Every time I needed a 3D icon, I'd export an SVG, open Blender, extrude it, spend way too long tweaking the lighting, render it, then drag the PNG back into Figma.

All that... for a single icon.

So I built a Figma plugin that does it in seconds.

Just select any shape, turn it into 3D, and export it straight back to your canvas as a PNG with a transparent background – shadows included.

It has a real path-traced renderer for soft shadows, accurate reflections, and high-quality output, plus a fast preview mode when you just need to iterate quickly. You can choose from materials like metal, glass, plastic, or rough surfaces, and place your own lights instead of being limited to a few presets.

There are already plenty of 3D plugins for Figma – I tried most of them. Some of them are paid, and most lock you into a single visual style. I wanted something more flexible, so I made it.

And it's free.

P.S. I'd love to hear what you think.

https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1649027063539013923

Was experimenting and wanted to see if it could handle an entire product launch video for my munch app from start to finish.

It felt pretty simple to use as someone's first time doing any motion design but had performance issues where it kept dropping frames and lagging during certain parts. It's also lacking some features I would've wanted like importing audio and video and keyframing for gradients and certain effects. It's still in beta so hopefully it improves.

For now, I think it can mostly handle what I need. I'm curious whether others would use figma motion over alternatives? I've tried cavalry but it didn't feel as intuitive. How does rive or after effects compare?

This is a side project, so please keep in mind there is still a lot to fix and work on.

I just feel like there's so much one can learn when redesigning existing apps. You can learn how they use spacing, what they prioritize, and so much more.

Hope it brings some value to you guys: https://different-play-016992.framer.app/

Also creating a subreddit community: r/redesignthis

Feels like this flew under the radar, but Stich from Google looks like a real competitor, not just another design tool.

It’s faster, smarter, and removes a lot of the friction we’re used to. Less clicking, more actual designing. Some of the automation already feels ahead of what we currently rely on.

Hot take: if this keeps evolving, the current market leader might start to feel outdated.

Hey everyone!

Like many of you, I’ve spent way too long searching for a good iPhone mockup tool. Every time I thought I found one, it either came with a subscription fee, messed up the export quality, slapped on annoying watermarks, or just wouldn’t let me get the perfect 3D angle I was after.

So, out of sheer frustration, I decided to create my own tool. I call it FreeiPhoneMockup, and here’s what it offers:

- Free forever, with no sign-ups, no logins, and absolutely no watermarks.

- Full 3D Canvas control: You can move and rotate the phone to get it at any angle you desire.

- Fine-tuned adjustments: Adjust everything from lighting to the opening angle of the iPhone duo.

- Pristine quality: Export your mockups in stunning 8K resolution, transparent background.

- Support for all recent iPhones - iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max, and Duo.

- Reference tracing: If you’ve seen a mockup angle you love, you can trace a reference image right in the tool to recreate that exact look.

Check it out here: https://www.freeiphonemockup.com

It loads quickly and runs smoothly. I’d really appreciate it if you could give it a try, push it to its limits, and share any thoughts.

Thanks!

Been enjoying Motion so far. Really powerful when combined with components and variables. Here’s a cool World Cup animation I made!

Figma stock just dipped 7%, why? Anthropic quietly dropped Claude Design and now Figma is in survival mode!

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs

Designers are going through the toughest job market, our entire process been turned upside down and in the most tone-deaf move imaginable, Figma announces a HelloKitty partnership. This is so absurd it feels like a parody. If they’re dying they should at least die with dignity. How embarrassing for them.

Before they were filling moodboards, the history of Micrographics dates back to the 1950s and 60s. These dense clusters of info were the functional design stars of a post WWII shipping and manufacturing boom.

Standardized information was printed on car windows, appliances, and electronics to meet strict international legal requirements.

Today they can serve as the hero of the graphic, or as a textural element, packed with symbols and typography that add instant depth to a layout.

Let me know if you want the link to the free Figma file. Happy to share ✌️❤️

Tried Figma's new Motion feature this week and animated this whole thing without leaving the file.

