Frames vs Groups in Figma
Lesson 15 from: Figma UI UX Design EssentialsDaniel Walter Scott
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Frames vs Groups in Figma
Lesson 15 from: Figma UI UX Design EssentialsDaniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
15. Frames vs Groups in Figma
Lessons
Introduction to Figma Essentials
02:53 2Getting Started with Figma Training
03:06 3What Is Figma For & Does It Do The Coding?
03:46 4What's The Difference Between UI And UX In Figma
05:22 5What We Are Making In This Figma Course
09:18 6Class Project 01 - Create Your Own Brief
04:01 7What is Lo Fi Wireframe vs High Fidelity in Figma?
02:34 8Creating Our Design File & Introducing Frames In Figma
08:29The Basics Of Type & Fonts In Figma
10:51 10Rectangles, Circles, Buttons And Rounded Corners In Figma
06:50 11How To Use Color In Figma
05:45 12Strokes Plus Updating Color Defaults In Figma
09:28 13Object Editing And How To Escape In Figma
01:47 14Scale vs Selection Tool in Figma
02:39 15Frames vs Groups in Figma
09:24 16Class Project 02 - Wireframe
03:00 17Where To Get Free Icons For Figma
09:10 18Matching The Stroke Of Our Icons
05:16 19How To Use Plugins In Figma For Icons
04:31 20Class Project 03 - Icons
03:48 21How to Use Pages in Figma
08:31 22How to Prototype in Figma
10:46 23Prototype Animation and Easing In Figma
10:53 24Testing On Your Phone with Figma Mirror
05:40 25Class Project 04 - Testing On Your Phone
03:51 26What is Smart Animation & Delays in Figma?
08:44 27Class Project 05 - My First Animation
02:01 28Sharing & Commenting on a Figma File with Stakeholders
07:10 29Sharing & Editing With Other Ux Designers In Figma
06:58 30How I Get Inspiration For Ux Projects
06:39 31How To Create A Mood Board In Figma
05:33 32Class Project 06 - Moodboard
01:26 33How to Work with Columns & Grids in Figma
13:54 34Tips, Tricks, Preferences, and Weirdness in Figma
07:21 35Color Inspiration & The Eyedropper In Figma
06:34 36How To Create A Color Palette In Figma
09:02 37How to Make Gradients in Figma
07:09 38How to Create & Use Color Styles in Figma
08:01 39Class Project 07 - Colors & Columns
04:00 40Fonts on Desktop vs in Browser in Figma
01:30 41What Fonts Can I Use? Plus Font Pairing In Figma
06:01 42What Common Font Sizes Should I Choose In Web Design?
11:30 43How to Make Character Styles in Figma
06:36 44Lorem Ipsum & Placeholder Text In Figma
04:28 45Useful Things To Know About Text In Figma
09:35 46How To Fix Missing Fonts In Figma
02:42 47Class Project 08 - Text
05:19 48Drawing Tips And Tricks In Figma
09:38 49Squircle Buttons with ios Rounded Courses In Figma
02:48 50Boolean, Union, Subtract, Intersect and Exclude with Pathfinder in Figma
07:25 51What Is The Difference? Union vs Flatten In Figma
03:36 52Class Project 09 - Making Stuff
03:29 53Smart Selection & Tidy Up in Figma
08:40 54Do I Need To Know Illustrator With Figma?
04:15 55Tips & Tricks For Using Images In Figma
06:11 56Masking & Cropping Images In Figma
09:12 57Free Images & Plugins For Figma
02:31 58Do You Need Photoshop For Ux Design In Figma?
10:40 59Class Project 10 - Images
01:17 60What Is Autolayout & Expanding Buttons In Figma?
10:27 61Class Project 11 - Buttons
01:15 62Auto Layout For Spacing
05:47 63How To Use Constraints In Figma
08:22 64Combining Nested Frames Auto Layout & Constraints in Figma
11:54 65Adding Text Box Autoheight to Autolayout in Figma
08:27 66Class Project 12 - Responsive Design
02:19 67Nice Drop Shadow & Inner Drop Shadow Effects In Figma
05:56 68Blur Layer, Background Blur & Image Blur in Figma
05:57 69How to Make Neumorphic UI buttons in Figma
07:37 70Class Project 13 - Effects
01:53 71How To Save Locally & Save History In Figma
05:42 72What are Components in Figma?
06:19 73Updating, Changing & Resetting Your Components
07:47 74You Can’t Kill Main Components In Figma
07:22 75Where Should You Keep Your Main Components In Figma
05:02 76Intro To The Forward Slash / Naming Convention In Figma
08:55 77Class Project 14 - Components
00:44 78How To Make Component Variants In Figma
06:41 79Another Way To Make Variables In Figma
06:14 80How to Make a Multi Dimensional Variant in Figma
11:13 81Class Project 15 - Variants
01:41 82How To Make A Form Using Variants In Figma
12:52 83Class Project 16 - Form
01:27 84Putting It All Together In A Desktop Example
19:44 85How To Add A Popup Overlay Modal In Figma
03:03 86How To Make & Prototype A Tool Tip In Figma
07:26 87What are Flows in Figma?
