Best Figma Plugins for Advanced Designers
In the design industry, Figma has become a widely used tool in recent years due to its popularity. One of the reasons for its popularity is the extensive plugin ecosystem available to designers. These plugins automate tasks, improve workflow, and save time.
At Perpetual, we are always on the lookout for tools that can enhance the design process. Figma is one of our go-to design tools, and with its variety of plugins, we can focus less on trivial design tasks and more on creating the ideal products for our clients. Below, we explore ten advanced Figma plugins for experienced designers, a list cultivated by our UX Design team at Perpetual.
1. Tokens Studio (Figma Tokens)
Tokens Studio for Figma is a plugin that enables designers to create and utilize design tokens for various design options including border radii, spacer units, semantic color, and more. These tokens can be used to make changes throughout a document or to a specific selection. The plugin allows exporting tokens as JSON and syncing design tokens with GitHub. This can ensure consistency in styles between what designers are creating on Figma and developers are building on their environment.
If you are new to design tokens, we recommend reading this great post — “Design Tokens for Dummies”, to learn more about what exactly are design tokens and what they do.
2. Pitch Deck Presentation Studio
Pitch Deck Presentation Studio enables designers to create professional-looking pitch decks. This plugin is useful for quickly creating PowerPoints just before a last-minute meeting. With this plugin from Hypermatic, designers can choose from a variety of pre-built templates and customize them to fit the audience’s needs, making it easier to create polished and effective presentations.
3. Breakpoints
Breakpoints is a plugin that helps you to design responsive layouts in Figma. With this plugin, you can create breakpoints for different screen sizes and preview your design at each breakpoint.
If you are curious about how you can create responsive layouts on Figma, watch this quick demo of how the “Breakpoints” plugin works.
4. Design System Organizer
Design System Organizer is a plugin that helps organize design systems in Figma by copying styles between files, bulk swapping instances, and managing pathnames. With this plugin, users can generate a style guide, simplifying how you manage colors, typography, icons, and more.
5. Figma to Webflow (HTML, CSS, and Website)
Planning to create your next project in Webflow? Consider using the Figma to Webflow plugin to streamline your workflow. This plugin allows you to quickly convert your existing designs from Figma to Webflow. Created by Webflow, this plugin also has over 20 prebuilt starter components for you to get started with creating responsive designs.
We recommend checking out this tutorial from Webflow University that walks you through how to use the Figma to Webflow plugin.
6. Automator
In one click, build custom drag-and-drop automations. This helps speed up your Figma tasks and design process. This Figma plugin hosts over 100 actions, allowing for powerful automation workflows.
Not sure how to build a specific automation? Check out the Automator community and all their compatible prebuilt automations ready for you to download and incorporate into your workflow.
If you would like to read the final 4 plugins that we have curated for you, check out the full blog post on our website.
Figma has a lot of tools to help designers create better designs faster. With so many options available, selecting which plugins to use can be overwhelming. However, these plugins can help experienced designers who want to improve their workflow. Additionally, Figma’s plugin library is continuously expanding, with new plugins being added regularly. Users can take advantage of the plugins that already exist and expect to find more in the future.
At Perpetual, we use plugins to help make our design process more effective and support our work. We hope you will be as excited to use these plugins as we are to share information about them!
If you want to learn about our “must-have” Figma plugins, check out our previous post.
