Motion Design with Figma: Animations, Motion Graphics, UX/UI (Udemy.com)

Just launched with all modern Motion Design principles and best practices for 2023! This is a project based course where we are going to learn by building many design projects to add to your portfolio together! Join a live online community of over 900,000+ students and a course taught by industry experts that have actually worked both in Silicon Valley and Toronto for top companies. Graduates of Andrei’s courses are now working at Google, Tesla, Amazon, Apple, IBM, JP Morgan, Facebook, + other top tech companies.

Using the latest best practices in Motion Design, as well as User Interface and User Experience Design (UI/UX), this course focuses on efficiently teaching you all about building Interactions, Animations and Motion Graphic for all your future Web and Mobile App projects. We will be using Figma to accomplish this, which is now the #1 tool used by modern designers, and is replacing all outdated design tools of the past.

We will provide all Figma files, premium design templates, and assets in this course for you, so you can keep and use them when you work with all your future clients! We guarantee you this is the most comprehensive online resource on Motion Design, Microinteractions, Animations and creating beautiful UX/UI!

The curriculum is going to be very hands on as we walk you from start to finish of working as a Motion Designer...

The topics covered in the course are:

1. Why Is Motion Important? - Learn how motion plays a major role in building usable products and how it helps create narrative and reinforces mental models.

   1. Common Misconceptions Of Motion Design

   2. Motion Helps Create Usability

   3. Narrative And Mental Models

   
   

2. Introduction to Figma -  Learn the different parts of Figma and what you will need to get started. We dive into the important details to get you up and running so there is no confusion.

   1. Getting Started With Figma

   2. Introducing Figma

   3. Figma Dashboard

   4. Figma Tools

   5. Layers And Pages

   6. The Top Bar

   7. Design Properties

   8. Prototyping With Figma

   9. Exercise: Creating a Responsive Layout

   
   

3. Introduction To Smart Animate - Figma's Smart Animate is a game changer. You'll learn how to modify all the different properties it supports and then put that knowledge to use as we build and explain some simple prototypes.

   1. Scale

   2. Position

   3. Opacity

   4. Rotation

   5. Fill

   6. Exercise: Creating A Simple Interaction

   7. Exercise: Animating Navigation Items

   8. Exercise: Creating A Larger Prototype

      
      

4. Project: Photo Inspiration Application -  We'll start the course with a bang! You'll jump into your first project where you can take the resources given and what you learnt previously to link together your own prototype of a photo inspiration mobile application.

   1. Design Assets

   2. Filtering Through Categories

   3. Screen Transitions And Drag Interactions

   4. Simple Microinteractions

      
      

5. Motion Design Principles -  You will also learn the principles of motion design and what makes them integral to the success of any design.

   1. Intro

   2. Easing

   3. Offset And Delay

   4. Parenting

   5. Transformation

   6. Value Change

   7. Masking

   8. Overlay

   9. Cloning

   10. Obscuration

   11. Parallax

   12. Dimensionality

   13. Dolly And Zoom

       
       

6. Creating Motion In Figma - Take the theory and the practical knowledge that you learnt and jump right back into Figma to build some smaller prototypes. Using the design resources given, you can follow along or watch how Daniel explains how to create various interactions.

   1. Exercise: Navigation Transitions (Navigation Design)

   2. Exercise: Navigation Transitions (Heart)

   3. Exercise: Navigation Transitions (Cart)

   4. Exercise: Navigation Transitions (Home)

   5. Exercise: Scrolling (Landing Page)

   6. Exercise: Scrolling (Anchor Links)

   7. Exercise: Scrolling (Parallax)

   8. Exercise: Paging (Simple Carousel Dots)

   9. Exercise: Paging (Carousel Animations)

   10. Exercise: Dragging (Listing Card)

   11. Exercise: Dragging (Image Drag)

   12. Exercise: Dragging (Dragging Through Content)

   13. Exercise: Dragging (Drag And Drop)

   14. Exercise: Microinteractions (File Uploader Part 1)

   15. Exercise: Microinteractions (File Uploader Part 2)

   16. Exercise: Microinteractions (Pause And Play)

   17. Exercise: Microinteractions (Like Button)

   18. Exercise: Microinteractions (Like Animation)

   19. Exercise: Delight (Success Modal)

   20. Exercise: Delight (Confetti Pop)

   21. Exercise: Delight (Checklist Part 1)

   22. Exercise: Delight (Check List Part 2)

   23. Exercise: Delight (Cart Button Part 1)

   24. Exercise: Delight (Cart Button Part 2)

       
       

7. The Motion Design Process - How does motion design fit into the "normal design process"? Don't worry we got you covered. Daniel will explain his process for determining the right motion solutions for user needs.

   1. Discovery And Research Part 1

   2. Discovery And Research Part 2

   3. Design And Storyboard

   4. Prototype

   5. Testing

   6. Helpful Tips

      
      

8. Project: National Geographic Carousel -  Learn how to create, both, simple and complex versions of a carousel effect in Figma.

   1. SimpleLanding Page Carousel

   2. Complex Parallax And 3D Image Effect

      
      

9. Microinteractions - Dig deeper into why micro-interactions are so important. You'll then jump right into Figma to create your very own animation with Daniel using the Figmotion plugin.

   1. What Is A Micro-interaction?

   2. Why Microinteractions Are Important

   3. Figmotion: Part 1

   4. Figmotion: Part 2