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The Figma Design Tool

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The Editor in Figma

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Basic Tools

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Position, Size, Rotation, & Corner Radius properties

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Color Styles

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Masks

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Dark Mode with Selection Colors

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Gradients

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Creating Backgrounds

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Blending Modes

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Alignment, Distribution, & Tidy up Properties

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Union and Corner Radius

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Shadow and Blur Effects

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Using Images

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Fill, Stroke, & Advanced Stroke

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Text Properties and Styles

1:37

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Google Fonts and Custom Fonts

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Accessibility

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Responsive Design

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Constraints

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Layout Grid

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Auto Layout in Figma

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Vector Mode

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Vector Network

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Perspective Mockups

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Using Illustrations in Design

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Booleans

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Icon Design

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Components

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Team Library

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Creating Confetti

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Looper Shape Duplication

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Apple Watch Ring

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Exporting Assets in Figma

1:39

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Exporting CSS Code

1:04

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Designing with Data

1:57

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Prototyping

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Version History

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Multiplayer, Commenting, & Previews

1:36

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Variants

5:39

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Interactive Components

5:40

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UIKits

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Plugins

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Blob Background

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Wave Background

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3D Shapes

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Parallax Prototyping in Figma

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3D UI Perspective Design

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Glass Icon

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Crystal Ball with Water Effect Animation

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Design and code a line animation with letters

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Futuristic line animation

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Import from Adobe Illustrator to Figma

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Create an Illustration in Figma

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Remove BG plugin

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Circular Lines Advanced Stroke

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Publish Design to Community

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Turn Image into Vector

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Hug Content and Resizing

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Figma to HTML

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Get Waves Plugin

To create your wave easily and fast, use Get Waves Plugin from the Figma Community by Richard Zimerman. Get Waves is a free SVG wave generator to make unique SVG waves for your next design.

All you need to do is:

  • Choose the type of curve
  • Adjust the complexity
  • Randomize

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Crystal Ball

  • Create a circle 430 x 430
  • Add radial gradient, top color F7FBFD and bottom color 71A7CD
  • Make sure to center the top color to give 3d effect

Base

Background Blur

We will be adding some subtle glass effect to our crystal ball.

  • Decrease the Fill radial gradient to 50% opacity
  • Add white FFFFFF Inner Shadow on Effects, X 40, Y 10, Blur 45, opacity 25%
  • Add Background blur to 60

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Mask Circle

We’ll create another circle and we’ll use as a mask. Then, we'll add the waves inside that mask to create a water effect.

  • Duplicate the base circle 396 x 396, increase the opacity to 100%
  • Remove the effects (inner shadow and background blur)
  • Select the 2 circles, align horizontal and vertical center

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Create Waves with Plugin

Let’s customize the first wave with the Get Waves Plugin.

  • Right-click anywhere on the canvas of your Figma file, select Plugin, and then select Get Waves
  • Select the round curve, customize and click on Create
  • Add Linear Gradient with 05619F to B4E1FF
  • Skew it a bit to the left

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Insert Wave to the Mask

Next, let’s mask the wave inside the circle mask.

  • Put the wave in front of the circle
  • Select the 2 layers (circle and wave), group them together by Command+G, rename it Mask
  • Select the Mask layer, right click and select Use as mask
  • Move the wave layer to the right a little bit to get that nice round shape

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Water Effect

Let’s create another wave to make a water effect when it will be animated.

  • Duplicate the Wave 1, rename it Wave 2, right click, select Flip horizontal, move the shape a bit to the left until you get an opposite curve
  • When you flip a shape, the gradients will also flip, keep the gradients as they are

Flip

Reflection Light

Let's add some reflection light to make the crystal more brighter.

