AssetGate · Independent work · Figma plugin
Design and development of a Figma plugin
Define the standard, let the machine run it, report without editing. A working MVP, open source.
- Independent work · Working MVP
- Figma plugin · Vanilla JavaScript · Zero dependencies
- Open source (MIT) · Installs locally
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Goal
Design files pile up, especially screens produced by generation tools, faster than anyone can check their naming, nesting and types layer by layer. Readable by people, useless to machines: no batch export, no clean hand-off, no reusable assets. What I wanted was a quality gate before hand-off: write the standard once, let a machine run it ten thousand times.
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My role
Defining the rules and result tiers, the plugin interface and interaction, and testing against real files round after round to remove false positives until it was usable.
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Key decisions
Trust first. Every finding shows the exact standard it violates, clicking it jumps to the layer, and the panel permanently states that it only inspects and never edits. The five things a machine cannot judge are spelled out at the top rather than pretended away. The standard belongs to the user. The plugin provides the ability to define a convention and enforce it, not one particular convention. Every setting is a plain-language checkbox. Only rules a machine can judge objectively. Definite violations count toward the pass rate; heuristics are suggestions only. Better to under-report than misreport. Three rounds on test files; every false positive found in those files has been fixed.
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Visible result
A comparison on one test sample: generated with no naming convention at all, 88 layers and 88 must-fix; regenerated by the same tool with the team naming convention supplied, then checked again, zero must-fix and 24 suggestions left. The plugin only inspects; the fixes came from regenerating to the convention, not from the plugin editing anything. The machine judges whether a rule is broken and hands "would this be better" back to a person as a suggestion. The plugin is open source and installs locally.
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