Responsiveness: Breakpoints

Connect multiple frames that represent different page layouts into the same page

Using breakpoints, Anima ensures that your design automatically adjusts to look its best, whether it’s being viewed on a compact smartphone, a tablet, or a widescreen monitor. The right layout will show.

What are Breakpoints?

A breakpoint is a specific point at which a website’s content and design will adjust to accommodate the screen size or resolution being viewed.

Today, the convention is to have a different artboard representing the page layout for Desktop, Mobile, and sometimes even tablet or wide desktop. Each of these artboards stands for a breakpoint.

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Use Breakpoints to make your design look great in any screen size.

Complete the experience with Auto-layout.

How to use Breakpoints

  1. Design with multiple layouts
    The process begins in Figma, where designers create variations of their pages for different screen sizes. Typically, at least two or three versions, such as mobile, desktop, and tablet.

  2. Connect artboards with Anima’s Breakpoints feature
    Select all the artboards of the same page (I.e. “homepage mobile” & “homepage desktop”), then use Anima’s plugin for Figma, and click “Responsive pages” → “+” → “Save”.

  3. Preview or Sync to see breakpoints in action

  4. You may Publish your design to get a public link

This is what the result will look like: