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How to Prototype in Figma

Hi, everyone in this video. We're gonna prototype. We're gonna put it in a phone and when we click stuff, it moves through to the next frame. Cool. Huh? I'm also gonna get a little bit lost, a little bit into this video. Something goes wrong. We're gonna fix it together. So we all learn. Let's get started. Ok. It's an exciting time. Uh How do we prototype it? We'll do some basic stuff first. What we need to do, first of all is go from design, which we've been at for a long time. Now go to prototype. OK? And what we're going to do is have the home page selected. Ok? We'll start with this one. And what you'll notice is this little dot This little dot is important. We're gonna click hold and drag, drag, drag at arrow and go book and stick them on there. Uh Give it a play. You can just kind of click it and then let go. Now that's it. It's gonna do some basic stuff to start with. We'll do the other pages. It's the same with this one. Click on the name at the top and say you at the name at t...

he top of this one and there you go. All right, let's prototype it. Hi everyone. It is future Dan. I'm just going to pause the video here real quick and share an update to FI A I'm about to click on this button over here. The little arrow. Ok? And that is the present option. Ok. And that was the only option when I made this course. Ok. The latest update is added an extra option. Preview. So present is what we're gonna use for the rest of this video. It opens up our design in a new tab. OK? The difference between present which we use in this course and preview is preview opens up in like a little window on its own. It still does our interactions. OK? There's no real difference except one is a small little window that you can kind of keep open all the time and the other one is a separate tab. There you go. Nice little update from FIG A which is better. I still use the tab option. This one here is fine but it's always in the way but it is new. So I might get used to it. You can decide which one you prefer. There's no real difference from prototyping other than one's open and one's in a separate tab. I'm gonna close this down and let you get back to the video. Why is his that orange color? I don't know. I tried to recreate the video, but hey, it's close enough you get back to the video. OK? To prototyping it, it's called present. You can see it here. A little play button. Click on that and it will open up. You'll notice another tab. There's our original, we've gone off to this other tab. OK? And what happens is it'll present from whatever page you were on. So that's not what I want. I want to go back here and if I go to this home page here, OK, just click on the word homepage and then present. Ok. It'll basically jump back to that same tab, but at least we're at the home page. Now. Look at that. That's our sweet home page. So what we're gonna do is just click anywhere. OK? So click once. Oh it moved on, click in, check our page. Got it. What is that confirmation page has had a bad day. What is on there that is doing that shouldn't do that. Uh Let's close it downside again. Uh What is on there? Nothing, something's weird happening. Uh I'll leave it in the course in case it happens to you homepage present yours is probably gonna have this little load screen as well. There we go. You, you, you giant something in the way. I'll figure that out later on, but it's kind of working. We're getting on the giant black box. Uh Yucky, you wait there and I'll figure it out. So we all know. Wait there. All right, I'm back. I have no idea is the answer. Did you? You've already sort of in fast mode. Basically. What I normally do in a situation like that is I will start, um, I'll start going through and deleting stuff. I figured it was some SVG doing some weed stuff. So I delete that and I tested it and it still was broken. Let's double check. It's still broken. No, it's fixed. Weird. I don't know then um so all I did was delete it and then undo it and it came back to life. So just in case something else happens and it's not as easily fixed like that took me ages. It took me about 5, 10 minutes to kind of figure out what was going on. What I normally do is actually I go through and I just delete stuff and then test it, delete stuff and test it, delete stuff and test it and to see eventually something that I've deleted kind of shows that it was causing the problems. That's normally how I do it. And then I gave up on that. So I just made another version of it and that worked and in this case I just deleted it and undid it and it came back, probably closing the program, opening it back up, restarting machine anyway. Alright. That was a little bit of a um tangent. But these things happen. So it kinda worked. Let's go to our present. Now, forget this is back in the zone, Dan, back in the zone. OK? So we're gonna preview it and we have done some basic prototyping where you click anywhere and it moves along. OK? It gets to the end and it's kind of stuck. So what you can do if you kind of wiggle around, OK? You'll notice that um after a while, some other little options appear. OK? Restart which is r it's a really common one. Get back to the beginning. So you can kind of work through your prototype again. You can manually get through it. Can you see down here? Page other things that might be useful is under