Buzzy Documentation
  • Welcome to Buzzy
  • Getting Started with Buzzy
    • Getting Started Guide
      • 1. Starting with Buzzy AI
      • 2. The Buzzy Workspace
      • 3. Create a new app
      • 4. Preview and edit your app
      • 5. Manage your app
      • 6. Import your app to Figma
      • 7. Using Buzzy with Figma
      • 8. The Buzzy Figma plugin
      • 9. Creating a simple app
      • 10. Screens and navigation
      • 11. Forms, fields and data
      • 12. Data-driven menus & content
      • 13. Data edit and delete
      • 14. Search, sort and filter
      • 15. User login and registration
    • Buzzy AI or Figma first?
  • Working with Buzzy
    • Buzzy AI
      • About Buzzy AI
      • Kickstart with AI
      • Enhance with Figma
      • Extend with Code
      • Example prompts
      • Tips
      • Troubleshooting Buzzy AI
      • AI tokens and pricing
    • Buzzy for Figma
      • About Buzzy for Figma
      • Learning Figma
      • Creating a new app directly in Figma
        • Step by step version
      • Automarkup
      • Responsive layouts
      • Responsive layout checklist
      • Overflow and scrolling
      • Forms and fields
      • Logging users in to your app
      • Theming
      • Troubleshooting Buzzy for Figma
      • Plugin error messages
    • Buzzy Deployment & App Stores
      • Setting up your custom Buzzy app
      • Connecting your own server
      • Apple & Google App Stores
    • Buzzy Marketplace
      • Buzzy Accreditation
    • Buzzy Project Guide
    • Buzzy App Examples
      • Buzzy Templates
      • AI-Powered Chat App
      • AI-Powered Custom T-Shirt App
      • AI-Powered Strategy App
      • AI-Powered Stock Portfolio App
      • Golf Course Finder
      • Personal Finance App with Figma AI
    • FAQs
  • The building blocks
    • Datatables, Fields & Data
      • Introduction to Fields
      • Basic Fields
        • Text
        • Number
        • Date
        • Location
        • Toggle
        • Checkboxes
        • Checklist
        • Selectlist
        • Rating
        • Attachments
        • Images
        • Signature
        • Audio Recording
        • Embedded Link
      • Advanced Fields
        • Formula
        • Sub tables
        • Linked Table field
        • Button
        • Teams
        • Payment
        • Notification
        • Event
        • User Vote
      • Display Fields
        • Header
        • Display Text
        • Image
        • Divider
      • Metadata Fields
        • Author Name
        • Author Phone
        • Submitted
      • Filter Controls
        • Viewers
        • Tags
        • Condition
      • External Fields
        • IBM Connections File
        • Box File
      • Sort Fields
      • Formulas
      • Datatable to Datatable Relationships
      • Security and Access Control
      • Displaying a field based on the values of other fields
      • Hiding a field based on role using a display formula
      • Importing data from a text file
      • Importing data from a URL
      • Import data from Datatable
      • Export data using Chrome
      • Export data in Browser
      • Export data using Safari
      • Datatable Field Type - Cheat Sheet
      • Troubleshooting Fields & Data
    • Code widget (custom code)
      • Code Widget Fields - Advanced Guide
      • New Async API + React HTML Components
      • Examples
        • Image Galley Slideshow
        • Ratings Average and Distribution
        • Event Locations Map
    • Analytics
  • Troubleshooting
    • App Error Codes
      • Action Error
      • App Not Found
      • Component Missing
      • Component Not Set
      • Component Settings Error
      • Datatable Not Found
      • Datatable Not Set
      • Field Not Found
      • Field Not Set
      • No App Selected
      • No Context Name
      • No Screens Found
      • Runtime Exception
      • Screen Not Found
      • Screen Not Set
    • Troubleshooting Buzzy AI
    • Troubleshooting Figma
  • REST API
    • Buzzy REST API
      • Integrating 3rd party applications
      • REST API
        • login
        • createappwithprompt
        • MicroApp Data Operations
          • microappdata
          • microappdata/row
          • insertmicroapprow
          • updatemicroapprow
          • removemicroapprow
          • microappchild
        • User & Organization Operations
          • userid
          • insertteammembers
          • teammembers
          • insertorganization
          • insertteam
        • enforceteammembership
      • Node.js API Client
      • Datatable Rules
      • Datatabledata Tutorial
      • Integrating with Mailchimp
      • Python Access Datatable
  • Advanced Deployment Settings
    • Installation
      • Pre-installation Planning
      • Deployment
        • Introduction to deployment
        • Minikube install guide
        • AWS ECS Fargate install guide
        • HCL Connections install guide
        • Azure AKS install guide
        • Windows container install guide
      • Buzzy settings
      • Whitelabelling Buzzy
      • Certificates
      • Release Management
    • Performance and Reliability
    • Security
      • Platform
      • Users and Roles
      • Datatables
      • Audit Trail
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Learning Buzzy - 'Getting Started' guide for the Buzzy Figma plugin

This is the ideal guide for anyone new to both Buzzy *and* Figma.

Last updated 5 months ago

The Perfect Starting Point for Buzzy Beginners

This is the ideal guide for anyone new to Buzzy. Here, you’ll learn the fundamentals by manually marking up your Figma file—without using Automarkup. This hands-on approach helps you understand the basics of how your designs transform into functional apps, building a solid foundation for future projects.

Why Manual Markup Matters

Learning manual markup is essential for:

  1. Existing Figma Designs: Apply markup to turn your existing designs into functional apps with full control.

  2. Refining Automarkup: Enhance or fix areas where Automarkup may not meet your needs.

  3. Extending AI-Generated Figma Files: Customize and expand on designs created by Buzzy AI.

This knowledge ensures you can optimize any design and fully leverage Buzzy's capabilities.This series of short video lessons focuses on using the Buzzy Figma plugin to manually create a custom app from scratch. It will step you through the creation of a simple app, starting with basic screens and slowly introducing more advanced concepts.

The combined time for all 6 lessons, ~45 minutes.

Follow along as we show you how to use the basic Buzzy elements and try it yourself using the accompanying example file in each lesson.

Using and have a new Buzzy app? This set of guides will introduce you to the core concepts you need to edit your app in Figma.

Read for Figma tips and best practices.

As well as the Getting Started videos, there's a range of tutorials and demos covering more advanced techniques and tips.

Note

The Buzzy plugin has been updated since the videos were recorded. These changes do not change the basic principles and concepts outlined in the videos, but you will notice the following:

  • BRIEF: This tab is used only if generating a new app from scratch using Buzzy AI

  • DATA MODEL: Previously DATA, this is where you define your app's data model

  • MARKUP: Previously DESIGN, this is where you link your Figma design to functionality, roles, data and behaviour

  • PUBLISH: This is where you publish your app to a server for previewing and deployment

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For a complete playlist of our Youtube videos and demos, go here!