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Designing and Prototyping Interfaces with Figma

By : Fabio Staiano
Book Image

Designing and Prototyping Interfaces with Figma

By: Fabio Staiano

Overview of this book

A driving force of the design tools market, Figma makes it easy to work with classic design features while enabling unique innovations and opening up real-time collaboration possibilities. It comes as no surprise that many designers decide to switch from other tools to Figma. In this book, you'll be challenged to design a user interface for a responsive mobile application having researched and understood user needs. You'll become well-versed with the process in a step-by-step manner by exploring the theory first and gradually moving on to practice. You'll begin your learning journey by covering the basics of user experience research with FigJam and the process of creating a complete design using Figma tools such as Components, Variants, Auto Layout, and much more. You'll also learn how to prototype your design and explore the potential of community resources such as templates and plugins. By the end of this Figma book, you'll have a solid understanding of the user interface workflow, managing essential Figma tools, and organizing your workflow.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Figma and FigJam
6
Part 2: Exploring Components, Styles, and Variants
11
Part 3: Prototyping and Sharing

Adjusting the interface for tablets

In this section, you will take a step further and learn how to design your tablet app using ready-made Hi-Fi mock-ups for your mobile app. You will discover the best methods for adapting your design to significantly higher resolutions so that it looks great in all views, from simple to complex.

In the previous section of the chapter, you saw how a fluid layout adapts to different mobile resolutions, so it was pretty easy to properly configure our interface for each smartphone model in the presets. But just because our interface can scale automatically doesn't mean it will look good on larger devices, such as the iPad, without additional adjustments. Want to see a practical example?

The following screenshot shows the Login screen of the app immediately after switching to the iPad preset, without additional changes to the originally existing interface design:

Figure 8.13 – Testing the Login view on iPad

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