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Designing a contact card with auto layout

Designing a contact card with auto layout - Figma Tutorial

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Designing a contact card with auto layout

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- [Instructor] Let's create a contact card with a nested auto layout. So make sure to download this exercise file where you can see a mainframe that consists of a few elements. So we are going to work with these elements as a basis for our auto layout frames. So first of all, I'm going to select both of these text layers, which are a headline and subheadline, and, actually, add auto layout to them. So let's click on the plus icon right here in the auto layout section. Make sure that the resizing settings are set to have contents on both X and Y axes. Also, additionally, make sure that the spacing between these elements is set to the value of two pixels. Now, we are going to select our newly created auto layout frame with an ellipse and apply another auto layout frame to them. This is how we just created a nested auto layout. Here, we'll set our layout direction to horizontal and make sure that our elements are aligned to left. Also, the spacing value is set to 10 pixels. The next step…

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