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Figma Slides is introduced as an open-beta presentation tool combining Figma’s high-fidelity design capabilities with FigJam’s collaborative feedback features. It aims to help designers and non-designers create more engaging presentations without exporting work into separate tools. Figma positions it as a way to turn product reviews, sales decks, and pitches into clearer visual stories and collaborative conversations.

Why Figma Built Slides

• Presenters commonly struggle with:
  • Designing creative layouts
  • Finding effective visuals
  • Spending more than eight hours creating a deck
• Figma users created approximately 3.5 million presentations in the previous year.
• Designers often had to move Figma work into other presentation tools or distribute prototypes and pre-reads to non-designers.
• Figma Slides brings presentation creation into the same environment as design and collaboration.

High-Fidelity Design Features

• Slides includes core presentation features such as:
  • Speaker notes
  • Slide transitions
  • Presentation-focused editing tools
• Design mode provides access to Figma Design capabilities, including:
  • Auto Layout
  • Advanced properties
  • Precise alignment and snapping
  • Interactive components and states
• Interactive components, such as hover states, can remain functional during presentations.

Shared Libraries and Assets

• Existing Figma text styles, color styles, and design assets are available directly in Slides.
• Designers can reuse established libraries instead of recreating presentation elements.
• Copy-and-paste workflows work across Figma products, reducing the need to export interface designs individually.

Grid View for Structuring Narratives

• Users can edit individual slides or switch to grid view for an overview of the entire deck.
• Grid view organizes slides into rows, making it easier to:
  • Rearrange sections
  • Review the overall story
  • Refine the narrative arc
• This bird’s-eye perspective is particularly useful for long presentations where restructuring becomes difficult.

From Presentations to Conversations

• Figma’s experience with FigJam revealed the limitations of one-way presentations.
• FigJam became a regular tool for meetings such as team kickoffs, bug bashes, executive reviews, all-hands meetings, and Q&A sessions.
• Figma Slides is intended to combine polished visual storytelling with collaborative participation, helping more people contribute to and influence the discussion.

Figma Slides’ central promise is to make presentations both visually sophisticated and easier to build collaboratively, allowing teams to design, organize, and discuss their ideas in one shared space.