Top 8 Adobe XD plugins for designers 💖

Manvi Singhwal
4 min readMay 18, 2020

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I am working on Adobe XD from the past 1 year, and it is one of my favorite design tools, and the fact that it has such a wide community and so many plugins available, I’ve decided to write a blog post to cover all of my favorite plugins that you can use to make the workflow faster and design better interfaces. 😊

Let’s start! I hope you would love this blog.

1- UnDraw

This plugin brings two powerful design tools together to create an easy illustration workflow. Start adding beautiful illustrations in your designs, attribution-free, and without any cost.

2- UI Faces

Need avatars for your design? UI Faces easily help you to generate avatars into your design. Using this plugin you can carefully filter to create your perfect personas or just generate random avatars. Isn’t awesome? 😍

3- Icons 4 Design

Icons 4 Design allows you to insert free high-quality icons, and symbols right into Adobe XD. You just have to choose any icons in the result list with a click, that will provide you in a vector-based, fully-editable icon.

It includes a dozen popular icon collections in a range of styles, including Font Awesome, Feather, and Material. This plugin is something you shouldn’t miss out on! 👀

4- Angle

This plugin is perfect for presenting your Apps, Websites, and Cover images. With this, you have unlimited combinations of device colors, shadows, and backgrounds. Apply perspective transforms on-screen mockups. Set screen by resolution on pixel density. All this is layered vectors entirely editable in Adobe XD. 🤗

5- Stock Image

You can take advantage of all the marvelous features in Adobe Stock right from Adobe XD. The Stock Image plugin allows you to quickly find the images you need and apply them to your designs without breaking your creative flow.

Adobe XD’s plugins panel makes these features available right alongside the XD canvas for a seamless workflow that can make searching for the perfect image fun.

6- Mimic

Using this plugin, you can extract colors, font names, and images from the web straight away in XD. As a productivity plugin, Mimic helps to kickstart designs by pulling something out into XD, when working on a redesign or creating a new interface from scratch, it is helpful to be able to build upon existing artwork.

This way you can make sure you meet specified standards with existing style guides and quickly create variations and mockups for potential clients without having to manually grab assets from an existing website. 😲

7- Color Ranger

Color Ranger allows designers to easily enhance the colors within a design. Whether adjusting the brightness, saturation, hue, color depth, or opacity for individual elements or entire artboards, it no longer requires editing each element in Photoshop.

Colour Ranger also lets you save and manage presets which means creating themes or editing UI kits can be done with a single click.

8- Stark

Nowadays accessibility for all is a major area of focus for designers and the companies they are working with. Stark has the capability to check contrast and simulate forms of color-blindness right into Adobe XD that help design and build products that are accessible, and inclusive. 😌

That’s my list for you, hope you found the post useful!

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Manvi Singhwal

Explore the world of design with me - I'm a product designer sharing my unique perspectives and ideas through insightful blogs on my medium account.✨