Figma UI/UX Design Essentials
Transform your design ideas into professional interfaces with figma.
What you will learn?
- Introduction & Tools Foundations
- Layouts & Responsive Design
- Components & Variants
- Design Principles
- Prototyping & Interactions
- Collaboration & Plugins
- Handoff & Advanced Workflow
- Final Project & Assessment
- What is UI/UX Design? Difference between UI and UX
- Overview of Figma Interface: Toolbar, Panels, Layers, Pages
- Frames & Artboards: Creating frames for mobile and web
- Tools: Shapes, Text, Colors, Grids
- Hands-on Practice: Create your first simple wireframe
- Understanding Layouts and Grids
- Auto Layout in Figma
- Constraints and Responsive Design
- Practical Task: Responsive mobile & desktop screen
- Creating Components and Variants
- Reusable Styles (Colors, Text, Effects)
- Design Tokens and Libraries
- Task: Build a reusable UI kit (buttons, inputs, cards)
- Typography: Fonts, hierarchy, readability
- Color Theory & Accessibility (contrast guidelines)
- Icons and Imagery in UI Design
- Practical: Design a landing page UI
- Linking Screens in Figma
- Adding Transitions and Smart Animations
- Micro-interactions and Gestures
- Testing User Flows
- Hands-on: Create interactive prototype for an app
- Sharing Projects with Teams
- Comments and Version Control
- Figma Plugins & Widgets
- Exporting Assets for Developers
- Task: Team project using shared Figma file
- Developer Handoff (Inspect Mode / Zeplin overview)
- Exporting Assets in multiple formats
- Organizing project files for production
- Practical: Prepare final handoff for a client project
- Design and prototype a multi-screen mobile/web app
- Build a mini design system (components + responsive layouts)
- Present project with prototype link
- Final Review & Certification Preparation
