Automate or Die: Why Designers Need Python

The Manual Trap

I see designers saving files manually: File > Export > Save for Web. Repeat.
This is why you are burning out.

Why Python?

It's readable, powerful, and has libraries for everything relevant to image processing.

1. Pillow (PIL): Image manipulation
2. Selenium: Browser automation
3. Pandas: Data handling for CSVs

Example: Batch Resize

from PIL import Image
import os

folder = "./images/"
output = "./resized/"

for filename in os.listdir(folder):
img = Image.open(f"{folder}{filename}")
img = img.resize((800, 600))
img.save(f"{output}{filename}")

This 8-line script just saved you 2 hours of work.

Integrating with Figma

Figma's Plugin API uses JavaScript/TypeScript, but you can use Python to prepare the data.

1. Scrape data with Python.
2. Save to JSON.
3. Import JSON to Figma via a plugin.

Start automating the boring stuff so you can focus on being creative.