Week 58 - Emoji patterns, responsive tester and Visio importer
This week's five new Figma plugins.
As the longest month of the year draws to a close (why does January just drag on like this?), we’ve found five new Figma plugins that you didn’t know you needed! Whether you want to organize your canvas, create some cool backgrounds or use files from external tools in Figma, this issue has something for you.
Keep reading for these five niche Figma plugins you won’t want to miss! 📖
1. Emoji Pattern Generator
Create emoji-based patterns.
This week’s first plugin is one that’s just fun to play around with… Emoji Pattern Generator creates background patterns with emojis. Pick your favorite emoji and one of the three pattern styles and click “Generate” to create a fun, instant background. You can choose from grid, spiral or wavy patterns.
🎁 FREE
😄 Create cool backgrounds with emoji patterns
🌊 3 patterns available: grid, spiral and wavy
2. Frame Organizer
Align your frames in a click.
If your frames are a mess and you need a little order on your canvas, Frame Organizer is the plugin for you. Frame Organizer instantly aligns your frames while keeping them close to their original positions on the canvas. You can adjust horizontal and vertical spacing as well as a maximum threshold for the offset positioning after alignment. A quick, easy way to get your frame chaos in order!
🎁 FREE
📐 Align any number of frames in a click
⚙️ Set horizontal and vertical spacing, and alignment thresholds
3. Loom Card
Insert Loom videos right into Figma.
If you’re using Loom to create tutorial videos, the new plugin Loom Card is a great addition to your Figma toolkit. Simply paste your Loom video URL in the plugin, click "Add," and a pre-designed card with the video's title, thumbnail and link will be added to your canvas. It’s great for sharing explanations, walkthroughs or visual feedback to your designs.
🎁 FREE
🎥 Embed Loom videos directly in Figma
🎤 Add tutorials and visual explanations to your designs
4. Make It Responsive
Quickly make designs responsive in different screen sizes.
Make It Responsive is a fast and easy way to test how your designs will look for different device and screen sizes. Select any frame or group you want to modify, run the plugin and select the device sizes to test. Make It Responsive automatically generates your design replicated for the different devices selected.
💡 Tip: Use this plugin together with figma.to.website to quickly create responsive designs and publish them to the web in a click.
🎁 FREE
📲 Test your designs in different device sizes
🚀 A fast way to make a responsive website design
5. visio.to.design
Import your Microsoft Visio files as editable Figma designs.
visio.to.design is the latest and 7th (yes, 7!) plugin launched by ‹div›RIOTS just this month. visio.to.design imports your Microsoft Visio files as editable Figma designs in a click. Whether you’re migrating designs from one tool to another, or just want to use some legacy files in new designs, this import plugin is here to speed up the process.
ℹ️ If you missed last week’s issue, check out everything we’ve been working on lately in the ‹div›RIOTS Edition!
🎁 5 FREE imports/month 💰 $49/year for unlimited
📈 Import Microsoft Visio files into Figma
✏️ Converted designs are fully editable
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