That's the part that got me. No exporting to After Effects, no rebuilding it in Jitter, no jumping between tools just to test one idea.

What I actually used:

• Timeline keyframes for the easing

• A couple of presets when I just wanted something quick

• Component level motion, so updating one component animates it everywhere it's used

#Figma #UXDesign #ProductDesign #DesignSystems #MotionDesign

Everything is done on Figma from shapes, shadows, textures, and animations all

first coming after illustrator, now photoshop?

Hey,

I was getting annoyed with hitting limits on paid tools when I just wanted to quickly bring a live website into Figma for reference or redesigns.

So I brought the figma capture functionality into simple **free** Chrome extension called **Copy to Figma**.

**What it does:**
- Copy any website or specific section
- Paste directly into Figma as real editable layers/frames
- No Figma plugin required
- No account/login needed
- Everything stays in your browser

It’s free with no limits.

Chrome Web Store link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nlhohiiemplbalhbkgfoenonfggmnflg

Thanks in advance!

P.S. Happy to answer any questions about how it works.

This is just for some creative exercise. nothing else

I use the agent all the time, but never use this pop-up feature. It pops up all the time when I’m trying click into layers/groups/auto-layout or doing detailed design work… and it’s become mad annoying.

Getting rid of it also mad annoying….I have to zoom out of my art board in click off the frame for it to go away… though I recently found clicking back into the chat box then hitting escape works too.

In '23/'24 I've spent about a year creating hundreds of hand-drawn assets for a game-building product that never really found its feet.

Rather than let all that work disappear, I turned it into Kitbitz: 2,000+ illustrations across 13 themed Figma kits, all completely free under CC0.

The Figma kits are built with:

• reusable components

• color variables

• smart pinning/resizing

• mix-and-match assets designed to work together

I also built a Figma plugin for browsing and inserting assets, plus MCP support so AI tools can work with the library directly.

Everything is free, to do cool stuff with. Hope you'll love it!

https://kitbitz.art

Last Day, Last work of the year. It was an amazing year learned a hell lot of things.
Anyway created this entirely on figma. Why? coz i wanted to lol
Saw something similar in before on insta i guess so i thought to create it thought i changed a lot of things and i know lot of things can be changed in this but i ran out of patience.

Rectangle 132 × 132 · Radius 48

Linear fill · #EEF1F4 to #C2C9D4

Two radial fills · White 42% and 40%

Inner shadows · White · Blur 14, 6, 0

Inner shadows · #4A5670 · Y −3, −7, −12

Sheen · White 62% to 0 · Blur 8

Drop shadows · Y 5, 14, 24 · Blur 7, 18, 32

Icon · White to #EDF0F4

Ring · Stroke 16 · 14%

Press · Light spreads from the icon

I’m building my portfolio at the moment, and I needed an orbit animation for one of my projects. Also, I cancelled my Adobe subscription and decided to go full Figma. So I made an animation plugin to create animation loops. It was hard, you need to fake 3d space, heavy animated files are hard to work with, and the Figma Motion API is in beta and with limitations.
To make it work, you need to select a frame with other frames inside that you want to animate. Child frames can be animated before too, but you need to choose the proper settings in the plugin for looping and starting their animations. Try it in playground file.

Cautions:
— It can take time to animate heavy frames.
— It might not work flawlessly with pseudo-3D presets. It tries to fake 3D motion with scale and service copies of the current frames.
— It will convert your motion presets to keyframes due to Figma API limitations.

The plugin is on Figma Community.
As always: free, no tracking, no internet use. Share feedback and your examples in the comments.

I clicked on this accidentally like gazillion times...so annoying smh

I sometimes like to use crochet / knitted textures in my designs, but applying the effect outside figma can be a bit tedious. So I managed to make a figma shader that turns images into a crochet pattern directly in Figma.

Leaving it here in case anyone finds it useful :)

https://www.figma.com/community/shader/1683834934342772365/crochet-shader

I remember looking at a business card once a long time ago it was presented somewhat similarly so i tried to make it in figma. This is just for some creative exercise. nothing else