# Behind the build: a Q&A with developer Tekeste Kidanu

DevFeed: [Behind the build: a Q&A with developer Tekeste Kidanu](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/behind-the-build-a-q-a-with-developer-tekeste-kidanu-9513.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.figma.com/blog/behind-the-build-a-qanda-with-developer-tekeste-kidanu/>)

Author: Alia Fite

Published: 2021-11-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Figma Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/figma-blog.md>)

Topics: [Figma](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/figma.md>), [Figma plugin](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/figma-plugin.md>), [Figma plugin design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/figma-plugin-design.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>), [Front end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend.md>), [User interface design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ui-design.md>)

Tags: [design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [figma-plugin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/figma-plugin.md>), [frontend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/frontend.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [q-a](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/q-a.md>), [ui-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ui-design.md>)

## AI overview

This Q&A profiles developer Tekeste Kidanu, who builds plugins for Figma and FigJam. He discusses SPELLL, a grammar and spell-checking plugin, how community feedback inspires his ideas, and how he learned the Figma plugin API through documentation and the Figma Plugins Slack workspace. He also describes how his JavaScript and web development experience helped him get started and his efforts to learn UI design fundamentals.

## Source excerpt

In the second Q&A of the series, Tekeste tells us what inspired his new widgets for FigJam, and what he's excited to tackle next.