What you'll learn

Use Figma like a pro to do User Interface Design, User Experience Design (UX/UI), Web Design and Mobile App Design

Learn the principles of Motion Design, the design process, best practices, and prototyping your projects for your customers and clients

Learn to add Motion Graphics and Animations to your projects

Learn Motion Design using Figma

Learn to use Smart Animate in Figma

Micro-interactions, animations, transitions, parallax,

Create your own professional design portfolio by the end of the course (we provide everything for you to customize!)

Learn Motion Design by actually building real-world projects alongside a design industry pro that you can add to make your design portfolio stand out

Learn UI/UX best practices using the latest trends in the industry

This motion design course is going to give you the skills that will make you stand out from other designers, be recognized as a top designer and allow you to charge a lot of money for your time.

We aren't talking about competiting for $5/hour designing logos on random freelancing websites.

You will be able to charge at least 10x-20x that after completing this course.

And you'll be learning motion design in good company.

By enrolling today, you’ll also get to join our exclusive live online community classroom where you'll be learning and designing alongside thousands of students, alumni, mentors, TAs and Instructors.

Most importantly, you will be learning from (and with) Daniel, a design industry professional that has actual real-world experience as a lead product designer working for top companies all over the world.

Using the latest best practices in motion design, user interface (UI) and user experience (UX), this course focuses on efficiently teaching you all about building professional interactions, animations and motion graphics for all your future web and mobile app projects.

We will be using Figma and Figma Smart Animate to accomplish this because it is now the #1 tool used by the top modern designers. Figma is replacing all outdated design tools of the past (we're talking about you Adobe After Effects).

We also provide all Figma files, premium design templates, and assets in this course for you, so you can keep and use them when you work with all your future clients!

Here is what the course will cover to take you from Zero to Motion Design Mastery

The curriculum is very hands on. Daniel takes you step-by-step from start to finish to becoming a Motion Designer that can build your own beautiful, professional projects.

1. Introduction to Figma - Learn the different parts of Figma and what you will need to get started. We dive into the important details to get you up and running so there is no confusion.

Getting Started With Figma

Introducing Figma

Figma Dashboard

Figma Tools

Layers + Pages

The Top Bar

Design Properties

Prototyping With Figma

Exercise: Creating a Responsive Layout

2. Introduction to Figma Smart Animate - Figma's Smart Animate is a game changer. You'll learn how to modify all the different properties it supports and then put that knowledge to use as we build and explain some simple prototypes.

Scale

Position

Opacity

Rotation

Fill

Exercise: Creating a Simple Interaction

Exercise: Animating Navigation Items

Exercise: Creating a Larger Prototype

3. Project: Photo Inspiration Application - You'll jump into your first project where you will take the provided resources and what you've already learned to create your own prototype of a photo inspiration mobile application.

Design Assets

Filtering Through Categories

Screen Transitions + Drag Interactions

Simple Micro-interactions

4. Why is Motion so Important? You will learn how motion plays a major role in building usable products and how it helps create narrative and reinforces mental models.

The Common Misconceptions of Motion Design

How Motion Helps Create Usability

Narrative + Mental Models

5. Motion Design Principles - In this section, you will learn the principles of motion design and what makes them integral to the success of any design.

Intro to Motion Design Principles

Easing

Offset + Delay

Parenting

Transformation

Value Change

Masking

Overlay

Cloning

Obscuration

Parallax

Dimensionality

Dolly + Zoom

6. Creating Motion in Figma - Time to combine the theory and practical knowledge you've gained and jump right back into Figma to build some smaller prototypes. Daniel walks you through each exercise step-by-step.

Exercise: Navigation Transitions

Exercise: Scrolling

Exercise: Paging

Exercise: Dragging

Exercise: Micro-interactions

Exercise: Delight

7. The Motion Design Process - How does motion design fit into the "normal design process"? Don't worry we got you covered. Daniel will explain his process for determining the right motion solutions for user needs.

Discovery + Research Part 1

Discovery + Research Part 2

Design + Storyboard

Prototype

Testing

Helpful Tips

8. Project: National Geographic Carousel - Learn how to create a simple and a complex version of a carousel effect in Figma.

Quick & Easy Landing Page Carousel

How to Build a Complex Parallax and 3D Image Effect

9. Micro-interactions - Dig deeper into why micro-interactions are so important. You'll then jump right into Figma to create your very own animation with Daniel using the Figmotion plugin.

What Is A Micro-interaction?

Why Are Micro-interactions So Important?

Figmotion: Part 1

Figmotion: Part 2

10. Project: Smart Home Mobile Application - Smart home apps are becoming more and more popular. Learn how to design a simple home screen and then animate it using Figma. Follow along with Daniel as he explains how he created a complex temperature adjustment interaction.

Designing The Home Screen

Create a Toggle Interaction

Temperature Adjustment Interactions

11. Feedback - Learn the proper way to facilitate and gather constructive feedback for your designs.

Why Is Design Feedback Important?

Constructive Design Feedback

12. Project: Home Renovation Landing Page - Ever wanted to design a comprehensive landing page with animated elements? Here's your chance. Follow along with Daniel as he takes you through the process of breaking down a landing page into multiple prototypes.

Designing The Landing Page

Prototyping The Landing Page

Parallax Effects: Part 1

Carousel

Parallax Effects: Part 2

Gallery

13. Project: Home Renovation Form - People often forget about forms but using motion to help your user through a very important task is key. Daniel will teach you how to apply some subtle animations to your form interactions which will help you create more usable products.

Motion in Form Elements

Form Progress

Animating Form Content

Inputs + Buttons: Part 1

Inputs + Buttons: Part 2

Inputs + Buttons: Part 3

Inputs + Buttons: Part 4

Tooltips

Carousel Input

14. Project: Food Delivery Mobile Application - Learn how to create some flashy interactions with masking techniques and then follow along as Daniel explains how to create a complex order progress prototype.

Introduction

Using Parallax to Draw Attention

List Transitions

Alternative Overlays

Masking + Overlay

Micro-interactions + Floating Action Buttons

Order Progress: Part 1

Order Progress: Part 2

15. Showcasing Your Prototypes - You have all these prototypes but how do you show them off in your portfolio? We'll take you through several options for both Mac and Windows on how to record your prototype and export it to your preferred format.

Kap for Mac

How to use Kap

Using Your Kap GIF in Figma

Screenity for Chrome + Windows

How to Use Screenity

Using Your Screenity GIF in Figma

What's the bottom line?

This course is not about making you just watch a bunch of tutorial videos.

This course will push you and challenge you to go from an absolute beginner in motion design to someone that is in the top 10% of Motion Designers 💪.

How do we know?

Because thousands of Zero To Mastery graduates have gotten hired and are now working at companies like Google, Tesla, Amazon, Apple, IBM, JP Morgan, Facebook, Shopify + other top tech companies.

They are also working as top freelancers getting paid while working remotely around the world.

And they come from all different backgrounds, ages, and experiences. Many even started as complete beginners.

So there's no reason it can't be you too.

You have nothing to lose. Because you can start learning right now and if this course isn't everything you expected, we'll refund you 100% within 30 days. No hassles and no questions asked.