App Style Guide Creation
How to create symbols?
A course by Christian Vizcarra , Senior Product Designer
Joined December 2014
About the video: How to create symbols?
Overview
“In this lesson we are going to talk about symbols, what they are, why they are important when making a style guide and how they speed up the work process. I will also give you some recommendations that will help you at the time of creation.”
In this video lesson Christian Vizcarra addresses the topic: How to create symbols?, which is part of the Domestika online course: App Style Guide Creation. Learn how to document and create a style guide with Sketch .
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson we will talk about symbols. what they are. what they are for. and why they are so important when building a Style Guide. Let's see. Here I have a primary button and a secondary button. I've put them here so you can see how it's possible to create symbols in your design project. To create a symbol. you first need to select the group of layers make up the element you want to convert into a symbol. For example. this button is made up of several layers By the text and this vividly colored red rectangle. We select both elements. The initial step to create a symbol involves selecti...”
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Course summary for: App Style Guide Creation
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Web & App Design -
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Adobe XD, Figma, InVision, Sketch -
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App Design, Digital Product Design, Mobile Design, UX / UI

Christian Vizcarra
A course by Christian Vizcarra
Christian Vizcarra is a Senior UX/UI Product Designer and Digital Strategist with a 360º product vision thanks to his beginnings in marketing, 3D, video, and social media. For 9 years he has been mainly dedicated to creating digital products, designing websites, applications, and all kinds of interfaces for companies and startups in countries such as Spain, Canada, the United States, China, or Brazil, among others.
As passionate about ideas as he is about product design, he always explores new ways to learn new skills and techniques to evolve as a designer, hence his personal project called The Design Project, a 60-day nonstop design challenge. His work has been recognized by Awwwards, Behance, and CSS Design Awards.
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