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Existing UI Kits

Lesson 6 from: Adobe XD: UX/UI Design Essentials

Daniel Walter Scott

Existing UI Kits

Lesson 6 from: Adobe XD: UX/UI Design Essentials

Daniel Walter Scott

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Lesson Info

6. Existing UI Kits

Next Lesson: Working with Type

Lessons

Class Trailer

Getting Started

1

Getting Started with XD

02:21
2

What is UI vs UX

06:19
3

The UX Brief & Persona

11:22

Wireframing Low Fidelity, Type, Color & Icon

4

Wireframing (Low Fidelity)

01:58
5

How Wide for my Website

13:06
6

Existing UI Kits

07:49
7

Working with Type

09:09
8

Basic Colors & Buttons

14:14
9

Free UI Icons

11:45
10

Footers & Lorem Ipsum

05:27
11

New Pages & Artboards

04:20
12

Class Project 01 - Wireframe

11:11

Prototyping a Website

13

Prototyping & Interactivity

08:53
14

Create a Popup Modal

07:57
15

Prototype

02:54
16

Groups & Isolation Mode

02:30
17

How to Use Components (Previously Components)

17:19
18

Production Video - Left Nav

03:52
19

Repeat Grid

05:27
20

Updating Components & Repeat Grids

08:54
21

Prototype Tricks

06:03
22

Navigation Tricks & Tips

04:48
23

Class Project 03 - Components

04:07

Prototyping an App

24

Mocking Up an App

09:40
25

XD App on Your Phone

08:04
26

Fixing the Position

01:01
27

iPhone & Android Status Icons

03:10
28

Production Video - Login

06:45
29

Sharing Wireframes

13:32
30

Recording Your Interactions

03:13
31

Class Project - Wireframe Feedback

01:21
32

Mood Boards

07:43
33

Class Project - Mood Board

00:59
34

12 Column or Grids

04:57
35

Working with Colors

09:02
36

Tricks for Using Colors

06:34
37

Gradients

03:50
38

Class Project 06 - Colors

02:14

Text & Drawing

39

Use Web Safe Fonts

18:00
40

Character Styles

06:59
41

Font & Text Tips Tricks

05:43
42

Plugin Lorem Ipsum

05:39
43

Paste Properties

13:15
44

Class Project 07 - Text & Buttons

02:21
45

Draw Custom Icons

04:13
46

Strokes & Lines

14:28
47

Pen Tool

14:34
48

Drawing Practice

07:15
49

Production Video with Tips

12:27

Working with Illustrator, InDesign & Photoshop

50

Illustrator in XD

09:34
51

Class Project 08 - Custom Icons

01:49
52

InDesign in XD

11:38
53

Pros & Cons for Images

03:58
54

CC Library Connection

11:01
55

Adobe Stock

05:20
56

Free Images

01:48
57

Masking

06:44
58

Photoshop in XD

08:41
59

Infographic

12:12
60

Class Project 09 - Hi-Def Mockup

05:38

APP Design

61

Mobile Phone Mockup

18:08
62

Class Project 10 - Mobile Website

01:24

Placeholder content & Plugins

63

Hidden Features for Repeat Grid

05:17
64

Plugin - Content Generator

04:29
65

Plugin - UI Faces

03:15
66

Plugin - PhotoSplash

04:31
67

Plugin - Copy Cat

03:19
68

Advanced Asset Panel

04:37
69

Advanced Symbols

07:52

Micro Interactions

70

What are Micro Interactions

07:21
71

Button Grow

06:13
72

Animated Image Gallery

06:39
73

Full Vector Change

08:19
74

Class Project 11 - Micro Interactions

05:12

Prototyping Advanced, Voice Interactions & User Testing

75

Time Delay Transitions

04:42
76

Popup Menu or Modal

12:16
77

Animated Mobile Side Nav

03:26
78

Drop Down Menus

03:24
79

Drag Transitions

07:19
80

Number Ticker Scroll

06:51
81

Alexa Voice Commands

09:37
82

What is User Testing

16:53
83

Unmoderated UX Test

12:07
84

Class Project 12 - User Testing

02:23

Pitching to clients & customers

85

Mocking up in Photoshop

09:21
86

ProtoPie

02:40
87

Add Animation Using After Effects

09:39
88

Export Images & Assets

12:56
89

Export Code Using Design Specs

10:49

What Next

90

Class Project 13 - Roar Cycles

10:29
91

Conclusion

05:32

Final Quiz

92

Final Quiz

Lesson Info

Existing UI Kits

Okay. The next thing we're going to do is we're going to start building that navigation you saw at the beginning and how we're going to do it, we're gonna cheat. We're going to start with some other UI kits that are out there when we talk about Ui kits. Okay. That just means like a template. Somebody else has made them for us and it has a lot of the elements that we can use that's going to help us go fast, especially at this kind of wireframe stage. Okay? So there's some that are kind of built into XD and I'll show you where to get other ones from. So in X. D. If you go to file and under get UI kits. Okay, There's these options in here. Okay. So we look at these these ones here later on. The one we want is this one called wire frames. Now you'll click it. It'll take you to a website and get you to download it. Now. What I've done for you is I've already downloaded this one and it's in your exercise file. So we'll go and open it. So let's go to file. Let's go to open and in your exercis...

