Components with Variants and Auto Layout - Advanced Figma Tutorial

[@JaviAlaves]

Hey all, as usual extremely grateful for you coming in and watching this week's tutorial. Don't forget that you can duplicate the file from one of the links in the video description if you want to design along. We're one video away from wrapping up this series and I'm incredibly excited to dive deep into prototyping and animation next. By the time we're done, you'll barely be able to tell that this is a design prototype! Stay safe and catch you in the next one.

[@sadepennbrook]

This is what I call advanced teaching. No frills, no fussing around, just straight to the point.

[@JaviAlaves]

Thank you, I really appreciate it ⚡️

[@laxmanpatil81]

This is what I want to learn. Thank you so much for this tutorial, Javier!

[@the_true_hier_to_the_sharingan]

Woah! Now, this is a gem. Gonna have to watch again to build along, I watched the entire 44mins in one go which I rarely do.

[@JaviAlaves]

Thanks Jay, I appreciate it and I'm glad that you enjoyed it!

[@ankitanand5443]

This continues to be one of the best series on Figma. Excited for prototyping and animation video.

[@JaviAlaves]

Thank you for keeping up the series and for your avid support! 💪

[@mayonara6295]

I just subscribed to your channel. Great content, very helpful. Thanks a lot for the great videos and useful info. Keep up the good work.

[@DesignHustle]

Excellent content! Hang in there and keep sharing. Good content gets discovered eventually.

[@JaviAlaves]

Thanks Ali, strongly appreciate it! 🙏

[@alinanozik7903]

Awesome! I'm new in Figma and you've given me so many great tips that I haven't heard before, thank you so much!

[@JaviAlaves]

Happy to hear it was helpful, thank you for watching! 🙏

[@Naz-yi9bs]

Thank you so much for this tutorial Javier! fyi, if like me anyone is having a hard time trying to figure out why the bottom radius was being lost when the "search" frame was turned into an auto layout frame is because, you need to have "clip content" checked in the right panel under the frame sub-category. Which, is shown in the video but I missed it.

[@albertoserna6043]

Hi Javi, just a note to let you know that you're doing an exceptional job with these Figma tutorials. Keep up the good work, man!

[@JaviAlaves]

Hey Alberto, strongly appreciate it you tuning in every week! Thanks for the support!

[@albertoserna6043]

@@JaviAlaves Hey Javi, you're welcome! I actually had one question - on 32:57 when you made the entire "Home Focus" frame an Auto Layout frame, the divider loses its original position shifting to the left edge. How would you go about preventing this from happening? Thanks!

[@albertoserna6043]

I just realised you explained it on 36:35 :)

[@JaviAlaves]

​@@albertoserna6043 Great catch. Auto Layout automatically aligns everything top-left when enabled, so what happened here is we lost our intended alignment. Here's a short video with the visual walkthrough on how to fix that: www.loom.com/share/bf2e47dbee624c7bb0f24b8bf90490fa

[@JaviAlaves]

@@albertoserna6043 Yes, same logic! :)

[@enaasshehawy308]

Awesome! I learned a lot from you thank you man you are amazing keep going

[@dirkvandiepen156]

I really love these videos, they are super helpful! One annoyance I have, that can easily be fixed, is that we can't see the layer structure. Could you please drag the divider on the left between Pages and Layers up?

[@JaviAlaves]

Yes! I've received this comment a lot and hopefully in the newer videos I've become more aware and am addressing it by either bringing moving the layers up or getting out of the way. Thank you for the feedback!

[@dirkvandiepen156]

@@JaviAlaves Great! And I'm indeed late to the party. It would have saved me a lot of frustration if I had gone through this series a few months back ^_^

[@cyrilcyril5853]

Amazing content, you helped me a lot! - Keep up the good work!

[@JaviAlaves]

Thank you for tuning in on the series - I'm really glad to hear they were helpful!

[@AkashYadavUX]

awesome work mate 🤘😀

[@JaviAlaves]

Thanks for the support, Akash! Let's chat Figma sometime 🙏

[@AkashYadavUX]

@@JaviAlaves absolutely 👍, let's do that sometime.

[@danielDefoe81]

Hello Javier, do you have a recommendation WHEN to use variants for Icons and WHEN NOT to ? I ve seen a couple of videos where they had icons as separate components and not grouped as a variant component. Any suggestions?

[@JaviAlaves]

Hey Daniel, that's a great question. There's minor trade-offs involved. I'll make a short video about this in the next few days with some thoughts.

[@Naz-yi9bs]

@@JaviAlaves Hey Javier, did you ever find the time to make this video? Thank you.

[@davidprioul]

Hi Javier, What is the shortcut who use at 4:26 ?

[@JaviAlaves]

Hey David! Around that time I held the shift key to select both layers, and then without having to continue holding shift, I held the alt key while hovering around the layers to observe the spacing values. Let me know if that helps!

[@davidprioul]

@@JaviAlaves Ok, ok, I thought there was another shortcut to distribute the spacing vertically that I didn't know ;) Thanks