Will Chavez

Icon Scaling Tool

Microsoft · Fluent Design Studio
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Design tooling

From a designer’s Figma workflow to an automated icon release pipeline.

Export panel

A Figma plugin used internally at Microsoft and available world-wide. Scales icons in Figma and exports them in PDF & SVG formats. Built in close collaboration with designers and woven into the bi-weekly icon push that ships updates across Microsoft's product surfaces.

My contribution

  • worked directly with designers to understand their workflow needs and iterated on the plugin accordingly
  • made the plugin completely headless so it could run as part of the automated bi-weekly icon release pipeline
  • combined vector paths to reduce SVG node count (squashing), cutting file size and improving render performance
  • added metadata export for each icon component — covering metaphors, descriptions, sizes, and themes
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