Learn Figma Auto Layout in 10 Minutes (Everything You Need To Know)
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- Опубліковано 11 гру 2022
- Auto layout in Figma is something that can help you design faster and more efficiently. It can also help you understand how to properly set up your design in order to pass off to developers on when you're building yourself. Being able to know how to design something correctly is a huge power that not many designers have. This video should cover 99% of what you need to know for figma autolayout.
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It would be good to have keystrokes displayed on screen. I found myself not understanding what you where doing at times! Was still a helpful video! keep it up!
I’ll have this set up next vid thanks for suggesting!
Yes this tutorial was terrible. Couldn't follow.
My frames aren't aligning horizontally and I also can't tell what actions he's using. I love most of his videos but lost on this one SMH.
Yep, I found myself thinking the same thing
Finally! Somebody made quick and easy tutorial on auto layouts, not 1 hour of nonsence. Arnau you are a living legend
appreciate you!
I still don't understand why we use it
Thats how you know they know how to design with empathy for the end user 😁
It took me 50 mins to go through this tutorial, having the keystrokes on screen would be great as in a few scenarios you just say something like "We align them just like that" but there is no explanation as to how so I think keystrokes would help us there.
You are a legend bro, whenever I deep dive into a topic, your videos provide me with straight to the point explanations!
I'm so glad I found this. Thank you so much! I was so confused with auto layout earlier without knowing that I was doing a wrong approach.
Great to hear!
Thank you so much for the tutorial bro. I clicked your video to learn about auto layout. But you also taught me how to use absolute position and rename a lot of layers at once
These videos are amazing, clear, crisp and to the point, absolutely love the work you are doing, would love to see a similar video for mobile apps if possible, like that would be super cool. Honestly, this is like my favorite channel right now because of how easy to follow your videos are. Thanks!!
This is very helpful. I was confused about using auto layout but your explanation is very easy to understand. Thank you 😀
Glad it was helpful!
I just started to use auto layout. The other guys eating up 40 to 50min for small topic. You're amazing bro. Thanks Again.
I'm a newbie when it comes to Figma. Very insightful and I look forward to the next video.
Thanks
Thanks for watching!
thank you so much for the video! I am very new to figma, I didn't even know you can put an auto layout inside another one!
This was great I had been struggling with auto layout now I finally get it
Glad I could help!
You were right! No transitions and another great video. Thanks! 🎉😊🙏
Thanks!! Glad you checked out another vid :)
This was so digestible, thank you! I haven't been able to understand auto layout until now
Awesome, glad it was helpful
Amazing tutorial! Easy to understand and implement in my designs.
Thanks Maliha!
You just made everything easier for me.
Thank you so much!
Glad it helped Henry!!
I struggled a lot with auto layout but finally I think I got the hang of it. You've presented the auto layout in the simplest words and its really easy to understand. Really helpful video.
Glad it helped!
Nice tutorial, I was creating the atoms first and press shift+A yet. I haven't autolayouted a rectangle or frame and started putting things in it. This really helps too
Glad it helped!
As a junior designer this channel has been super helpful , thanks Arnau :)
Happy to hear that!
That was an amazing tutorial, it has helped me a ton! keep it up!
Glad to hear it!
Very insightful/helpful, I've increased my productivity a hundred fold, Thank you very much!!!!
Awesome!!
This is very helpful...creating layouts that can be recreated in CSS/HTML
Really nice! calm and perfect pace!!!
Thanks Rschinchore :)
Thank you ! it was really useful
amazin tutorial, thanks!
Easy to understand, thanks for the video!
Glad you liked it!
Thanks you This Video is Very HELPFUL.....🥰
Love your channel bro!
I appreciate that!
It helps me a lot ,thank you so much for making such a excellent tutorial for us , I really appreciate you struggles and keep it up
Happy to hear that!
Awesome! I learned something new!
Glad it was helpful!
This was incredibly helpful, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
I'm so happy!! Thank youuuuu❤❤❤❤
You're welcome 😊
You know what, your explanation is very clear! I understand about how Auto Layout works now. Thanks for this helpful video 😄🙌
Thanks for watching! Glad it was helpful :)
Excellent tutorial to clear your doubts..thanks buddy
My pleasure
This is great , Thank you, although as a beginner i couldn't keep up at first but i gradually got it
Great job!
thank you, great explanation!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you Arnau.
My pleasure
Thanks for sharing this!
Thank you for watching :)
Thank you
This is very helpful. Thanks 👍
Glad it was helpful!
