Figma Tutorial: project organization that saves you hours of work

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As a web designer working in Figma, a few simple rules for organizing your projects can help save hours of work, and a lot of frustration from your developers. Devin shows his best tips and tricks to organize your Figma design project effectively, and prepare it for development hand-off that won't need follow-ups.

Learn about Figma components, frames, and sections, and how to structure your Figma design for effective work as a solo designer-developer or as part of a web development team.

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[defaultname]

Love this content. Always looking for guidance like this as a junior/mid-level designer brought in as the fist designer managing all things marketing/product design at a small startup.

[elbjorno]

"Each phase of a project as a seperate page, but each frame on that page as a page."
Lol, i had to rewatch that part like 5 times. x)

It gets hard when both Figma and the web page use the same terms, but they mean different things. For other struggling, heres a translation of what he said:
" You might want to keep each feature in the project as a seperate _page in your figma project, where each _frame in the figma _page is a different _screen from the application / website / feature. "

[chriswertz]

Another great tutorial from Devin. Keep ‘em coming.

[subtlechuckles]

Thanks for this tutorial! There was a recent update to figma that allows you to add a divider line by typing "--- + enter"

[KristenNichole]

Sections is new, I’ll have to check that out. I usually make my own section using the square and giving it a different tone but this seems better for development.

[OliviaMoon]

thank you sooo much!!! There is so much to learn about Figma! This was exactly what I was looking for!

[hectorg]

Do you advise turning a full page or a screen into a component so it can live on multiple other pages in the file as an instance?

[payouts]

What about advanced prototyping with complex animations and behaviors... how do you organize that? plz make some video about that too.. thanks

[delioJorge]

I'm falling in love with UX, is that a bad thing?

[whiskyo]

Help!

I finally understand auto-layout & constratins, but now in my hifi website in Figma, all the cards or sections with autolayout overlap the rest of the website content below.

I've scowered the internet to troubleshoot and for teaching on this and no-one is talking about it! All anyone talks about is how to make things with auto layout. Ya OK, I get it, but how do I go beyond this knowledge and make sure all my autolayouts are interacting properly with each other? Surely there's a better way than manually pushing all the content down the page?

[alwayjohnrallos]

we need the example figma file for this, plss

[ostaphuk]

Great Content, Great Quality, Great Creativity.
Thank you!

[mattgib]

You scratched your neck around 1:25 didn't you? XD

Just messin, great video, ty!

[nikita]

Would be awesome if you shared this file with us

[thallamrithesh]

Is there is way for people who are using the Free version? Because most solo designer uses Free Figma Version

[akhenatontubba]

Lütfen manuel olarak ingilizce altyazı videoya ekleyebilir misiniz.bu şekilde altyazıyi otomatik çeviri ile Türkçe altyazılı olarak anlayarak izleyebiliriz

[angiebluegreen]

Great content! but - not enough "figma view " & too much of "talking face" view.

[jasonhead]

Do you have a video but in terms of an app. Yes I could extrapolate from this video just interested in if there are any differences. I work for a very large company and while creating features is easy to do and I organized similarly to this, the issue has become they want to know Why can’t I navigate the entire app? The issue I’ve had is the inner linking between pages where I use pages as my separator for features, think jira ticket number the jira ticket represents a feature which is a page. Now I’ve combined all of my features into one single Figma file with separate pages for each feature, I have since combined all of those features into a single fully functioning prototype. This will get very hard to maintain, if I have to maintain each feature within pages as well as the prototype, which is also in its own page. I thought about creating sections for features in a single page which would allow me to prototype that way, any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.