Figma UI/UX Design Workshop: Build a Real Design Project with Figma + AI

Figma UI/UX Design Workshop: Build a Real Design Project with Figma + AI

Move beyond the basics to design and prototype a real UI project—using Figma and AI—to confidently apply UI/UX skills in real-world scenarios.

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Meet your Expert(s)

Gio Montoya

Award-winning UX/UI/ID Designer and Corporate Instructor with 10+ years of industry experience. Led 5+ design teams to create innovative digital products that have impacted millions of users. Designer, Mentor, and educator with extensive design experience across different organizations and academic institutions in the U.S.

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Course Description

Most Figma courses focus on teaching individual tools, how to use the Pen Tool, draw shapes, or replicate screens, but in real product teams, UI/UX design is not about isolated design elements. It’s about creating interfaces that scale, respond, and work seamlessly with developers and across different devices

In this 2-day hands-on Figma UI/UX Design Workshop, participants will learn how professional designers structure files that are responsive, and accessible. By the end of the workshop, you won’t just design screens—you’ll build bulletproof Figma files that reflect how modern products are actually built.

 

What You’ll Learn:

 

1. Auto Layout–First Design ThinkingLearn to think in containers, not pixels—the foundation of scalable UI design.

Build responsive components that adapt instantly to different screen sizes

Structure layouts that behave like real code using Auto Layout

Create reusable design systems that scale across devices and products, applying Atomic Design Theory.

 

2.  Visual Hierarchy, Typography & Color Systems

Great design isn’t subjective—it’s systematic. In this module, we go beyond aesthetics and focus on clarity, balance, and accessibility.

Design strong typographic hierarchies that guide user attention.

Build semantic color systems (Primary, Success, Warning, Error) usable across brands, focus on the colors principles.

Apply WCAG accessibility principles to ensure inclusive design.

Learn how to design for edge cases that often break real-world interfaces.

 

3. Designing for Developers

Professional UI design bridges the gap between design and engineering.

Structure Figma files so developers can implement them without friction and seamlessly.

Create reusable components and layouts that reduce handoff confusion to agile the prototyping and iteration process.

Understand how design decisions impact frontend development.

 

4. Structural Strategy: Wireframing, IA & Prototyping

Before making things “look good,” great designers make sure they work well.

Learn Information Architecture (IA) fundamentals

Design user flows that align with real user behavior

Move confidently from low-fidelity wireframes to high-fidelity designs

Prototype interactions (micro animations) to validate ideas before visual polish.

 

Who should take this course

Aspiring & Early UX Designers

Career Switchers (Non-Design Backgrounds)

Product, Tech & Startup Professionals

What will you gain from this course (Skills/Careers Outcomes)?

By the end of this workshop, you won’t just receive a certificate—you’ll walk away with:

  • A portfolio-ready UI case study that demonstrates real product-team workflows. In other words a real UI project you can showcase in your portfolio
  • A clear understanding of modern Figma workflows used by product teams
  • Faster, cleaner, and more confident design execution
  • Practical UI/UX skills you can apply immediately in real-world scenarios

This course comes with

Live Program

Live Program

Learn directly from your instructor in a Live classroom and clarify any doubts during the program

Certificate of Completion

Certificate of Completion

To validate your skills and showcase your achievement on LinkedIn and your resume.

Peer to Peer Learning

Community of Peers

Engage with your peers during and after the program and support each other in your development journey

Luve Project

Live Project

A portfolio-ready UI case study that demonstrates real product-team workflows

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Original price was: $149.00.Current price is: $89.00.

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Syllabus and Cohort Time Table

CLASS 1:  28 FEB, SAT, USA/Canada 10 AM – 3 PM EST | 7 PM – 12 Noon PST,  UK 3 PM – 8 PM GMT, Europe 4 PM – 9 PM CET, Dubai 7 PM – 12 Midnight GST, India 8:30 PM – 1:30 AM IST

1. Foundations and Interface:

Organizing drafts, teams, and projects.
Where to find icons, design systems, and plugins.

Explain the hierarchy. Top-level Frames, Groups, and individual layers. Mention the “Assets” tab for components
Your “Action” zone. Selection tools, Frames, Shapes, Pen tool, Text, and Resources.

The “Frame” Concept.
Mental Model: Explain that Figma is more like HTML/CSS than Photoshop.

 

2. Precision Design

This section focuses on creating and styling objects with precision.

How to make those shapes look like a real UI.

  • Fills: Solid colors, gradients, and adding images as fills.
  • Strokes: Inner vs. Outer vs. Center strokes and how they affect the object’s size.
  • Effects: Adding Drop Shadows and Layer Blurs (essential for depth).
  • Opacity: The difference between Layer opacity and Fill opacity.

 

Typography Essentials

Since your logo relies on bold, clean text, show them how to control it.

