Will Osborn Service and organisational design

SD import tool

A small utility for importing personas into Figma, easily. Born from frustration.

Status
still going
Since
2025
Topics
Service Design
a file in the canvas

Getting personas from wherever they live (a spreadsheet, a Word doc, a research repository) into Figma in a usable format is surprisingly painful. The manual version takes half a day and produces something that’s immediately out of date.

This is a small utility to automate the import: read a structured source, produce Figma-ready persona frames. It exists because I needed it, and I suspect other service designers have the same problem.

Currently in development. The goal is something you can run from the command line or trigger from a simple UI, with no Figma plugin overhead.

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