Day 2: Hit Shift‑D or toggle the right end of your toolbar to access your Design mode.

Figma Slides was launched two weeks ago, and now the team is shipping 10 improvements in 10 days. The first drop: view layers in the Design mode while in the grid view.

I don’t use Affinity apps day-to-day, but I bought a license a while ago (a glorious one-time fee!) and use it whenever I need to do something for print, convert a tricky vector from EPS, or edit a photo. It won’t replace Figma for me, but it filled a void that Adobe Creative Cloud left. They were acquired by Canva earlier this year and currently run a promotion offering a six-month free trial and 50% off all perpetual licenses ($82.99 for all apps on all platforms). Worth giving a try!

Vijay Verma shows how ​“Figma Slides” illustrations were made.

Daniel Destefanis and Soundharya Muthukrishnan: ​“Here’s a simple presentation template to share designs with your collaborators or clients and get alignment.”

Femke made a template for the presentation deck as an overview of your next design project.

Mihika shares the inspiration and the process of making one of the coolest Slides features.

I shared Lenny’s interview with Mihika a couple of months ago, but it’s worth recommending again now that it’s clear that this ​“0 to 1” product she talked about was Figma Slides.

Mihika Kapoor shares the story of taking Flides from the Maker Week pitch to reality. That team photo in the end is a poor gold. Also, see Keeyen’s demo tutorial from a year ago with an early prototype, where he pretends to be Zander Supafast.

“In this video, we’ll take a tour around the Figma Slides editor so you can start creating your own presentations.”

“As a tradeoff for pixel-level control and the familiarity of their favorite toolkit in Figma, designers have gone without basic slide functionalities like speaker notes and slide transitions. Figma Slides not only addresses those core features, but amplifies design functionality, making it easier for both designers and non-designers to co-create in the same space.”

“Bring order to your files while keeping your jams in one place with Pages in FigJam.”

LottieFiles: ​“We are thrilled to announce that we have received strategic investments from Figma Ventures and Webflow Ventures, marking a significant milestone in our journey to democratize motion design.”

Elliot Tu from Zeplin interviewed me for their Design-to-Dev community interview series last week. We chatted about working on Figmalion, my new role, collaborating with developers, the future of design-to-dev tools, and how I use AI in my work.

This is a pretty wild experiment, started with a question: ​“What if you could design like a developer?” Name your layers with Tailwind classes, then run the plugin to instantly update the style. Why? Because you can, that’s why!

“Create a FigJam board during or outside of a Google Meet call to jam remotely or in person.”

A short explainer on navigating a FigJam file — panning and zooming, keyboard shortcuts, and navigation hacks. I use FigJam for presentations, and navigating sections with a Tab or Shift-Tab keys is my favorite!

Matt Jumper shares an overview of his 3‑step Figma to Framer web design process — from layout systems and creating styles to how he starts building.

Now you can use the power of AI to generate and expand mindmaps and create visual timelines in FigJam. See examples in the gallery of ready-made FigJam AI prompts.

Free website UI kit made by Framer?! You got my interest. ​“Easily transform your ideas into a fully functional, responsive, no-code SaaS website design within minutes using these free components for Framer and Figma.”