Knowing that, we should design landing pages with a very strict list of goals in mind. It’s not a beauty or creativity c

Auto Layout is an absolute pain-remover. It solves so many issues and allows me to make way more generic components with basic controls, instead of new components for variations in content.

This is amazing! Previously, this was only hackable using ‘spacer elements,’ which muddied up your layout with unnecessary shapes. And it even then, using spacers would only allow you to introduce padding in one direction, without nesting frames.

(There’s also something called Auto Layout for iOS apps, which dynamically arranges Views hierarchically. But this is totally unrelated to Figma’s Auto Layout, which is based on Flexbox and the CSS box-model.)

But it empowers designers to understand the destination their designs are heading for. It makes iterating within constraints faster. And, hopefully, it eases the conversations between designers and developers.

Let’s look at the above example. The text section of the podcast card previously could only be set to auto-width or fixed-width, OR auto-height / fixed-height, depending on whether the frame had horizontal or vertical Auto Layout.

If you’ve used the no-code website builder Webflow, this will no doubt seem familiar to you. It’s a visual way of understanding the Flexbox layout model and makes it far easier to look at and intuitively grok.

Responsive design and having a mobile-first approach are concepts that have been heralded for years, but until now it’s primarily been a responsibility for developers. Designers have just had to create layouts on a canvas, making multiple versions to try and cover the most popular devices, and then let developers interpret and implement those layouts.

With Auto Layout, designers could make updates to things like button text without manually adjusting the size of the button frame, or add blocks to a row or column, and it would all resize by itself, like magic.

An aside: Flexbox isn’t the only layout model there is. It’s one of a few ways of laying out content in CSS. Many web developers are preferring to use something newer called CSS Grid, although it has less browser support. These both make use of the CSS box-model, where all elements have a content edge, padding edge, border edge, and margin edge.

Landing page is a popular, yet quite specific kind of website. It often makes me wonder, why it is so hard these days, to find a landing page that is done well? It would seem that we, as product designers, owners and users, are design-aware enough (compared to 10 years ago) — yet there’s one simple thing that everyone seems to forget:

Now, you can set a frame with Auto Layout to fill its parent container, even if the frame is a vertical stack and the parent container is scaled horizontally. It just works.

PS: If you’re reading this before Friday 20th November 2020, you still have time to sign up for the free Auto Layout Office Hours event, and ask the team any questions you may have.

In the example above, you can see how a frame with two subheadings and five rows is edited to have indents and space-above, meaning that it’s much easier to introduce whitespace to your designs and allow them to breathe, while benefiting from Auto Layout, without cluttering your file.

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