e files there's one called Ui templates. I just downloaded them just to make it easier for this course. They're all in here. The one we want is in wire frames open that up and we're starting with the web wireframe. Okay, let's click open. All right. And this is the kind of template for wire frames. Okay. And it's it's really amazing. Like somebody's gone through and given us all the kind of like basic UI elements, the building blocks for a good wireframe, there's navigation, these buttons, footage, all sorts of cool stuff. You can see somebody's done some landing pages, portfolios, real handy stuff to get started. And the one thing I want to cover here is that you might have a little button down the bottom that says you are missing fonts. That's pretty unlucky for this particular one. But I know it has happened to my students. So watch this. If I zoom in and say if I click click, click, click, click, click, click, click and keep clicking until I select some text. It says this aerial, if you don't have a real time machine, that's weird. But I know, I think George is used in this one as well. So let's say I'm going to fake it. I'm going to open up a product, Sorry, Ui kit that I know I definitely don't have the front for. So don't do this yourself. Just I guess I want to show you this thing. It says a missing fonts. You're missing fonts. Ah, okay. So what you do is it says it's for missing fonts. You click on show missing fonts and unfortunately that's kind of all the help it gives you at the moment. So XD is not particularly handy. It just says these are the missing fonts and this one here. Hi Siegel Civil, I don't know that front there. So if I copy that and close it and I go off, there's no like magic one place you just go to google and say font download and see if you can find it and install it. That one there looks like it's on dot font free dot net. All sorts of places to try and download those. Another place you might try is google fonts. Okay, so fonts dot google dot com or fonts dot adobe dot com. You can often find a lot of the fonts used in templates here. I doubt you're gonna find Ariel and Georgia because they are so common. You're gonna have to go to google and just ask where they are. So let's say yours has opened and it's fine. Okay. I'm going to close it down. We're in the wires when I'm going to zoom out. Okay. A couple of little other navigation shortcuts that we need to learn and is kind of remember, we're zoomed in and out. That was fine. And so I was zoom in. Okay. And I'm in nice and close um, if I want to come all the way back to see all my outboards, you hold command zero on your keyboard okay. Or that's on a Mac and control zero on a pc. The other kind of two handy like navigation shortcuts you learn is you can use them in here. We're going to use this one that's command one and we're gonna use command three. Okay, so you can go this long way if you're like man too many shortcuts are done too early for that. Um I'm not going to give you too many, just the ones that I think are really important and the ones you're going to have to learn real quick to make XD kind of usable for yourself. So the first one is command three, so it's Control three on a Pc. If I click on this little dotted line at the top here, it's kind of that's a little dotted line indicates I'm clicking on this whole art board and I had command three. Control three on a pc just zooms into your selection. So that's quite a handy. Some kind zero to go back out. Command three to go just kind of see that selection. The other one is command one. Command one is kind of handy because it shows you 100%. So this is where you should be doing a lot of your design work because this is the way that the user is going to see it. So you you know, they're not going to see it zoomed in. They can't zoom in on a website or an app. You can because you're in design view but you need to be making decisions at command one on a Mac or control one on a pc. Things like font size and how big the images needs to be done at 100%. The other little thing with command three where it zooms in if you have something really small selected already. Command three massive. Okay, so sometimes just clicking on the art board and zooming in rather than having an individual object. Cool. All right. So what we want is we've got all these UI elements and that's the cool thing about this web thing. Right? Somebody's gone through and designed UI