The One Figma Plugin Your Design Sprints Have Been Missing — And It’s Finally Here.
May 28, 2026 • 7 min read
Product teams spend hours hunting for references. Designers screenshot dashboards, bookmark SaaS tools, and dig through Dribbble rabbit holes — all to answer one question: how did they solve this? There’s a better way. And it now works hand-in-hand with Figma.
What Is Watobu?
Watobu is a feature research platform built specifically for product teams. It offers a curated catalogue of real-world B2B enterprise SaaS workflows and design patterns — complete with screenshots, annotations, and descriptions — so your team can study how leading software products handle the features and flows you’re trying to build.
Think of it as a living reference library for product decisions: not mood boards full of pretty pixels, but actual working UI flows from real enterprise products, organised and searchable for teams doing serious design and product work.
The Watobu Plugin Is Here — Go Try It
We’ve just launched the Watobu – Screenshots & Flows Importer, and it changes how product teams bring research into their design tool. Browse Watobu’s catalogue, copy the flows you want, paste them into the plugin — and watch your moodboard build itself on the canvas.
Introducing the Watobu Figma Plugin
The Watobu – Screenshots & Flows Importer Plugin is the bridge between Watobu’s research catalogue and your Figma workspace. The workflow is simple: you do your research and discovery on Watobu.com, curate the screens and flows that are relevant to your project, then use the plugin to pull everything straight onto your canvas — automatically arranged into a clean moodboard, ready to reference alongside your own work.
No more screenshotting. No more manual resizing. No more scattered reference files. Just research, copy, paste, done.
Why Moodboarding and Referencing Matter More Than Ever
Great product design doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Before a single frame is designed, the best teams do their homework — studying how similar features work across different products, identifying patterns worth following, and spotting anti-patterns worth avoiding.
During product ideation sprints, referencing real-world flows helps teams:
- Align faster on direction by showing rather than describing
- Challenge assumptions with concrete examples from the market
- Identify UX conventions that users already understand and expect
- Avoid reinventing solutions that have already been refined by others
The problem has always been friction. Gathering references means leaving Figma, searching, screenshotting, pasting, resizing — by the time the reference is on the canvas, the creative momentum is gone.
The Watobu – Screenshots & Flows Importer eliminates that friction entirely.
How to Import Flows from Watobu into Figma
The workflow is split across two places: Watobu.com for research and discovery, and the Figma plugin for importing. Here’s how it works end-to-end:
Step 1 — Install the Plugin
Open Figma and go to the Plugin menu. Search for “Watobu” in the Figma Community and click Install.
Step 2 — Open the Plugin in Your Figma File
With any Figma file open, go to Plugins → Watobu to launch the plugin panel. Keep this open in the background — you’ll come back to it after doing your research.
Step 3 — Browse and Search on Watobu.com
Head over to watobu.com and use the search and browse tools there to explore the curated library of B2B SaaS flows and design patterns. Filter by feature type, industry, or UI pattern to find what’s relevant to your project. This is where all the discovery happens.
Watobu Homepage
Watobu Semantic Search
Watobu Search Results
Step 4 — Hit “Copy to Figma” on the Flows You Want
When you find a screen or flow you want to bring into your design file, click the Copy to Figma button on Watobu. Do this for each screen or flow you want to include in your moodboard.
Watobu Flow Preview
Watobu Flow Preview Details
Step 5 — Paste into the Watobu Plugin
Switch back to Figma and paste into the Watobu plugin panel. The plugin takes it from there — it automatically imports the screens and arranges them into a clean, organised moodboard on your canvas.
Step 6 — Reference, Annotate, and Design
Your moodboard is live on the canvas. Pin it beside your own frames, add sticky notes, draw comparisons, or use it as the foundation for your next sprint discussion — all without ever leaving Figma.
Your Design File
Annotate Your Moodboard
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Use Cases: Where the Plugin Makes the Biggest Difference
Ideation Sprints Kick off design sprints with a ready-made moodboard of real-world reference flows on the canvas. Instead of spending the first hour gathering screenshots, your team walks in with curated, organised references and gets straight to the work.
Competitive UX Research Building a new dashboard, onboarding flow, or settings experience? Browse how leading SaaS products handle the same problem on Watobu, copy the best examples, and paste them into a comparison moodboard in Figma — structured and ready to discuss.
Stakeholder Alignment When presenting design directions to stakeholders, real-world reference flows ground the conversation fast. Showing how industry leaders have solved a problem builds confidence and cuts through ambiguous feedback.
Onboarding New Designers Help junior designers and new team members understand market conventions by walking through real SaaS flows on the canvas — with annotations and context — rather than pointing them to a dozen different websites.
Design System Validation Before locking in a component pattern, benchmark it against how other products have implemented the same interaction. Import reference flows as a comparison layer alongside your own system.
Stop Screenshotting. Start Designing With Context.
The Watobu – Screenshots & Flows Importer brings your research into your workflow — not the other way around. Browse on Watobu, copy what you need, paste into the plugin, and your moodboard is ready in seconds.
If your team is serious about building great product experiences, this is the tool that keeps your design process grounded in how the best products in the world actually work.
→ Install the Watobu Plugin and Try It Today
Browse the catalogue. Copy the flows. Watch the moodboard build itself.