Top 20 Figma Plugins for Metaverse and 3-D for next generation Designers
In the world of UI/UX design, Figma is extremely popular. The software is presented with some great plugins. Here are the top 20 plugins. You might have heard about some of them before.
Design is more mental than physical. A great design starts in the brain and moves down on Canvas. It can be a great side hustle.
Figma is well-known software in UI/UX industry. It is more selection based. You don’t need to build everything from scratch. It is possible because of Plugins. You must be familiar with some Plugins. Plugins are great as they are web-based. You don’t need to download much.
I will tell you about the top 20 Plugins that you must know. It doesn’t matter if you are a fresher or a working professional. These plugins are of enormous use to anybody.
Content Reel
I can’t imagine a UI/UX designer without the Content Reel Plugin installed on their Figma. We all need random data in day-to-day life for design. Content Reel is great to get random names, dates, images and text.
Dark Mode Magic
We try our best not to repeat as a UI/UX designer. The repetition of work is boring. A disinterested designer can’t work with his/her best creativity. One such task is creating dark mode from light mode.
Dark Mode Magic will turn the light mode design into the dark mode in no time. This isn’t 100% precise about the colour contrast and some other minor issues. You need to do that manually. It is also essential for the designer community otherwise they would have been replaced by AI months ago.
Color Shades
It’s a must Plugin for new designers. We all struggle in finding the different shades of a colour. They particularly matter when we have to design buttons with a different shade of colour around the text. We usually struggle to find different shades and their hex codes.
Color Shades make it very easy to generate different shades of the base colour.
Color Contrast Checker
Color Contrast is an essential part of the design. It makes your website readable even in dim light. So, make sure to check the contrast of the colours before using them in your project.
Iconduck
We need Icons in our design. Getting the icons from outside of Figma is time-consuming. So, it’s highly suggested to use Plugins like Iconduck that provide in-built Icons.
LottieFiles
We can’t imagine a modern website without animations. LottieFiles is a famous Plugin that is embedded with a lot of animations. You can add high-quality SVGs. Moreover, it’s also possible to add the Lottie file as a GIF.
IconScout
It is very similar to LottieFiles and IconDuck. The main feature that makes it stand in this list is because of the huge number of SVGs, Vector Icons, Illustrations, 3D Graphics & Lottie Animations.
Mapsicle
This Plugin facilitates the integration of maps in your design project. Adding the screenshot of Google or Apple maps may not be that great. Mapsicle uses Mapbox maps to provide a lot of customisation options. This is slightly different from Google or Apple maps. They don’t much customisation options.
Unsplash
When it comes to adding pictures to the website, you can add pictures from Unsplash. They are free to use. Furthermore, the picture size in Unsplash is mostly less than 1.5 MB. So, you don’t need to worry too much about the speed of your website.
A similar plugin is also available called Photos.
Please don’t restrict your creativity by using pictures from Unsplash only. You can also use pictures from other similar stock picture websites like Pexels, and Pixabay.
Please make sure that you don’t use images that consume a lot of space. That will decrease the loading speed of your website. In that case, your business will be seriously impacted.
VECTARY
Modern websites are going ever more modern than just 2D photos and animations. They are moving to 3D. Websites with 3D animations will perform better than those with 2D only.
You must be familiar with the industry standards like Maya, Blender etc. They are classically used for the development of 3D animations. Vectary hasn’t been established as an industry standard till now.
According to me, it will replace the whole animation industry very soon. You can use it as a plugin in Figma. I would highly recommend it for beginners and also for professionals. It may take some time to be familiar with it. The irony is it will generate a higher number of leads.
You should give a chance to 3D also by Vectary.
3D for XR
With the incoming of Web 3.0 and Meta, we designers need to evolve. 3D for XR is a Figma Plugin that helps to prototype 3D, VR and AR surfaces without leaving Figma.
It automatically scales and adjusts any graphic, board or frame to create a 3D surface and environment. It supports full rotation, skew, scale, zoom, FOV and curve amount in perspective 3D and isometric views.
This is a must plugin for every UI/UX designer because the need of the clients is going to change very soon.
Typescales
This plugin helps to create great typography for your design in no time. It’s simple to use as we have to decide a base value, multiplication factor, and the number of sizes you need to make. It will save your time multiple times.
Isometric
This makes isometric layers in the design. You don’t need to change them manually.
Figma to HTML, CSS, React & more!
Coding is mostly a part of the developer side. Imagine you are making a design in Figma. Finally, you are exporting that Figma design into HTML and CSS code. Isn’t that exciting? Well, it’s possible due to this plugin.
Zeplin
Every frame in Figma should be named correctly. It fills the gap between the design and the final product. Developers must have a clear understanding of the design. The gap between the design and the code is fulfilled by Zeplin. You can even integrate platforms like Slack, Jira, Teams, VS Code, Trello etc.
Wireframe
The wireframe is a basic concept in design. This Plugin has a lot of templates from which you can generate inspiration within Figma for new Wireframes.
Chart
Chart helps in creating the best charts from real or random data. It supports copy-paste from editors like Excel, Numbers, and Google Sheets, live connection with Google Sheets and remote JSON (REST API), and local CSV and JSON files.
Blush
Blush is a Plugin from which you can get great inspiration for the design. You can play around with the different collections and customise them according to you.
Design Lint
Design Lint is the Grammarly of design. It finds errors in the design. You must use it to improve your design.
SkewDat
This plugin is used for skewing. You can make special effects with it. I would highly suggest using it.
ProToFlow
It generates Arrows from Prototype. You can do some complex work in a shorter time with it. It is better than FigJam connectors instead. The best way of describing it is by trying it.
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