figmaDec 10, 2025

Turn Your Prompts Into Visual Assets and Slide Decks With the Figma App in ChatGPT | Figma Blog (opens in new tab)

Figma has expanded its ChatGPT app beyond FigJam diagrams, allowing users to generate editable visual assets and presentation decks. ChatGPT provides initial creative directions, while Figma Buzz and Figma Slides support detailed editing, branding, resizing, and collaboration. The workflow is designed to move quickly from an idea or outline to a polished, team-ready result. ## Creating Visual Assets with Figma Buzz - Users can prompt ChatGPT to generate starting concepts for posters, invitations, digital ads, and video collages. - The app can produce multiple variations of a visual identity, layout, and copy. - Assets can then be opened in Figma Buzz for refinement, including: - Editing text and typography - Adjusting color palettes with blend modes - Applying brand-specific changes - Resizing designs for LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and other platforms - Figma Buzz is intended to make polished marketing assets accessible even to people without specialized design skills. ## Building Presentations in Figma Slides - ChatGPT can generate a Figma Slides deck from a user-provided outline or suggest a presentation flow. - Example decks include “year in review” templates organized around goals, priorities, highlights, and completed projects. - Users can select a generated option and continue editing collaboratively in Figma Slides. - Teams can replace generated images, adjust templates, and refine colors and typography to match brand guidelines. - Interactive features such as live polls, stamps, and alignment scales support feedback and discussion during presentations. ## Availability - The Figma app is available to ChatGPT users outside the European Union. - Figma Buzz and Figma Slides features are currently in beta within the app. The recommended workflow is to use ChatGPT for rapid ideation and first drafts, then move into Figma Buzz or Figma Slides for brand alignment, detailed editing, and collaborative refinement.

presentation-designfigmachatgptfigma-slides+2

figmaMar 18, 2025

How Teams Tap Into the Power of Design with Figma Slides | Figma Blog (opens in new tab)

Figma Slides has moved out of open beta with new features designed to combine presentation simplicity with Figma’s high-fidelity design and collaboration capabilities. The platform aims to help designers and cross-functional teams create polished, brand-consistent decks while giving them more control over storytelling and presentation workflows. ## Figma Slides Leaves Open Beta - Available to users with Full, Dev, or Collab seats. - New features include: - Improved video controls, including blur effects, scrubbing, and playback-speed adjustments. - Components for maintaining consistency across brand assets and customer logos. - Object-level slide and fade animations. - `.PPTX` import and export for working with external collaborators. - Existing Figma capabilities—such as auto layout, custom fonts, brand libraries, and embeddable prototypes—are available within the slides experience. - Figma positions Slides as a shared storytelling workspace rather than merely a traditional presentation tool. ## Fine-Tune Designs with Templates and Components - Teams can build decks from templates connected to their existing Figma design systems and brand libraries. - Merkle uses curated templates for UI/UX presentations, research, data visualization, and client-specific work. - Reusable components reduce design decisions and help teams produce higher-quality decks more consistently. - Decagon redesigned its sales deck around its brand identity, using custom visuals, layouts, and an appendix of adaptable slides. - Custom templates let teams tailor presentations to specific customers, priorities, and business goals while preserving brand consistency. ## Control the Narrative - Figma Slides supports audience-specific storytelling by making it easy to rearrange slides and review the full deck in grid view. - The article emphasizes distilling a presentation into a clear central idea rather than adding unnecessary visual elements. - Templates can adapt to different contexts, such as fundraising stages, audiences, products, and founder profiles. - The ideal structure may vary: some decks lead with insights, while others introduce the team early to establish credibility. Figma Slides is best suited to teams that want presentation speed without giving up design precision. Its combination of reusable systems, collaborative editing, flexible storytelling, and `.PPTX` compatibility makes it a practical option for internal reviews, sales presentations, and client-facing decks.

presentation-designfigmadesign-systemscollaboration+3

figmaSep 15, 2020

On pitching and presenting | Figma Blog (opens in new tab)

Storytelling is the foundation of an effective pitch, more important than statistics or polished visuals alone. Abigail Africa argues that strong presentations come from understanding the audience, structuring a clear problem-and-solution narrative, delivering it with authentic energy, and using visuals to support—not replace—the story. These skills can be learned and improved through preparation and practice. ## Storytelling as the Core of a Pitch - Africa learned this lesson during a Pet Rocks pitch: market research and clever observations failed, while the winning team succeeded by telling a story. - Storytelling helps clarify complex ideas, persuade decision-makers, lead meetings, and perform well in interviews. - Presentations depend on three connected elements: - **Content:** what you say - **Delivery:** how you say it - **Visuals:** how you bring the idea to life ## Building Content Around the Audience - Research the people in the room before developing the presentation: - What challenges, needs, and goals do they have? - Why are they listening? - What could they gain? - What language or industry terminology do they use? - Building trust requires demonstrating that you understand the audience and their situation. ## Structuring the Story - A strong presentation typically: - Establishes an audience-relevant problem - Introduces a solution - Explains how the solution addresses the problem - Ends with a specific call to action - A useful problem statement template is: “A [stakeholder] who feels [feeling] about [a task] needs to [act] but [faces an obstacle].” - Reusing language, characters, or events from the problem section helps connect the solution to the story. - The call to action might ask the audience to approve further exploration, provide funding or mentorship, or reconsider an issue. ## Delivering with Energy and Awareness - Tone, posture, movement, and vocal variety can turn a sequence of slides into a persuasive pitch. - Africa recommends practicing by recording yourself and listening for limited vocal inflection. - Authentic excitement encourages audiences to mirror that emotion. - Gestures, movement, leaning forward, and purposeful eye contact can emphasize important points. - Audience behavior provides feedback: - If people seem disengaged, move around, speak more loudly, or make eye contact with individuals. - Adjust your delivery based on their body language and attention. ## Presenting Virtually - Remote presentations introduce technical risks and can weaken the impact of familiar gestures or vocal patterns. - Recording yourself reading aloud can reveal how your voice and delivery sound to a virtual audience. - Virtual presenters need to consciously adapt their energy and communication style so that enthusiasm and emphasis remain clear on screen. Effective pitching is therefore less about naturally having charisma and more about deliberately practicing audience awareness, narrative structure, expressive delivery, and clear supporting visuals.

presentation-designfigmastorytellingdesign-strategy+2