elements. Things like footers, headers, buttons. There's landing pages pre designed for you. Just a great way to get started. What we're gonna do is I'm going to use one of these headers here. I'll use this one here. I'm going to copy it. Edit copy. Okay. And jump to your other art board. If you've got more than one art board, you can kind of see them behind each other by grabbing this top bar here. You can jump between windows this way window. Okay, So that's the one that I'm I've created and that's the one I was looking at and you can just toggle between these two or if you're super fancy. I had command and tilde key on a Mac or command tab on a pc and that just toggles between them but that might be one too many shortcuts for one video. Okay, So we'll cover them again later on in the course, but I'm going to paste it in here and we're going to run into our Not first problem, but our first thing to kind of identify if I undo that. So edit undo. Okay. Which is command Z controls the on abc, you'll see my assets panel here. If you can't see the assets panel, it's one of these two icons down the bottom here. The top one you can see I have nothing going on in here. But if I pay something, all this stuff appears, where do these symbols come from? So the designer who made this original wireframe here has made symbols which we'll look at together later on. But for us it's going to cause us issues mainly because they are linked. So if I change this one, it's going to update that original one in here. So we want to just break the link. The easiest way is to right click it. Okay and go to where does it say? Unlinked symbol? That little green link icon goes away and now we've got these things over here. You can leave them there. They're not going to do much but I don't need them. So I'm gonna click on you hit delete on my keyboard, click on you right click them. Delete just like both of them at the same time and delete them. So just get rid of those symbols. It's not what I want. I didn't make them. Cool. So this thing here is all still grouped. That's fine. I'm going to kind of drag it towards the top. The cool thing about XD is it's got really helpful smart guides. So if you're zoomed out far enough, remember our shortcut, command zero or control zero. Okay, so you can see the whole thing. Um if you drag it you'll see it just eventually wants to snap in there, which is really handy. Now, it's all grouped in one little unit. What we're gonna do is right, click it and say one group. Hopefully now I can click off in the background and they're all kind of separate little pieces. See all these buttons here because what I wanna do is with it um grouped. I wanna grab this blue box and I want to drag out the side to the right and grab that little dot to the edge there, just so it kind of spans that I'm gonna keep the navigation where it is, it's kind of handy there, but I want to just push that blue bar to the edges. Alright, so we've got started, we've used an existing template to get kind of the basics going, I showed you what happens when you don't have the right fonts. Often I just ignore the fonts and go and change my own ones now. So see these guys here and I know that guy is a real, I can just go change into something else that I've got on my machine. We also know that often things can be turned into symbols and have that little green link, you can right click it and unlike it and um group it. So it's all it's nice little constituent bits because we don't need that XD logo there. We're gonna go and switch that out in a second. All right, That's it. Let's go into the next video.

Class Materials

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Six Completed Files
Exercise Files

Ratings and Reviews

Haseebullah Johar
 

Thank you, Dan Scott, for providing such a beautiful Adobe XD course. I completed the course today and noticed a couple of things that are missing. I want to share them here so that you can upgrade the course, which would be helpful for us. Hover state and toggle state. Dragging pages from 1-2 to 2-3 and then back from 3-2 to 2-1 with dragging is not working. Another thing is that we learned scrolling the website from top to bottom, but scrolling or pushing things from right to left has been completely omitted. These are the things I have noticed, and I would like you to upgrade them so that we can improve our Adobe XD skills.

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