ADVANCED Interactive Components in Figma

[@thekuzicartoon]

FINALLY! Someone that does a video for advanced tips and tricks! There is such a bombardment of tutorials out there - most of which are aimed at the noobie. It is really like finding a needle in a haystack for more advanced technique tutes. Awesome job, you found an untapped niche! I hope to see many more like this.

[@mdsnotavailable]

😊 Thanks Karen!

[@thekuzicartoon]

@@mdsnotavailable 😊 Hey there. Just thought of something maybe you can help out with ... In Figma, is there a way to click on something to make it animate THEN click on it again to make it stop animating? Kinda of a toggle-ish type thing except the toggle is between animated state and non-animated state. Make sense? For example, make an item spin (like a record). Click on it, it spins. Click on it again, it stops spinning. I am sure there is at the very least a hack... I haven't found anything out there, so it would be a good video!

[@mdsnotavailable]

@@thekuzicartoon You can't pause an animation, but you can kind of fake it by having a set of animated objects and a set of static objects, with a click toggling back and forth between those sets. Here's a quick example: www.figma.com/file/H1FFlmURSQP5rSLD2jvBto/Untitled?node-id=0%3A1

[@thekuzicartoon]

@@mdsnotavailable That was great! With a few tweaks and trial and error, I got exactly what I needed. Thanks so much!

[@garyvoigt321]

Stop apologizing for your genius! This was such a rad tutorial. Thank you.

[@mdsnotavailable]

lol, thanks!

[@alialkofee1]

And yes I would love to see some vlogs and other types of videos from time to time..

[@mdsnotavailable]

👍👍

[@alimakhsan]

6:57 Boom! I don't know that trick, that saves my time, thanks MDS!

[@julianTrichardson]

Bro blew my mind and confused me at the same time

[@mdsnotavailable]

😅

[@eliasaderemi8963]

OMG thank you for this video. I've searched for a multi-component function like this for days. Thank you so much.

[@yagozardo]

It is so fun to watch your videos MDS! You're the best at teaching complex stuff but doing it enjoyable. Thank you for sharing this!

[@yagozardo]

And Yeah, please share more vlogs with us!

[@mdsnotavailable]

🙌

[@LazarusStr]

This was interesting to watch! I'm still learning the power that Figma holds. Although I'll admit I will have to repeat it a few more times to have it sink in. Your explanation was fun to watch! Appreciate you taking the time to create this 🙏🏾

[@kev16]

Awesome. This is a nice solution. I am looking into something similar but I would add a challenge / complexity by allow the color part to allow for users to tap multiple colors at once

[@mustis138]

This is great! I enjoy the fact you say this is not the only way to do it but probably the fastest way, and no need for apologizing man, it makes you humble! Thanks a lot.

[@AI-rn1yz]

I have to admit, this is one of the best explanations in YT tutorial I have ever seen. A bloody sub! Edit: Thanks for highlighted comment.

[@eltonbehari9652]

Great video! I love doing everything inside of Figma. Thanks for sharing. I just have one suggestion: lowering/changing that background music (kinda like a metronome, not sure though) and the keyboard sounds, as I had a hard time to follow along. I had to turn on captions and lower the volume, as the mixture of the keyboard sounds and the background music was a bit too much for me.

[@mdsnotavailable]

Agreed. My dynamic mic was on the fritz so my shotgun was the only option. Definitely picks up clicks way more. The music definitely isn’t helping in retrospect. 👍

[@inspectaeclectic1706]

@@mdsnotavailable It's not your clicks - it's the background track. It really steals attention from your excellent content. Dump it, girl!

[@mdsnotavailable]

@@inspectaeclectic1706 This video is from a year ago. I’ve repented of my past transgressions. 🙏

[@ducthien244]

So much PRO tips. Wait for your next video. BTW, love your voice!

[@Pennymobs]

Hey Matt! I definitely want to see your home studio video and how your are building it. Those projects are so exciting!

