Top 10 Figma Plugins to Boost Productivity and Enhance Your Designs
Figma has absolutely changed the game for designers! Beyond the countless benefits it provides as a collaborative tool for design teams, the plugin feature (less than 2 years old), has led to innovations that will cut down design time and boost productivity.
After exploring and trying out a number of plugins, here’s a list of top 10 favorites that can help you design faster, present your designs better, and spark creativity for your design projects!
1. Artboard Studio Mockups
This plugin gives you access to an extensive, ever-growing library of high-quality mockup items. Artboard Studio provides thousands of mockup files that you can render your Figma frames to directly.
NB: You will need to create an account and set an API key to access free elements. Subscribe to their premium plan to access premium elements.
2. Content Reel
Reduce time spent on generating content for your layouts. Content Reel gives you access to a content library to browse through common content elements and pull them into your design. From text strings to images, and icons, increase productivity by populating your designs with existing content.
3. Remove BG
As the name suggests, you can now remove image backgrounds automatically, without leaving your Figma frame! Get creative by adding new backgrounds to your images, or keeping them transparent. Once you’re signed up, you can also make use of this feature on your web browser for free.
NB: You will need to create an account and set an API key to use this plugin.
4. Isometric
That’s right! Creating isometric layers is only a plugin away. Easily create isometric layers on your designs with your preferred perspective angles, without having to set them up manually.
5. Charts
Generate and customize a range of charts for your projects — line, scatter, bar, pie, and area charts. The plugin also lets you configure the minimum and maximum values, no. of data points, and no. of series.
6. Get Waves
Add some cool wave effects to your UI designs with this plugin. Get Waves helps you generate SVG waves of varied complexities, patterns, and shapes.
7. Pexels & Unsplash
Why leave your Figma frame to find the perfect stock image? Access beautiful, free stock images for both commercial and personal projects using not one, but 2 stock photo plugins — Unsplash & Pexels.
8. Iconscout
Your go-to plugin to access icons, illustrations, and stock photos all in one place. Apply multiple filter options to make your search faster, select from a range of formats to insert your icon, illustration, or image, and easily access your downloads with a single click.
NB: You will need to create an account to access free elements. Subscribe to a premium plan to access premium elements.
9. Color Palettes
Get inspired for your next design project by browsing through a wide range of beautiful color palettes. The Color Palettes plugin gives you access to a large list of popular color palettes that you can apply to your designs!
10. Image Palette
If you like generating color palettes from beautiful images, say hello to the Image Palette plugin. With a single click, Image Palette extracts 5 prominent colors from your selected image(s) which can be used across your designs!
And there you have it. As we anxiously wait to see what new plugins (and features) roll out on Figma in 2021, try these out and watch your design speed accelerate!
