10 tips to work 10x faster in Figma
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- I put together a short list of my favorite tips and shortcuts to speed up your workflow in Figma :) Let me know which one's your favorite!
==LINKS==
- Figma's video tutorial on autolayout: • Figma Tutorial: Auto L...
- My own figma template: www.figma.com/community/file/...
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==TIMESTAMPS==
0:00 - Intro
1:40 - Tip #1 Duplicate
3:21 - Tip #2 Resize
5:14 - Tip #3 Resize Frames
6:20 - Tip #4 Copy Style
7:56 - Tip #5 Big nudge
9:59 - Tip #6 Hold layer position
12:38 - Tip #7 Layer up/down
13:37 - Tip #8 Rename/Bulk Rename
14:15 - Tip #9 Autolayout
16:22 - Tip #10 Templates
18:19 - What's your favorite?
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Figma Tips
Move: V
ctrl = command
alt = option
1. Duplicate
- alt + drag
- ctrl + D
- if you keep pressing ctrl + D it will duplicate at the same distance as your first duplicate
2. Resize
- alt + drag at the side for it(the selected item) to grow from the center
- alt + shift to maintain proportion
- press k (don't hold) to scale
- if "k" is already active, hold alt to maintain proportion
3. Resize Frames
- hold ctrl so the frame will not use the constraints
4. Copy Text Style
- ctrl + alt + c (on the text with the text style you want to copy)
then ctrl + alt + v (on the text that you want to be the same style as the copied text)
5. Big Nudge (nudge - move an element a little)
- shift + arrow key(the desired direction)
- change nudge number:
- hamburger menu
- preferences
- nudge amount
- 8 pixel nudge (you'll always be within the grid) [if you work on an 8 pixel grid]
6. Hold Position
- Click element and hold spacebar
- this makes the element be placed on top instead of being put to a group (if the element is initially outside)
- if the element is initially inside - it will be placed in a group but will be sent to back (sort of)
7. Layer Up/Down (how to move things up and down)
- ctrl + [ (move down one layer)
- ctrl + ] (move up one layer)
8. Rename (layer)
- ctrl + R
- can rename multiple layers if multiple layers are selected
9. Auto Layout
- you can think of it as grouping elements that are related
- to add auto layout to an element: shift + A
- the selected element will be placed inside a new frame
[changing child element order in an auto layout frame]
- select child element + press an arrow key to move its position to the desired direction
- we can also drag the child element to reposition it
- aligning elements
- select frame (with auto layout)
- use arrow keys to align the elements to the left, center, or right
[text resizing / word wrap]
- go to text panel
- type details (in the meatball menu)
- change "Resizing" to grow vertically
- then specify a fixed width for the text element
[adding an external element in the auto layout frame]
- drag the element
- if element is bigger than the frame:
- hold ctrl key while dragging the element (a blue line will indicate where the object will be placed in the frame)
- to prevent the frame from growing wider
- go to auto layout panel
- change the resizing behavior to "fixed width"
[Auto layout frames can also be turned to components(components are frames)] (so we can copy/duplicate it)
- select auto layout (final) frame then do alt + ctrl + K to make that frame as a component
[Placing an auto layout frame in a new regular frame] (for scrolling purposes)
- select the auto layout frame
- ctrl + alt + G
10. Templates
- create/use templates if you're designing something similar most of the time
Awesome bro thank you so much
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Thank You!)
you look like a Pixar character. In a really good way. Like warm and good energy
i thought i was the only one who realised
I have never seen this channel and this was the first thing I noticed. Wild.
Totally.
Thank God I'm not alone 😹
She looks like Yennefer from the Witcher
The "K" thing just changed my life.
I just realized if I was spending 20 times longer resizing each component.
I used to export in png and bring it beck so I could do it. But it was a really dirty way.
The "K" thing definitively change my live as well.
hahahaha i swear
Yeah this actually saved me so much time that i waste resizing things
It literally just changed my life
does it work on windows ?
Another tip: If you want to select the deepest element of a group, just hover the element and press cmd + click, and voilà! (This prevents you from perma double click group+group+group+...)
This is what I was looking for! Was surprisingly hard to find, thank you Lucas!
My life has split to before and after... You just saved me days of double clicking. THANK YOU!
thank you !
I would have subscribed to your channel for this
Expanding on this: cmd/ctrl + click selects the most deeply nested detail that you're hovering on. Cmd/ctrl + RIGHT click brings up a context menu with all layers that the mouse hovers over. It also allows you to select locked items from the canvas rather than the layers panel.
The space bar trick! Daaaaamnn, I've spent hours rearranging layers into the frames after moving them to create cool animations, and I didn't know this powerful trick. Awesome, you have a new follower from now on 😍
Love watching you @Carola! This is one of the most entertaining, fun and useful videos I've seen in a while. Sharing with our design students and they are loving it! Hope to see more. 💜
thank you for the tuts. the 'K' and the 'space bar' just saved my life.