[@Ki-Lessons]

Nicely done! I like that you reiterate gestures, shortcuts, etc.

[@mdsnotavailable]

Thanks Reichart!

[@Ki-Lessons]

@@mdsnotavailable I don't make videos, unless I'm annoyed, or representing info. But you might appreciate this early Figma video I made (which had to be made back then sadly) kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKuaiKpnqKyXe6c&ab_channel=ReichartVonWolfsheild Firma is getting better and better, which is rare in software these days.

[@kingjamesofengland]

Just want to say THANKS for this video! This technique cut down my linking time for a percentage slider down to 10% the amount of work. This rocks!!

[@mdsnotavailable]

Awesome. Glad it helped!

[@helgasonb]

Great video and yes video about your home studio renovation interesting.

[@al1gned]

This might be another random comment around here but I've been watching a lot of design tutorials on here but not once did I try to actually apply those. Well, you sir changed this for me. Subscribed, and on my way to buy the course! Such a breath of fresh air :)

[@mdsnotavailable]

not random at all =) glad you found it helpful!

[@blinn40x]

THANKS SO MUCH FOR THIS - currently staring at a massive UX challenge & this helps immensely

[@thepositivevibesclub1729]

I've never seen anybody delete variants and paste in the default component. That's absolutely brilliant and I'm gonna play around with that! Thanks for the video!

[@mdsnotavailable]

🤘

[@its.akbibyan]

Love watching this video. The way you showed how interactive components work seems much easier to learn. Please make some more videos on how to improve and scale the designs.👍

[@Mortres]

Awesome video, thank you. And I'm all in for the renovation videos/vlogs. Keep 'em coming.

[@anasmohaideen]

This is super helpful! Also, I loved the Random in the end!

[@arsenberezovskiy]

Dude, thank you for these videos! So cool. Keep posting

[@akintugay]

Great one MDS, keep it up 👍And I would love to see the office renovation video and maybe I can steal a couple of ideas for my office 🙃

[@UvePortillo]

Put it all in this channel Matt, your content is always awesome, well edited and very instructive :) Thanks!

[@nr379]

This is the best tutorial i've ever seen in a long time

[@the_true_hier_to_the_sharingan]

I'll say you should post but not sure if you should post it on this channel coz when people search for design videos it could be that the algorithms start pushing your channel behind other design channels just coz you post fun stuff too. I don't know how yt works but I am pretty sure that with more automation yt engineers too find it hard to understand recommendation feature of yt. Btw awesome video man subscribed within 5 mins.

[@enriquea308]

Awesome! can we use something like this as a color palette to change a style color in a prototype?

[@NamChauNgo]

This guy is saving my life. I have to design a menu system in which it has a tons of interaction that cannot overlap each other!!!!

[@victornzedu115]

you’re really incredible bro!!

[@PixelSushiRobot]

Awesome! Learned a new trick today. Oh, and post whatever videos you like here :)

[@ivondarmanto6769]

This is so nice and saves time! Thanks for sharing

[@mdsnotavailable]

🙌

[@TanvirAhmed-ur3kr]

This is a great tutorial. You are the one who has solved my problem.

[@mdsnotavailable]

Glad it helped, Tanvir!

[@robmeireles]

Very elegant solution.

[@ricardocastillosandoval9383]

has anyone really tried? I cannot link to the a variant set, only to the elements inside ... I was trying to build a star rating prototype following the same principle ...

[@mdsnotavailable]

You have to be in the Interactive Components Beta kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZ3QfayXpNF5a5I

[@ricardocastillosandoval9383]

@@mdsnotavailable do you say that in the video?

[@mdsnotavailable]

@@ricardocastillosandoval9383 I think I forgot in this one

[@remusb]

Really nice tricks! 👏 Thanks for sharing and keep them coming

[@alialkofee1]

This is brilliant!! Keep up the awesome work!

[@andreabettinelli2728]

Hi!! great video. I just missed at minute 12:04 when you hit "return" and all the magic happens? what you mean by hitting return?

