Figma Ninja

A game to level-up your Figma design skills - by Tandem

21 followers

A game to level-up your Figma design skills - by Tandem

21 followers

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Figma Ninja is a game built into Figma to help you learn the basics and get faster with shortcuts and tricks. -- Built with ⚔ by the makers of Tandem.chat

Launch tags:Design Tools•Productivity•Education

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ReplayAutonomous app testing for teams who ship at AI-speed

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Maker

Hey all! I'm super excited to finally share Chapter #1 of Figma Ninja. The idea here is to have fun learning how Figma works, and get faster in the process. 🔥 Steps 1. Click Get it. 2. Click duplicate. 3. For a better experience use the Figma desktop app. 4. Open Figma Ninja and follow the instructions. 🤔 Who is this for? • For product managers who want to collaborate better with designers. • For marketing people who want to get better at managing social media assets. • For engineers who want to prototype or modify designs. • For designers switching to Figma from Sketch, Photoshop, Adobe XD, or others. • Or anyone who wants to harness keyboard shortcuts to move faster in Figma! 📜 The Story I used to play Starcraft 2 competitively 🤓. When you play this kind of game, shortcuts become an extension of your mind and body. It's fascinating to see professional players move their hands. They're the ninjas of the computer era. When I started designing I used the same approach: Learn the shortcuts ASAP to harness true speed. While working at Yahoo I created a workshop called Sketch Ninja to teach junior designers the secrets of Sketch in a game-like fun format. That was the original inspiration for Figma Ninja. When we started Tandem.chat, I realized that although I was fast in Sketch, the team could collaborate better using Figma. I realized that switching to Figma was the best decision for the team. With Figma we've collaborated on pitch decks, brainstormed all kinds of ideas, mapped user flows, and prototyped many products and features. As a remote team, it's super important to have a powerful replacement for whiteboarding, and Figma has become that for us. I wanted to help my teammates become fluent in Figma so we could all collaborate together. I decided to adapt the Sketch workshop to Figma and make it 100% self-serve. I'm super excited to contribute to the Figma community that I love so much. ✌️Good Luck Have Fun P.S. Want to double the fun? Go through Figma Ninja collaboratively with a friend using Tandem.chat :)

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7yr ago

Hi @bernatfortet, @rajivayyangar very helpful onboarding project, I've take the project, edit a bit and used it on the workshop, here is the article: https://medium.com/@vic20087cjim... thanks for creating this amazing things!

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7yr ago

Tandem

Maker

@rajivayyangar @vic20087cjimlin @lichin This is awesome. 👍

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7yr ago

Gold Fig

This is exactly the kind of interactive game I needed to start learning Figma. Thanks for putting this out in to the world!

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7yr ago

Tandem

Maker

@vikrum5000 Yay! Nothing better than playing a game and being able to say that you're working :)

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7yr ago

Product Hunt

Maker

@vikrum5000 I was reluctant until Bernat made the game. Maybe in the future every productivity app will have a game :)

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7yr ago

Unflow

This is fun! This is to design what Flexbox Froggy (https://flexboxfroggy.com/) is to learning flexbox. Can't wait for more lessons 👏

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7yr ago

Tandem

Maker

@davidnewell95 Flexbox Froggy is super neat! Thanks for sending the link

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7yr ago

Product Hunt

Maker

@davidnewell95 Did you ever play Mavis Beacon teaches typing? Or is that a US thing only?

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7yr ago

Unflow

@rajiv_ayyangar haha I have not but looks like a serious throwback

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7yr ago

Well then, this was just well-designed and fun. I knew like 95% of those shortcuts, but hadn't thought of using SHIFT+CTRL to delete grouped items that way. So, thanks for teaching me something today!

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7yr ago

Tandem

Maker

@jucaslames Right! some things are known by people, but everyone that has done it takes something home :) Stayed tuned for Chapter #2, I bet you'll learn more stuff in there!

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7yr ago

Product Hunt

Maker

@jucaslames awesome.

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7yr ago