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Figma Bites
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Figma Bites is a video series that aims to teach you how to speed up your Figma workflow. Created by Chris Michel (@hatefulcrawdad).
Copy and Paste Connectors and Sticky Notes from Figjam to Figma | Figma Bites
In this video we share a handy tip with you about copy and pasting helpful elements from Figjam to Figma. Sometimes you want the power of both tools and this is one way to get that. You can make workflow in Figma and add sticky notes to explain your design or keep track of notes.
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ABOUT FIGMA BITES
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Figma Bites is a video series that aims to teach you how to speed up your Figma workflow.
📺 Who is the Audience? 📺
Any UX Designer or person using Figma is the perfect audience for this series. These short videos will give you actionable tidbits of information that you can start using in your Figma workflow today.
👔 Why this format? 👔
We’re all busy working on making the world better for our users and making changes to our workflow can take us out of that focus. Our hope is that these short videos will be easily digestible when you’ve only got a few minutes to learn something new. The topics will be small enough to learn quickly and add to your workflow without trying to boil the ocean.
⏳ When do new videos come out? ⏳
We’re planning to release a new video every other week on Tuesdays. We can’t promise to hit this 100% of the time but will do our best to go no longer than 1 month between videos if things get busy.
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ABOUT FIGMA BITES
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Figma Bites is a video series that aims to teach you how to speed up your Figma workflow.
📺 Who is the Audience? 📺
Any UX Designer or person using Figma is the perfect audience for this series. These short videos will give you actionable tidbits of information that you can start using in your Figma workflow today.
👔 Why this format? 👔
We’re all busy working on making the world better for our users and making changes to our workflow can take us out of that focus. Our hope is that these short videos will be easily digestible when you’ve only got a few minutes to learn something new. The topics will be small enough to learn quickly and add to your workflow without trying to boil the ocean.
⏳ When do new videos come out? ⏳
We’re planning to release a new video every other week on Tuesdays. We can’t promise to hit this 100% of the time but will do our best to go no longer than 1 month between videos if things get busy.
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Great info! Quick question since I saw it happen at the beginning - when you picked that button to swap into the dialogue box it got distorted. Does this mean for components you already made (lets say somewhere else in the design system) you'd have to make a custom local component for this everytime?
@@JoskaBorbely what you saw there was just me showing a placeholder example of custom content. You should be able to fix any stretching by adjusting the auto layout settings and horizontal and vertical resizing settings. I believe that content was set to “fill” for both. You would only be making custom local components for content you are creating that isn’t already part of the design system. I hope that answers your question. If not, let me know.
@@FigmaBites Yes, thank you that works for buttons, the issue I'm running into is when I have a component set of logos that have different sizes, when the component swaps with the slot it is working as expected but when I toggle a variant it then distorts
@@JoskaBorbely hmmm, can you share the file with me? I’d be happy to take a look
I love these sorts of hacks, but also wish Figma would just make interoperability between the apps a little better. Connectors and sticky notes, at the least, should be accessible right inside of Figma.
I agree!
thank you. this is great
@@khimchongchung7622 right? Glad you liked it
Wow! Thank you so much for this valuable tutorial. I found the channel when was searching the tutorial for auto-layout, but found this treasure lesson. It's necessary for my UI for games.
@@leilabbas_ I’m so glad you found my channel and enjoyed the tutorial! Thanks for letting me know
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Amen, brother
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Thanks, I appreciate the comment
Very well explained
@@levitikon1 thanks!
Excellent overview! That's a lot of info condensed into a snackable bite! Like a tasty protein bar!!! :D
Thanks, Jake!
I was able to pull off a scroll animation that I initially thought impossible to do. Thanks to this video!
Glad to hear it!
Thank you so much
You are welcome!
Even at 1080p this is hard to see the text on my phone
I could see that.
Thank you so much
You are welcome
Does that mean that every single time you want to create a dropdown for example, you can't just use a component, you have to take the component and add floaty links to it?
No, you don’t have to use this technique at all. It was a pretty specific issue when there were multiple interactions in the same element. And I think it could’ve been fixed in a different way, too. Are you having a similar issue with your dropdown?
This was a really good demo of something I was wondering about doing! I have a slightly different need for calculating the total price though: 1) imagine if the quantity of each dish maps to a different price. So for example if the quantity of beef is 1, then the price is $10, and if the qty is 2, the price is $15. And if the qty is 3 or more, the price is a flat $21. 2) same with pastrami, etc, but the pricing structure may be different So for the total, I’d want to take into account all the different pricing structures. Is this possible? If so, how would one set this up?
Thanks for the comment. I’d have to play with it to know if it would work for sure but it sounds doable. You would need to set up a bunch of conditionals checking for the quantity of the item and changing the math inside of those. That same conditional would need to be repeated in a few places for total and whatnot. I’d say take a stab at it and let me know what issues you encounter. Feel free to share a link to your file once you get going
I wish you could apply properties to multiple selections. Now that would be handy.
