How to Design and Animate a Collapsible Sidebar in Figma

This is a very practical class and it’s gonna teach you how to use Figma to design something that you’ll definitely encounter in your design career. And I’ll show you the best tools and techniques you can use to create this quickly and efficiently.

In this class you’ll get hands-on with some of Figma’s most powerful features. I’ll show you how to use auto layout to keep everything perfectly aligned, how to save time with variables and layer styles, and how to streamline your workflow with components and variants. Plus, we’ll dive into some advanced prototyping techniques so you can smoothly animate the sidebar between its collapsed and expanded states.

What You’ll Learn

• How to pick icons for a design project
• How to work with variables and layer styles to save time
• How to pick the right colors and design something according to brand guidelines
• How to work with Figma auto layout
• How to create components with multiple variants
• How to smoothly animate a prototype