Build your first plugin: 1. Overview

hi i'm sophie from figma's product education team welcome to the build your first plugin course plugins enhance your figma experience they're like the peanut butter to your

jelly the boba to your milk tea or the pineapple to your pizza they're programs built by the community that extend the functionality of figma and fig jam

plugins are valuable pieces of software that let anyone contribute and customize figma to fit every workflow figma's community has hundreds of plugins that you can install with a single click

you can run installed plugins within a file without interrupting your flow want to automate a repetitive task like designing for responsive breakpoints combine brian levin's responsify and

flowware's breakpoints plugins check out clara's figma tip video to see them in action need a quick way to replace placeholder content with real data plugins like

content real by the team at microsoft can help you get this done in a flash plugins like mapsicle let you access a third-party api so you can insert realistic maps into your file

some plugins also have a relaunch button so our teammates can relaunch the plugin later and make adjustments as we collaborate together plugins even let you play games in figma

like kevin kwok's multiplayer pong game can't find a plugin you're looking for you can build it yourself for you or your team in this video series we'll learn together and build a plugin that

creates a customizable post for a social media app design we'll also show you how to publish the plugin to the figma community even if you're not a programmer you can

still follow along and embark on your journey to becoming a plugin creator we'll start with a basic introduction then we'll walk through how to set up your environment before taking you step

by step through building our first plugin i am so excited to take you through this course we'll have a lot of fun learning together and soon you'll be on your way to becoming a plug-in developer

ready to get started use the links in the description to sign up for a free figma account and download the figma desktop app which we'll use to develop our plugin

see you in the next video