Hello,
Welcome to Figma Decal — it’s officially our first day of class!! 🎉🎈🍰🪅🥳 We’re looking forward to seeing you tonight, in just a couple hours. Come to our first lecture to hear more and get your questions answered!
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Our files go through a semesterly refresh, but the links will always stay up. I’m linking our files for this week’s content, but if you open them before 6 PM PST today, they might not be quite finalized. Files will always be complete by the start of lecture, so we encourage you to open up the lectures slides/demos and follow along once class starts!
Our first lecture is a welcome to the course: introducing the entire course staff, walking through our syllabus, and outlining course expectations. Then, we'll just right into the core tools of Figma, including the selection tool, shapes, text, and frames. Finally, we'll discuss just what we mean when we say design and think about new kinds of frameworks.
To kick off your Figma exploration, our first lab is a series of small exercises in zooming, panning, clicking, dragging, copying, flipping, reversing, and all sorts of selection tool magic! Through three pages of activities, you'll see just how much you can do with a little copy-pasting. By the end, you'll start to get all those shortcuts under your belt to make navigation a breeze.
The first homework assignment is to create a trading card that share a bit about yourself! You can follow our given templates or go as off the rails as you'd like. Get comfortable with each of the tools and navigating a file, and learn about our staff along the way! We can't wait to see what you make :~)
As always, our Slack Community is open — join through this link! If you haven't already, please introduce yourself in our #welcome channel 💛
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All the best,
Ace Chen (he/him/his)
Lead Instructor | Figma Decal