Create a Guide/Template: Figma Effective Practices

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Overview

We need to create a guide to how to use emojis, indentation and coversheet in your figma file so that it is easy for team members to find what they are looking for.

Action Items

The phases in the guide-making process are listed below. Each phase displayed in blue is linked to a wiki page with instructions on how to complete that phase. Open the wiki page in a new tab, copy the instructions for each part into the section labelled 'Tasks' at the bottom of this issue, and complete each task listed.

• Gather Examples Solo (open in a new tab)
• Gather Examples Collaboratively
• Create a Guide Draft
  • If needed, create a template
• Have your guide peer reviewed
• Present your guide for leadership review

Resources/Instructions

• Google Drive Folder for this Guide’s documents and shortcuts (to documents in other locations) 0025 [DRAFT] Figma Effective Practices
• Former writeup of issue

Requirements

• All figmas need the following
  • Cover sheet
  • Icons for sections - if you have a lot of pages, putting icons on just the sections can help you keep it organized.
    • Get and confirm icons are cross platform compatible Emojipedia
  • see design system team for additional requirements

Proposed Iconography

Section and Page examples (we are providing all the icons for all potential pages, so that depending on which you have, you can use an icon consistent with other projects, so that we can make a guide).

• ✅ Final pages (if the site is small this might just be one page, if the site is large this is a section header for various features to have their final pages - see drafts section below for work in progress)
• 📔 Style Guide
  • 🏗️ Components
  • 🎨 Colors
  • T Typography
• ™️ Branding and Logo
• 📣 Press Kit
• ⭐ Social Media Preview
• 🛬 Landing Page
  • 📃 About Us
• 📐 Drafts

Examples

Cover sheet and icons on sections example from 100 Automations

100 Automations Figma file
Hack for LA website Figma file
Design Systems team

Projects to Check

Tasks

• This is where you will copy instructions from the wiki page for the step you are currently on.

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Working on sorting out some details on the civic tech index project. Project Figma should be updated to add classes soon

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Overview

In addition to some basic setup above, we also need guidance on how to use styles, etc in order to be able to create /export .css or .scss files

Articles to read

Two articles I found sounds like they have sorted out how material and Figma should be used together to make styles:

• https://www.figma.com/blog/material-design-figma-styles/
• https://www.figma.com/best-practices/components-styles-and-shared-libraries/styles-and-style-tips/

Plugins and other export tools

Here are some tools that we should try, so that we can see what happens when we export now, and be able to check if our changes in what ends up being exported

No plug in needed:

Figma SCSS Generator (these links might be the same thing, or two different tools that look the same)

• details: https://figma-scss.now.sh/
• details: https://www.figma.com/resources/api-and-extensions/figma-scss/

Plug ins
Here are some plugins for converting from figma to scss or css that might be worth experimenting with:

UIKIT to SCSS

• details: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/843123176259183001/UIKIT-to-SCSS
• code: https://github.com/caffeinalab/figma-uikit-to-scss
• video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCIgE8IEkBQ

CSSGen

• details: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/742750636238601912/CSSGen

figma-sass-less-plugin

• details: http://www.lib4dev.in/info/oriziv/figma-sass-less-plugin/202340402

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A search I performed once:
How to add a font to figma

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How to add more people to the Figma without paying

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Previous issue Description/Top portion

Overview

We need to standardize our Figmas as well as encourage innovation to make the best use of the tool for teams. The guide will be informed by all teams current practices and ideas for how to improve.

Action Items

• Send proposed iconography to all teams to get feedback
  • Make relevant changes
• All figmas need the following
  • Cover sheet
  • Style Guide
    • Components
    • Colors
    • Typography
  • Icons for sections - if you have a lot of pages, putting icons on just the sections can help you keep it organized.
  • Visual representation of classes or classes defined in the Layers (layers is easier)
• Create an empty figma for people to use as a template with a sample page for each type of resource recomended

Proposed Iconography

Section and Page examples (we are providing all the icons for all potential pages, so that depending on which you have, you can use an icon consistent with other projects, so that we can make a guide).

• ✅ Final pages (if the site is small this might just be one page, if the site is large this is a section header for various features to have their final pages - see drafts section below for work in progress)
• 📔 Style Guide
  • 🏗️ Components
  • 🎨 Colors
  • T Typography
• ™️ Branding and Logo
• 📣 Press Kit
• ⭐ Social Media Preview
• 🛬 Landing Page
  • 📃 About Us
• 📐 Drafts

Resources/Instructions

Emojipedia
Cover sheet and icons on sections example from 100 Automations

100 Automations Figma file
Hack for LA website Figma file