Hello,
Hope you had a lovely Valentine’s Day weekend! This week we’re learning all about components, one of the most core tools of Figma. Read on to learn more about our content and some upcoming events from Figma.
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Miggi, a Designer Advocate at Figma, will be hosting a workshop on how educators can utilize FigJam in the classroom. If you teach (design or anything else), learn more here and sign up for the workshop!
No matter where in the world you are, now’s your chance to share your ideas with the Figma community — sign up to speak at Config 2022 now. Submissions are open through this week. (As a personal aside, speaking at Config 2021 was one of the coolest experiences I’ve ever had. I strongly encourage you to submit a proposal and just ~run with it~!)
This week we're diving into components, one of the most powerful and critical features in Figma. You can think of components as building blocks — ways to help your design process make sense. We'll also start to talk about composition and Gestalt principles.
In this lab, you'll explore variants through Figma's Variants playground. Once you feel comfortable working with components, you'll create your own grid pattern, using the magic of variants to make something unique.
For practice, you'll be recreating the Spotify desktop app interface using all that we've learned: shapes, text, colors, frames, components, and more. You'll get a more hands-on sense of how and why components and frames are useful in UI!
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