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Design Like a Pro: The Ultimate List of Figma Plugins You Need to Try

As a designer, I’ve scoured the web for the best tools to boost my creativity and productivity. In this article, I’ll be sharing with you a comprehensive list of Figma plugins that have truly transformed my design process. From generating color palettes to creating custom app UIs, these plugins will help you work smarter and more efficiently. So get ready to elevate your design process!

I’ll be doing this alphabetically so let’s go…

1. Above The Fold

Above The Fold is a layout perfectionist’s dream come true. This plugin makes sure your most important elements will be visible every time on every device. It marks your designs with a layer that indicates where the above-the-fold portion ends.

2. Button Buddy

Rather than creating buttons from scratch myself, I just go to Button Buddy, select a style, input a color, and voila my button styles are ready. Crafting visually stunning buttons is literally a breeze with Button Buddy. You can use this plugin to generate beautiful, customizable button styles in different states for your designs. Properly tested and trusted I tell you.

3. Checklist Creator

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Checklist Creator as the name implies, helps you create checklists for your designs, ensuring that you don’t miss any important detail. With this plugin, you can ensure that your design workflow is organized and efficient. Streamline your design process into say wireframes, mobile, desktop, list the screens, and keep track of all the journeys you need to cover.

4. Clean Document: De-Clutter Your Design Space

Clean Document transforms cluttered Figma files into organized masterpieces, making it easy to collaborate with your team. With this plugin, you can delete hidden layers, ungroup single-layer groups, intelligently rename layers, and the best part? make your pixels perfect.

5. Color Shades

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Even though I’ve tried so many color palette plugins and even websites, this one gets the chef’s kiss. Say goodbye to color palette struggles with Color Shades. It simplifies the process of selecting and maintaining your color palettes, ensuring that your designs are consistent and eye-catching.

6. Content Reel

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Content Reel allows you to quickly add placeholder content ranging from addresses to full names to album cover images to your designs, saving you time and effort. It adds life to your designs, ensuring that they are dynamic and engaging.

7. Figit — A Massive Library of UI Elements

Figit provides a massive library of UI elements, making it easy to create beautiful designs quickly. This plugin sparks inspiration and creativity, ensuring that your designs are unique and eye-catching. Little secret, the elements come in auto-layouts.

8. Find and Replace

I don’t think I need to explain what this plugin does. You can tell from the name, right? Anyhoo, Find and Replace is a plugin that allows you to find and replace text, styles, and components in your Figma file. This plugin expedites tedious tasks, saving you time and effort.

9. GPT Mate: Your AI Design Assistant

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You no longer have to spend hours trying to come up with copy for your designs and you can even ditch the infamous lorem ipsum. Use GPT Mate to generate placeholder text using GPT-3, and easily create realistic content for your designs. This plugin will honestly enhance your creative process.

10. Iconify

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If you know me, you’ll know Iconify is my forever go-to plugin on Figma. Iconify provides a massive library of icons, making it easy to find the perfect icon for your designs.

PS: If you ever use any of these plugins thanks to this article, you owe me!

11. Select all instances

Imagine working on a large-scale design project and you can’t find a missing component or you need to delete all instances of a particular component you created, Select all instances is your go-to guy. This plugin optimizes design element selection, saving you time and effort, especially in large-scale design projects. With Select all instances, you can efficiently manage and edit your design components.

12. Storyset by Freepik

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We’re all familiar with Freepik’s storyset one might say, but if you’re not, welcome to the club. Storyset by Freepik is a plugin that provides a massive library of illustrations, making it easy to find the perfect illustration for your designs. This plugin enhances storytelling in design, ensuring that your designs are engaging and visually appealing.

13. Unsplash

Another honorable mention…

Unsplash provides you access to a vast repository of high-quality images, enhancing visual storytelling in your design. These images can be used freely for both commercial and personal projects. Although there’s Unsplash+, but you get the point.

14. Vectorize Bitmap — Trace Image

Vectorize Bitmap — Trace Image allows you to trace images and transform them into vectors. It simplifies the vectorization process, ensuring that your designs are visually appealing and scalable.

Wrapping it up here. These plugins continue to unlock new possibilities within Figma, making my design process more efficient and enjoyable.

If I ever come across any other plugin that befits this list? You know what I’ll do.

Experiment, explore, and most importantly, have fun with these plugins as you continue on your creative journey. Happy designing!