#Plugins

Making Pencil tool a little more interesting

Steve Ruiz shows a plugin he is working on and explains the process. Looks really cool!

How to set up custom design linting in Figma using the Design Lint plugin

The plugin author’s tutorial on creating a design linter specific to your team.

Figma Tips: Adding a glass effect to your designs

Luis shows how to create a cool glass effect using a Morph plugin.
Adding a glass effect to your designs

Demo of Variable-Width Stroke plugin

Figma55 recorded a short demo of the recently released plugin by Figma cofounder Evan Wallace.

The only Figma plugins you need for your workflow

A comprehensive list of Figma plugins for an overall design process.

Our Favorite Figma Plugins

A few plugin recommendations for working with content and data from the team at Simple Thread.

Variants Pal plugin concept

Alex built a plugin concept to automatically generate missing variants and add labels.

Gameboy emulator

Sawyer Hood made a plugin that runs a Gameboy emulator inside of Figma and renders the output as vectors to the canvas. Not available in the community yet, but the source is already on GitHub.

Play Asteroids in Figma

Another Maker Week project — a plugin to play Asteroids with friends.

Speed Up Your Workflow With Figma Plugins

Smashing Magazine published an in-depth look at several plugins that can speed up your design workflow.

Using Real Data in Figma

Jacob used Google Sheets Sync plugin to fill his designs with real medicine names while designing an online pharmacy that delivers NHS prescription medicine.

How to add “native” Find functionality to Figma

Joel Califa suggests assigning a system shortcut to the Find & Replace plugin.

Lyft’s internal plugin for switching between light and dark mode

A great example of building a simple internal plugin around your own design system to automate routine work.

All of my Favourite, Most Used Figma Plugins

Jason Crabtree shares a list of his favorite plugins. Good recommendations.

@hyumankind: What are some of your current favorite plugins?

Lots of great recommendations in the replies.

The top 50 Figma plug-ins reviewed

“We sorted Figma’s plug-ins on most downloaded and we took on testing the top 50 in the list. Here is what we found out.“

10 plugins that will make Figma better

Unn Swanström tries and reviews ten popular plugins.

10 plugins that will make Figma better!

Syncing Live Spreadsheet Data With Google Sync

Short tutorial on syncing live spreadsheet data using Google Sheets Sync plugin. Part 2 covers ordering data, hiding cells, and swapping components.

Figma in 55 Seconds: Syncing live spreadsheet data

Office Hours: Figma Plugin Showcase, Part 2

Designer Advocates Tom Lowry and Rogie King talk about their favorite Figma plugins. Here is a list of all discussed plugins.

Office Hours: Figma plugin showcase [Part 2]

@blokdots: Connect your Figma GUI with Arduino prototype

Plugin to connect Figma to the blokdots app, making it possible to use hardware components like sensors and buttons to control and manipulate elements right in Figma. Mindblowing!

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