  • Duplicate the mask circle, make sure to bring the layer at the top
  • Add red fill color for now, rotate to 16°, duplicate again and change for another color (Green). X 92, Y-62
  • Move the green circle to the top and right a little bit, X 102, Y-112
  • Select the 2 circles, click on Boolean groups, select Subtract selection
  • X 30, Y 120

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Add Linear Gradient

  • Select the Subtract layer, add two same gradient F7FBFD. One with 100% and the second one with 0% opacity
  • Duplicate the Subtract layer

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Right Reflection

Boolean Groups

  • Duplicate the mast circle, bring the layer to the top, add random color, duplicate with another color
  • Move the red circle 15 px from the left
  • Select the 2 circles, click on Boolean groups, select Subtract selection

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Add Fill Color

  • Add fill color F7FBFD and decrease the opacity to 50%

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Third Reflection

  • Duplicate the Reflection 2 (from the left), bring the layer to the top completely, rename it Reflection 3
  • Increase the width of the circles that are subtracted 45 px from the left
  • Copy/paste the same gradient as the Reflection 1 by Option+Command+C and Option+Command+V

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Small Reflection

Top Reflection

  • Draw a 100px by 34px oval, with the Pen Tool.
  • Rotate to 135°
  • Click Enter (return) from your keyboard shortcut to edit, play with the middle anchor point
  • Copy properties the same gradient as the other reflection
  • X 138, Y 58

Bottom Reflection

  • Duplicate the oval shape, decrease the size to 24px by 34px
  • Rotate to 180°
  • X 78, Y 188
  • Group all the elements together and name it Crystal Ball

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Wave Animation Prototype

Time to bring your prototype to life! We’re going to use the After Delay interaction and animate the waves. Prototype are a great way to preview your designs and explore possible interactions before investing in development.

  • Make sure to add a frame by Option+Command+G and duplicate
  • Frame 2: move the waves to the opposite direction, wave 1 move to the left and wave 2 move to the right
  • Select the Frame 1, Click on Prototype tab, drag the connection node to the second frame
  • Select After delay interaction with 1ms, select Smart animate animation
  • Ease out, duration 800ms or you can put more

Prototype

You can finalize everything by adding some elements like a background or shapes to give the design a finishing touch and make it look nicer.

Conclusion

Great! We just created this super cool water animation inside this beautiful crystal ball. I hope this was helpful for you and I'll see you on the next one!

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1

The Figma Design Tool

Getting started with Figma as your design tool

0:54

2

The Editor in Figma

Getting familiar with the Figma interface

1:17

3

Basic Tools

Getting to know the tool panel in Figma

2:14

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Position, Size, Rotation, & Corner Radius properties

Working with Position, Size, Rotation, & Corner Radius properties

1:27

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Color Styles

Working with color styles on Figma

1:13

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Masks

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Dark Mode with Selection Colors

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Gradients

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1:36

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Creating Backgrounds

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Blending Modes

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Alignment, Distribution, & Tidy up Properties

Exploring Alignment and Tidy up in Figma

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Union and Corner Radius

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Shadow and Blur Effects

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Using Images

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Fill, Stroke, & Advanced Stroke

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Text Properties and Styles

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Google Fonts and Custom Fonts

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Accessibility

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Responsive Design

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Constraints

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Layout Grid

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Auto Layout in Figma

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Vector Mode

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Vector Network

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Perspective Mockups

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3D Mockups

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Using Illustrations in Design

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Booleans

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Icon Design

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Components

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Team Library

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Looper Shape Duplication

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Apple Watch Ring

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Prototyping

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Version History

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Multiplayer, Commenting, & Previews

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Variants

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Interactive Components

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UIKits

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Plugins

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Blob Background

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Wave Background

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3D Shapes

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Parallax Prototyping in Figma

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3D UI Perspective Design

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Futuristic line animation

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Hug Content and Resizing

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Advanced Auto Layout

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Circular Text on Path

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Mirror Prototype

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Sticky Nav and Tab Bar Prototyping

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Mesh Gradients

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Figma Sections

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Unsplash Stock Photos

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Angular Gradient

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Radial Gradient

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