Training Videos
Sometimes, we could all use a nudge in the right direction. With a multi-functional platform like ours, knowing where to start can be tricky. With these video tutorials, we hope you'll pick up new ways to make the most of our software.
Interactive Guidelines to Stay On-Brand
In this video, we'll explain how to:
- Get familiar with the Frontify environment
- Set up Guidelines and a Cover Page
- Create your brand introduction (identity and principles)
- Define your basics (brand, colors, typography, etc.) using our smart blocks
- Work on your visual language (photography, video, etc.)
- Share your guidelines with team members or create a public link
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Platform
In this video, we'll explain how to:
- Organize your projects with fully customizable smart-folder structures
- Ask stakeholders for feedback or asset approval
- Set deadlines and notify co-workers or teams automatically
- Coordinate projects in a workflow with the Kanban-board based system
- Transform static screens into prototypes
Centralizing Your Digital Media Assets
In this video, we'll explain how to:
- Organize your media assets in one dedicated library
- Set up collections, folders, and statuses
- Discover our asset protection and lifecycle options
- Activate auto-tagging to generate new tags for your assets
- Learn about the filters and facets
- Download options for assets
Templates for Creating On-Brand Collateral
In this video, we'll explain how to:
- Upload designs to the Template Library from Sketch or InDesign
- Set up custom edit locks for your templates that help template users align with brand guidelines
- Create new publications for digital or print designs based on your templates
- Edit templates to fit specific needs and in accordance with the boundaries set by the designer
- Download or order print versions of these designs and use them wherever you might need them
Work With Your Icons in a Dedicated Library
In this video, we'll explain how to:
- Gather, create, organize, and manage all your icons in a centralized space
- Upload icons in multiple formats, preview them on different backgrounds, and change colors
- Create collections
- Share icons with your stakeholders
- Retrieve colors from (or add them to) your Guidelines
Build a Design System for Digital Efficiency
In this video, we'll explain how to:
- Utilize the Frontify API and its documentation
- Create a dedicated Pattern Library
- Get to know the Pattern Library SDK
- List and document UI patterns in your Guideliens
- Sync your patterns and assets using a JSON file
- Add internal or external resources
Reusable Code Right at Your Fingertips
In this video, we'll explain how to:
- Organize patterns based on the atomic design principle
- Add your patterns with the UI pattern block
- Create new – or insert existing – UI patterns
- Add external resources, such as Bootstrap
- Toggle breakpoints and adjust them to your needs
- Make use of the developer package block
Streamline Your Design Workflow with Sketch
In this video, we'll explain how to:
- Open source files stored within Frontify in Sketch
- Share files with version control
- Invite team members to give feedback and review work
- Upload artboards to different folders in your Frontify Workspace
Seamless Access to Assets with an Adobe XD Plugin
In this video, we'll explain how to:
- Install the Frontify plugin in Adobe XD to integrate your brand assets with the native XD design environment
- Access and apply your brand colors and text styles
- Connect icon files and all logo variants
- Pull images from your Media Library
- Update assets in Frontify and see changes in XD immediately in real-time
Use Inspect Mode to Streamline Design-to-Development
In this video, we'll explain how to:
- Push Artboards with the Sketch plugin to Frontify
- Access Inspect in the workspace, reveal how the UI looks, and show the way different layers can be measured against each other and the Artboard itself
- Visualize the various layer types and their measurements in the Information panel
- Copy codes for specific components and download assets
- Audit artboards and check colors and fonts against your Guidelines