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Today was a career highlight. It is an absolute privilege to introduce Figma Slides, Figma's newest product, to the world 💥 We launched Figma Slides this morning at Config, Figma's annual conference, after a year’s long effort to reimagine presentations and visual storytelling. Debuting this labor of love to thousands of designers during our opening keynote was a true pinch-me moment. I first pitched what we internally dubbed 'Flides' as an internal hackathon project in Fall 2022. What started as a scrappy prototype is now a tool that channels the power of Figma in a form that helps you tell your stories. Built for both professional designers and their collaborators in product, marketing, research, and beyond, Figma Slides enables anyone to craft a powerful story. Figma Slides is free to use while in beta! Try it out today 🎉 Thank you to the absolute dream team behind this product - it is an honor to work with you ❤️ Keeyen Yeo Alice Ching Karl Jiang Jonathan Kaufman Noah Finer Laura Pang Katie J. Silas Tsui Jessica Wang Delong Fu Duong Vu Joshua Korn Willy Wu Chang Liu Christa Simon Susan Su Michelle Huang Jung Chang Aaron Tesfai Linda Zhang Alex Bettadapur Augustus Griffin Adam Barrus Natasha T. Conor Woods Jerry Wu Catherine Hwu Peter Damrongpiriyapong Cynthia Jia Greta Huang Alexander C. Chris Bevan Chinmay Maheshwari Jeffrey Tousignant Jillian Latimer Ryan Reid Jakub Swiadek Khalil Cader Wendy Lu Ben Steinberg Soundharya Muthukrishnan Xuewei Ouyang Song Xie and many more.

Yash Gupta

Co-founder @ Nova | Insurance for business risks

1mo

So much looking forward to this. It has been a pain exporting slides from figma to Google slides and then editing them!

Emmanuel Dankyi

Designer, Co-Founder, Lime & Honey

1mo

Eldad Nutakor pitch killer you think?

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Annie Streater

A Swiss army knife of design, research, and strategy.

1mo

Are Figma Slides compatible with assistive technology such as screen readers? It’s often a problem with slide decks because of all the imagery and decorative elements. I hope Figma is leading by example by building accessibility into the product so we don’t have to keep reminding our colleagues to make their presentations accessible and inclusive.

Please for the love of all things Figma please add Image Reference as the next tool! Example: Mark any frame as an image reference and link it to another frame. Any changes to the reference frame will make an image fill in the linked frames and will always be linked until you unlink it. If anyone here actively uses the tool in real world applications you’ll know how critical this feature actually is. Your welcome Figma world 🌎 but seriously if this exists already as a plugin please send my way or if you make it a real tool please let me beta test it!

Wow! This may to do Google Slides what Google Slides did to Microsoft Powerpoint. I'd love to know more about your strategy for making this information findable in a company's source of truth, then track its utilization. I've run into challenges with content management systems – perhaps you've already sold this. Happy to talk in private (I have nothing to sell – just happy to help the community!)

Wow, the new Figma slides configuration is a game-changer! Mihika Kapoor This update is set to revolutionize the design platform, making it even more powerful and user-friendly. It's a fantastic opportunity for designers to elevate their projects. Figma For all design enthusiasts out there, now is the perfect time to dive in and learn. The design world is moving forward daily—don't get left behind! Join our EdTech community to stay updated and master these new tools. 🚀✨ TechflairHub

Ratna Desai

Director of Product Design at Netflix, Discovery Experience

1mo

Congrats to you and the team on the Figma Slides launch! Great job presenting and doing the live demo at Config. Awesome to see you shine! 👏🏽🎉✨

David de Oliveira Braia

Head Product Designer | Senior UX/UI Designer | Figma

1mo

Isabela Lefol vc viu isso aqui?

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Aashutosh K

Invited expert at W3C · Data Product Design

1mo

I started using this. There is a steep learning curve. What have observed is the Figma slides carries the object manipulation concepts from Figma, which is extremely powerful, and then applies them on Slides. the switch between creation mode and presentation mode is a little bit tricky to figure out. This makes a few options appear and disappear, the lay panel as an example. but so far, it has been fun!!!!

Vinod Sharma (MBA, PMP)

I help tech startup founders develop and release their products and build high-performing Agile teams.

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Today, I saw the product update popup in Figma and was impressed by how effectively they updated users and engaged them with new features. I liked it so much that I created a short video about it. https://youtu.be/mNIl_CjlnVE. I will give the slides a try.

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