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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

Chapter 12: Discovering Plugins and Resources in the Figma Community

In the previous chapter, you completed the interface design of our video streaming application by learning about exporting assets and preparing files for further development work. Of course, in real life, your design routine will be full of other aspects that this book cannot cover, but now you clearly understand how product design begins, what stages it consists of, and when we may (or may not) call it completed. You should understand, however, that in reality, things can be different. Thus, in some cases, you could work in a team of designers who are engaged in only one separate feature of a huge digital product, or you could get a job in a company that has already launched projects, and you will need to work on improving them from the design side. Yes, you will have many challenges on your way, but as you gradually overcome them, you will open up tremendous opportunities for learning something new, and you will...