Scale vs Selection Tool in Figma
Lesson 14 from: Figma UI UX Design EssentialsDaniel Walter Scott
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Scale vs Selection Tool in Figma
Lesson 14 from: Figma UI UX Design EssentialsDaniel Walter Scott
Lesson Info
14. Scale vs Selection Tool 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
Scale vs Selection Tool in Figma
OK. Let's look at scaling versus the selection tool because you're gonna need both of them and they're a bit quirky from other programs that I've used and they caught me out at the beginning. So let's do it together. So with my selection tool, I'm just gonna click on the rectangle. I'm not an object in any mode member. OK? And all I wanna do is I've got this tool here, the default tool and I can click, click the edge and I can drag it around. That's kind of how you imagined it. Um You know, and that's most of the time. What you wanna do, what you'll notice is is that the stroke stays at two the whole time. OK? And if I do something else, let's say that I select both the text and the rectangle and I'm like, I want it to be bigger. OK? And I drag it out. Huh? That's weird. Maybe if I hold shift, hold, shift still doesn't work. That's where the scale tool comes in. So there's times where you actually want to just make everything bigger, stroke type everything. And it's this tool here hidi...
ng underneath the selection tool. Click, hold, drag, don't hold and drag, just click and hold and there it is there the scale tool. OK? Click on that. I've got both of these selected and I can just click and drag this the corner there. And if I hold nothing down it does, it kind of proportionately scales it up. Both the stroke. Can you see the stroke got bigger and the font and the rectangle. So there's times when you need both, let's say in this case, I've drawn this too big for what I need it to be. So I'm gonna go to my scale tool and I'm gonna make it a bit smaller and both the font cos I use that as the rectangle and my little stroke gets smaller. I'm gonna bring it to the front using my square bracket. Even if you group stuff first, you still got to use a scale tool. What I mean by that is, let's say that we do. What do we got these two? OK. Select them both. I'm going to right click it and I'm gonna say you are group that selection and I'm gonna use my normal old selection tool. It still does the same thing even though you think I've grouped it. Nope still does the weird stuff. So you got to switch to the scale tool and you do it so often that there's a shortcut and you're like, excellent. That's easy to remember. It's probably s because it's the scale tool. Nope, it's K, I don't know why, but don't worry, the s tool if I hit s, it's the slice tool that nobody uses, there's people out there probably use it, but I never do. It's a big waste of a good shortcut though. We have to use K. That's just the way it is. So V is the shortcut for the selection tool and K you end up toggling like I, again, I'm trying not to do too many shortcuts, just the ones that are really helpful and I'm gonna, I'm gonna beat them into you throughout this course. So you're gonna go to the end and I'll be like, I know it's K, I know it's V because they're helpful and it's hard to remember them sometimes. So you need some beating. All right, it's OK and you can scale them up. Perfect. So back to the selection tool and off to the next video.
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