Keep it organized. Figma’s auto-layout feature is a game-changer for scalable design systems. #FigmaTips #DesignTools #AutoLayout #Figma #ProductDesign
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Keep it organized. Figma’s auto-layout feature is a game-changer for scalable design systems. #FigmaTips #DesignTools #AutoLayout #Figma #ProductDesign
#Autolayout, a #Figma basic many don't understand. Great post by @joeyabanks
https://buff.ly/4i0UtWl
Love his approach to building autolayouts. Doing it for a while now, works great.
TL;DR When building components, add 1+ instances with weird sizes to see when it breaks.
2 AM. A component.✨
White space isn't empty-it's where design breathes.
Need dark Space? Drop 'Black' 🌙
#FigmaDesign #AutoLayout #FigmaTips #ComponentDesign #UIDesign #FigmaCommunity #DesignTool #ProductDesign #FrontendDev #CleanUI #DesignProcess #WebDesign #DesignerLife #DesignToCode #WebDesign
Code showing how to define constraints using anchors. It is much less verbose than the technique that was previously used. In the amount of code that required defining a single constraint, now you can fit around 3 or 4.
2015. #AutoLayout levels-up: Anchors.
Anchors came to the rescue, to make the syntax less verbose and easier to write, read, and reason about. From now on, you define constraints as relations between anchors. Examples of anchors include leading, trailing, top, bottom, height, and width.
A simple UI of a table cell with an image in the leading position and text in the trailing position. There is a variant showing the cell with the image in the top position and the text in the bottom position. Red lines represent constraints that are common to both, blue lines in the first example show the default set of constraints, and the second one has lighter blue lines representing alternative constraints. Some code shows how you can deactivate the default constraints and activate the alternative ones when the preferred size category is larger than extra extra extra large.
2014. #AutoLayout improvements.
As we mentioned, Auto Layout wasn’t perfect from day one. In 2014, Apple released a welcome upgrade: constraints could be activated and deactivated. You might wonder why that’s a big deal.
Illustration showing an example of code to define a constraint. It has several properties including, item, attribute, relatedBy, toItem, attribute, multiplier, and constant. There is an example of a rectangle that includes two other rectangles with lines showing that it would require 9 constraints to define that layout. Each one would need to define all these properties.
2012. #AutoLayout is in da house.
And so, Auto Layout was finally introduced. From now on, we would define our interfaces using a set of relationships between views called constraints. At first, it was quite tedious: it required writing a lot of code…
How to setup Figma for mobile design
Nice thread on #mobile #design in @figma: https://buff.ly/4ez6AY3 Nothing shocking, but good to revisit your process.
Love the constraints. We tend to throw #autoLayout on everything. I see this when reviewing #Figma comp. Sometimes constraints the better solution
Playing Around with Auto-Layout in Figma. A weekly schedule for streamers, would be dope to be able actually to click the notify button 🤔
#ui #design #uidesign #graphicdesign #figma #autolayout
Factory sign that is usually used to show how many days a factory went without an incident or accident. But the text reads instead: 0 days since I last forgot to set translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints to false.
Oops! I did it again... 😅
#AutoLayout #UIKit