The space bar thing 🥺🥺 I hate it so much when moving layers and they get grouped when I don't want them to, definitely going to change my life!
Big ones to me are Shift + 0 (to see everything on the current page), Shift + 1 (to set the zoom at 100%) and Shift + 2 (to center the screen on the currently selected layer), never use them when I have a trackpad but always do when I'm with a mouse
Shift 0 is 100%, shift 1 is to see everything. But very helpful! thanks
that hold layer position tip! thank you soo much!
Copy style actually kind of blows my mind. I've gone years without that and I'm just so pleased to have it in my toolbox now.
That hold layer position and Zoom options are life savers 🔥🙏🏻 Thanks for those awesome tips 🎉🤩
favorite tip: the one with the spacebar, that will change my life
doesn't work on iMac :(
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Your excitement is contagious :D
prove it :D
I've been looking for this k command all my life. Thanks Carola, you've earned a follower
The "K" scale tool blew my mind. That would have saved me so much time on one of my assignments. Also, the holding "Command" while resizing a frame to disregard constraints was also super helpful. I would always have to add constraints to everything before moving which was a pain. Thanks so much for this!
but dont forget about decimal size if you are resizing multiple layer
Girl, I've been looking for that resize advice for weeks!!!
I spent my whole day figuring out how to get rid of that constraints.
You are like a lifesaver
The keyboard shortcuts are the best part of Figma! Thanks for the awesome tips!
Hold layer position changed my whole life. Thanks for this amazing video!
Thank you for the great tips and the template as well. Quite useful! And I love your energy, keep it up!
Great tutorial! This is such a gem. So many wow moments and I really like your cheerful presentation too. Keep up the awesome work 💪🔥
I am an absolute novice in this field. Writing out the commands and keys as you clicked was really helpful. Thank you ❤️ ❤️
Great video, love the energy and the happy mood! For tip 7, if you hold cmd & shift, you can move stuff directly to the bottommost or the topmost
I recently (2 weeks ago) switched over to Figma from Sketch. I have found that autolayout is pretty powerful and something I want 95+% of the time I'm doing anything. The resizing sections of this video were helpful, thanks! Much of the other stuff is similar/identical to other tools, but still good to know. It's also good to know where the arrow sensitivity adjustment is. Again thanks!
The holding space bar to prevent objects from popping into frames / auto layouts was great to know. Thank you.
Another very useful thing I would add is the swapping of elements by selecting two items and dragging one of the pink dots that show up in order to swap their positions between them. Great video, learned some eye opening stuff that I already started using today at work. Thank you!!
Thank you!
I love your style of videos, you're so easy to watch! also, these are some great tips! Thanks fo sharing
Wow, this is great - The NUDGE is changed my life .... I was literally moving objects and text with one one pixel to match 8 grid... Thank you very much, Carola
scale and spacebar tips are game changers. thank you for the tips!
I figured out pretty soon what you were saying wouldn't be news to me but I was so in love with the way you were saying it that I couldn't stop myself and watched it all the way through the end
Dropbox should immediately lock Carola into a ten-year contract. This is precisely the energy and passion every company needs. Outstanding.
The space tip to put something above the frame changes my life! Your video was helpful, thanks a lot :)
I'm brand new to figma and this video just changed my (figma) world. Thanks @Carola for putting this together. Now I need to go learn autolayout :)
Hey, I just wanted to thank you because I've recently started working with Figma and your video really helped me🥺 I wish you all the best!
Love this Video, this was really helpful and you were so excited while you were explaining the Tipps.
I love it!
Hope you'll do more Videos like this.
Congrants, Carola ! I loved the tips. Super useful.
Omg! You helped me know multiple things already. I just got started with Figma and I'm knowing more. You are a blessing love from Nigeria 🇳🇬 👐🏽 and guys the thing about her explanation is most of what is explaining might not be what you want be on the cause of explaining you'll definitely learn few key functions! My God. Figma is great!! And Miss Carola is awesome 😘😘
Teaching with nice smiles throughout the tutorial. By the way almost all the tips you shared in this video were super useful. Thanks Carola.
ur personality is amazing. i'm so jealous with your colleagues since they get to work with someone as jolly as you. keep up the good work, bruh!
thank you so much for sharing!! that “k” tip is what i’ve needed in my life all this while
SPACE this is a miracle, that's what I've been waiting for a long time, thanks!
You are amazing! Thanks so much for these tricks. [hold layer position] is my new favorite move. 😀
Totally agree 🔥🔥
I already know these shortcuts but i enjoyed your excitement, keep exploring, love the way you explain.
The Tips of holding CTRL+ resizing elements from the side and holding space when dragging are so great Thank you so mush for sharing that .