[@mdsnotavailable]

Pressing the return key with a parent layer selected automatically selects all children layers

[@hellofath]

Yes would be interested in vlogs, especially on the DIY home reno topic hehe. But yeah, post whatever. :)

[@Xianalin]

Hi, MDS, this video is sooo great!!! But one thing I still don't understand is the prototype. When I click number one, why the number one show up in the blue circle, not the number two or three. My confusion is number one is connected to the component which contained 1, 2, 3, and why only number one shows up?

[@mdsnotavailable]

Thanks! I'd recommend digging into the Figma file provided and inspecting how it's setup.

[@arff_f]

Sheeesh. This manis absolutely god in this

[@missy1500]

Thank you! I've been searching for a multiple choice type tutorial. How much more complicated is adding a hover state? I know radio buttons can only have 2 states. I am almost done with my bootcamp, so a baby UX designer but eager to learn. Any response would be greatly appreciated!

[@mdsnotavailable]

It could be done by adding additional hover state variants. 👍

[@jhonnafg]

This is exwctly what i need thank you!

[@renzoabianchi]

I'm really hyped to start Shift Nudge in a few days!!! Keep it going Matt, you're really inspiring dude. P.S.: Yes, please add the office renovation video! 💪

[@mdsnotavailable]

Thanks man!

[@victornzedu115]

yes please you can post a vid of office renovation here it’s totally cool!!! keep everything in one place, you can create a new playlist for stuff that are not design related! okaay bye! I’m your biggest fan I guess😂❤️❤️

[@rajamanikandanselvaraj924]

Excellent work... thank you very much....

[@setherichardson]

Doesn’t matter! I know I look forward to the home studio videos!

[@cristinagg2113]

Awesome video! Thank you so much. I have a question and I'm really desperate with this... there is a way that I could click on a button that it's inside of a box of Interactive components, and when I click on it, navigate to another screen? For example, I'm on the web, on the Home screen, but I wanna go to a Profile screen, so I pass the mouse over the button and happen all stuff I establish on the Interactive component, but I wanna add the property that when I click on then, navigate to Profile screen. I don't know if I'm making myself clear.

[@mdsnotavailable]

the short answer is: put your hover interactions in a separate component, then put those instances into a nav group component and link those instances to the pages, not the rollover ones... the long answer is: just made a video about this and should have it up later today. =)

[@cristinagg2113]

@@mdsnotavailable niiiiiiiiice! I'll be waiting for the video! Because I think I'm doing something wrong :(

[@mdsnotavailable]

@@cristinagg2113 it’s up! kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmnRoYufpbd3ZqM

[@SolartVox]

I have been sqeezing my brain for hours on how to do this, thanks fo the video man, great stuff! I also would like to know, how could you insert a hover and click in this situation?

[@fulltrucker]

Super great stuff, love it. Would be interesting to see if making a number choice could affect which colors are available to be selected. I'm thinking of a scenario where you select a t-shirt size, but not every size is available in all colors. Simple use case, more complex interaction.

[@mdsnotavailable]

You totally could, but would need to combine the color and number variants and create a “super variant set” that contained all possibilities. I would probably only do this for one combination to show how it would work (to get buy in from stakeholders) and not build out every version. 👍👍

[@sadiecetin]

Great video, I only miss the alignment on the last scene ;p

[@thaomynguyennguyen4144]

Love to watch your video!

[@Juankmc89]

When I do the prototype link part it doesn't work, I don't know what I did wrong

[@b4sti3n77]

Hi MDS, thank you for this amazing video but I have a little quetion : I am struggling doing a full custom from scratch calendar in figma and all those connexion are insane when you have 31 days multiplied by 12 for all the connexions.. How can I do that ?

[@mdsnotavailable]

My first question would be to ask why you want to do that? I would ask you to consider greatly simplifying what you’re trying to create with a Figma prototype.

