Auto Layout For Spacing
Daniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
62. Auto Layout For Spacing
Lessons
Introduction to Figma Essentials
02:53 2Getting Started with Figma Training
03:06 3What Is Figma For & Does It Do The Coding?
03:46 4What's The Difference Between UI And UX In Figma
05:22 5What We Are Making In This Figma Course
09:18 6Class Project 01 - Create Your Own Brief
04:01 7What is Lo Fi Wireframe vs High Fidelity in Figma?
02:34 8Creating Our Design File & Introducing Frames In Figma
08:29The Basics Of Type & Fonts In Figma
10:51 10Rectangles, Circles, Buttons And Rounded Corners In Figma
06:50 11How To Use Color In Figma
05:45 12Strokes Plus Updating Color Defaults In Figma
09:28 13Object Editing And How To Escape In Figma
01:47 14Scale vs Selection Tool in Figma
02:39 15Frames vs Groups in Figma
09:24 16Class Project 02 - Wireframe
03:00 17Where To Get Free Icons For Figma
09:10 18Matching The Stroke Of Our Icons
05:16 19How To Use Plugins In Figma For Icons
04:31 20Class Project 03 - Icons
03:48 21How to Use Pages in Figma
08:31 22How to Prototype in Figma
10:46 23Prototype Animation and Easing In Figma
10:53 24Testing On Your Phone with Figma Mirror
05:40 25Class Project 04 - Testing On Your Phone
03:51 26What is Smart Animation & Delays in Figma?
08:44 27Class Project 05 - My First Animation
02:01 28Sharing & Commenting on a Figma File with Stakeholders
07:10 29Sharing & Editing With Other Ux Designers In Figma
06:58 30How I Get Inspiration For Ux Projects
06:39 31How To Create A Mood Board In Figma
05:33 32Class Project 06 - Moodboard
01:26 33How to Work with Columns & Grids in Figma
13:54 34Tips, Tricks, Preferences, and Weirdness in Figma
07:21 35Color Inspiration & The Eyedropper In Figma
06:34 36How To Create A Color Palette In Figma
09:02 37How to Make Gradients in Figma
07:09 38How to Create & Use Color Styles in Figma
08:01 39Class Project 07 - Colors & Columns
04:00 40Fonts on Desktop vs in Browser in Figma
01:30 41What Fonts Can I Use? Plus Font Pairing In Figma
06:01 42What Common Font Sizes Should I Choose In Web Design?
11:30 43How to Make Character Styles in Figma
06:36 44Lorem Ipsum & Placeholder Text In Figma
04:28 45Useful Things To Know About Text In Figma
09:35 46How To Fix Missing Fonts In Figma
02:42 47Class Project 08 - Text
05:19 48Drawing Tips And Tricks In Figma
09:38 49Squircle Buttons with ios Rounded Courses In Figma
02:48 50Boolean, Union, Subtract, Intersect and Exclude with Pathfinder in Figma
07:25 51What Is The Difference? Union vs Flatten In Figma
03:36 52Class Project 09 - Making Stuff
03:29 53Smart Selection & Tidy Up in Figma
08:40 54Do I Need To Know Illustrator With Figma?
04:15 55Tips & Tricks For Using Images In Figma
06:11 56Masking & Cropping Images In Figma
09:12 57Free Images & Plugins For Figma
02:31 58Do You Need Photoshop For Ux Design In Figma?
10:40 59Class Project 10 - Images
01:17 60What Is Autolayout & Expanding Buttons In Figma?
10:27 61Class Project 11 - Buttons
01:15 62Auto Layout For Spacing
05:47 63How To Use Constraints In Figma
08:22 64Combining Nested Frames Auto Layout & Constraints in Figma
11:54 65Adding Text Box Autoheight to Autolayout in Figma
08:27 66Class Project 12 - Responsive Design
02:19 67Nice Drop Shadow & Inner Drop Shadow Effects In Figma
05:56 68Blur Layer, Background Blur & Image Blur in Figma
05:57 69How to Make Neumorphic UI buttons in Figma
07:37 70Class Project 13 - Effects
01:53 71How To Save Locally & Save History In Figma
05:42 72What are Components in Figma?
06:19 73Updating, Changing & Resetting Your Components
07:47 74You Can’t Kill Main Components In Figma
07:22 75Where Should You Keep Your Main Components In Figma
05:02 76Intro To The Forward Slash / Naming Convention In Figma
08:55 77Class Project 14 - Components
00:44 78How To Make Component Variants In Figma
06:41 79Another Way To Make Variables In Figma
06:14 80How to Make a Multi Dimensional Variant in Figma
11:13 81Class Project 15 - Variants
01:41 82How To Make A Form Using Variants In Figma
12:52 83Class Project 16 - Form
01:27 84Putting It All Together In A Desktop Example
19:44 85How To Add A Popup Overlay Modal In Figma
03:03 86How To Make & Prototype A Tool Tip In Figma
07:26 87What are Flows in Figma?
05:39 88Slide In Mobile Nav Menu Overlay In Figma
03:55 89Class Project 17 - Prototyping
01:10 90How To Pin Navigation To The Top In Figma
10:17 91How To Make A Horizontal Scrolling Swipe In Figma
06:36 92Automatic Scroll Down The Page To Anchor Point In Figma
04:50 93What are Teams vs Projects vs Files in Figma?
