Design Workflow with Chakra UI and Figma

Learn how to adopt a faster design workflow for product design with Chakra UI styles and components in Figma. In this video, I'll walk you through a step-by-step tutorial on how to design an interactive sign in form with Chakra!

Link to the Chakra UI kit:

Chakra UI is one of the most popular component libraries to build modern React applications. In this video, I share my design workflow for utilizing Chakra's native styles and components to put together an interactive sign in form that can then be seamlessly converted into code.

It's easier than ever to build. Utilizing existing frameworks like Chakra facilitate a jumpstart position into product design, whereas otherwise you'd have to dedicate a substantial amount of time to put together basic components that've already created and perfectioned by others to the extent that they can then be customized to your own needs.

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Chapters:

0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Product specs
1:35 - Chakra UI kit
3:03 - Prototype walkthrough
4:37 - Form design
18:07 - Responsive design
23:44 - Conclusion

[JaviAlaves]

Hey all, thank you for tuning in on this video! If you want to follow along the design example in the video, head over to the video description and duplicate the Chakra UI kit file. I'll be updating it regularly, as I'll be reusing these styles and components in future videos as we begin to close the gap with production-level design and bringing things into code. I hope that you've found this video interesting, and if you have any thoughts feel free to drop them in the comments!

[RRits]

You are the dream of every engineer haha.

[Skillthrive]

This is an awesome video, Javier! The Chakra community needs something like this in Figma that's maintained.

[ludwigvillalba]

Thanks for sharing the tip with the spacing!

[clemencizm]

Awesome ! Very good example of optimised design for coding. I also really like that you show/share every bit of your file and explain the whys (spacing, large vs small screen). This is a very usefull and pratical exemple of best practice. Very well done!

[bigfeetentertainment]

Thanks so much for the figma file as well! This is a life saver for a single developer

[brunouttempergher]

Thank you Javier... this is just the best design system that i ever saw. Cheers!

[joshbarros]

Awesome work friend, thank you sooo much!! This is professional!!!

[oussamasethoum]

Thank you very much for this tutorials and for the figma project.

[subhranshudas]

Awesome content. Really helped me. Thanks!

[wirtzdan]

Aweomse Javier! That's so helpful for my work right now.

[Ioannnify]

This is amazing, thanks so much for sharing this Javier, !

[bopuc]

Thanks for this! I'm curious about the process of "getting this into code"… you do mention that the devs/eng can get what they need from this to implement it on their end. How? What are they looking at specifically? I am guessing they still need to code up all the underlying components and then hmmm is it the "Component Properties" in the Inspector which they use (copy/paste or type) in the code? thanks!

[electrichimp]

What's your opinion on Chakra compared to Tailwind? I'm having trouble deciding which one to use for a project 😥

[oleksandrfomin]

It's got everything you need. Except for a frigging Stepper that I need so bad