Course 2

Prototyping & Animation in Figma

Make screens move: flows, interactions, Smart Animate, easing, and motion that communicates.

Wire screens into interactive prototypes and learn the timing and easing that make transitions feel intentional rather than flashy.

Choose your track

Track A (designers/artists): focus on judgment — reading agent output critically and steering it toward your intent.

Beginner

The canvas, the core tools, your first real screen.

Your first interactive flow

ABC ~8 min

A pile of beautiful screens proves nothing — a stakeholder cannot tell whether the idea works until they can tap it, and a static mockup hides every dead end and missing back button until someone tries to use it.

Intermediate

Layout that adapts, reusable pieces, and interaction basics.

Smart Animate and motion that communicates

ABC ~9 min

Beginners discover Smart Animate, turn it on everywhere, and ship a prototype where everything slides, bounces, and spins — motion that impresses for five seconds and then exhausts, because it is decorating instead of explaining.

Advanced

Robust systems, complex prototypes, motion with intent.

Easing and timing — motion that feels right

ABC ~9 min

Two prototypes can use the exact same Smart Animate transition and one feels expensive while the other feels cheap — the entire difference is the easing curve and the timing, the part beginners leave on default.

Master

Judgment: when to abstract, when to ship, and how to keep a system alive.

Modules at this level are in development.

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