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Figma to Tableau Plugin Launch
Export your Figma design into fully functional Tableau Dashboards
Tristan Guillevin & Jessica Bautista
November 23, 2023
Ok, let’s do this!
With a lot of excitement and after months of hard work, we are thrilled to announce the Figma to Tableau Plugin is available!
If you are busy and want to try it out directly, click here 👆.
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If you have five minutes to learn more about the plugin and get a nice discount, let me start with the problem.
The problem with Tableau 🚩
Tableau’s mission is to help people see and understand data.
If you give me any new dataset to explore, my first action is to put the data in Tableau and start visualizing it. That’s where Tableau’s power resides.
But let's face it: creating dashboards in Tableau can sometimes feel like a step back in time. There are so many annoyances that Tableau users have accepted or learned to get around:
You can’t align elements without risking breaking the containers 🤦♂️
Resizing a dashboard will mess with all your floating elements 😤
You have to modify the format of each container one by one 💀
You can’t zoom out to a complete view of your dashboard 😩
And don’t get me started on putting Blank objects in containers to be able to use them…
Why and when have we accepted this as normal?
Why a Figma Plugin? 🤔
Figma’s mission is to make design accessible to everyone.
Designing in Figma is a breeze – it's fast, convenient, and where our creative juices flow freely. However, Figma does not come anywhere close to Tableau when visualizing data.
In the Tableau Community, people are sharing more and more their methods of combining Figma and Tableau. If you perform a quick search on YouTube for "Figma and Tableau," you will find numerous ways in which the community created connections between the two platforms:
But there is always one big catch: the repetitive process of rebuilding everything in Tableau. There was no way to easily take your Figma design and have it instantly in Tableau
Until today.
Design in Figma, Visualize in Tableau 🧙🏻♂️
Imagine designing your dashboard in Figma and magically transforming it into a fully functional Tableau Dashboard in one click. That's exactly what the plugin does!
Here’s your gateway to saving hours of work and a mountain of clicks with every new dashboard.
How Does It Work? ✨
If you have used any of our tools, you know we always aim to make them as easy to use as possible. This plugin is the same. Here are some of the many features we built in the plugin:
One-click Export: Select a frame in Figma, hit export, and voilà!
Automatic Conversion: Figma nodes starting with SHEET/ become Tableau Worksheets.
Import Workbook: Select a Workbook and add existing Worksheets to your Figma design. The worksheets are automatically replaced when exporting, saving you even more time.
Versatile Export Options: Choose from Tiled, Floating, or Background Image Exports.
Smooth Conversion Process: From Auto Layout Frames to Containers, Text to Images, we’ve got it all streamlined.
To discover all the features and explanations, check the Plugin Guide:
If you read everything so far, I guess you are at least curious and willing to try. The good news is that you can export ten dashboards for free to test the plugin.
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