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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

Creating moodboards and personas in FigJam

Getting inspired isn't easy, especially when you have to stick to tight deadlines. But if you follow proven strategies and stick to the right design process, you will definitely achieve amazing results in a short period of time. This section will focus on defining some of the most common best practices.

Research phase

Whether you are creating a landing page, a complex website, or an entire ecosystem for a product, the research phase is very important for structuring a functional design solution. After analyzing the brief and understanding your stakeholder's vision, you need to set up a mission statement. This is a short and affirmative description of the project's purpose that highlights the problem your product is going to solve. In our first project, the mission statement could be as follows:

Mission Statement

An easy-to-use, modern streaming service that allows users to browse a collection of culturally interesting...