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Character Styles

Lesson 40 from: Adobe XD: UX/UI Design Essentials

Daniel Walter Scott

Character Styles

Lesson 40 from: Adobe XD: UX/UI Design Essentials

Daniel Walter Scott

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Lesson Info

40. Character Styles

Lessons

Class Trailer

Getting Started

1

Getting Started with XD

02:21
2

What is UI vs UX

06:19
3

The UX Brief & Persona

11:22

Wireframing Low Fidelity, Type, Color & Icon

4

Wireframing (Low Fidelity)

01:58
5

How Wide for my Website

13:06
6

Existing UI Kits

07:49
7

Working with Type

09:09
8

Basic Colors & Buttons

14:14
9

Free UI Icons

11:45
10

Footers & Lorem Ipsum

05:27
11

New Pages & Artboards

04:20
12

Class Project 01 - Wireframe

11:11

Prototyping a Website

13

Prototyping & Interactivity

08:53
14

Create a Popup Modal

07:57
15

Prototype

02:54
16

Groups & Isolation Mode

02:30
17

How to Use Components (Previously Components)

17:19
18

Production Video - Left Nav

03:52
19

Repeat Grid

05:27
20

Updating Components & Repeat Grids

08:54
21

Prototype Tricks

06:03
22

Navigation Tricks & Tips

04:48
23

Class Project 03 - Components

04:07

Prototyping an App

24

Mocking Up an App

09:40
25

XD App on Your Phone

08:04
26

Fixing the Position

01:01
27

iPhone & Android Status Icons

03:10
28

Production Video - Login

06:45
29

Sharing Wireframes

13:32
30

Recording Your Interactions

03:13
31

Class Project - Wireframe Feedback

01:21
32

Mood Boards

07:43
33

Class Project - Mood Board

00:59
34

12 Column or Grids

04:57
35

Working with Colors

09:02
36

Tricks for Using Colors

06:34
37

Gradients

03:50
38

Class Project 06 - Colors

02:14

Text & Drawing

39

Use Web Safe Fonts

18:00
40

Character Styles

06:59
41

Font & Text Tips Tricks

05:43
42

Plugin Lorem Ipsum

05:39
43

Paste Properties

13:15
44

Class Project 07 - Text & Buttons

02:21
45

Draw Custom Icons

04:13
46

Strokes & Lines

14:28
47

Pen Tool

14:34
48

Drawing Practice

07:15
49

Production Video with Tips

12:27

Working with Illustrator, InDesign & Photoshop

50

Illustrator in XD

09:34
51

Class Project 08 - Custom Icons

01:49
52

InDesign in XD

11:38
53

Pros & Cons for Images

03:58
54

CC Library Connection

11:01
55

Adobe Stock

05:20
56

Free Images

01:48
57

Masking

06:44
58

Photoshop in XD

08:41
59

Infographic

12:12
60

Class Project 09 - Hi-Def Mockup

05:38

APP Design

61

Mobile Phone Mockup

18:08
62

Class Project 10 - Mobile Website

01:24

Placeholder content & Plugins

63

Hidden Features for Repeat Grid

05:17
64

Plugin - Content Generator

04:29
65

Plugin - UI Faces

03:15
66

Plugin - PhotoSplash

04:31
67

Plugin - Copy Cat

03:19
68

Advanced Asset Panel

04:37
69

Advanced Symbols

07:52

Micro Interactions

70

What are Micro Interactions

07:21
71

Button Grow

06:13
72

Animated Image Gallery

06:39
73

Full Vector Change

08:19
74

Class Project 11 - Micro Interactions

05:12

Prototyping Advanced, Voice Interactions & User Testing

75

Time Delay Transitions

04:42
76

Popup Menu or Modal

12:16
77

Animated Mobile Side Nav

03:26
78

Drop Down Menus

03:24
79

Drag Transitions

07:19
80

Number Ticker Scroll

06:51
81

Alexa Voice Commands

09:37
82

What is User Testing

16:53
83

Unmoderated UX Test

12:07
84

Class Project 12 - User Testing

02:23

Pitching to clients & customers

85

Mocking up in Photoshop

09:21
86

ProtoPie

02:40
87

Add Animation Using After Effects

09:39
88

Export Images & Assets

12:56
89

Export Code Using Design Specs

10:49

What Next

90

Class Project 13 - Roar Cycles

10:29
91

Conclusion

05:32

Final Quiz

92

Final Quiz

Lesson Info

Character Styles

Alright. This video is all about character styles and XD all the character style is, is a reusable style that we get to add to our assets panel so we can have some consistency. I can grab all of these guys and then over here, make sure you're on assets. Okay. This little icon down here and click on the plus next to character styles. I've got them all there to be reused, updated actually gonna undo them and just show you at one at a time because I want to show you one of the perks for them added. Just this one here, it's added the name of it and the size you can actually right click it and rename it. You might call this one my heading one to make it just a little easier to work with. Maybe maybe you're setting some guidelines up for your team and you want it to be consistent. But the good thing about it is, let's say I use this a few times, right? It's in different pages across different art boards. And the client comes back and says, I don't like play fair. So you're going to go into h...

