With the Crowdin plugin for Figma, you can use texts from Crowdin Enterprise in your designs to save time for both designers and developers. These could include original or translated texts. If necessary, you can add new ones (e.g., dialogue titles, button labels) and send them to translators in Crowdin Enterprise.
To specify your Crowdin Enterprise credentials in Figma, follow these steps:
To generate a new token in Crowdin Enterprise, follow these steps:
To select the project you’d like to work with, click the drop-down menu in Settings > Select Crowdin Project, and select a project from the list. Later on, you can use the same drop-down menu to switch to another project if needed.
Use the Strings tab when localizing UI and working on dynamic pages with your development and marketing teams. In this tab, you can add source strings from Crowdin Enterprise to your designs in Figma in a click. After the texts are used in the designs, you can automatically upload tagged screenshots for translators’ reference back to Crowdin Enterprise.
After using the source strings from Crowdin Enterprise in your designs, you can preview translations for these strings in Figma and upload screenshots for them to your Crowdin Enterprise project.
You can add the strings that are already used in the designs or create and add completely new strings.
Added strings will be transferred to your Crowdin Enterprise project and also will be displayed in the list of the Strings tab. You can edit or delete the strings from the same list anytime. The respective changes will also be applied to the strings in your Crowdin Enterprise project.
To simplify adding strings from Figma to the Crowdin Enterprise project, you can set up the desired key naming pattern for the source string identifiers in the plugin settings. The Crowdin plugin for Figma will suggest the string identifiers for new strings based on the selected pattern. While adding new source strings, you can always edit the suggested identifier to the preferred look.
To select the key naming pattern, follow these steps:
To learn more, read the article Screenshots.
To preview translations from Crowdin Enterprise for strings that you used in the designs in Figma, follow these steps:
Use the Page Translation tab to localize static pages, like brochures and banners. In this tab, you can send texts with context for translators to Crowdin Enterprise and upload translated copies back to Figma.
You can send text for translation either from selected or all frames from a Figma file. Translators will work with those texts in the list view and use designs as an additional context for even higher translation quality.
In Crowdin Enterprise, a root folder figma-plugin will be created. It will contain a subfolder named after your Figma file with HTML files for each frame inside. If needed, you can disable content segmentation in the plugin Settings so the long texts will not be split into sentences.
To send Figma designs for translation, follow these steps:
When the source files are uploaded to your Crowdin Enterprise project, you can invite contributors to translate and proofread them.
Read more about translation strategies.
You can synchronize texts between Figma and Crowdin Enterprise projects whenever you want to test the translated copy inside Figma or generate multilingual assets.
To upload translated copies to Figma, follow these steps:
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After uploading translations to Figma, the modified file will contain a separate frame with translations for each target language. The newly uploaded translated versions won’t override the ones you uploaded previously. You can always delete the translated copies you no longer need.
If you’d like the newly uploaded translated versions to override the previously uploaded ones, open the plugin Settings and select Override existing translations.