05:39 88Slide In Mobile Nav Menu Overlay In Figma
03:55 89Class Project 17 - Prototyping
01:10 90How To Pin Navigation To The Top In Figma
10:17 91How To Make A Horizontal Scrolling Swipe In Figma
06:36 92Automatic Scroll Down The Page To Anchor Point In Figma
04:50 93What are Teams vs Projects vs Files in Figma?
05:18 94How Do You Use Team Libraries In Figma
11:03 95The Difference Between Animation & Micro Interactions
02:55 96Animation With Custom Easing In Figma
25:36 97Class Project 18 - My Second Animation
01:54 98How To Make Animated Transitions In Figma
12:34 99Class Project 19 - Page Transition
01:31 100Micro Interactions Using Interactive Components In Figma
05:54 101Micro Interaction Toggle Switch In Figma
04:23 102Micro Interaction Burger Menu Turned Into A Cross In Figma
04:23 103Class Project 20 - Micro Interaction
01:35 104How To Change The Thumbnail For Figma Files
04:10 105How To Export Images Out Of Figma
07:40 106How To Share Your Document With Clients & Stakeholders
07:09 107Talking To Your Developer Early In The Figma Design Process
03:55 108Sharing Figma With Developers & Engineers Handoff
06:07 109What Are The Next Level Handoffs Aka Design Systems
03:18 110Class Project 21 - Finish your design
04:57 111What Next?
06:08Lesson Info
Frames vs Groups in Figma
Hi, everyone. Uh this video we're gonna look at the differences between groups and frames. Um Up until now in this course, it's been pretty basic, right? Like the type tool does what you imagine the rectangle tool does what you imagine. Like it's not rocket science ready for this video to be rocket science. Uh I introduced it earlier in the course because it was probably the hardest thing I had to get used to um coming to fig A. So I'll introduce a little bit now and a little bit later on a little bit more and you know, towards the end, you will become master of friends. But if you get to the end of this video and you're like, oh, I kind of get it but I don't kind of get it. Don't worry, I'm introducing it early so that we can revisit it a few times. All right. First, let's understand groups. Let's draw a bunch of shapes up here. So we're going to grab, we'll do rectangle tool. OK? We do three shapes. Let's look at the polygon tool. OK? Give them roughly, you don't need to be the right...
size. They can be three circles. I'm doing these cos I don't know, it looks good. So make three of something. OK? And what you'll see here on this product details frame. OK? Is my ellipse, my polygon and my rectangle, I can select them all and I can right, click them and group them or the really common command G on a Mac control, G on A PC and they're grouped, you're like great. What happens over here? Can you see the icon has changed? OK. It's called group two. Where is a group? There must be a group somewhere else. I made a group earlier, didn't I? There it is, it's their button. So group two, I can rename. So this could be my icons. Great. This little icon here is not important, but you'll get used to these shapes so that there the little dotted line is a group. So I can look around, look, there's another group and I can look inside the group of my layers. See this little turn down arrow here. So yeah, you can see stuff inside of it. You can say, all right, I want to move like grouping is useful because we know what grouping is. You can grab them and they move together. OK? But I can go into them individually by either clicking them here in the latest panel and going OK? This needs to be a bit further this way or we can kind of go into that object editing mode. So let's double click on the background, click on it once double click, we kind of go inside of it inside of the group and we can operate, you know, work on it, double click it to come out. And it's still a nice helpful group. You can UN group by right clicking it and go to UN group. OK? And then it kind of comes out of that dotted group and it's back to being single units. I'm gonna go back command G or control G on a PC and group it. So what's the difference? Uh Let's make two versions. So I'm going to duplicate this fella and I'm going to right click it and say UN group. So I got this grouped one you can see in here. It's called grouped two. These guys here are just hanging out by themselves in this frame. So what we're gonna do is very similar. We're gonna select them all and instead of right clicking and saying group, we're gonna frame selection and it's basically exactly the same as a group except the icons different. Can you see over here? There's my top one, let's move the layer order. So it makes more sense. There's my group that's them there, there's my frame, the icon's different. You get this like little um What do you call it? Pound symbol, hash symbol, grid, whatever it is. OK? But they do a lot of the same thing. So you can still see them in there. They're all still trapped inside of this nice frame. So what's the difference, Dan is the difference is that frame can survive on his own. The group, if I go into this group and say you are gone and you are gone, remember double clicking it to go inside the group, the group disappears by group. OK? If I undo that cos I want them back the frame. On the other hand, if I go in delete this guy, this one, you're left with a frame which can be weird when you're new. And you're like, why are all these empty frames everywhere? Because the frame can exist without the group? Why is this useful Dan? OK. It is useful because I'm undoing. OK? Is because I can do things like let's say I wanna cut that off. OK? I can drag my frame in. Can you see it? It's, it's operating differently if I drag the edge of this? Look what happens, Squidgy. If I drag the edge of this in, OK. I could do things like this, clip the content so I can use the frame as kind of like a