  • Text Properties: Font family, weight, size, and line height (Leading).
  • Letter Spacing (Kerning): Why it’s vital for professional branding like “Precision Design.”
  • Auto-width vs. Fixed-size: Why text boxes sometimes behave weirdly.

 

3. Responsive Design

The Magic of Auto Layout (Shift + A): Auto Layout is Figma’s most powerful feature. It allows frames to behave like flexbox in web development.

  • Direction: Vertical vs. Horizontal stacking (e.g., a navigation bar vs. a list of items).
  • Gap (Spacing Between): Setting consistent pixels between elements automatically.
  • Padding: Adding “breathing room” inside a frame (top, bottom, left, right).
  • Alignment: Using the 9-dot grid to determine where child elements “sit” inside the parent.

 

Resizing Behaviors

How does an object react when the frame around it changes?

  • Fixed: The size stays exactly the same no matter what.
  • Hug Contents: The parent frame shrinks or grows to fit the elements inside (perfect for buttons).

Fill Container: The element stretches to take up all available space (perfect for responsive text blocks)

 

Constraints

While Auto Layout handles the inside, Constraints handle how an object sits relative to its parent frame.

  • Top, Bottom, Left, Right, & Center: Pinning a logo to the top-left or a “Buy Now” button to the bottom-right.
  • Scale: Making an element grow proportionally as the screen size increases.

 

Grouping vs. Auto Layout (The “Why”)

Explain the difference to clear up confusion:

  • Groups: Just a folder for layers. If you change text, the box behind it doesn’t move.
  • Auto Layout: A living system. If you delete a menu item, the others automatically shift to fill the gap.

 

CLASS 2:  1 MARCH, SAT, USA/Canada 10 AM – 3 PM EST | 7 PM – 12 Noon PST,  UK 3 PM – 8 PM GMT, Europe 4 PM – 9 PM CET, Dubai 7 PM – 12 Midnight GST, India 8:30 PM – 1:30 AM IST

4. The Design System

Reusable Styles (Color & Type)

Instead of picking hex codes every time, students should define “tokens.”

  • Color Styles: Saving specific colors (like your “Precision Design” black) so they can be applied globally.
  • Typography Styles: Defining H1, H2, and Body text so the “The Design System” header remains consistent across all pages.
  • Main Components vs. Instances

 

Introduction to Variants

Show how to organize different states of the same element.

  • Component Sets: Grouping similar buttons together (e.g., Default, Hover, and Disabled states).
  • Properties: Using the Right Sidebar to toggle between these states with a simple dropdown menu.

 

The Assets Library

  • The Assets Tab: Show them how to find and “drag and drop” components they’ve already built.
  • Publishing: (Briefly mention) How teams share these libraries across different files.

 

5. Advanced Prototyping

Prototype Mode Basics

  • The Blueprint View: Switching from the “Design” tab to the “Prototype” tab in the right sidebar.
  • Connections: How to drag “noodles” (blue arrows) from one object to another frame.
  • Triggers: Explaining different ways to start an action: On Click, On Hover, While Pressing, or After Delay.

Smart Animate

This is the “secret sauce” of professional-looking prototypes.

  • Layer Naming: Explain that for Smart Animate to work, the layers in both frames must have the exact same name.
  • The Effect: Figma automatically interpolates the difference in position, size, or color between two screens to create a smooth transition.

 

Overlays & Modals

Teach how to handle temporary UI elements without creating 50 new frames.

 

Interactive Components

This is where the “Design System” and “Advanced Prototyping” merge.

Component-Level Prototyping: Setting up the interaction inside the main component (e.g., a checkbox that checks itself when clicked).

FAQ's

Is this course for total beginners?

Yes! While we move quickly into professional workflows, we start with the fundamental “Mental Model” of Figma. If you’ve never opened the app before, our first module will get you up to speed. If you are already a designer, you’ll likely find that you’re finally “un-learning” bad habits.

YouTube is great for learning features (what a button does), but it rarely teaches workflow (how to build a project from start to finish). This course provides a structured path, industry-standard naming conventions, and “insider” logic that you only get from working on real product teams.

No. Everything we teach, including Auto-Layout, or Styles, can be done on Figma’s Free Starter Plan

Absolutely. This course focuses on The Science of UI. We teach you mathematical spacing (8pt grids), type scales, and accessibility standards. Design is a system of logic, not just “vibes.” If you can follow a system, you can design a beautiful interface.

Because it is the single most important skill for a modern designer. If you want to work with developers or build scalable products, Auto-Layout is non-negotiable

Yes. You won’t just have a few random screens; you will have a documented Case Study including a UI Kit, a responsive landing page, and a high-fidelity prototype that proves you know how to build systems

Yes. Upon finishing all modules and the final project, you’ll receive a certificate you can display on your LinkedIn profile to signal your expertise in Figma Systems.

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Figma UI/UX Design Workshop: Build a Real Design Project with Figma + AI

Original price was: $149.00.Current price is: $89.00.

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