It's no secret that Figma is now one of the flagships among the tools for creating designs and prototyping. Its advantage over Adobe XD or Sketch is that Figma is an online tool that gives the user the opportunity to work and collaborate with other people in real time. Thanks to this, and also thanks to its wonderful functionality and nice interface, many Adobe XD, Sketch and InVision users started to use Figma.



However, Figma had one big disadvantage, which made users who "migrated" from other platforms miss the previous tools a bit - the lack of plugins. This feature was something that a lot of Figma users asked for, because sometimes they had to use third party applications, which was obviously not very convenient. And, of course, we, as designers, strive to make our lives and lives of other people easier, and we are looking for various ways and tools that will help us become more efficient, improve and accelerate our workflow.



And in August 2019, everything has changed - after several weeks of closed beta testing, Figma finally announced the launch of plugins in their system. Figma's employees say that they had the idea about having plugins 2 years ago, and that all this time they were busy polishing the API for the smooth operation of plugins inside the system.

