Figma Handbook: AI Plugins

Artificial Intelligence

AI, or Artificial Intelligence, is an evolving technology in graphic design that provides designers with advanced features and plugins for enhancing their graphics. An AI plugin on the Figma design platform utilizes artificial intelligence to either automate or assist with specific design tasks. These tasks might include the automatic generation of color palettes, layout and composition suggestions, or the creation of optimized image assets.

Figma provides a range of AI plugins, available through the Figma Community, each designed to create content and enhance design elements with specialized features that improve your workflow. Whether you are an experienced designer or just beginning, you can find a selection of plugins below to incorporate into your design toolkit, designed to immediately elevate the quality of your projects.

AI Plugins

As of 2024, these AI plugins from the Figma community have been tested and are confirmed to be fully functional.

100% Free

• Text Generator : AI Content Generator / Rewrite
• Background Remover : Icons8 Background Remover
• Image Generator : AI image generator by Freepik
• Avatar Generator : UI Faces – Free AI avatars
• Color Palette : UXpilot.ai - Color & Gradient AI

Free trial / Pro subscription

• UI Generator : Musho AI
• Wireframe Generator : Wireframe Designer
• Wireframe Generator : WireGen - AI GPT wireframe generatioWireframe Generatorn
• UX Assistant : UX Pilot AI: UI Design & Wireframes, Sitemaps, Templates & AI Tools
• UI Generator : AI Design by Rendition
• Image Generator : Conjure AI
• Code Generator : Codia AI Figma to code

• Content Generator : Magician 

Musho AI

Musho quickly transforms your prompts into nearly complete, development-ready websites with simple layouts, compelling copy, and stunning images. This platform streamlines the creation of landing pages from brief prompts and enhances your projects with features like text and image regeneration, color variable storage, and a history log of your designs. Powered by ChatGPT-4 and integrated with Dalle-3 and Stable Diffusion, Musho provides rich, AI-generated imagery, including exclusive access to Midjourney’s curated images.

Wireframe Designer

Simply input your vision and create with a click, generating wireframe mockups for both desktop and mobile platforms. This tool features a wide selection of flexible, carefully curated components that adapt to your specific design needs, enhancing possibilities. Enjoy real-time result streaming for instant feedback and swift iterations, and capture vital contextual information to ensure your designs deeply resonate with your target audience. Elevate your wireframe process and craft exceptional user experiences like never before.

WireGen - AI GPT wireframe generation  

Leverage ChatGPT's power with this Figma plugin to quickly generate editable UI wireframes. Increase efficiency by creating multiple sets with just one click and easily modify them by adjusting the prompt if needed.

Icons8 Background Remover 

Remove backgrounds from one or multiple images simultaneously with the original image size and quality—completely free! There are no limits on the number of images, no subscription or registration required, and no API key needed.

PhotoRoom - AI and Background Remover  

Designed to accurately remove backgrounds and instantly generate AI-driven backgrounds. The PhotoRoom API allows you to swiftly remove image backgrounds, replace them with atmospheres that fit your vision using creative templates, and use your imagination to create any AI background for your image. This tool ensures the production of high-quality images, perfect for any creative task.

AI image generator by Freepik  

Discover the ease of creating unique AI images directly in Figma with this user-friendly text-to-image plugin. Suitable for both seasoned AI users and newcomers, this tool allows you to simply choose a style and craft images with a prompt. It’s entirely free, offering up to 64 AI images daily across 16 generations of 4 images each. Additionally, they have simplified the prompting process by providing suggestions for prompt modifiers that match any style, enabling users to effortlessly design their images without confusion.

AI Content Generator / Rewrite 

AI Text Generator is a super handy Figma plug-in made for designers who want to rewrite their text in a couple of clicks. It uses OpenAI GPT-4 to give you smart, creative text suggestions—think names, titles, or even Lorem Ipsum dummy text—right where you need them. It automatically detects the selected text’s length and generates the perfect amount of words for your alternatives. You can also add custom prompts, which is useful for more control, generate any type of text, in different languages and amount of words.

UX Pilot AI 

Meet UX Pilot, the most powerful UX plugin available on Figma. This tool revolutionizes the UX research process from planning to execution, offering features like instant UI design creation for web, mobile, and marketing pages, AI-driven wireframe generation, and the ability to produce detailed diagrams and flowcharts in FigJam. Additionally, UX Pilot provides AI tools for design reviews and the generation of new UX workshops tailored to specific use cases. With access to over 26 perfected workshop templates and strategies for securing stakeholder buy-in, UX Pilot is an essential resource for enhancing your UX skills, backed by a wealth of tips and best practices gathered during its development.

UXpilot.ai - Color & Gradient AI 

Experience the magic of AI with the Color Plugin for Figma, designed to simplify UX/UI workflows. Users simply write a prompt or customize one of the provided examples, select the number of colors, and generate. This plugin harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to effortlessly produce stunning colors, gradients, and shades, empowering users to create visually captivating designs.

AI Design by Rendition 

Rendition is an AI-powered app generator that streamlines the design-to-code process, particularly from Figma to React, making it a pivotal tool for UI development. This free beta software integrates OpenAI and GPT-Vision technologies to assist designers by automatically generating app designs and providing the corresponding Tailwind code. As a software development AI assistant, Rendition enhances automated design workflows, opening new possibilities for efficient and seamless UI creation.

Conjure AI 

This plugin enables the creation of visual assets for your designs using simple text inputs and straightforward options. Describe the image you envision, select a preferred visual style, and click 'CREATE' to experience the power of AI-driven image generation.

UI Faces – Free AI avatars 

Explore a growing library of free, AI-generated, high-resolution avatars tailored for your creative projects. These avatars are thoughtfully curated to suit a wide range of design mockups and creative needs, offering a diverse selection to enhance your design aesthetics. Ideal for developers, designers, and content creators, this library provides an invaluable resource for anyone looking to add a touch of realism and personality to their projects without any cost.

Codia AI Figma to code 

Codia AI enhances the process of transforming Figma designs into production-ready code for web and app development, boosting design-to-code efficiency by more than ten times with human-like precision. The tool supports a comprehensive array of web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Tailwind, React, and Vue, and covers a wide range of app development environments such as iOS, Android, Flutter, Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C, Java, Kotlin, and Jetpack Compose UI, all with continuous updates. Key capabilities include perfect design fidelity with 100% accuracy in design translation, fully responsive layouts that adapt seamlessly across devices, developer-friendly naming for better code readability, advanced visual analysis through its Vision Engine, and smart layer recognition for cleaner code output.

Magician 

Wave your magic wand and harness the power of AI to accomplish tasks ranging from copywriting to generating unique icons directly from text descriptions. Cast magic spells that work alongside you, enhancing your creativity and imagination throughout the design process. The tool includes a variety of features such as Magic Icon, which transforms text into AI-generated vector icons; Magic Copy, which generates AI-suggested copy; and Magic Image, which creates images from text descriptions. 

Conclusion

Using AI plugins in Figma revolutionizes design workflows by automating tedious tasks, adding creativity, and significantly speeding up the design process. These tools allow designers to focus on innovation and refinement, transforming how ideas are brought to life and ensuring designs are both beautiful and functional. Whether it's generating content, crafting icons, or optimizing layouts, AI plugins in Figma empower designers to achieve more with less effort and greater precision.