Hello,
Good morning and welcome to another week! We've got some cool opportunities to share with you, and I'm very much looking forward to this week's content ♥♥♥
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If you're a new grad interested in product design roles, Figma is hiring! Take a look at their Lever page to learn more. If you're a product designer taking this class, chances are you'll be interested what you can learn working at Figma 🧠
Note that we are not officially affiliated with Figma in any way — just passing along this opportunity! Please direct any questions towards the appropriate channels.
Have time before lecture tomorrow? Check out this FigJam workshop being held tomorrow at 4PM PT! Two designer advocates from Figma will be walking through how FigJam works — and there's even a chance to win some swag. Our class won't be covering FigJam til Week 6, so this is an awesome way to learn more about the tool now 🖍✏🖊
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.
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!
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.
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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