[@andrewstrasser]

i desperately need to know if there's an update to this entire thing by using the new variables stuff

[@mdsnotavailable]

I'm 95% sure there is, but I haven't explored it yet.

[@livsinterior]

my app soft in gms doesn't soft like that it is different.please help

[@logeshwaranr5330]

It's fuc*ing helpful man. This saved me a whole loooot of time 🙌

[@valterfriafilho2150]

Please, show us the process of the new studio

[@CalebSchantzChristFollower]

I would love to see the renovation!

[@ivanbadia3232]

Shift Nudge is on my radar

[@grafexstudio]

I TRIED and i won !! Thank You

[@atomparish]

Framer tries so hard to be a great tool. Sadly, whenever I give it a try I don't like the feel. I'm glad to see this built out in Figma.

[@mdsnotavailable]

I do love their UI, but it’s definitely a different mental model for designing.

[@tom7050]

I dont understand this hype too ... figma is so behind sketch in features , specially for components , and the felling as you say is huggly

[@Rodkidesings]

Awesome bro! thanks, I been looking for this, let me know if there is a new way to do it!

[@noahm]

Honestly, this would take less than 2 minutes to do once you know what you’re doing (Matt, it’d take you probably about 15 seconds without talking). Absolutely no point in changing design tools, saving time and money. Thanks for the video!

[@mdsnotavailable]

Thanks for watching, Noah!

[@noahm]

@@mdsnotavailable I’ve been following your content for a long time and I’ve finally signed up for the next enrolment of Shift Nudge. Thank you so much for your work Matt, all the best.

[@nikhildhaka4912]

I want to learner, How will be make this prototype ?

[@shahbazmulla489]

hii MDS this trick didn't work figma didn't show change to option while connecting one component to another component plz help me !

[@mdsnotavailable]

Make sure you're enrolled in the Figma Beta program first as it's currently a beta feature. More info on how to do that here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZ3QfayXpNF5a5I

[@KD9-37]

ingenius hack man! thankyou for this video !

[@OzMoVideo]

Great video, thank you!

[@chrismail]

Is there any way to make different « states » of an element, like it’s possible in Axure for example?

[@mdsnotavailable]

You can recreate states with variants, but I’ve never used Axure, so I’m unsure how they function in regards to prototyping.

[@chrismail]

@@mdsnotavailable For example in my older workflow in Axure i could click a dropdown and the molecule has a second state that opens. In that way I didn’t have to make two screens for when you open and close a dropdown.

[@chrismail]

Axure pushes the other elements on the page downwards.

[@mdsnotavailable]

@@chrismail You can definitely do that. In Figma you'd have a "dropdown variant" with an "open" and "closed" state and you can put whatever you want in there.

[@chrismail]

@@mdsnotavailable Awesome! Is it a dropdown-fixed usecase or can it be done creatively to do many things ?

[@animegeek-011]

That was awesome, thanks for this tutorial.

[@ernstnext1499]

Thanks so much for sharing. Love the video, but found the music slightly distracting

[@wongeubing]

Awesome video! Thanks for sharing this hack. Love it.

[@iftekharulhaque2697]

i am new in the UI UX world, i have a question, do we really need to add this much detail in hi-fi, like making all these variants and stuff, is it necessary for the front end coding?

[@mdsnotavailable]

No, not necessary. 👍

[@iftekharulhaque2697]

@@mdsnotavailable hey, thanks for the reply, loved your video by the way.

[@iftekharulhaque2697]

@@mdsnotavailable may i ask, what are the minimum requirements?, like can i just design the app screens or web screens like designing a poster and hand that over to the devs?, how much detail is necessary?, you are an experienced designer, could you show me some examples? that would be great.

[@mdsnotavailable]

@@iftekharulhaque2697 kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnfMaoqcg7qfptU

[@iftekharulhaque2697]

@@mdsnotavailable saw this video as well, thanks a ton.

[@readtogether-podcast]

Amazing, thank you!

