The Pragmatic Engineer podcast: ​“How do you take a new product idea, and turn it into a successful product? Figma Slides started as a hackathon project a year and a half ago – and today it’s a full-on product, with more than 4.5M slide decks created by users. I’m joined by two founding engineers on this project: Jonathan Kaufman and Noah Finer.” Read two interesting takeaways from this episode on X.

The public rollout comes with a great commercial. Epic to see Soren Iverson in the main role!

Figma Slides is now out of beta and available to everyone with six major new updates: import and export .pptx files, object animations, slide numbers, components, and video improvements. Learn about new features from Noah Finer’s video or read how other teams adopted Slides to tap into a design system, use branded assets, improve collaboration, and get audience feedback.

Nice built-in support for code blocks with syntax highlighting in Slides.

Rehearse is a clever plugin for Figma Slides — practice your presentation and see exactly how long you spent on each slide and the total time for your deck.

Plugins are now available in Figma Slides, and three dozen plugins have already been updated to support it.

First Round’s deep dive into how Figma Slides founding PM Mihika Kapoor transformed a hackathon project into one of Figma’s most anticipated launches.

A new update to Slides lets you bring slides from Figma into a deck with one click.

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.

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

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.”

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.”

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.”

“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.”

Slides PM Mihika Kapoor shares how to run the perfect product review using Figma Slides. You’ll learn best practices for getting the input you need, driving decisions, and aligning stakeholders around the work.