Figma Slides Leaves Beta with Design-Grade Presentation Tools

Figma Slides has officially exited open beta and is now available to all users on Full, Dev, or Collab seats. Alongside the general release, Figma is shipping a batch of highly requested features aimed at bringing more design fidelity into the presentation format while keeping the tool approachable for non-designers.

  • Video improvements: Advanced video controls now live in the editor, including blur effects, scrubbing, and adjustable playback speed.
  • Components: Teams can create and reuse components to keep brand assets, customer logos, and other recurring elements consistent across decks.
  • Object-level animations: Individual layers can now be animated with slide and fade effects rather than animating only whole slides.
  • Import and export .PPTX: Users can bring PowerPoint files into Figma Slides or export their work for external collaborators and clients.

These additions build on the 30-plus features Figma has shipped for Slides since its initial launch, including templates tailored to a team or organization, plugins for image libraries and design cleanup, auto layout, custom fonts, connected brand libraries, and embeddable prototypes. The goal is to give the whole team access to the design precision that Figma users already rely on, without forcing stakeholders into a complex tool.

Design Systems That Extend to Decks

One of the main use cases emerging from early adopters is carrying existing design systems directly into presentations. Dave Calleja, Head of Design at Merkle, describes how his team built core slide templates with components inherited from their global design system, then curated additional templates for specific presentation types. Client-specific styles and components are also available, which lets team members produce polished decks without starting from scratch or making endless design decisions. According to Calleja, this approach empowers people from the start and raises the baseline quality of what gets presented.

Decagon took a similar route when reimagining its company sales deck. CEO Jesse Zhang says the team wanted slides customized to their brand with fine-grain control over the look and feel. Product and brand designer James Wu built a template drawing color inspiration from one of Decagon's 3D shape renders, plus an appendix of layouts that can be remixed depending on the customer's priorities. The result, Zhang notes, is a more specific impression and the ability to speak directly to each customer's criteria for success.

Tailoring the Story to the Audience

Figma Slides is also being used to rethink how narrative flow works in a deck. Creative director and designer Jamey Gannon, who created the Raise template for early-stage founders raising venture capital, says the flexibility of the tool changes how she thinks about structure. She warns against "shiny object syndrome"—the urge to overdecorate—and instead pushes for distilling the business down to a clear idea. But she notes that the order of a deck depends heavily on context: some fundraising rounds warrant an insight-first approach with the team slide at the end, while others call for leading with the team's experience.

Lowering the Barrier for Collaborators

The shared workspace is where Figma Slides appears to have its strongest pull. For Gannon, working with clients became easier because the tool combines powerful design features—animation, color libraries, auto layout—with an interface that feels familiar to people who live in presentation software rather than design tools. At Jasper, Creative Director Jessica Rosenberg says her team uses Figma Slides for design presentations, roadmapping, and internal communications. The ability to transfer styles into a deck without exporting PNGs has streamlined workflows enough that Jasper's CFO has adopted it as her exclusive presentation tool.

At the digital studio Human, the whole team now collaborates on web design and brand identity work directly in Slides. Creative strategist Zachary Sniderman highlights the immediacy it gives developers, who get a 360-degree view of a project's architecture. Copywriters also work directly in the tool, treating messaging more like visual art since elements are easier to manipulate and align. Even the simple act of following a colleague's cursor during fine-tuning helps dispersed teams focus together on the same section of a deck.

Making Presentations Interactive

Beyond passive viewing, teams are using Slides to actively engage audiences during a presentation. Elissa Martial, a Figma Campus Leader at the University of Southern California, built a workshop on developer-designer workflows that needed to hold the attention of students at 9 pm. She used a poll to ask participants how many fonts they could see on screen—a quick, memorable demonstration that designers spotted more than developers. Later, she embedded a working prototype demonstrating variables, which made an abstract concept tangible for everyone in the room.

With the beta period over, Figma Slides is positioned as a presentation tool that carries the design ecosystem with it. The question now is how broadly teams adopt it for day-to-day work across sales, product, and internal communications.