Plugins

A major update to a popular design specifications plugin. A new paid Pro version can now display Tokens Studio tokens within Anatomy, Props, and Layout sections.

This new AI assistant for Figma that helps you write effective UX copy just won the Product of the Day on Product Hunt last week. It’s focused specifically on UX writing best practices and provides copy suggestions inspired by world-class products in your industry, tailored to your target users, and product voice and tone.

The all-new LottieFiles is the hottest release of this week: ​“Create production-ready animations within Figma and export them as a Lottie. Apply animated presets to a single frame or string together multiple frames to create your fun animation. Bring the power of motion to your designs with LottieFiles for Figma.”

Let Destroyer recursively detach instances, remove Auto Layouts, and detach Styles within your current selection so you can iterate faster. When working collaboratively and wishing to quickly try out an idea, it’s always a hassle to detach the component and remove Auto Layouts.

Include is a tool built by eBay to make annotating for accessibility easier — easier for designers to spec and easier for developers to understand what is required. The intent is to have accessibility considerations included during the design phase of any project and to help with the designer-developer collaboration.

A new plugin for manipulating design elements to achieve interesting visual effects. ​“The plugin provides a wide range of features, including effortless horizontal and vertical movement, adjustments to size in both dimensions, rotation, duplication, and more.” See the demo video to come up with ideas for specific use cases.

With the Walkthrough widget, you can give your stakeholders an interactive tour with smooth animations without being there yourself. You can use it to introduce file content or explain a complex flow.

What, an old-school plugin without AI? 🤯 ​“Dithercore creates cool dithered images reminiscent of ​’80s and ​’90s computer graphics. It brings back the primitive technology of early PCs by utilizing pixel patterns and color schemes from that era.“

A proof of concept that generates wireframe designs using the GPT 3.5 model. See this thread by Wu Chenmu on how it works.

Effortlessly remove backgrounds or isolate objects using AI.

The new plugin by Meng To uses AI to upscale up to 8X the original resolution. Perfect for a variety of images including avatars, background images, Midjourney renders, and marketing images. (Interesting that the author heavily relied on ChatGPT 4 to build it.)

A new plugin from the accessibility and design teams at eBay: ​“Include is a tool built to make annotating for accessibility easier — easier for designers to spec and easier for developers to understand what is required. The intent is to have accessibility considerations included during the design phase of any project, and to help with the designer-developer collaboration.”

One-click export of Figma prototypes and animations to GIF, WebM, or MP4.

“The plugin Shape Move is specifically designed to allow you to create more dynamic and engaging animations within designs by animating the anchor points of vector shapes. An anchor point is a fixed point on a graphic object that serves as a reference for scaling, rotating, and positioning. You are able to customize the timing and easing of the animations, as well as the duration and delay of each animation.” See an impressive demo video.

“FigGPT is a tiny plugin that connects ChatGPT to Figma and helps you to compose and edit copy.”

A new plugin from Angelo Libero, creator of Supa Palette: ​“The ultimate tool for creating stunning snapshots instantly within Figma. Simply select one or more layers, and watch as the plugin quickly generates a high-quality snapshot.”

Speaking of sections in Figma, here is a plugin for you: ​“Wrap a new section around layers you’ve selected, or adjust the size of an existing section. Customize the spacing around selected layers, change the color of the section, and add additional titles and subtitles.”

This website made my head spin! A new Figma plugin and Framer Component for creating highly customizable beautiful moving gradients.

A new plugin by Vijay Verma: ​“The plugin utilizes the Metavatar algorithm to create stunning gradient backgrounds in a variety of cool colors. It also has the added feature of adding noise to make the gradients even more visually striking.”

Last week the team at Webflow introduced Webflow Labs, and this plugin is the first project they’ve launched! Turn your static Figma designs into clean, production-ready Webflow HTML and CSS. Add Webflow Interactions, wire up content using their CMS, and publish the website with one click.