Brand designer Jamey Gannon made a commercial pitch deck template for early-stage founders raising VC capital. She built dozens of decks in her career for her own rounds or others and used this experience to design this template.

Erez Reznikov argues that in the next generation of design tools, designing and building digital products will have to abide by the constraints of the platform in which they are coded and tested. ​“The right tool will have to be built for a collaboration. A true collaboration, not a handoff. With developers, because complex products (which will be the vast majority) need them. There’s no avoiding that with dreams of magic AI fairy dust and no-code, no-dev narrow builders, empowering as they may seem.”

The annual UX Tools survey is one of the best ways to spot trends and new tools. Please take 5–10 minutes to complete it.

Select multiple layers in Figma Slides and apply edits to them all at once.

You can now lock sections in FigJam to prevent them from accidentally being moved.

1) Add new template styles to your decks directly from the styles overview modal. 2) Rename and delete template styles. 3) Draft presenter notes with AI — ​“just add one line of text to your slide and let AI do the heavy lifting.” 4) You can now edit your presenter notes in Presenter View. 5) The Multi-edit is now available in Figma Slides.

A pretty wild Slides template: ​“The Infinite Scroll is a five-dimensional entity that weaves together the stories of the past, present, and future.”

Yann-Edern Gillet from Linear built a plugin for syncing color and text styles from Figma to Framer.

Co-founders of Sketch shared their stance on AI: ​“We’re not ready to make a move with AI just yet — for reasons that will become clear. However, we wanted to share the principles that will guide our approach when that time comes.”

I respect their position on using AI to aid designers but never to create designs. To me, Make Design was the least exciting AI feature announced at Config, and I’m glad it was reframed as the First Draft during the relaunch a few weeks ago. Their focus on privacy and being local-first is a smart way to differentiate from Figma and offer something unique, even if that required burying Sketch Cloud first.

I didn’t know I needed this until I saw it. Plan the presentation in FigJam, then turn it into a deck outline in Slides: ​“Think it in FigJam, present it in Figma: create a Figma Slides outline from a FigJam board with a few clicks.”

The Foundation generates Figma spacing, color, and typography variables based on Tailwind CSS’s utilities, ensuring consistency across your design and code.

In this webinar, Designer Advocates Corey Lee and Hugo Raymond will guide you through communicating effectively through story-driven presentations and share techniques to up-level your slide designs to make your presentations and decks more compelling. ​“Good design tells a compelling story. How you convey that story can significantly impact its resonance with your audience.“

Delighted to see the internal name sneaking into a shortcut for creating a new Slides deck! BTW, both figjam.new and figma.new have also been around for a while. 

“You can get the attention of your audience and better communicate your ideas by turning them into simple, compelling stories. Join this livestream with Janis Ozolins to learn the principles of visual communication and see how to create compelling visuals in Figma Slides in a few easy steps.“

“Come learn the basics of how to use Figma Slides to communicate with your team and present to stakeholders. You’ll learn how to create, edit, and polish a Slide deck and how to present to your stakeholders.”

“Figgy instantly turns your FigJam into a website. You get a published site, with a clean domain and custom SEO. All you have to do is drop in your Figma link and it’s live. No coding or technical experience is required.” Read how this project came to life in this Twitter thread.

So much polish has been added to FigJam in the last few weeks! Now, you can change the color of connectors and their text independently.

“Watch this recording to learn how to up-level your team’s presentations by creating beautiful, functional custom templates in Figma Slides. You’ll learn about how to use advanced features in Figma Slides, how to publish your templates, and best practices for designing decks for your team.”

“Join Damien Correll, Figma’s Creative Director, to learn about what makes a good story, how to shape your stories, how to design slides to let your story shine, and common slide design mistakes to avoid.”

Small improvements to FigJam keep coming — now connectors can connect to the edge or arbitrary spots on an object, not just the NSEW cardinal directions.