How To Create A Mood Board In Figma
Daniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
31. How To Create A Mood Board In Figma
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
How To Create A Mood Board In Figma
Hi, everyone in this video, we're gonna take our inspiration, screenshots, put them into something that looks half decent as a mood board. And I'm gonna show you how to do the quick and dirty version depending on the mood boards use case. Alright, let me show you how to do it all. Create a move board. You've got kind of two move boards. You've got the mood board for yourself as a designer and then the mood board that you're gonna send to the stakeholders. Now I hate the word stakeholders as much as you do. Maybe you don't, it's management speak but New X world, everybody's a stakeholder. That's uh people like the client is one of the stakeholders. It might be the people financing it, it might be, it might be the user at the end. It's kind of like a nice round all term for everybody but I hate it. It's like uh thinking outside the box is another one I hate moving forward and maybe giving 100 and 10% all of the management things. I'm allergic to. I hate them but hey, stakeholders. Ok, so...
the one that you are doing a move board for yourself can be really rough and ready. All I tend to do. Ok. Is I just zoom out, go find my mo board screenshots and just go you and just dump them all on and mood board mate. Maybe I'll stack them up a little bit closer to here and I just use it to like, get ideas for fonts and colors and layouts and that is mood board. Simple number one now, uh it can get a bit messy. Can you see they're not in a frame? So just to make life a little easier. OK. What I tend to do, you could see the example before I totally didn't, but I'm gonna make this, I'm gonna lay it out. So it's at least a little bit manageable. Give me a sec. Now you saw that I just dragged them onto my desktop from my kind of finder window. You can do that or you can use the normal find file place image. OK? What I should do though is put them in a frame so that I can kind of tidy up this. So I can say frame tool, drag one out. OK? And it just because I dragged it over everything, they all fell into place. I can call this my Mood Ward. OK? You can get fancier and create a page that's called mood board and copy all into it. I don't want that. I'm going to undo that because I want to be able to see it while I'm working. Ok. But depending on your workflow. Now, a fancy one that I'm gonna have to send to a client, I'm gonna make, I'm gonna, the weird thing about a mood board is for a client. It's not gonna be a bunch of U I stuff in colors. It's gonna have to cos that they're gonna come back to me and say, why is there a shoe there? Why is this here? OK. I'm gonna have to be a lot more deliberate with my mood board. OK. And know who it's going to for myself. I can dump any old junk on here and be happy for my client. I need to make it look better and it needs to be a little bit more clear about my direction because this thing plus that thing over there are not a clear direction they're not gonna go. Yeah, that's a great idea. Let's use. I like the direction that you're hitting with your mood board because there is no direction. So to design a fancy one, you could just do exactly what I'm doing here. OK. Add strokes around the outside. Uh Fancy it out with colors, lay it all out nicely scale it all around using our K tool for scale. OK. And get them all nicely laid out or you could use one of the templates. There is a bunch of templates in our community. So back to home, uh make sure you're on community. There's a little option here. OK? And you can see let's go to our community. You type in mood board. Cool. There's just lots of pre laid out ones for you. OK? You might decide that. Oh You like this one? So I'm gonna click on it. I'm gonna click duplicate. Remember? Duplicating means it's now part of my Sigma file. OK? And you can see a bunch of layers now if you can't see them here, there's an example, move board. So it's gonna end up looking something like that. And you can tell how much nicer that is. I can't tell where I'm going. Um one little shortcut while we're here is shift, one shift, one kind of zooms out to show you everything that's on the document and that can be really handy. Put that in the middle and then smash command plus or control plus on a PC OK? And you can see they've created this one on this. They've created some move board structures OK? You might just copy that, paste it and start adding your images. Now we're gonna cover images a lot better later on. But let's say you like layout D, you can double click it to go inside this component, click on this rectangle and just go to our file. Um The F FIG MF file plays image OK? And pick one of these and go there you go o or do none of that and just click on it and you can see it's gone inside, double click it, move it around. We're going to cover cropping and images later on, but just wanted to give a sense. Now, at this point of my design, mood boards are getting created. OK? And you can either just do the one for yourself, dump it in a frame, don't really care or a lot more considered board that I'm going to go to my client with and say, hey, this is the direction before I start designing and moving, picking colors and choosing fonts. This is the style that I'm heading towards. What do you think? And they can give you feedback. Like no, I want to look like the Apple website or no, I want it to be a lot more urban and hip. I think you are instantly not urban and hip. If you say it like I just did there, I don't claim to be urban and hip but you get what I mean? Right. Like they're gonna give them a sense of where you're going before you start doing it because it's, their dialogue is really important because you can spend ages making a U I that they just don't like. All right. That is it for move boards. Let's move on to our next video.
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