Dope man Good job and thank you
Really nice video, thank you!
Thanks for commenting Shabbir!
This video made it click for me after watching many videos of how to use auto layout, using the figma to webflow plugin i can design so much faster now! ❤❤❤
Great to hear!
amazing I'm so glad. thank you so much
Glad you like it!
thanks you so much !
Welcome!
Awesome! Though it would have been nice to have a link to the raw file so I could try it out, but still I learned a lot.
just uploaded to the description
Super helpful. Thank you
Glad it helped out!
Great tutorial
Glad you think so!
Great explaination!
Thanks!
Hi, thanks for the Video. Do you directly start to design with auto layout? Or after you have your design ready? I understand the value of auto layout, but to start quick with designing and make variations I find it to time consuming.
If I have a reference of what I'm building I go directly to auto layout, if I'm building something really creative then its good to start without autolayout. You'll find that once you learn autolayout making variations becomes faster with it rather than without!
i really like your tutorials, they use real cases and explain things very well, some of these i already knew but still very good. thanks and youre a cutie too!
Glad you like them!
Are you going to start using auto layout?
absolutely
Not a habit but need to make it one. Seems this will be really useful for me in the future especially for webflow and it's new plugin where you can paste your figma design directly to webflow.
Yesssssss! Thank you
You're cute🥰
I just wanted to learn about the auto layout but I was bored and wanted to look at cute boys' videos. So I found this video in which I can do both.
I've been stuggling so badly with auto layout and component properties... These 2 tutorials of yours made me a fulfilled human being. I may now die peacefully after wasting weeks on manual adjusting.
hahaha glad i could help!
v helpful! ty :)
Thank you🌹
You are awesome! Thank you!
Thank you for watching!!!
absolute positioning - missed that my whole life!
I was extremely nervous about using Autolayout. But now that I've seen this video, I'm motivated. This was extremely beneficial!
Glad it was helpful Jadi!
i have added autolayout to my desktop frame and to other frames inside that but i want to add elliptical gradients in the background to beautify the design, while doing so my whole design gets messed up, is there any way to set my background with elliptical gradients and over that add other frames without messing anything in autolayout, please reply im confused since past two days
What buttons did u press on your keyboard to change the direction?
Thanks really usefull
Glad to hear that
Well explained!
Thanks Rahul!
Hey I am new to figma n also by your clip my idea are more clearer but i have problem with my 2nd frame which overlap the fist frame slightly it like mt 2nd frame title goes toward the first frame its like first frame bottom padding got disappeared n 2nd frame got mergered, how I'll fixed that ? Its one of my another project but i am having query so maybe you can explain me in another topic.
great tut
Thanks
Brother appreciate the effort but are you going way too fast, slow down a bit, doesnt have to be 10 min if you cant catch up. Totally friendly advice
Noted!
Use the 0.75 speed for viewing
Totally agreed.
Lost me within 10 seconds of making a frame
He speaks pretty fast
thANKS for existing
Nice and fast , ty
simple an on point ! where do you get these kind of creatives to keep in your figma designs? do you create the by yourself or do you use stock images from online ?
for the layouts i use tilebit.io , for the images I use unsplash plugin in figma
thanks
mind blown 🤯
thanks!
You bet!
This video is really helpful. If possible please make a video regarding design to dev workflow if someone uses figma to webflow plugin. Great video keep these coming.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Hello I hope all is good. I love all your videos. I love the way you present yourself quick question what program are you using to do your screen recording because I like it better than the way a regular loom looks can you help and let me know?
Hey, screen record is just quick time :)
Thanks for the video
Thanks for watching!
Wow thank you
No problem
Hey it's a great video clearly explained. I have a question at 7:08 time code, how is that you are able to apply the padding only to the top of the button when all the three elements(heading, text, and button) are with combined single auto layout.
Hey not sure what you mean here
After 5 hours of that stuff doing anything BUT what it's supposed to, I do it by hand .-.
But thank you for a great tutorial! I'll definetly will come back a buch if times!
if you practice and practice it becomes faster than doing it by hand!
great tutorial thanks !🤙 btw, using auto layout does not mean to the responsive design right? the navigatior works different in mobile and desktop like that.
You'd usually create a new design for mobile!
Thanks for sharing mate, once you duplicated several desktop, could you merge all of them in one to have a single clean frame?
Not sure what you mean here, but if you're referring to if you could put all the sections into one larger parent autolayout frame, definitely!
Collonut, gràcies
Thank you 🙏 If possible please make one for components in Figma in similar way.