ere. You can go to edit. Okay. You can go into here and you can say, no problem clients job done. Okay. And it's gone through your whole document and adjusted it. Even if they're not connected. Like if you've used, say adobe in designs, character styles or illustrator or Photoshop, you have to like make sure they're connected. XD is different. Um, you could create this one. You don't actually have to connect them to them, they just have to match. Okay, so it doesn't, you don't have to apply them or make sure they're connected, it'll just go through and say if you, you know, if it was a Playfair font that was 40 it just went through and found it and changed it for us. Super cool, super handy. And undo that the other thing to consider when you're doing an undue before that character style existed is that it pulls in a few things. We just got these on single lines. Who remembers what this is called, what kind of text box it is. Point text, you got it. So it's just running on forever. But if its body copy, it's going to break into separate lines and that's something we haven't really considered here. We just we made them, we picked the font but we didn't pick the line spacing with the leading and we didn't play around with the space after. So that will get pulled in as well. So you've just got to be careful, you know, at this stage, like Let's have a look at that. So if I put two lines in here and put a return in um and put in another line, that line spacing is fine, you might be like 53, the automatic default one picked for 40, it's fine. My only trouble is that it doesn't match my baseline grid, okay, if the model is at eight, so I might have to bump it up to 56 a little bit wider, but at least it's gonna line up with that grid. You might not care. Just know though, that that will be part of the character style. So just be conscious. I want that one to be 56. Yeah, this one here is going to be 40. Actually, none of these headings break onto two lines, it's mainly this body copy. So, I want all of these fellas to be quite specific. So, I've got them all. You're gonna have a line spacing of 24. Let's have a little look at what 24 looks like copy paste paste paste. That's not really good. Pasting, Yep, I like it as spacing between the lines if you're unsure what I mean by line spacing, I bump it up to the next one which is, man, my brain doesn't work. 32. Probably too much Cool. Get rid of you. What else have I got to get rid of you? One of you fellas. 24 is great. This one here only plan on using on single lines, so all of you guys are in and I should go and rename them all, But I'm happy enough with Playfair 40 maybe because I'm lazy, you should call it hitting one, hitting two, hitting three. I'm going to add all the white ones as well. Oh, I forgot to change the spacings on all these, so speed this up. I'll see you in a sec. All right, you can see it's edited and it's edited alpha numerically. So bits of whites are all spread through the kind of darker versions. So you allowed to drag it around afterwards. So it's like all of these actually. Where's my other heading there? It is there and just get it looking nice in here. This could be a little O C D. You might not care. But all the light ones, all the dark ones. It's the opposite of what I said. Police are all in there. All right. And for the people who are using some of the other adobe products. So photo joop illustrated in design, let's say that you have designed something you're like, oh, you know, I want to pull the fonts in sort of got the corporate bond, you've got all the right sizes. Really might even done a mock up like this. This is like a mock up done in Photoshop as a kind of, you know, a full website mock up and I want this fondle through the easy way to do it is find it in your layers panel. Okay, So I found it here. Got it highlighted. Make sure your libraries panel is open. Got a window. Make sure libraries is open. Find the library that we created. I've got a bunch of them. Right? I want to find it's called I H Q XD class. So this is the connection between the CC library annex D and in Photoshop. So as long as you've got that text selected, you can hit this little plus button and say actually give me the character style please. You can see, brings it through. I could even right click it and rename it and give it something a bit more. I don't know. This is raw cycles, you can't see it there. The company has raw raw bikes actually, and this is their say hitting one and what you can do and instantly see annex D. So if you go to window, sorry, file and go to open C. C. Libraries, as long as you're on the exact same one, you can see there it is there white so I can grab that. Oh, my library disappeared again. Doesn't want to stay open and click on this and it's brought it through here. Cool. And remember it doesn't work with character and paragraph styles at the moment, hasn't forever. So I can't imagine it's going to in the future, but it's brought through the font, that character spacing, line, height, all sorts of cool stuff. I don't want that. I'm going to undo it. Same thing for illustrator. Um Let's say this is one of the briefs is working on. Okay with this text selected here. I can go over to the same thing, make sure the library's panels open, make sure you're on the right library, little plus button, grab the character style and there it goes in there and that's my museo sans should name it, but I'm not okay and I can grab all of this and actually you guys are gonna be museo sans now, same thing. If you've got characters styles going in in design, you get the idea to make sure the library's open, select it hit the little plus button and it will suck it over. Alright, That is it for character styles, if you find yourself when you're designing, you know, and you leave this project and you don't end up doing this at the beginning, you do it at the end retrospectively because you're like, I didn't even know what font I wanted to pick. That's okay. I only do it at the beginning here for a couple of reasons. One is I I've done it so many times that I kind of know the structure that I want and it saves me time later on. I also wanted it to be here so that we can I can show you how character styles work for this course. There are times where I'm just blazing through and picking any old font and any old size and I tidy it up later, but for the moment, follow me get everything sorted so that we're not going to run into problems later on and I closed down my CC library and I will see you in the next video

Class Materials

Bonus Materials with Purchase

Six Completed Files
Exercise Files

Ratings and Reviews

Haseebullah Johar
 

Thank you, Dan Scott, for providing such a beautiful Adobe XD course. I completed the course today and noticed a couple of things that are missing. I want to share them here so that you can upgrade the course, which would be helpful for us. Hover state and toggle state. Dragging pages from 1-2 to 2-3 and then back from 3-2 to 2-1 with dragging is not working. Another thing is that we learned scrolling the website from top to bottom, but scrolling or pushing things from right to left has been completely omitted. These are the things I have noticed, and I would like you to upgrade them so that we can improve our Adobe XD skills.

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