The most popular Figma plugins 2022

Goldobin Anton
5 min readSep 1, 2022

Boost your Design pt.1

Unsplash

We’ve known Unsplash as a website with stock images. It has been a go-to for all designers. And Unsplash did a wonderful job by making it into a Figma plugin (Yay!). Certainly, we couldn’t be any more grateful for this. But, above all, you can choose and download free images. There’s a reason why Unsplash is the most downloaded Figma Plugin, and we’re not even kidding.

You can search for random images or something specific, whatever you need. Unsplash has got you covered with tons of high-quality images for you to choose from. Besides, you don’t need to go out of Figma to grab your image. Instead, open the Figma plugin, search for the image you want, and add it to your design. Unsplash made adding, editing or replacing an image in your design incredibly simple.

Look no further because we have found the best Figma plugin of all!

Dark mode magic

How about seeing your design in dark mode with a single click? Well, the dark mode magic Figma plugin will do the work for you. Firstly, it can easily turn your light-theme design into dark mode. Then, it can automatically generate colors for the dark theme from the light color palette. So even though it doesn’t optimize all the colors, it would still help you.

Install the Figma plugin, select your frame, apply the plugin, and voila! There you have your dark mode design.

Iconify

Let us present the biggest icon library in the list of Figma plugins.

The wonderful tool is none other than Iconify, which has more than 100 icon sets with over 100,000 icons available for you to use. You can directly search for the icon sets and add them to your design. Each icon set has vector support. Also, some of our favorite icon sets are Material Design, FontAwesome, Twitter Emoji, and more.

Moreover, you can also convert code into icons with Iconify. You can edit the icons, and you get to customize them according to your theme and layout. Not just icons, you can add emojis, brand logos, and SVG icons too. Hands down, iconify is the best all-in-one Figma plugin for icons.

Spell Checker

One of the most common mistakes designers make is neglecting their design’s spelling and grammar portions. Well, now you have one less thing to worry about!

With a single click, you can check and correct your design’s spelling and grammar mistakes. Just select the text you want to correct and apply the plugin. However, there are still many complaints about implementing the plugin to the entire design content in one go. But it is still one of the best Figma plugins out there.

When you click on an error, it will give you alternate options to correct the text. As of now, it has English, Russian, and Ukrainian text. The spell checker Figma plugin uses the Yandex API. Additionally, it can be a great help when dealing with small text.

Lorem Ipsum

How often have you struggled to fill up the content space while creating the design? While you were focused on your design, the content space distracted you. Obviously, the content is yet to be ready, and it’s certainly not your job. Meanwhile, it would be best to have some text to fill up the space.

You are not going to have time to fill in every blank. Lorem Ipsum is going to save the day for you. It is undoubtedly one of the most downloaded and best-rated Figma plugins for designers.

When you generate this Figma plugin, it will automatically fill up the text layers with dummy text. Select the text layer you need the amazing Figma plugin for and select “Generate.” It will generate every text layer separately.

On the contrary, the concept of filler text is not something new; it has been practiced for ages. Lorem Ipsum, our personal favorite, is the twenty-first-century equivalent of filler text! So for most people, seeing this plugin won’t be too odd.

Content Reel

A plugin created by Microsoft has to be one of the best Figma plugins. It’s important, as well as a time-saver for all of us. The Content Reel helps you pull content into your design. You can easily pull images, text, icons, and even avatars into your design and enhance it.

No doubt, it is a one-stop solution for all your content needs. It has a huge library for the content mentioned above categories. However, when designing, the content space cannot be left blank. And it is a task to fill a large number of layers with text and images. Therefore, it can take up a lot of your time.

Certainly, the content reel has made the lives of UX designers much easier.

How do you use the content reel for your design?

  • Select the text or image layer.
  • Choose the content category from the Figma plugin.
  • The content is added.

And if you didn’t know, you can also create and upload your content. And make it public for your fellow designers to use.

Autoflow

While building the design process, you must illustrate the user flow or the user journey. Therefore, it will help you and everyone else understand your design’s user flow. And Autoflow helps you connect two frames with a line or a connector and make the perfect user flow of your design. In short, creating a flow between the two represents the clear idea of the user flow. Moreover, it is a quick and easy way to create user flows. You can create them in no time by creating shapes and connecting them.

And the best part about this Figma plugin is that if you move the shapes or frames around the design, it will automatically update the flow. And there’s no need to apply the plugin every time you make any changes.

How to create a user flow

  • Open the autoflow Figma plugin.
  • Select the color, strokes, and terminal settings.
  • Connect the frames by selecting them together while holding “shift.”

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