mask. OK? To kind of hide things, which is one thing. And actually let me show you quickly. So this is why that's useful. You created a nice big list. OK? You can grab your frame, you get a bit smaller. I know we're jumping ahead in the course, but I guess I wanna introduce frames a couple of times. So that's why it's good. You got this list and you can set this to scroll. OK. So that it kind of clips it off. Same with this. You got the stuff hanging over the edges here. I can say, where are you frame? You can be over there and I could say clip contents so I can use a scroll so people can scroll left and right. But clip off the edges. That's one of the things. Let's jump back. All right. So clip contents is one of the reasons and there are other ones and the reason I show it to you here is that you're going to download somebody's free U I templates and you're going to be like, why is everything framed? It's all a bit weird. I don't understand. That's, that was my position anyway. So the reason people do do it, they get to an intermediate level or an advanced level in fig A and they just stopped using groups never because fig A um sorry frames is just like groups, but with bonus extra features and clipping contents is one of them. Let's look at one of the other main ones just to introduce it now and we'll work on it at a bit more um in depth later on. So what we can do is I'm gonna actually un group. This weird thing about a frame is that you group it. So you group this top one and then you un group it, you frame, you frame it, then you gro it does that make sense? You un group works for both of these. So I'm gonna un group it and you'll notice these guys just come out, I'm gonna put these kind of over here. I'm gonna grab my um name here. OK? And I'm gonna select all of these and turn them into a frame, not a group because I wanna see the bonus. The bonus is watch this, I can click on double click to go inside our kind of object editing mode. I'm inside my um frame and I'm gonna say you stick to the top left of this frame that it's in this frame is the thing around the outside. OK? These guys though, I'm gonna click on you. OK? And I'm gonna say actually you are gonna go to the top, top right. Stay with you. You can go to the top right, stay with you. Top right. You're like, what does that do? Watch this if I go now and I'm gonna make a copy of it and watch this. When I drag it here, it sticks to the top right of the frame groups can't do that. OK? They call them constraints. We'll do them properly later on. But when it gets to things like OK, I need another um version, it needs to be tablet. OK? So I'm gonna click on my frame tool. I'm gonna say Oh, it's gonna be a tablet mini. OK? It's gonna be in portrait. I'm gonna stick it over here, I'm starting to design. So instead of trying to drag it all out and try and make it all line up, you can click on this guy and go, OK, you go over here and I can get you in the top and I can drag this over and I can stick it to that side. Can you see the perk? It gets more and more in depth when you start kind of stacking things up. And it means when you start adding text things start re flowing, it gets not complicated. It gets more awesome. That's what it does. But that awesome comes at a kind of confusing stage because remember at the beginning of this course, we dragged out frames. Remember the frame that was our mobile phone, we just did it now again with the tablet. OK? So frames get used for the big thing around the outside but also the little things inside of it, OK? These little nested frames. So I've got a frame inside of a frame. Weird if I bring in, say maybe that icon we brought in earlier, OK? You probably didn't notice. But if I go to um our place image, OK? And I bring in the same one or a different one, watch what happens if I drag this out, you'll notice that actually. Can you see it brought it in? As a frame. OK? It's a frame inside of it is our little vector thing, but it's inside of a frame. So that's why we can't leave it to the end of the course because there'd be frames everywhere. And you're like, in this case, it doesn't matter. We're not using any sort of this goodness with constraints and variants and all sorts of cool stuff we're gonna do later on. It's just kind of like a group. That's all we're gonna use it for, for this guy. But know that later on there's some fancy stuff we can do. WW So what you're trying to tell me Dan is groups bad. Nope, groups are great and they work just fine and they just don't have all the extra um fancy features. So that is my whole point of this video. Um We're gonna use frames from now on instead of groups because they have features that we're going to learn uh learn later on and they just appear lots in fig. And I wondered why the weird thing is when you've got uh frames inside of another frame. Weird, why have you got frames inside of frames? And the one last thing is that this frame, why does this one have a name? How did you get that name there? And this one doesn't have a name basically, if a frame is not nested, it has a name. What I mean by that is see this frame here got it selected, I drag them over here, watch his name appears inside his name goes away. So that's kind of why you might uh sometimes see a frame name and sometimes the frame is just used as like a group and it's inside of another frame. Wow. What a confusing video, Dan. Anyway, I, let's, I hope it got us closer to understanding frames versus groups. What we don't need is we don't need these particular examples that we made. OK. We're going to create some specific icons in a little bit. But yeah, we're moving towards understanding frames versus groups. Uh So delete those and I will see you in the next video.
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