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Course 5: Auto Layout: Blocks and Spacers
By Mirko Santangelo
About the video: Blocks and Spacers
Overview
“Here I will share an overview and methodologies for building UI elements via Figma’s auto-layout.”
In this video lesson Mirko Santangelo addresses the topic: Blocks and Spacers, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 5: Auto Layout. Figma.
Partial transcription of the video
“Approaching a layout is definitely not an easy task. Over time, the design community has landed on two different techniques, whether it's blocks or spacers. And those inform how we can compose and create layers in our canvas. Let's see how to access them in Figma. Let's begin. On the previous lesson, we saw that there are instances where when we overnest layers, there's going to be a lot of trouble when trying to change and edit all those nested layers into a frame. This is unfortunately a thing that cannot be solved by AutoLayout itself, but it does depend on the way we use AutoLayout. The...”
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Mirko Santangelo
By Mirko Santangelo
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