Hi, everyone in this video, we're gonna go from the thumbnail here that we've been using. OK. Which is for me, not pretty representative of what we're doing. OK. From this one to that one. OK, which is a little bit more representative of the actual file inside. Sometimes it can be very obvious what's in the file and sometimes not so obvious. So a customized thumbnail can be handy. Let me show you how OK, it's probably driving you just as mad. Uh The thumbnails here are fine. OK? Sometimes, but then they end up like like the moment it's showing me stuff that I made a long time ago. It's on my kind of task flow slash brief page. OK? And it's not really indicative of what's actually in the document. That one not helpful. OK. Basically this thumbnail is using the first page in your documents. So open it up. I just find it hard later on to go. Which one was I working? Like that's not helpful. It's just too small. OK? So what you can do is you can modify it. So uh I'm gonna go into it. What ...

it's using at the moment is whatever's on the first page, on the first frame. OK? So I was using this thing online. Uh So what we can do to update it, we can just go to a frame and say right click and say you are us a thumbnail. OK? There's a way of doing it. Problem is it's only gonna use that one frame. So what you tend to do is you make a whole page for it, you're gonna call this my cover page or cover thumbnail. You know, you can call it anything you like put it at the top. OK? And in here there is a frame default under fig a community called file cover. That's all we want that matches the size back out here. OK? So um and you can put anything you like in there. I'm reluctant to go and start copying a chunk of this. Why? Because I don't know, I've got more instances of these things and what I tend to do you can you just copy and paste this and stick it on that page. OK? What I tend to do is just do a screenshot of kind of appropriateness. So I'm going to do on a market its command shift four on a PC. I think you print screen and then paste it in something. You'll have to double check. OK? So I'm going to uh screenshot that, go to my cover page and dump it on there. OK? So command shift K import I got a screenshot there it is. OK? And I'm going to help her because I click once, not rubric. OK. So I'm gonna stick it inside my frame. What I'm gonna do is like, I don't know, it feels like part of the legend of being a UX designer. OK? Is you need to, it has to be t it on the side like a, like a gun in like movies, you need to kind of, you're not a real UX designer. If you have your stuff straight has to be on the side. Cock to an angle. OK. So OK, so that's gonna be my one and then I can right click this and say, set his thumbnail, it's the right size. And what you'll also see is can you see the icon changes? There's this teeny, tiny little, I don't know what that is. It's the little, little um was it the card that appears in here? Now? It never, well, for me, in my version, I'm using a beta version. So this could just be in mine. It doesn't update straight away. Uh I close this down and open it back up, wait there and we're back and it worked. OK. So yeah, look at that all on the side and customized. Look at us, obviously, some of them work just fine, but there we go. Another thing you can do is let's open this up. You could take a screenshot of the actual um presentation OK, you might wanna see it inside of the frame which might be nice. Not that page. Uh Here we go. This one here. So if we do this and present, take a screenshot of this page might look nicer. Still has to be on an angle. How much of an angle I'm not sure the degrees. I'm not in the high echelons of UX designers yet to know the degrees. It's like a secret recipe formula. Anyway, I'm waffling. That is how to update the, uh, thumbnail in fig A files.

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How To Change The Thumbnail For Figma Files

How To Change The Thumbnail For Figma Files

Lesson Info

104. How To Change The Thumbnail For Figma Files

Lessons

Introduction to Figma Essentials

Getting Started with Figma Training

What Is Figma For & Does It Do The Coding?

What's The Difference Between UI And UX In Figma

What We Are Making In This Figma Course

Class Project 01 - Create Your Own Brief

What is Lo Fi Wireframe vs High Fidelity in Figma?

Creating Our Design File & Introducing Frames In Figma

The Basics Of Type & Fonts In Figma

Rectangles, Circles, Buttons And Rounded Corners In Figma

How To Use Color In Figma

Strokes Plus Updating Color Defaults In Figma

Object Editing And How To Escape In Figma

Scale vs Selection Tool in Figma

Frames vs Groups in Figma

Class Project 02 - Wireframe

Where To Get Free Icons For Figma

Matching The Stroke Of Our Icons

How To Use Plugins In Figma For Icons

Class Project 03 - Icons

How to Use Pages in Figma

How to Prototype in Figma

Prototype Animation and Easing In Figma

Testing On Your Phone with Figma Mirror

Class Project 04 - Testing On Your Phone

What is Smart Animation & Delays in Figma?

Class Project 05 - My First Animation

Sharing & Commenting on a Figma File with Stakeholders

Sharing & Editing With Other Ux Designers In Figma

How I Get Inspiration For Ux Projects

How To Create A Mood Board In Figma

Class Project 06 - Moodboard

How to Work with Columns & Grids in Figma

Tips, Tricks, Preferences, and Weirdness in Figma

Color Inspiration & The Eyedropper In Figma

How To Create A Color Palette In Figma

How to Make Gradients in Figma

How to Create & Use Color Styles in Figma

Class Project 07 - Colors & Columns

Fonts on Desktop vs in Browser in Figma

What Fonts Can I Use? Plus Font Pairing In Figma

What Common Font Sizes Should I Choose In Web Design?

How to Make Character Styles in Figma

Lorem Ipsum & Placeholder Text In Figma

Useful Things To Know About Text In Figma

How To Fix Missing Fonts In Figma

Class Project 08 - Text

Drawing Tips And Tricks In Figma

Squircle Buttons with ios Rounded Courses In Figma

Boolean, Union, Subtract, Intersect and Exclude with Pathfinder in Figma

What Is The Difference? Union vs Flatten In Figma

Class Project 09 - Making Stuff

Smart Selection & Tidy Up in Figma

Do I Need To Know Illustrator With Figma?

Tips & Tricks For Using Images In Figma

Masking & Cropping Images In Figma

Free Images & Plugins For Figma

Do You Need Photoshop For Ux Design In Figma?

Class Project 10 - Images

What Is Autolayout & Expanding Buttons In Figma?

Class Project 11 - Buttons

Auto Layout For Spacing

How To Use Constraints In Figma

Combining Nested Frames Auto Layout & Constraints in Figma

Adding Text Box Autoheight to Autolayout in Figma

Class Project 12 - Responsive Design

Nice Drop Shadow & Inner Drop Shadow Effects In Figma

Blur Layer, Background Blur & Image Blur in Figma

How to Make Neumorphic UI buttons in Figma

Class Project 13 - Effects

How To Save Locally & Save History In Figma

What are Components in Figma?

Updating, Changing & Resetting Your Components

You Can’t Kill Main Components In Figma