10 Ways I Use Figma As A Creator

Edition 025 of Design Insight

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🗃 3 Design Resources

📃 Article - 10 Figma Tricks I Wish I Knew Earlier

Author: Danny Sapio

Source: uxdesign.cc

Here's what I learned from reading this article:

1. Keep your designs pixel perfect with the scale tool — simply select what you want to scale, then press K on the keyboard, and drag. Everything scales perfectly and maintains its proportions with no rework needed.

2. When using the eyedropper tool (i) hold down instead of tapping to preview different colors.

3. CMD + / brings up the command palette

Link To Article: 10 Figma Tricks I Wish I Knew Earlier

🔨 Screely

• Source: @getScreely

• Screely is a tool that allows you to generate website mockups from a screenshot easily and for free.

• This can be quite useful to add more visual interest to a landing page, a tweet, a website, or whatever design you can think of.

• https://www.screely.com/

🔨 Carbon

• Source: @carbon_app

• You've likely seen Tweets with beautiful-looking code snippets in your timeline. I always wondered how people could make code snippets look so good! Turns out they're using Carbon.

• https://carbon.now.sh/

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🎨 2 Design Tips

Don’t use modals unless their content requires 100 percent focus

Don’t use modals unless their content requires 100 percent focus.

A good example of where to use modals is user onboarding.

The user is interacting with your app for the first time and may need some help finding their way around.

Design Tip - Don’t use modals unless their content requires 100 percent focus

Include proper icons when building accordions

The best icons to use for your accordions are:

• Plus Icon +

• Down Chevron ⌄

Design Tip - Include proper icons when building accordions

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📃 1 New Article I Wrote

10 Ways I Use Figma As A Creator

As a creator, I use Figma every day and I can honestly say it’s 10x’ed my creation process.

By working in one application to do many different types of tasks, I save time and work more effectively. Not to mention my knowledge of Figma has increased to the point where I can use keyboard shortcuts like a ninja to quickly manipulate shapes, colors, and alignment.

If you’d like to learn about the different ways you can use Figma as a creator to 10x your design process, this is the right article for you. I’ll also include examples of my work to show you exactly what I mean.

10 Ways I Use Figma As A Creator

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Michelle

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