Figma, a web-based graphics editor, has become a popular alternative to Sketch and Adobe XD, allowing for better collaboration. A platform is a helpful tool, but the array of available plugins makes it truly powerful.
Check out our top Figma plugin picks used by the top UX design agencies that can help you increase your productivity, simplify tasks, and speed up processes!
Scripter
Scripter enables developers and designers to run scripts directly within Figma to better navigate or experiment with API without creating plugins.
Master
Master will help save time and fix errors, helping to turn components into objects, combine frames or groups into one piece, create similar iterations of an existing element, and more!
Vectary 3D
Vectary 3D is a must-have for Vectary users. It allows developers and designers to position photorealistic 3D objects made on the platform or play around with premade things, enabling you to create mockups in just a few clicks.
Content Reel
Content Reel streamlines and speeds up the design process by enabling you to search for groups of relevant text, images, and icons or upload your own sets for more accessible organization, use, and sharing among team members.
Unsplash
Unsplash creates a way for designers to insert images directly from the plugin without worrying about licensing or leaving Figma.
Iconify
Iconify gives designers access to over 100,00 icons and emojis for their designs, making it easy to search, add, place, and even customize icons from within a Figma document.
SmoothShadow
SmoothShadow allows users to add and edit smooth shadows to their designs in just a few clicks.
Color Blind
Color Blind allows you to view a design in 8 different colors associated with types of color blindness to test its usability and find hard-to-read elements so they can be quickly and easily fixed.
Design Lint
Design Lint will save time and energy by aiding users in finding and fixing mistakes and missing styles in their designs and even has the option to correct multiple errors at once using “select all.”
Similayer
Similayer makes significant design changes easier by allowing users to find and select all components with the same color, property, font, text style, etc., and edit.
Font Scale
Font Scale enables designers to test typography and determine the size and scale of text elements quickly and easily in real time.
AutoFlow
Autoflow is great for teams looking to collaborate, creating an easy way for members to automatically draw arrows between artboards with simple keyboard shortcuts.
MiniMap
MiniMap allows designers and developers to hone in on particular design components to create better focus, navigate large or complex concepts, or present specific ideas.
Charts
Charts is a simple plugin that helps designers create almost any type of chart to organize their ideas and research for projects and add it directly or edit it from within their Figma document.
Design System Organizer
Design System Organizer makes elements more user-friendly by allowing designers to organize and sort them into groups, move them, clone them, or even rename them to make them easier to navigate.
Google Sheets Sync
Google Sheets Sync makes syncing information and images from Google Sheets faster and easier, allowing for sharing and collaboration in just a few clicks.
Coda for Figma
Coda allows designers to upload data from Wikipedia, Dropbox, Gmail, Shopify, Spotify, and more into tables created in their Figma documents.
Avatars
The Avatars plugin enables users to create randomized avatars for their designs in just one click using a database of images.
Random Name Generator
Random Name Generator allows users to quickly create randomized names based on gender or need (last name or first name).
Conclusion
The combination of Figma and these simple yet highly effective plugin tools makes for the basis of a productive workflow for designers to create various unique projects. And as Figma improves, so do these popular plugins, making them even better and easier to use as time goes on.
What Figma plugins do you use? We’d love to know!
