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Design tooling

Tooling for process efficiency

Figma plugins that fill gaps in the tool, speed up everyday work, and improve the quality of the result

Plugins
4
Users
1,900+
Covers of four Figma plugins: Locksmith, PropSelect, Alpha Picker and Autolayout++

Overview

Each of these plugins started with one specific gap in everyday Figma work: something the tool can't do, or can only do slowly or approximately. Instead of working around it every time, I built a small, focused plugin to close the gap and published it on Figma Community.

On their own they're small. Together they follow one idea: good tooling should make the process faster, fill the gaps the main tool leaves, and improve the quality of what gets made.

Plugins on Figma Community
4
Users across the plugins
1,900+
Users of Locksmith alone
1,700+

What they improve

  • Process efficiency: Locksmith locks and unlocks layers in bulk, and PropSelect pastes only the properties you choose onto many layers at once.
  • Filling gaps: Figma can lock layers in bulk but can't unlock them the same way, and Auto Layout has no ratio-based sizing. Locksmith and Autolayout++ add both.
  • Quality of outcome: Alpha Picker recovers a translucent layer's true colour and opacity instead of a blended guess, and Autolayout++ keeps proportions intact as layouts resize.

The plugins

Figma & FigJam plugin · 2023

Locksmith

Bulk lock and unlock layers in one click. Locked layers can't be selected, so Figma offers no way to unlock them together. Locksmith remembers what it locked, so you can unlock just those layers or everything on the page.

1,700+ users

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Figma plugin · 2024

PropSelect

Copy only the properties you need, such as fill, stroke, corner radius or font style, and paste them onto many layers at once. Figma's own paste copies every property together.

150+ users

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Figma plugin · 2025

Alpha Picker

Find the true colour and opacity of a translucent layer in a flat image. A normal colour picker only samples the blended result. Sample that and the background, and Alpha Picker calculates the original HEX value and alpha, so the effect can be rebuilt exactly.

40+ users

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