, showing us how to create a nav bar using Overlays?
Clear and concise. I remember trying to learn how to do this on my own and failed miserably 😅 Thank you for providing such useful content for Figma newbies like me!!
I have to say this was an amazing tutorial. The speaker's tone is a little distracting at first but once you get past and focus on the content, it's amazing. Thanks.
I'm having issues trying to program this: click button in overlay > navigate to another frame. Mine keeps just navigating back to my first frame, even though I've done exactly what's directed as about ~4:00 mark in video. Any tips ?
I really appreciate these tutorials Figma. May I suggest that before going over the tutorial, showing a couple examples of what an overlay looks like and what it is would be nice for beginners like myself. Then afterwards proceed with how to make it. Some of us are curious and self taught users of Figma and not UX design people or nor have studied related subjects. Thanks!
I'm having such a hard time figuring out how to create hover states in a drop down menu with this method. I much prefer it to duplicating a whole page/frame, but I think I'm missing something super obvious perhaps because I can't seem to get my hover states on my menu to work. Any tips?
How to use hover state to swap component instance. For example, to prototype hover on a button and swapping the instance with a darker background color version.
This is awesome. I am already excited to use this xD Quick question though: if I make a dropdown menu with 3 items, and I have to make hover states for each item. Should I have to make 3 different frames for each item and use swap feature? Or is there a better way?
How do you select where the dropdown animation begins? When I click on my dropdown menu, the menu drops down from the top of the frame, rather than dropping down from where the button was.
The content is amazing, I am learning so much, but I would love to have someone with a voice that is a little bit more... pleasant to listen to, for lack of a better word.
ty, Figma team, it's awesome! But will u do a menu for HOVER styles. Ex, there is a link color: blue; text-decoration: underline Than I wish open HOVER menu and set link color: red; text-decoration:none. Will u do this?
I have an overlay screen dragging up from my mobile screen but the overlay screen is going over my navigation bar. How do I place my navigation bar in front of the overlay screen when I drag it up?
Yo figma, yall need to update your tutorials. Although these tutorials are suppose to serve as being helpful, it causes more confusion because the UI has changed so much.
Hi, is there a possibility to add multiple actions to an item? For e.g. I have a button, which on hover displays a tooltip (I'm using an overlay for this) and then, I need to click the button, but when I link it with needed screen (on click), on hover action disappears.
Hi Figma Tutorial, can you make a overlay scroll menu tutorial, i try to build it but when scroll, overlay always showing overlap outside the frame or auto layout.
This is amazing! The Figma team rules! Thanks for consistently improving the product. Question, any way as of now to add a shadow to the overlays? I noticed a shadow on the frame for the overlay, but not in the prototype. I'm having trouble with that in my prototype as well.
We're looking into fixing this! Right now, as a workaround, you can wrap your Frame inside of another Frame that is large enough to contain the Drop Shadow.
Another excellent feature my friends. However I can't seem for the life of me, get vertical scrolling to work for the "parent" frame, if an overlay is open. Is there any workaround for that?
I have one question. When opening Prototype and Connect button together with the flow charts, how can I enable the Prototype menu to have two elements like yours: Trigger & Action tabs. Thank you!
Sorry, I know this video is old by now but I will love to ask a question regards the content "Swap" prototype precisely. Can it work for multiple instances for a side menu?
Hey can someone please help me with this problem I'm facing? I've used overlays while hovering over an icon to show what the icon does but now when I try to use 'on click' action for the icon it shows a little exclamation sign on its left and it does not transition to the destination when I click the icon. Why is this happening?
My prototype menu does not look like this. I only have "interaction details" as an option and I need to be able to close a overlay by clicking outside of it. How do I get my prototype menu to look like this?
Honestly i want to smack myself in the head, all this time i could have used overlays instead of duplicating everytime. Video was very helpful, thank you.
Dear Figma-Team, the automatic transfer of previous prototyping settings to a new one like in 7:02 does not work for me. Do you have an idea, how I could get this feature, too?
I have created an overlay frame and applied inside my Android frame and while I scroll the page my overlay frame is coming forward seperately. At that point I get frustrated and move on to make a duplicate slides. Can anyone share the solution for this!!
Are there certain prerequisites that must always be fulfilled? For example that the objects may only be the same size. Or no frames may be etc. etc. etc. …? I have a layout. This is a registration form. I can't get a simple hover for button status (register now). Either the background is black, or it is called ... The link dit not valid And I can't see what I'm doing wrong :-(
We're creating a UI Kit for the VueJS community (Vuetify) and we'd like the buttons to have a hover effect but these buttons then must be used by the end user and allow for the user to assign click navigation. In essence we want both HOVER and CLICK and we want the click event to be configured from the original button rather than requiring the user to go into the hover button and assign the click event here. Is this possible? If not is this on the roadmap?
Can you "Close an overlay to a different Frame from its starting frame? I ask this because the starting frame is a hover state. I want it to go back to the base state and not the hover
When I set overlay animation to 'Move in', the overlay just slides in from the bottom of the entire frame, it feels unnatural to me. Is there a way to set the 'boundary' of the animation ?
It seems that when you click to delete photos in your first example...the photos are deleted but the overflow menu does not close. How do we make that overflow menu close while also closing the modal?
You know...or you could just not answer and not support your users. Seems like the standard at Figma. Why have a channel if you will not support it? Causes more harm than good.
Great video! Does anyone know if it's possible to create an overlay screen that is also scrollable? eg: A share bottom layout that hides more content beneath the fold.
the 'move in' animation looks weird, the overlay slide in from the top edge of the entire frame, I think it would be more natrual if the 'move-in' animation origin is the mouse position where the user click the trigger element
Sorry for disturbing, but I'm the only one that try to use more than 1 manual overlay and that block the app? If I use centred or some already done command work, with manual it bugs :(
