🎉 Design Challenge For Figma Community🎉
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🎉 Design Challenge For Figma Community🎉
July 12, 2020 at 11:36am (Edited 7 months ago)Let's do something interesting! Today I want to challenge you to make some profound breakthroughs to your design capabilities.
Below I have prepared 3 challenges for you, each has certain criteria you need to meet to succeed.
Respond with a video recording or Figma link to your best efforts, you can pick any 1 or all 3 of them as you like, the aim of this challenge is so we can learn from each other and grow as a community.
🏆 Winners:
Congrats! We have two clear winners here: and , both of them have in time completed all 3 challenges with critical success, and on top of that, have also scored a legendary success for the second challenge that was outright insane. Combining curiosity and dedication, they have each brought unique and inspirational solutions, and have made possible the impossible.
There are a few other participants who messaged me via a private link with partial completion, you did a good job. Thank you all who have participated in this challenge!
Challenge #1
Let's start with something simple: An auto-layout enabled free-form button instance that responds to its content's length:
Success:
- Button must have a customizable text element.
- Button background is more feature-rich than a simple corner radius on a rectangle.
- Background decorations should not fall out of shape on width change.
- No use of plugins.
Exceed Expectations(Critical Success):
- Button have symmetrical padding (top padding = bottom padding, left padding = right padding)
- Button can have icons that accompany the text.
- Button decorations are customizable on an instance level.
Challenge #2
A percentage customizable doughnut that resizes on its shorter dimension and never turns into an oval.
Success:
- Percentage of each arc is customizable on instance level.
- The Doughnut responds to the shorter dimension of its parent when resizing.
- No use of plugins.
Exceed Expectations(Critical Success):
- A multiline text element in the center, and always stays in the center when changing text or resizing.
- Each segment can have borders or negative spacing around them.
Legendary Masterpiece:
- Displays individual numerical value that follows the arc and always stays in the center of arc on percentage change.
- Displays a 45° angular arm for each arc that points to its center and sticks out to the side with a numerical value attached to the end.
Challenge #3
A bidirectional Timeline that lays out perfectly on resizing and pushes its lower contents upon changing of text.
Success:
- There must be a vertical line running in the center with dots to tell apart from each item.
- Text descriptions can be placed on either side of the timeline and work fine.
- The Timeline responds to width changes, wrap texts, and push its lower contents to make room when squished.
- No use of plugins.
Exceed Expectations(Critical Success):
- Everything works just fine as an instance and responsive to its parent frame.
- There are symmetrical paddings around each dot that obscure the vertical line from touching it.
- Dots can be swapped with custom icons.
July 12, 2020 at 7:19pm
July 13, 2020 at 8:30am
July 14, 2020 at 3:24pm
I underestimated the second challenge 🤣
Do I need to make all of these bullets into a single component? (especially the aspect ratio lock and the percentage of that donut piece?)
Also here is a link with the progress. I'll finish all of them. 😁
lol nice try Andrei, although bullets will be accompanying a doughnut in a real scenario, but the doughnut is the main focus here in the second challenge. I like how you are sharing the file in a way so other people can't peek into your layer list, I like your choice of color, but I think if I drag on a dimension handle on any of your doughnuts at this point they will fall out of shape XD ton of fun sorting this out.
Percentage text of each arc is a mystery, you can come back for this one at the very end, I failed to make them stay with the arc as well, so haha, I do hope someone somehow will come across and shine us a light but until then, you can leave that part out of the equation.
lol nice try Andrei, although bullets will be accompanying a doughnut in a real scenario, but the doughnut is the main focus here in the second challenge. I like how you are sharing the file in a way so other people can't peek into your layer list, I like your choice of color, but I think if I drag on a dimension handle on any of your doughnuts at this point they will fall out of shape XD ton of fun sorting this out.
Percentage text of each arc is a mystery, you can come back for this one at the very end, I failed to make them stay with the arc as well, so haha, I do hope someone somehow will come across and shine us a light but until then, you can leave that part out of the equation.
Actually, I didn't share intentionally 😅
If you want, I can change the permissions to invite only and let only the embed version, but this way you cannot check the behaviour. 😁
I'll post on twitter as well, the videos with the behaviours. ✌️
Also, i'm not here for rewards. I'm here for the fun 😁🌟
July 15, 2020 at 1:31am
July 15, 2020 at 10:17am
July 16, 2020 at 8:59am
I removed the access to the file and I'm gonna make it public at the end. ✌️
July 22, 2020 at 3:28am
I have been working on these challenges for the past few days. It was really fun trying to figure out the hacks to build something that I previously thought impossible. I managed to complete all the challenges, except the legendary masterpiece haha (I really don't think it's possible). I'll pm u the link to the file so that the fun won't be spoiled :) Thank you very much for this!
I have been working on these challenges for the past few days. It was really fun trying to figure out the hacks to build something that I previously thought impossible. I managed to complete all the challenges, except the legendary masterpiece haha (I really don't think it's possible). I'll pm u the link to the file so that the fun won't be spoiled :) Thank you very much for this!
Nicely done, I checked your file, That was brilliant! You've scored 3 critical success in one go. 🎉Congratulations Wu🎉, share the challenge with your fellow designers if you liked it :) I might do more of this in the near future, stay tuned
July 22, 2020 at 5:26pm
I have been working on these challenges for the past few days. It was really fun trying to figure out the hacks to build something that I previously thought impossible. I managed to complete all the challenges, except the legendary masterpiece haha (I really don't think it's possible). I'll pm u the link to the file so that the fun won't be spoiled :) Thank you very much for this!
https://twitter.com/aandrei_inc/status/1283764373958340608?s=20
Don't give up ✌️
July 27, 2020 at 5:50pm
July 29, 2020 at 2:59am
https://twitter.com/aandrei_inc/status/1283764373958340608?s=20
Don't give up ✌️
Wow!!
August 2, 2020 at 12:26pm
August 3, 2020 at 10:42am
August 4, 2020 at 2:48am
I didn't know that 0.01 height will become 0 before! I learned a lot through the challenge thanks a lot!