05:18 94How Do You Use Team Libraries In Figma
11:03 95The Difference Between Animation & Micro Interactions
02:55 96Animation With Custom Easing In Figma
25:36 97Class Project 18 - My Second Animation
01:54 98How To Make Animated Transitions In Figma
12:34 99Class Project 19 - Page Transition
01:31 100Micro Interactions Using Interactive Components In Figma
05:54 101Micro Interaction Toggle Switch In Figma
04:23 102Micro Interaction Burger Menu Turned Into A Cross In Figma
04:23 103Class Project 20 - Micro Interaction
01:35 104How To Change The Thumbnail For Figma Files
04:10 105How To Export Images Out Of Figma
07:40 106How To Share Your Document With Clients & Stakeholders
07:09 107Talking To Your Developer Early In The Figma Design Process
03:55 108Sharing Figma With Developers & Engineers Handoff
06:07 109What Are The Next Level Handoffs Aka Design Systems
03:18 110Class Project 21 - Finish your design
04:57 111What Next?
06:08Lesson Info
Auto Layout For Spacing
Hey, everyone in this video, we're going to look at auto layout and take it a bit further than the last video. The last video we just use it for a stretchy button. But in this one, we're going to look at grouping lots of items together and stretching kind of that big group. What is this? If I need another another uh option in my navigation? See it reshuffled made the box bigger. I can delete it. OK? Gets it smaller. So it's kind of like combining those smart selection features we looked at earlier along with some fancy new auto features. So let's jump in and use auto allow for spacing. Hi, everyone. Hey, you'll notice the interface in this video is a little different because this is an update video. Um The auto layouts changed quite a bit. Now you noticed in the last video we used audio layout and you did hugging OK for the button. And I noticed that everyone found hugging where it did move to good work. But in this video, audio layout has just changed so much that I'm gonna rerecord i...
t. That's why things look different and why I sound different more older, more mature anyway get on with the video. Den. All right so the first thing is you're gonna watch me type some stuff, we'll do it in fast mode. Go. Alright I type some stuff um and I'm gonna left align it. Um the only thing for what we're gonna do is you need to make sure that the type is in separate text boxes. Ok? Don't just do one text box that has it all in there and put returns in. It's not gonna work for the auto out tricks we wanna do. Ok? So just have separate text boxes. I just duplicated them by holding alt and drag and then hit command D to get another one and then just change the text. Here we go. OK? So let's talk about auto layout. OK? So I've got these bits and pieces now and we've used smart selection before if I like line these up. Ok? I can do things like drag them around and they adjust. So smart selects cool. I can do the padding. Auto layout can be used in a very similar way with a few extra perks. OK? So I'm gonna convert it into an auto layout. Ok? A little plus there and you'll notice that over here. Ok? I've got now a parent frame, ok? An auto allow frame. That's this like little icon here with the little lines. OK? And inside it are these guys and basically I can do what I did with smart select, I can go features move around, I can hit command D to get another one of them and it adjusts super easy, but I have a lot more control over here. So you notice over here, I just have text features. OK? What I want to do is click the parent. OK? So click the frame 12, poorly named. OK? I'm gonna call this one NAV. OK? And over here auto layer has all these extra features. That's why we had to update this video is that this changed quite a bit. OK. So we can say I want them all stacked vertically or horizontally, you can wrap them, but that's kind of more an advanced feature. We'll do that later on in the advanced course. OK? But we can do the nice things like the gap between. OK? So we still have this full control. OK? You can type it in eight. OK? Or you can drag this icon and see this icon here. Click hold drag. OK? You can still do it on the screen like we do with smart, select one of the other perks of using auto layout like this is that we can do padding. So let's give the background of this auto lout. So I've got the parents selected, see NAV. OK. I'm gonna say I will give it a fill default still white, which is not helpful. I'm gonna pick one of the colors and now click off in the background. Click on this. I got um I've got some padding. OK? So I'm gonna do horizontal and vertical padding. So you can see there's a lot of similarities between smart select but auto has some perks and it's persistent. It means we can, you know, they stay around, they can add padding. And the other nice thing about the persistent this of orders, let's say I make a new item, OK? Or a new menu or something, but we want the same uh features OK? We want the padding and the background color and the spacing. What I can do is say you are an auto lo OK? Then I can select this one right, click it and say copy paste as copy the properties, select these right click again, copy paste as paste. OK? And it grabs all of those features there and you can get things consistent. Cool. Huh. Now you can do more and more with auto layouts. We go really deep in the advanced course with auto layouts but for the moment, a lot of the use cases are buttons and these kind of like little NAV features here consistent. Um We get to control the spacing at the padding, add the margins, add the spacing and we can add and remove items really easily and it all contracts and expands. It's awesome. Now, some of the things in the previous video that I made the original one that people had problems with that you might have a problem with is sometimes people do this, they'll go copy and paste and it's ended up outside of here and they're like, why won't it go in? OK. They're trying to do it and it's kind of outside of it. OK. There's a couple of things, the easiest way to duplicate something in here is you can select it. OK? Not the text if I double click too many times. OK? I copy and paste and I just get more text obviously. OK? If I had to escape, once it kind of comes out of that text editing mode. Now, if I copy and paste it, OK, it'll do the whole unit or what I do the most is I go once to click the whole thing, double click to get the bit that I want inside of here and just hit command D control D on a PC and just duplicates it. OK, then go and change it. If it does for some reason, get out, you can actually just drag it back in. Can you see the lines there? OK. Here it goes. If it's still not working, have a look at your layers panel over here. OK. So I've got this frame which is my outside frame for my kind of like phone. OK? Inside of here, I've got this badly named frame 12 and my nav sometimes home can end up like out here and oh, I ended up in there that was weird. OK. Can you see it's way out here in my layers panel if I want it to be inside of this? OK. Inside a nav, what I can do is say you my friend are between car and cut and there he is. Oh, he's in the right spot. There you go. Order louts are awesome. All right. That is it on to the next video?
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