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Designing and Prototyping Interfaces with Figma

By : Fabio Staiano
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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

Structuring interactive components

In this section, you will be introduced to Figma's newest and most powerful feature, namely interactive components, which were recently officially released, after a long period of beta testing. It was a breakthrough that radically changed the way designers work, making the flow of projects incredibly simple. How? Let's dive deeper into this topic to find out about it.

What are interactive components?

As you've seen, making a prototype interactive and navigable in Figma isn't all that difficult, but if you want to create a flow with complex, detailed animations, you have to duplicate many frames, sometimes repeating entire views over and over again. For example, imagine you need to create and then show in your prototype hover states for all buttons present in our streaming app interface. Sounds intimidating, doesn't it? And it still wouldn't be the worst thing you can imagine since our application is not that complicated...