The Fixed Navigation

Designing a fixed Navigation Bar with Figma

In this video, I guide you through the process of designing a sleek and functional navigation bar using Figma.

We cover everything from setting up the initial layout, importing assets, creating buttons, to adding effects for a dynamic user experience. In this tutorial, we built a navigation bar from scratch, incorporating a logo, menu items, and a login button. By using Figma's tools and shortcuts, we ensured a consistent design and added interactive elements such as a fixed position and blur effect on scroll. This enhances the navigation bar's usability and aesthetic appeal.

Summary

1. Introduction and Setup: I began by outlining the navigation bar design, placing a logo on the top left and menu items on the top right.
2. Creating the Layout: Started with a simple black box, adjusted opacity, and placed the logo using Figma's alignment tools.
3. Using Shortcuts: Introduced useful shortcuts (Option 1 and Option 2) for navigating between Figma panels.
4. Designing the Login Button: Created a login button with a custom gradient, adding an icon from the Iconify library to avoid creating new icons from scratch.
5. Adding Menu Items: Added "Home", "Features", and "Products" links, ensuring they were properly spaced and aligned using auto layout features.
6. Setting Constraints: Applied constraints to menu items so they stick to the right side of the frame, ensuring responsive design.
7. Applying Effects: Added a fixed position and background blur effect to the navigation bar to keep it visible and focus attention on it during scrolling.
8. Final Adjustments: Grouped all elements, ensuring proper alignment and spacing, and applied the final touches to the design.
9. Testing the Design: Demonstrated how the navigation bar looks and functions in Figma's presentation mode, showing the blur effect in action.
10. Conclusion and Next Steps: Wrapped up the lesson by summarizing the key points and teasing the next video on creating the features page.