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

“Code Connect Version 1.2 launched this week and includes support for design systems written in Angular, Vue, and HTML, an improved getting started wizard for the command line tool, and expanded configuration options for React icons.”

I came across this wildly popular plugin as I dabbled into Tailwind CSS this week. Seeing a free (supported by Creator Fund) open-source plugin for generating code in a few common formats (HTML, JSX, Tailwind, Flutter, and SwiftUI) is refreshing.

Describing design details with plain text is a nice way to communicate the intent to developers.

Jake made a plugin that brings the power of CSS color-mix() into Figma. Use it to generate swatches, variable ramps, and solid or gradient fills. I highly recommend watching Jake’s video if you’re unfamiliar with this CSS notation.

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.”

Figma Developer Advocate Jake Albaugh joins a livestream on the Visual Studio Code channel to talk about Figma for VS Code extension, allowing developers to easily access and inspect designs from VS Code.

“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.

Nathan A Curtis maintained ~2,000 slides worth of workshops and talks in Figma for four years, so his feedback on Figma Slides is worth listening to. His biggest complaint is a lack of templates and styles on the Professional plan, but in the replies Slides PM Mihika Kapoor confirmed that Pro templates are coming soon.

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.

Quality-of-life improvement in FigJam — regardless of connector and shape styling, they will always have the same optical spacing. Also, alignment indicators now appear only when needed and are hidden when the object is being moved across the board. So much cleaner!

After giving Slides a good try, Raquel Piqueras shares a few things she has been missing — a simple timer, access to sharing settings from the open presentation, slide-level components, and hotkeys to streamline the work.