Although you'll stumble upon numerous blog posts titled "Figma plugins everyone must try in 2023", most tend to echo the same list of tools. Sadly, this snowball effect repetition often neglects genuinely new releases. Feeling bad for all the great new Figma plugins that don't get any attention, we decided to make our own research. Having gone through the Figma community resources, we found some cool freshly launched plugins. In this article, we will share them with you and will briefly describe how each of them can come in handy.
Hippo AI - Web Illustrations, with AI
Hippo AI simplifies design asset creation in Figma. It lets you generate vector illustrations directly in Figma, eliminating the hassle of complex prompts.
Value proposition: Using Hippo AI, you can leave a prompt, select a style preset and generate an image. You can then also change the result by choosing one of the multiple variants generated on top of the main image. Additionally, the tool allows for quick image editing like background removal, upscaling, outpainting, and text removal. At the moment, the plugin supports four AI models — Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, SDXL, OpenJourney, but developers promise that more models are coming soon
Pricing: Hippo AI uses a freemium pricing model. The free tier allows you to only create images with random prompts provided by the tool. Yet, it costs just $2 to upgrade and generate anything you want.
Weavely - Publish Forms & Surveys From Figma
Imagine if Typeform and Figma had a baby, that would be Weavely! It's the first plugin for Figma that brings form designs into life, combining both high design customisation and advanced functionality.
Value proposition: With Weavely you can build complex forms and surveys using its wide array of the pre-configured form elements. Since the plugin offers more than just a UI kit, you can apply form validation, conditional logic, answer piping and password protection to your form. And it only takes one click to publish the form and collect responses. In addition, there is an option of prompt-based form creation. Using AI may be very helpful if you need to speed up your form building process or need help with content for your survey.
Pricing: You can use all Weavely functionality for free.
Clipping Mask Pro - Solution for Graphic Designers
Clipping Mask Pro is a tool for graphic designers to enhance designs with textures and patterns in Figma.
Value proposition: With over 100 versatile templates, this plugin lets you mask images with fun shapes and patterns. In addition, it offers Blob Maker, a customisable shape generator that adds lots of possibilities for unique designs. Use Blob Maker to generate unique shapes , which you can save to your masks or add it directly to pages in Figma. Customisation options: changing size, edges and colours.
Pricing: Not only is this plugin fun but also absolutely free!
Mockup Mentor - AI-Empowered Feedback
Mockup Mentor is a plugin for Figma that provides AI-generated feedback enhancing design quality through comprehensive evaluation and recommendations.
Value proposition: Mockup Mentor takes design assessment in Figma to a new level by analysing your design with AI based on a wide array of critical questions. It provides designers with insights to improve usability, accessibility, and overall design excellence. By addressing key elements such as layout consistency, navigation intuitiveness, adherence to accessibility guidelines, and industry standards, this tool significantly elevates design precision. You can either use a list of pre-defined questions or ask your own question to get feedback, which appears in a form of comments in your file.
Pricing: The plugin itself is free but requires you to have a GPT-4 subscription.
Countdown Timer by Cannoli - For Your Email Campaigns
Perhaps, Countdown Timer is not your typical Figma plugin. It offers creation of customisable countdown timers in Figma that you can later embed in your email. It's quite a niche product but we found it fun and useful for those who seek interactive email solutions.
Value proposition: The plugin simplifies timer creation by offering two methods: customising public designs or crafting timers from scratch. When you're done with the design and setting up you time zone and deadline, you'll be able to copy the embed code. Design super custom timers for your email campaigns and impress your audience! Another benefit is that you can reuse the same design for different emails.
Pricing: You can create a timer for free but you will need a monthly subscription eventually ($25/month) which allows you to receive 1 million views.
Populate - Real Sets of Data for Your Designs
This new Figma plugin links text and image layers with detailed data across various categories. Although there are other plugins that offer similar functionality, like Content Reel for example, Populate focuses on data generation within a specific context, which makes it more powerful.
Value proposition: Populate simplifies the process of linking text and image layers with 130+ properties across 20+ unique categories. With one click, designers can infuse their designs with authentic data and create realistic content for their projects. Whether you're building a movie recommendation app, showcasing company information, or designing a weather app, Populate can integrate real-world data into your Figma designs.
Pricing: You get access to a limited number of content categories when use the plugin for free. To unlock all the categories, you'll need to buy a subscription of $3/month.
Fast Generate Color Styles
This plugin is very freshly released and offers swift generation of comprehensive colour styles in Figma.
Value proposition: Fast Generate Color Styles simplifies colour palette creation by instantly generating nine shades of a chosen colour. It's perfect for beginners and professionals looking to save time and eliminate confusion when selecting foundation colour styles. Despite its simplicity, the tool can come in very handy for quick colour generation for fundamental components of your design. For example, based on the colour of your frame/element, the plugin will present you with the primary, secondary and background colours, as well as colours for the stroke, text, subtext, etc.
Pricing: The plugin is free to use.