[@NamChauNgo]

Thanks for the video. So if I wanna do the first interaction is hover and the second is click, what should I do then?

[@mdsnotavailable]

Add two interactions with different triggers

[@herzogpablo]

Great stuff! Thanks for that! 😁 But if I want to carry the user to another screen with only the selected number and color, how can I do that? Like, the user picked 2 and yellow and clicked on "next", how can I make it display only the number 2 and the yellow color?

[@mdsnotavailable]

That would be tricky. You could fake it by transitioning only some of the screen content to something different by linking it to the "next" button, but what you're asking would be much more logic based and might be too difficult.

[@kxp1996]

In the words of Boyz II Men - "All my life, I've waited for someone like you, and I thank god that I finally found you..."

[@mdsnotavailable]

That’s KC and JoJo, but I still really appreciate the sentiment. 😅👍

[@mohammedfahim3447]

This will help a lot! Thank you so much

[@SebastianKaye]

Love it! Would it be possible to apply this to an overlay?

[@mdsnotavailable]

Not sure, but worth a try!

[@SebastianKaye]

@@mdsnotavailable Will let you know how I get on with that :) - plus, I cannot seem to make an interactive link (in Prototyping mode) from one variant set to another variant set, like you did in your video... Figma only allows me to make interactive links between the individual elements within each set, and not the set itself.... Is this feature only available in some special beta mode? or am I missing a trick here?

[@sharikapathirana]

Amazing now I can upgrade my project Thanks a lot 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@itstherealwon]

awesome tuts. thanks!

[@ivanbadia3232]

I redesigned my kitchen I used Figma to build a grid. I was able to layout my coffered ceiling an tiles perfectly. Get that sledge hammer ready.

[@DJ-Illuminate]

I avoided Figma for years and after losing my design job I finally have time to look at the tools that have come out over the last five years. When I started my job I used to have time to research and keep up. I maintained and designed websites for a company for 13 years. After five years the work load became so great I was working ten hours a day six days a week with barely time to breathe. In retrospect I should have quit but you know how it is.

[@christophermoro1669]

This is the absolute shit!! Thanku! Been searching for hours for a tutorial on how to do this (was needing to do sizing buttons XS, S, M, L).. Mind blown.🤪🤯

[@mdsnotavailable]

Glad it helped!

[@ruonanyan4839]

Thank you very much! This is incredibly useful!

[@mdsnotavailable]

Glad it helps, Ruonan!

[@Sk_digital-designer]

It very cool! Thanks!

[@oreenx519x]

Nice hack! But, how do you deselect the button? I think that's the drawback of this hack? Once you select something, you're now fully committed and there's no way to reset or deselect the button. Or... is there another hack that can solve that?

[@mdsnotavailable]

Typically on a radio button form there would always be at least one selected. You could add something like “none of the above” or a “clear selection” button that would reset everything. That would really depend on what you were designing though.

[@oreenx519x]

@@mdsnotavailable Thanks Matt. Makes sense for radio selection. I was just trying to think of using this for other applications.

[@julyartzo1241]

Thank you! That's WOW😧

[@davezor21]

Game changer!

[@jaylouie9950]

Great video thanks man

[@mdsnotavailable]

Thanks Jay!

[@abderrahimanejjar91]

Great way

[@andrewstrasser]

What is this wild music? It sounds like a brain at work

[@ChristianBaptiste]

Brilliant

[@stephencohay3900]

wow, very cool video, youre fire

[@jordanr6757]

If I want to learn elite UI design. I come here.

[@Arturo27666]

could this be easier in adobe xd?

[@amirivno9801]

Yeah man do it 😂😂😂😂, goood content, keep going

[@eslamnssar9358]

love the video! hate the backgorund noise.

[@eslamnssar9358]

it's literally making me nervous

[@mdsnotavailable]

You and every other commentor 😅

[@Ganito55]

I worked with Figma & Adobe XD, Xd wins in every area for me.

[@mdsnotavailable]

XD is great!