Best Figma Plugins for UI/UX Designers in 2025
Tools That Streamline Design, Speed Up Workflow, and Improve UX
DriveUp Team
6 min read
June 15, 2025
In 2025, Figma remains the leading UI/UX design tool for a number of reasons. Besides its real-time collaboration, cloud-based commenting, and super user-friendly interface, designers can easily use this design tool to increase efficiency and collaborate with others in their product teams or as freelancers.
But perhaps the most exciting aspect of Figma is the plugins that are widely available. With so many plugins, designers use these tools to build out their processes, automate tedious tasks, and spend more time designing and solving problems.
In this article, we will review the best Figma plugins on the market for UI/UX designers in 2025. These are not merely tools that are fashionable (which they are!), they are also experienced components of a professional design workflow. No matter if you're wireframing, prototyping, or preparing handoff files for developers, these plugins will help you design faster, design smarter, and design better.
1. Autoflow
Purpose: Build user flows with arrows
Why It’s Great: If you're architecting user journeys, screen flows, or sitemaps, Autoflow is invaluable. It allows you to draw beautiful, automatic connections between frames - useful if you are in the early stages of UX planning or presenting ideas to stakeholders.
✅ Use it when: You want to button up screen transitions or wireframe logic quickly.
Click here to try the plugin in Figma
2. FigJam to Figma
Purpose: Move brainstorming content to your design directly
Why It’s Great: Many teams begin in FigJam with sticky notes or sketches. This plugin enables you to send that content straight into your Figma document without copying & pasting or needing to rebuild the layout. This is great for those collaboration workflows.
✅ Use it when: You are moving from ideation to design and want to maintain everyone’s contributions.
Click here to try the plugin in Figma
3. Iconify
Purpose: Have access to over 100,000 free icons
Why It’s Great: It's antiquated to browse download and upload icons to Figma. Iconify brings a large library of icons (Material, Feather, FontAwesome etc) to your canvas.
✅ Use it when: You need scaling icons that will remain consistent with your designs.
Click here to try the plugin in Figma
4. Blush
Purpose: Create visuals for UI design
Why It's Great: Blush allows you to bring beautiful, customizable illustrations into your designs. You can choose from different illustration packs by real artists and customize colors, expressions, poses, and more—all from inside of Figma.
✅ Use it when: You want to make parts of your UI designs feel like they have personality, or to add warmth to empty states, onboarding, or landing pages.
Click here to try the plugin in Figma
5. Content Reel
Purpose: Populate designs with realistic data
Why It's Great: Placeholder text is a total design killer. Content Reel gives you names, example email addresses, images, and just about any sort of custom text you want that helps to create realism and a user-tested feel, even in early stages of the design process.
✅ Use it when: You are preparing to present UI, for user testing, or creating hand-offs and need believable content.
Click here to try the plugin in Figma
6. LottieFiles
Purpose: Import animated illustrations (JSON) into designs
Why It's Great: Microinteractions and animations are very much a part of modern UX. LottieFiles lets you preview and import animations right into your Figma file—and has great export options for devs.
✅ Use it when: You are designing loading states, success screens, or adding animations specifications to prototypes.
Click here to try the plugin in Figma
7. Mockup
Purpose: Instantly generate device mockups
Why It’s Great: Presenting your design in context—like inside an iPhone or laptop—elevates the perceived quality. This plugin allows you to wrap designs in realistic device mockups in seconds.
✅ Use it when: You’re creating portfolios, client presentations, or Dribbble shots.
Click here to try the plugin in Figma
8. Image Palette
Purpose: Extract color palettes from images
Why It’s Great: Working with brand photos or mood boards? This plugin lets you generate a clean, usable palette directly from any image—great for visual consistency and aesthetic alignment.
✅ Use it when: You need brand-aligned color inspiration fast.
Click here to try the plugin in Figma
9. Spelll
Purpose: Real-time spell-check inside Figma
Why It’s Great: Typos can ruin first impressions. Spelll integrates a live spellchecker so your designs are error-free before they reach clients or developers.
✅ Use it when: You’re finalizing any copy-heavy design (onboarding, blogs, UIs).
Click here to try the plugin in Figma
10. Able: Accessibility Tool
Purpose: Test color contrast and accessibility
Why It’s Great: In 2025, accessibility will not be an option; accessibility will be the standard. Able checks color contrast across your design and lets you know if you fall short from WCAG compliance so that accessibility doesn’t leave your design phase.
✅ Use it when: you are designing for high contrast, inclusive interfaces across platforms
Click here to try the plugin in Figma
11. Wireframe
Purpose: Help you build low-fidelity wireframes quickly
Why It’s Great: This plugin gives you hundreds of prebuilt wireframe components so that you can lay out compositions and have them solidified in a matter of minutes. A great way to gain buy-in on the structure before refining your UI elements.
✅ Use it when: you are in the early stages of planning a layout or information architecture
Click here to try the plugin in Figma
12. Figma to Code (HTML to React)
Purpose: Export UI to code
Why It’s Great: Some plugins use phrases like “Figma to React” or “Figma to Tailwind,” to help with dev handoffs. These plugins won’t be a perfect solution, but they can help both design and development teams working to tight timelines.
✅ Use it when: you are building design systems or you are working closely with front-end developers.
Click here to try the plugin in Figma
Honorable Mentions
Stark: More available access methods other than contrast (vision tests, simulation)
Design Lint: Find inconsistencies in spacing,
alignment, and styles automatically
Unsplash or Pexels Plugin: Pull stock photos directly without having to download it externally
Rename It: Batch rename layers for better organization and handoff
Final Thoughts
As we move through 2025, the Figma plugin ecosystem is better than ever. As a process, plugins are useful just as any tool is useful. The goal is not to simply emulate the latest trend in loading up on tons of tools; it is to decide on a few that best fit workflow, improve consistency, and clarify and speed up design.
Build your process using these plugins to reduce repetitive tasks and amplify communication to deliver polished and professional designs that not only look good but convert.
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