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Welcome back. This was a tough challenge! Were you able to design at least two views for the team members' page? Let’s take a look at how I solved the problem.
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Welcome back.
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This was a tough challenge.
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Were you able to design at least two views for the team members page?
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Let's take a look at how I solved the problem.
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Let's take a look at my finished design.
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Here is how it looks on mobile,
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Both with the navigation menu expanded and collapsed.
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And here's the desktop version.
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On the mobile screen, I went with a burger nav after all.
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And it's not that you'll never use this pattern.
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It's just important to weigh the pros and cons before implementing it.
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I thought my primary navigation was a bit too lengthy
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to work as a tab bar.
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And the Priority Plus pattern didn't make sense to me
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as there weren't obvious links to prioritize.
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If you went with a different navigation solution,
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that's more than fine.
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Design problems rarely have only one effective solution.
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All right, so backing up to my empty frames featuring layout grids.
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How did I create my mobile screen?
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The header bar is pretty straightforward.
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I just need to make sure the interface elements
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are at least 44 pixels in size.
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I'll draw a dark rectangle and paste the logo into the upper left corner.
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My mobile icon, I'll get using the bars icon from Font Awesome.
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Then I'll convert my header into a component.
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The hero image I've provided is a pretty extreme landscape image,
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which might look great on a large screen.
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But I suspect I'll have to crop it differently for mobile.
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If I make this image 375 pixels tall,
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the image will appear square since my viewport is 375 pixels wide.
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And Figma crops any part of the image off the artboard.
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Now I'd like to create a heading that says Our Team.
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But that will likely be hard to read on top of this image.
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So I'll first draw a dark square
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using the almost black provided in my color palette
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and set the opacity to 50%.
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As I create my text using Libre Franklin Black,
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I'll add a drop shadow to set the text apart from the background a bit more.
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Now for the body copy.
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Hopefully you'll remember the rules we covered earlier.
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Minimum of 16 pixels in size,
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with a line height at least 1.5 times the font size,
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and paragraph spacing at least 2.25 times the font size.
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Don't justify the copy,
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and no more than 80 characters per line.
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I'm using multiples of 4 in creating my type size.
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So I'll try 28 pixels for my heading.
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I'm not going to increase the vertical spacing in my heading.
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If headings have too much vertical space,
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the individual lines start to read as separate headings.
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I'll use my darker orange color
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to make part of the sentence pop out.
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And to make the text fit a bit better within the allotted horizontal space,
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I'm hyphenating the word people.
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Unfortunately, Figma doesn't offer an automatic hyphenation feature.
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Although turning hyphenation on in CSS
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is pretty easy for developers.
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The employee photos are square and
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don't really require art direction the way the hero image does.
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I'll round the corners a bit and
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make the image 343 pixels wide.
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Perhaps adding a bit of a stroke.
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You're hopefully noticing that I've been following the style guide from
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the assets file, which specified Libre Franklin for headings
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And Libre Baskerville for body copy.
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I'll continue that pattern as I create body copy for each employee.
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All right, so I've created content for all four employees
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following the same pattern as the first employee.
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And the layout overall has been pretty straightforward so far,
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one column with all my content extending across the screen.
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The footer gets a little more challenging though,
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since I'm working with links rather than columns of body copy.
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While these links shouldn't attract a ton of visual attention,
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since footer links are usually of lesser importance
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than the primary navigation,
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I still want each link to be tappable with a finger.
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Columns of footer links next to each other
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likely won't work on a small phone screen.
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So let's stack this content vertically,
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starting with Connect With Wilson & Henderson.
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For the links for Twitter,
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Instagram, Pinterest and email
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I'll use Font Awesome icons
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since users tend to recognize the Twitter bird logo
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faster than they recognize the word Twitter.
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I'll make sure these icons are at least 44 pixels wide,
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and space them horizontally, so the left and right edges
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align with the heading above.
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Now for the links under About Us.
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I have room to make two columns of links.
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One for Blog and News,
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and the other for Careers and Philanthropy.
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I want to make sure I've provided generous vertical space and
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test to make sure users can press each link individually.
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And once I lay out the body copy for the address and phone,
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that completes the footer.
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Which means my mobile view is close to finished
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with one important exception.
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I haven't determined what happens when you
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press the Mobile Menu button.
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I'll make a new iPhone 11 artboard
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to create the expanded menu design.
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I'll start by changing the burger nav icon to an X
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to indicate this is where to tap to close the mobile menu.
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Then I'll distribute my five links vertically.
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Projects, Services, Approach, Our Team, and Connect.
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Our Team I'll make bold and
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underlined to indicate this is the currently active page.
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So that's the mobile view.
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In our final video, we'll create a desktop version of the same content.
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