That frame expanding tip without moving around the contents. Life changing!! I love your channel and will watch more content now. I don't like web design or figma but I need to learn it to become a better freelancer and you make it really fun to learn. The figma videos on their site are so boring and with the new autolayout changes I haven't found any good tutorials and it's very different than how it was before. I bet you're a busy person but it would be awesome if you had more tutorials on these subjects. You are a great TH-camr. 😁
Today is the 2nd day of teaching myself UX design. I have a graphic design background but want to transition to UX. Your video is SOO helpful, there are so many similarities with the shortcuts but you definitely taught me a lot. THANK YOU !!!!
that scale tip for resizing was amazing, thank you so much!
You are so awesome!! Thank you so much for breaking this down. I adore your personality as well :)
OMG the one about matching text styles
I'm a junior Figma learner and it's brilliant thanks ! my fvorite tip is #7 Layer up/down
I'm new to Figma (started three days ago) do this is really helpful to me! Thank you for the video! ☺️
Hey, what a great tips and I love your energy. Regards from Colombia!
The frame increment without moving all the contents was my favorite tip. I always drag out all the contents, resize the frame then drag the contents back into the frame. Thank you so much for the tip.
Same here! Number 2 was definitely life changing
The copy text style (ctrl+alt+C) eased my work and saved me so much time!
Love your energy, thank you for sharing this!
That was really helpful! Thank you Carola
I love the energy in ur videos, :)
Recently started learning Figma and haven't even finished the video yet, but I had to say that first tip about copying/duplicating was ALL I WAS LOOKING FOR!!! OMG!! THANK YOU! I LOVE YOU!!! :P
Really useful tips. Been working in figma since 2 years or so, some of these were a good find for me. That "K" was a keeper.
number 6 was driving me crazy, thanks for the tip!
Thanks Carola!
Great tips!🤩
My fav one was the Cntrl + Shift + V / C !!!
It's a game-changer!
love this video! thank you for helping me! Especially the copy style part! you saved my life
"I am a sick person who doesn't like comfort" 🤣best line!
"K" is so magical! Thanks for sharing!
Yeayyy! Finally I found how to resize without mess the design 😂 thanks so much
Thanks for the informative resource! We'll definitely be utilizing these tips in the future.
K for resizing is the best!
Watched your video once in 2021, and now again searched for a long time to finally find this one again. You're awesome! Thank you for all the tips💙
Thanks a lot for your video. My favorite tip was about resizing (number 2). Please keep doing because you explain the thinks in the easiest way.
#2 is such a life changer! Thank you ;)
I have been always confused seeing some dudes disliking such video.. are you kidding me ??? SUPER HELPFUL..
Immediately subbed. Great tips and awesome vibes. Love it.
Great video Carola - thanks for the tip - for me was the big nudge and layer position.
Omg I just love your energy
Amazing video, this is easily the best Figma tip I've watched. Thanks for sharing.
Thankyou for the work you put in your Videos. Makes it much easier to learn, when the presentation is that good.
Thanks, Carola! that was super useful ❤️
As an UX design beginner, all of your tips you shared is useful for me. THANKS.
The nudge amount set at 8px is a life changer! Thanks!
It was great, I was unaware of few tips you added, so thanks, keeping making more videos like this. Thanks again.
the copy style blew my mind. I have been looking for this. In other softwares you can do it with an eyedropper.
Awesome tips! Thanks Carola!
Just stumbled upon your video here from the frontpage of TH-cam.. Im a person who works creatively as well and your face grabbed me in
Number 1. I love you.
This is what i looking for a long time.. much loveee♥️
U made my life easier. A super fan, love the way you express things and make them look easy. Thanks a million
Tip num. 3 is just what I needed now, thank you!
Nr. 4 blew my mind!
Thanks for sharing. Very helpful. 😍
Video quality is awesome and awesome content 🔥
This video is very helpful! I discovered to you this week and your videos are amazing! i am waiting for more!
My mind is blown 🤯🤯🤯🤯, thank you, you made be 50X faster 🙏
Waaaah, the second tips is what i have looked for from long time hehe thaaanks girl
Wow!! I've learned a lot of my first from you! I was dumbfounded with Figma's navigation and commands. Thanks to this I'll be able to finish my work way faster.
I like tips 6-10.
This video is amazing! 😍😘
Keep safe and bless you!
This is super cute way of doing things in Figma. Thank you, I learned a bunch of new things.
I love the way you explain these stuff 🙂
Finding out about the big nudge for the first time was pretty mind-blowing.
Loved these tips thanks for sharing. The “K” was the best tip.
This video has something more than Figma tips. vibes 🍂
thank you so much for sharing these helpful tips to the community!! super appreciate you
The auto layout thing blew my mind. Wow, super freaking awesome!!!
The multi-rename is going to change my life haha, thanks !