5 Figma Plugins Every UI/UX Designer Needs [With Tips]
You can finish your work 20 times faster with Figma plugins! Figma is one of the best design tools available, because of its great plugin library. But which are the most useful? It can be difficult to select the ideal ones for your projects, so in this blog, we’re here with 5 must-have plugins and tips for every designer and UI UX design agency.
1. Content Reel
Drag text strings, avatars, and icons into your layouts effortlessly with Content Reel. Text strings can now be applied in any sequence! Get the options in the drop-down menu to select original, random, ascending, descending, and more. And if you’ve written text content before, it’ll be set to private by default. You can quickly update your preference from this plugin and share it globally. Also, you can use any form of text string or image, including addresses, phone numbers, names, order numbers, profile photographs, and so on.
Tip! When you make your own content set as in plugin, you have the option of keeping it private for your own use or publishing it for UI UX designers or other people to find and use later.
2. Iconify
Iconify is a simple Figma plugin that lets you integrate icons from Material Design, FontAwesome, Jam Icons, EmojiOne, Twitter Emoji, and a variety of other sources. For Figma documents, there are over 100 icon sets with over 100,000 icons available as vector shapes. This plugin makes it simple for UI UX design agencies to add icons to a project.
This also allows you to browse and search icon sets directly in Figma and there’s no need to copy and paste icons because it will import the ones you choose. The best part about Iconify is that you can utilize these icons in improvement with ease because it is also a library that you can include in your project.
3. Design System Organizer
If you’re making a new component library, use Design System Organizer! It’s also useful for modifying transferred component libraries or documents with a lot of local designs and components. This plugin supports the features of such features in a UI UX design.
You can also use it to link, unlink, relocate, and rename grouped components. When you rename a group, the title of all components and styles in that group is modified as well. You don’t even need to use the search and replace plugin to do this.
Tip! If you need to delete many styles in a click then this is a great plugin to use. Figma does not allow multi-selection of styles, therefore deleting more than a single one takes a long time. To multi-select and remove styles from a file by using this plugin.
4. Blush
For an expert, drawing illustrations directly on your canvas and customizing them is a simple and painless process but not for a beginner. With blush, you can create your own excellent illustrations for all of your producing work with just a few clicks. This plugin not only allows you to draw creative doodles straight on your canvas but also speeds up your creation process!
You can now save a lot of time because you can customize right on the canvas instead of customizing, exporting, and uploading. Using this is a great method to instantly add vibrance to your projects while collaborating with your team in real-time.
5. Similayer
In short, it allows you to select layers based on their likeness to the direction chosen layer. When you want to pick more than 4 elements with the same style, such as photos, components, text, frameworks, and so on, Similayer helps! Similayer will drastically speed up your workflows and help to shape your working with Figma.
Tip! You can temporarily add a frame around all the top levels. If you want to select elements in multiple top-level frames then, instead of selecting the whole page you can use the “Limit selection within root frame” option to choose elements from specified frames.
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