Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
figma learning curve looks really long (for the design file/wireframing part)... just diving in and messing around doesn't seem to work very well Is there a good cheat? lately I've been finding that the newest generation of apps have a very "quiet UX" style where it's not obvious how to do basic things
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
And yes, this is for the Evil Book project, why do you ask https://warpcast.com/vgr/0xf092ee
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Use Excalidraw.
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Paul Millerd
@pmillerd
Nate Kadlac’s course is a solid intro. Not sure your use case though. I actually just hired him to coach me 1:1. Was very worthwhile https://approachabledesign.co/courses/8020-design-challenge
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Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor
Are you already familiar with either Sketch or Adobe Illustrator?
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Jeff Feiwell
@hyper
Yes, hire @vmedium
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jacob
@jacob
Really? I treat it like google slides or PowerPoint. A creates new artboard (I do 4:3 size) T for new text R for new rectangle And then just copy paste a lot of images It’s all you really need
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Abhishek Agarwal 📱
@abhishek1point0
Can I help? I am proficient in Figma and was an applicant for SOP. In any case, a good cheat is to know everything is a Frame and they nest in an Outliner form, and each Frame has coordinates relative to the frame it is inside in. Pen tool draws vectors and acts like a real pen, where you press Esc to “pick up”
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Mac Budkowski ᵏ
@macbudkowski
This is the best Figma 101 tutorial I've seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t_dYhXyYjI&ab_channel=ButterAcademy
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Turtle
@turtle
If you dig into frames, styles (color and text), text, and auto layout, you’re 90% of the way there. If this is for a book, it may not be an ideal tool for output to that format though. Indesign is going to be the typesetting tool for years.
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