Fundamentals of Figma
Course 2 - User Reading Experience: organize layers
By Samuel Hermoso (Elastic Heads) , UX-UI Designer
Joined August 2014
About the video: organize layers
Overview
“In this unit I will teach you how to do direct layer selection. I'll also show you how to sort, lock, hide, and rename layers. Let's start!”
In this video lesson Samuel Hermoso (Elastic Heads) addresses the topic: organize layers, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 2 - User Reading Experience. Learn to improve readability with layers, alignment, distances, and distribution.
Partial transcription of the video
“COURSE 2 - UNIT 3 Organizing Layers In this unit we are going to do the direct selection of layers, organize, rename, lock and hide layers. We see it? We are going to learn how to select grouped objects. In Figma there is no white arrow. There is only one arrow to select and move and in other programs, such as those of Adobe, you have a white arrow to directly select vectors or elements that are within a group. How does Figma replace this functionality? On Mac, by pressing Cmd + click, you can click directly on an element that is inside a group. Group 4, Cmd + click and I want to select thi...”
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Course summary for: Course 2 - User Reading Experience

Samuel Hermoso (Elastic Heads)
By Samuel Hermoso (Elastic Heads)
Samuel Hermoso has over 20 years of experience working in consulting and digital product design. After working with different studios and agencies, he created the Elastic Heads studio, in Madrid (Spain), where he helps people, companies, and startups adapt to the new changes in the digital world and improve their digital products.
Samuel is also dedicated to teaching, he is a professor of product design, user experience and methodologies, and interactive design tools in schools such as: Ironhack, Mr. Marcel School, IED, Neoland and the European University.
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