Interactive Design in Adobe Animate | Actions Wizard | Figma Tutorial

Posted by Dahlia on April 5, 2021

The Actions Wizard allows you to add interactivity to your animation in a visual way without even knowing any code. This blog demonstrates how to access this wizard and use it to build interactivity.

I will also be following this: Glassmorphism UI - Figma Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRVnX0k593E

You can copy the layers you create as css.

I also found a list of figma plugins that are helpful, here are some: Figma:

Plugins related projects on github:

Open source Figma plugins related projects on GitHub

A list of Figma Plugins and resources for building them.


Plugins

A collection of plugins that have been open-sourced.


Valor

Visualise existing or new color palettes in your design system or Generate lists of color variables from color palettes.

Repo Plugin on Figma

Image Palette

Extracts a colour palette of 5 different colours from the selected images.

Repo Plugin on Figma

Send to top

Sends selected layers to the very top of the layer stack above all other frames on the canvas.

Repo Plugin on Figma

Themer

Enables you to create themes and easily swap between sets of styles across your projects. Eg: Light/Dark

Repo Plugin on Figma

Sorter

Enables the user to quickly sort the order of layers based on position, name (alphabetical), reverse order, or random.

Repo Plugin on Figma

Dominant Color

Generate a palette from an image to magically populate your designs.

Repo Plugin on Figma

Responsify

A Figma plugin to quickly test your designs across multiple device sizes.

Repo Plugin on Figma

Figma Export

Easily export assets from Figma directly into a .zip file.

Repo Plugin on Figma

Project Scaffold

This plugin Generates a Scaffold for your Product design project in just 1 click.

Repo Plugin on Figma

Figma Walker

Figma Walker is a new launcher for Figma. You can take any actions you want from a single input field.

Repo Plugin on Figma

Figma Sort It

Sort selected Frames or Layers by names or position.

Repo Plugin on Figma

Figma Map Maker

Map Maker allows you to make a customized map blazing fast. It currently supports Google Maps and Mapbox.

Repo Plugin on Figma

Figma Format

Figma Format let’s you format your canvas by grouping them by the names.

Repo Plugin on Figma

Android Resources Export

Export multiple sizes PNG from selected slice or exportable layer, with a fixed folder structure (drawable-xhdpi, etc..) and valid name.

Repo Plugin on Figma

Feather Icons

Quick access to Feather icons in Figma.

Repo Plugin on Figma

Tailwind CSS

Generate styles and other cool stuff straight out of your tailwind config file.

Repo Plugin on Figma

Figma Tailwindcss

Figma Tailwindcss lets you export aspects of a design made in Figma to a javascript theme file that can easily be used with Tailwindcss.

Repo Plugin on Figma

Rich data plugin

Replace placeholder Figma text values with real data from real APIs.

Repo


Easing Gradient

Make beautiful smooth gradients in Figma. Linear gradients often have hard edges where they start and/or end. This plugin adds gradient stops to approximate easing functions.

Repo Plugin on Figma

Figma Measure

A plugin for easy measurement of sizes. A small user interface allows you to add arrows for heights and widths.

Repo Plugin on Figma

Super Tidy

A Figma plugin to easily align, rename and reorder your frames based in their canvas position.

Repo Plugin on Figma

Content Buddy

A Figma Plugin that makes replacing text content in multiple layers super easy for anyone.

Repo Plugin on Figma

Kaleidocode

Convert VS Code themes to Figma color libraries, create new themes via JSON, and swap themes automatically.

Repo Plugin on Figma

Chroma

Create bulk color styles from selection. Simply select any objects that have a fill color, run the plugin, and it will generate the color styles for you automatically.

Repo Plugin on Figma

An easy way to find and apply color styles from your current document.

Repo Plugin on Figma

Better Font Picker

Better Font Picker helps you select fonts with a preview of how it looks.

Repo Plugin on Figma

Now for the interactive design!

You add code using wizard in adobe animate.

You click on the instance, or action command, and choose the object to apply the action to. You open the project in the web browser in html to test.