Great suggestion!
Hello, Can you help me please?
In the first part of the video after adding the images is not letting me add the text next to the image its adding it on top of it, how can i fix that?
Let me know if you still need help!
Im making a page from scratch in Webflow with my own design - should I still build as you do with autolayout in Figma? Thanks!!
Hey, yes! Its important to have your design ready in Figma before going into Webflow
Should you apply auto-layout to the whole frame of a mobile/web page, or just the sections that need auto-layout within a page?
Its good to build the entire page using autolayout as thats how it will be with the building process as well
Such a helpful video! At 8:31 you rename multiple layers, how do you do this?! This would have saved me so much time
In Figma to rename layers it’s ctrl/cmd + R while selecting layers 🚀
The video for auto-layout was simple and easily understandable. Do we need to create groups of similar contents first before applying Auto-Layout?
Thanks Rohit :). I never use groups, only autolayout and frames!
thank you for this! would be helpful if you can highlight your cursor and display yung shortcuts
Noted!
Hi, at 2:22 there was a cut. How do you get the new square frame to auto centre in the parent desktop frame? When I try it, it's not horizontally centred, even though I followed every step up to that point. Thanks!
Just subbed. Looking forward to learning Figma off you. I've already done a LinkedIn Learning basics course, so just building my skills from hereon in. Thanks for your channel.
Hey, so the parent frame is autolayout with fixed horizontal and hug for vertical. I then click F and create a new frame inside of is using shift option to scale equally. Hope this helps
After adding auto-layout to the rectangle, I am not able to add text like i was able to add the text in the layout before pressing shift+A but not after.
hey, let me know how i can help
Hi, genuinely question.
Why would you code everything while a figma page can get turned into code with an extension?
well figma is used for many different applications, easy marketing sites can be done with framer/webflow, but if you're designing for an app, or a webapp, or a very custom project you can help your devs get organised :)
Wait I have a question… is auto layout mainly used for when creating web page prototypes? I’ve been using it for mobile … but I’ve been having issues with that 😔
Autolayout can be used for everything, mobile included :)
when you created the second 623/623 frame, how did you know to make it 623/623?
Sorry I'm not sure what you mean here do you have a time code I can look at?
Love this Thankyou！ how can I delete frame but not the photo in the frame? You did it at 9:23
Use the ungroup shortcut! ctrl or command + shift + G
@@ArnauRos thank you very much!!!
When I tried to add the text box it went above the image or bellow, but never next to that block image like in your video, what can I do? @Arnau Ros
Try making the text box as absolute, that should move it above the image
@@ArnauRos thank you so much! Your vids are always helpful, thanks for your kindness also 🌟
I’m following your steps, which is working well. It worked to put an image in the frame, but somehow when I type my text just like you, my text appears on top (or at the bottom) of the frame from the picture, but yours is right next to it at the top. If I’m looking at the layers, mine show exactly the same as yours. Any idea what I’m doing wrong?
Hey! Could it be the direction of your autolayout frame?
Does the recent addition of absolute positioning take place of using a "zero-pixel" frame? TIA
Not sure what you mean! Absolute positioning essentially puts it 'above' everything else, in any layout as it does not respect the usual auto layout rules. Hope that makes sense
@@ArnauRos You answered my question! I just discovered a hack a couple of days ago where Figma Schema designers were using a 'zero pixel height frame" as an absolute positioning hack.
Yes! Thats also super helpful when creating nav bar mega menus
Hi, thanks for video. I have question. How to make auto layout wrap? 😅
Natively not built in yet! Theres a few plugins that allow you to do so :)
Don;t know if that is relevant to you, but finally we have wrap - you can find that in the auto-layout section in Figma. But you probably already now that :)))
How do you insert lorem ipsum placeholder text? Is it a plug in?
there is a plugin for it yes!
How did you add vertical gap between those three content frames ? I am not able to add
You should create a autolayout frame wrapping the three content frames
Thankyou so much
why do you use a frame for the button instead of using a rectangle? Thanks for the good video!
Hi, it is usually better to use frames because they can have almost the same properties as a rectangle (in that example, fill). If you would want to use a rectangle and make an auto-layout, that would make it into two objects inside the auto-layout. If you convert a frame with the text to auto-layout, it becomes an auto-layout with one object inside - text. I know it can be confusing, but in most cases, it is much much better to use frames for 90% of the cases. When it comes to components, it will help you scale whatever you are building into a UI Kit, then a UI System, and then a Design System. With a rectangle, that is impossible.
Hope that helps :)