Craig Dennis is a photographer who contributes to Pexels and a Product Designer who uses Figma.

After running into the problem of not being able to find a plugin to use images from the stock photo site for Figma, he decided to try and make his own using the Pexels API. He tracked his progress in a Twitter thread, where we found him, and started working together.

Figma plugins can be developed by anyone in the community—they offer a wide selection of plugins that make the design process easier, from plugins that improve workflow to niche tools for sorting colors.

We talk to Craig about his journey of how he brought this project to life.