I can imagine them adding that.
So useful. Thank you! 👏
Glad it was helpful!
awesome! the second part didn't work because I have a object inside an object and when I add the 84px nav padding I can't get the object it is inside of to allow for that spacing :( But really helpful.
Thanks Chris for these videos! Love learning from them. I am wondering if you can also share another that covers selecting images in numeric sequences, for example, in social media photo app sites, you can select a sequence of images to post, and it will reset the order if you start over, or deselect images in the album rolls by showing a numeric order. How can you recreate that in Figma using variables?
Thanks for the comment! I’ll see if I can work up a quick example for you. I probably won’t do another bite about variables in prototypes for awhile. But I can make a file that shows it working probably
Well I played around with it for awhile and I think this particular interaction is too complex for the current state of Figma prototyping. That said, I think it could be possible with a long string of variables and conditionals but I couldn't get it to work during my attempts.
The Last tip was amazing❤
Right?!?
@@FigmaBites that last tip just changed my life!
@@jakebarlow7431 I know, right?!?
Very useful handsome guy. <3 Thanks!
Thanks!
Thanks for sharing nice little tricks
Thanks for the comment and happy learning!
Some much better method than getting rid of auto-layout and some more tricky stuff. Thanks!
Thanks!
But then don't we have a new component that we have to store and manage in the page, that has only one instance ? It feels weird to me, I wouldn't know what to do with it.
Love the channel!
Thank you so much, that's nice to hear :)
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helpful series, esp. now that I'm back into product design and making prototypes!
Glad to hear it!
you've condensed a lot of info in this one! I had to watch it a few times :)
Yeah these were tough because there is a lot going on with variables. Luckily they are short enough to watch a few times through ;)
I hate rectangles :(
What does this have to do with the video?
Of ALL the Figma layout videos I've trawled - this is the best - thanks!
Thank you! I really appreciate hearing that
Basically remove the hidden button or element from your variant set because it cannot keep track of states
Essentially
I love your videos! Short, sweet and to the point, and very well explained! Thank you for making these!
I’m so glad to hear it! Thanks for watching
Great bite! Is there a way to use string variables to manage content in a file from a central place?
Thanks! And yeah. There are a few options. You can use variables that are published as part of team library and then every new file can have that library on to get access to the variables. You could also use a Google Sheet and some community plugins possibly.
Is it possible to drag and drop content or another component onto a slot/placeholder subcomponent of a component and have the swap happen automatically ?
I don't think so but I haven't tried that specifically.
Awesome content Chris, keep it coming!
Thanks! I appreciate hearing that.
thank you
great amazing.
Thanks!
This tutorial is so helpful! love all your tutorials, short and on point!!
Thank you!
Great stuff, thanks for sharing. Can we delete the branch file once its reviewed and merged? is there any use keeping it or will it effect if we delete it? because i see once merged we cannot make edits to it. Please share. Thanks..
Once a branch is merged you can delete it. Best practice is to create a new branch for new changes
Thank you🙂@@FigmaBites
Thanks, super helpful!
Thanks, glad you found it helpful :)
Figma is really a pain. They just have to add a value in px to the sticky option... damn
It can be for sure. Maybe they will add that option someday, who knows. You should send them that feedback!
That was a really useful intro. One question I have is, when the layout changed and the tiles wrapped, the last tile ended up a different size. Is it possible to have the tile width adapt but keep all three tiles the same width?
Not easily. You could possibly trick it with invisible placeholder component or something. Since these are set to a min/max width and "fill container", they will automatically fill that max width when they can.
That was great. I noticed in the demo you added each sandwich in the order they appeared. With your boolean method can you change the order or add multiple sandwiches to the cart? Thanks!
Unfortunately no. If you wanted multiple you would have to include those cards in the right side and so some conditional logic to make a 2nd one show up. I will be showing how to increment numbers in an upcoming one
such a time saver! thanks for this
So helpful!! Thank you
Glad it helped!
Thanks
No prob!
Really good video, sadly more than 1 mode seems to have been paywalled recently. May be worth adding a note
Ah, that's not fun. I do mention that the feature set is in beta during the video. I may add a note to the next one.
Yeah I just noticed it too :( Not sure how to handle multiple themes in the free plan..
But doesn't that mean that you need to own the component?
Yes. If you have a different team making components, show them this technique. Or build your own and share it with them.
great stuff! great explainer for someone trying to get to grips with Autolayout!
Thanks!
lol this is the easy way, now trying doing it while the the bar is a component, and it has more components under it. AND also u have 2 columns PC , meaning the bar is to 1 side while on the other side (righ or left) u have something else like a map. think of similar to airbnb
oh and also add a border to the left part panel. that contains several components. and then good luck doing this lol
This sounds like a completely different UI than what I was showing. Your prototype would definitely be harder but not impossible from the sounds of it. Do you have a link to a file? I’m happy to try it out
God! I miss the double clicking from Adobre Creative Suite.
What is this referring to from this video?