Table Design Automation
A Figma plugin that helps designers and product owners create consistent, compliant tables — instead of rebuilding them by hand, differently, every time.
Everyone was rebuilding the same table.
Tables were the most requested pattern across our enterprise products, and the most inconsistent. Designers rebuilt them by hand for every request. Product managers sketching in FigJam couldn't build one at all. The same decisions — density, alignment, sorting, pagination — were re-litigated in every single file.
Make the decisions once, inside the system.
Before any plugin code, tables became a configurable page template in the design system — density, header behaviour and pagination expressed as properties instead of separate files. Because the project was self-assigned, I demonstrated the concept as a Figma prototype first, and used it to secure budget and two contract developers.
Then take the manual step away entirely.
The plugin generates a compliant table from a short configuration, with a live preview so people trust what they're about to insert. Mixpanel instrumentation showed which configurations were actually used and where people hit errors — which is what turned a launch into a tool that kept being maintained.
From manual to automatic.
Explore AI-generated table prompts so the interface gets simpler as the configuration gets richer, and address how the plugin scales as input complexity grows.