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Lately, I’ve been diving deep into Cursor, Claude, and AI agents.
Instead of just watching tutorials, I decided to learn by building something myself — a Figma plugin from scratch. There are already plenty of similar solutions out there, but my goal was to understand the entire creation process, from idea to a working product.
And here’s the result: I went from zero knowledge to a functioning plugin in just two days.
The plugin already helps identify issues in design files and highlights things that are easy to miss during day-to-day work. Of course, I’m still not 100% satisfied with it — there’s always room for improvement. But for a first attempt, I’m pretty happy with the outcome.
The most exciting part is that while building it, I started coming up with new ideas for Design System automation: naming conventions, component structure, style organization, and other repetitive tasks that could be streamlined with AI.
Looks like this is just the beginning 😄
Tech stack: Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, and the Figma Plugin API.
For now, here’s a look at what I’ve built so far 👇
Great job Rada 😍 🔥
Thank you Oleksandra! 😊
Two days from idea to a functional plugin is impressive! Automation in design systems is such a game-changer right now. Congrats on the first build, looking forward to the next update! 🙌
Yeezy! thank you!
It sounds incredibly impressive 🔥🔥🔥
Thank you! 😊
Impressive work 🔥
Thank you! 😊
that's great!
Thank you! 😊
Great work!😍
Thank you! 😊
Wowww, great job 😍 Intrigued for part 2! You know, your approach to testing things yourself (from scratch!) reminded me the Tumblr times back in idk 2012-2014 maybe when everyone was photoshopping pics, memes, gifs etc. and I created my own "colors" (layers with different image...
But they still matter, don't they? 😊
The people who stand out, stay curious, and learn a little more than what's actually required seem to have an advantage. Maybe the tools changed, but the idea feels exactly the same?
Hopefully! :) Those people should probably try sleeping occasionally as well but that's completely other topic of discussion..
😂 😂 😂 for sure, yobobob ppl
wow! good job 🔥
Thank you! 😊
So inspiring 🚀 From zero to a working plugin in two days is impressive. Great work!
Thank you! 😊
Nice job Rada!🤩
Thank you! 😊
But figma is not accepting new creators at the moment isn't it?
As far as I know, that's mostly about publishing to the Community.
For me the goal was simply to build something that works inside my own Figma workflow, so I wasn't really thinking about publishing it yet 😄
Great work
Thank you! 😊
Amazing job 😍
This is how true upskilling looks like! 💥 Building your own product is the best way to understand the tech. Great job!
This is exactly how AI should be used not just to generate code, but to help you build things you couldn't have built before.
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