Open-source Figma plugins for speeding up the workflow — great way to look inside and learn.

Alex shares a preview of a really smart FigJam plugin he is working on – draw any shape with a marker, and it will be recognized and turned into a real object. Looks fantastic and almost feels like it should be a part of the app!

Tom Quinonero writes about a recently announced headless approach to building Figma plugins.

Speaking of plugins, in this 3‑part blog series Clinton Halpin shows how he built one to automatically fill mockups with real data from his company’s API in a single click.

This update allows plugins to create new prototype interactions in the editor. Check out a code sample by Anthony DiSpezio.

Tom Quinonero shows how to build a simple Figma plugin with Rollup and Svelte.

Matt Wierzbicki on how he created a Figmaster plugin without writing any code.

Yuan Qing Lim – one of the most prolific creators of Figma plugins – released v1 of his open-source toolkit for developing plugins. It comes with an optimized development workflow, maintainable code structure, utility functions, and even essential Figma UI components.

Great talk by Jordan Singer, who builds some of the most creative Figma plugins.

Great thread by Yuan Qing Lim, a prolific author of over a dozen of Figma plugins.

Very creative use of Figma’s powerful features and custom plugins for building a board game.

“Building your own tools isn’t just for large teams. Join us as we talk to Daniel Destefanis, Product Design Manager at Discord, and Shaina Hantsis, UX/UI Designer at Avaya, about how to build private plugins with a limited budget and resources.”

Figma plugin analytics page.

Uber took a programmatic approach to create 256 new components for map markers. ​“By automating the construction of the markers, I was able to avoid human-error and efficiently generate the full set of variants. Programmatically testing the components allowed me to thoroughly validate them under multiple scenarios and be confident of their quality.”

I shared some of Jordan’s experiments before, but this one is truly magical. Let’s hope it will become a real plugin one day!

I didn’t realize how many popular plugins were made by the Discord team and started as their internal tools! In this blog post, Daniel Destefanis shares their approach to building tools to prevent design debt, spend less time doing repetitive tasks, and improve the developer handoff process.

A plugin concept by Jordan Singer for automatically applying Auto Layout constraints and resizing.

An epic blog post from Roman Shamin describes a better way of working with a dynamic color system and how to build an internal plugin that makes it possible.

Lennon Cheng shares his experience of creating Figma plugins to improve and automate the design process. He is a designer without much development experience, and this makes his take especially interesting.

Jason Jun shares the whole process of building a plugin, from the idea, to developing a data structure, interface design, and writing code. ​“The process of repeatedly finding relevant documents while using design tools can be cumbersome. This gap between the documentation and design tool seemed to be very suitable for a plugin to fill.”