Gavin McFarland

Gavin McFarland

Freelance Designer and Dev in London, He/him

About

Lead UX designer and researcher with a strong consulting background. Creator of Figma tools like Plugma, Figlet, and Table Creator—focused on enhancing digital experiences and empowering creative workflows.

Work Experience

2022 — Now
Figma Plugin Developer at Various

Designed and developed several Figma plugins for clients, including Screenshot to Layout and FigMayo.

2013 — Now
Freelance UX Consultant at Various

Companies include: NatWest, Coutts, Amazon, American Express, John Lewis, LSEG, Lloyds of London, Tesco Bank, and Home Office. Services range from UX Design, UI Design, Service Design, Interaction Design, Frontend Design and User Research.

2011 — 2013
UX Engineer at Venntro
2009 — 2011
UX Designer at Jobsite
2007 — 2009
Web Designer at Jobsite

Side Projects

2024

A comprehensive development toolkit and CLI that accelerates Figma plugin creation. Plugma scaffolds plugins for multiple frameworks and provides advanced features like true Hot Module Reloading, browser preview, and essential developer tools—elevating the plugin development experience.

2023

Plugin that teaches you how to use the Figma developer platform

2022

Widget for creating and importing tabular data.

2021

Plugin that lets you preview icon designs at different presets in real-time.

2021

Plugin that helps you save and manage preset style combinations.

2020

Plugin that helps your create and manage bespoke-styled tables within your Design System.

Awards

2022
Freelancer Awards Finalist from YunoJuno

Nominated by my peers as a finalist in the UX category for freelancer of the year (second time in a row).

2022
Figma Community Awards Finalist from Figma

Finalist in two categories: Favourite Widget for Teams, Favourite Educational Resource for Figma.

2021
Freelancer Awards Finalist from YunoJuno

Nominated by my peers as a finalist in the UX category for freelancer of the year.

2016
Best Customer Experience from Draper Digital Awards

Lead UX design for John Lewis iPad app.

2015
Most Effective Tablet App from Effective Mobile Marketing Awards

Lead UX design for John Lewis iPad app.

Features

2023

Figlet plugin featured

2021

Table Creator plugin was featured for creating and managing table components within Design Systems

2021

Table Creator plugin that I created in Smashing Magazine's list of useful plugins and tools

2021

S02E02 of zeroheight's podcast featuring the Figma Table Creator plugin that I created

2020

Table Creator plugin featured

Writing

2022

An interview with YunoJuno about how I work as a Freelancer designer.

2021

A Q&A about my experience developing plugins and widgets for Figma.

Speaking

2022

I walked through the process of creating a Figma plugin to inspire you to create your own.

Exhibitions

2023
Config 2023 at Moscone Center
San Fransisco

I was honoured to be featured with a booth at Figma's Config 2023 for my Table Creator plugin.

Contact

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