these options here. You might just like you wanna go like 100% or full screen to get rid of all the kind of chrome around the outside. Uh What else do you want to do? That's kind of it. And one thing you need to know is that you don't need to close this every time. OK? You, I don't know, I feel like when you're finished, you close this down and then come back over here, but you don't have to leave it open and just always go back to it because what happens is it updates, see this if I go in here and I decide to uh change the color of this. Ooh Good point. This happens quite a bit when you're new and you're like Where did it all go? OK. Cos you're on prototype. Remember to go back to the design. There's three at the top here we'll look at in spectator in the course. But whenever you're missing your colors or fonts, it's because you're stuck on prototype, not design. So I'm gonna go in here and I'm gonna say you are now going to be another color. OK. Now I'm gonna jump out to this tab that's still open and you'll notice uh if I go back through my pages, it updates. If you're using the browser version, it's handy to get this tab, pull it out and put it on another desktop on the desktop version. It's kind of stuck in here at the moment. I can't kind of pull it apart. So just toggle back between the two. If you do wanna toggle back between the two, the shortcut is there's no shortcut. That is a bit of a pain. There might be in the future check. You want Google, the thing that says uh fig a present uh what is it called? Yeah, present shortcut. OK. It doesn't exist at the moment. What we do is we use the command on a Mac control and a PC and command one is back to your little home screen. OK? We've been clicking on that command two is whatever the second tab is, that's considered the 1st 123. So in my case, I'm gonna be going back between command two and command three, command two, command three, command two make a change come on three. OK? And it updates instantly so you can keep that open. Another thing to note is you can't prototype across pages. OK? So I go to my home page, I go to prototype and I'm like I wanna go to page something over here. That's not possible. OK? So it's only between frames on a page. What you'll notice in mine as well is that I have this nice chrome around the outside of an iphone eight that might look ancient when you're watching this. OK. But you can change that. And let's let me show you how. So let's be on prototype. Let's go to show prototype settings or have nothing selected, you end up at the same place. OK? So having something selected prototype, click this button or just click in no man's land. OK? And you can say, all right, I don't want an iphone six. I want uh I don't know what Google pics are like. I own a four at the moment. Why? Why can't we have a four? You have to look at a really old uh two. and you can pick through the different colors. Um Not that they change much on an iphone, but obviously on a iphone eight. OK? Instead of the gold one, you can pick the space gray one or the silver one. It's basically the backs of the phone. So not a whole lot changes, you can change the background color, you can go from portrait to landscape. OK? And when I go into preview, now, let's have a look, hey, doesn't quite work on landscape, but you get the idea if you can't see any of these. It's because when you started, OK, remember way back in the beginning when we went, all right, make our first frame and we picked one of these defaults, OK? They're attached to this. OK? So even if you've just typed out, you've started with a desktop version and you've typed it out and made it a phone size, it doesn't connect up anymore. So you might have to make phone sizes and copy and paste them on if you want that uh chrome there. It's, it doesn't help the testing very much other than it looks cool. You'll also notice that our desktop versions. So let's have a look at desktop. Click on this one even though there's nothing on this. So click on home page on the frame too, aren't I? OK? Click on the home page. You'll notice some prototype, prototype settings. There's nothing in here. OK. So I can go and say that I want it to be a desktop. OK? Like a laptop and it's not there. OK? So there's only a few things you can actually wrap that chrome around at the moment. Alright. One last thing before we go is if you have been following me, what I want you to do is go back to mobile and I want you to break all of the um these prototypes here cos I don't want to just click anywhere. I want it to go to product details only when I click the learn more button and I want to go straight from buy. Now all the way to the checkout page. When that button's clicked at the moment, it's using the entire frame. So to get rid of it, you can do two things. Uh What I tend to do is just click on the arrow, hit delete or you can click on your frame here. OK? And say under prototype, can you see? It says we've, we've applied this interaction called tap check out. OK. Just hit minus the same thing, whether you want to delete it by selecting and deleting it or selecting the frame and then just minusing any interactions you've got added. All right. So we're back. We've gone nowhere. We added them, but we deleted them. Let's jump to the next video and we will break up the buttons, but we'll also add some animations with our transitions. All right, I'll see you there.