Text United for Figma

The Text United Figma plugin lets you connect to your Text United account and translate content from your Figma design.

The main functionality:

• Extract all the text from your Figma Design
• Machine-translate instantly
• Create a translation project for translators from your team
• Translate yourself or assign it to a team member
• Order professional translation service
• Once a project is translated, insert translated content back into your design

Set up

Install the plugin from the Figma Community by searching "Text United" in the search bar on top.

Navigate to Plugins and click on Install.

This plugin requires an active Text United subscription plan.

You can connect to your Text United account using the Company ID and API key to start using the plugin. These can be found on the API page here.

Copy the company ID, API key, and enter your Text United email address and click Save.

How to use

Machine translate

1. Select the source language and the target language. Click on Order translation

2. You will be redirected to the translation status

3. Click on the refresh button

3. Click on Apply translation once the status shows OK

Send to TextUnited

This is a paid service. The content from your Figma design will be extracted into a file and sent to Text United. Our project manager will assign a professional translator to the project. Once it's translated, you will receive a notification, and you can insert the translated content into your Figma design.

1. Select the source language and the target language. Click on Order translation

2. When you receive the system notification that the project is completed, navigate to Check translation status

3. Click on Apply translation

Me and my team

This will create a translation project on your Text United account. A person you choose for the translation task will receive a notification and will log into Text United to translate and complete the task for you to insert the translated content back.

If you do not select a translator when setting up a translation task in Figma, a project manager can do that in Text United and kick off the translation from there.

1. Select a project manager for a project

2. Select a translator (from your account's team, this is optional)

3. Select a proofreader (from your account's team, this is optional)

4. Select Source and Target languages

5. When you receive a system notification that the project is completed, navigate to Check translation status

3. Click on Apply translation