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Designing and Prototyping Interfaces with Figma - Second Edition

By : Fabio Staiano
Book Image

Designing and Prototyping Interfaces with Figma - Second Edition

By: Fabio Staiano

Overview of this book

Are you a UI/UX designer eager to learn the art of creating compelling interfaces using Figma? Look no further! The highly anticipated new edition is here to transform your creative journey. Explore Figma's latest features and delve into the power of variables and conditional Prototyping. Get ready to transform your static designs into dynamic, interactive prototypes, offering users and stakeholders an immersive experience. Stay at the forefront of design innovation with insights into integrating AI capabilities and optimizing your workflow with the latest Figma plugins. With user-centric design at its core, this book guides you through mastering design thinking, enabling you to tackle complex design challenges with ease. One unique aspect of this edition is its focus on effective communication. Learn how to convey your design vision clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. In the rapidly changing world of UI/UX design, iteration is key. This book will teach you how to gather user feedback and iterate on your designs by creating interactive prototypes. Whether you're new to Figma or a seasoned pro, this comprehensive guide equips you with the skills to create captivating interfaces, fosters creativity and problem-solving, and makes you an indispensable, forward-thinking designer.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1 Introduction to Figma and FigJam
6
Part 2 Exploring Components, Styles, and Variants
11
Part 3 Prototyping and Sharing
17
Other Books You May Enjoy
18
Index

Extending components with variants

As you’ve seen, components are incredibly powerful, especially when they are nested or combined with other features such as styles. However, they can do even more to improve your design and make your workflow more efficient. At this point, you have created a few components, and they were quite easy to implement in your layouts. But when you are working on a more complex project or creating an entire design system, the number of components immediately begins to grow very fast. This means that your Assets library will be full of similar components, and it will be very difficult for you to navigate them. To solve this problem, Figma has another great feature called Variants. In this section, you will learn everything about this amazing feature by implementing it in our app design!

Why use variants?

Variants in Figma allow you to group similar components that serve the same function but have slight differences, such as color variations...