Figma Slides introduces a streamlined way to create and present slide decks without leaving the Figma environment. This approach eliminates the need for exporting designs to external tools like PowerPoint, allowing users to design, collaborate, and present all in one place. The process optimizes team workflows, reduces version control issues, and supports interactive elements for audience engagement.

Creating a New Slide Deck in Figma Slides

Step 1: Open the Figma file browser in your workspace. Navigate to the area where you want to store your slide deck—either your personal Drafts section or within a specific team project. Using Drafts keeps your work private until you’re ready to share, while creating in a team project makes it accessible to collaborators with appropriate permissions.

Step 2: Click the Create new button and select Slides. This launches the template picker, where you can browse a variety of ready-made templates organized by use case, such as product reviews, startup pitches, design reviews, and more. If you prefer to build your presentation from scratch, select the blank template or dismiss the picker.

Step 3: Name your slide deck for easy identification and organization. Figma recommends keeping one presentation per file to simplify access and avoid confusion, especially when managing multiple decks across projects.

Designing Slides with Figma’s Toolset

Figma Slides provides three primary views that support different stages of the design process:

  • Slide View: Focuses on editing a single slide, similar to traditional presentation tools.
  • Grid View: Displays the entire deck as a grid, making it easier to organize, reorder, and structure your slides for a logical narrative flow.
  • Design View: Unlocks advanced Figma features such as Auto Layout, the layers panel, and component properties for detailed design work. This view is especially useful for users familiar with Figma’s core design tools.

The bottom toolbar in Figma Slides includes options for adding text, images, shapes, tables, and interactive elements. Drag and drop images onto your slides or use the image tool for precise placement. The table tool allows you to create and format tables directly, a feature not available in standard Figma files. Shape tools enable the creation of custom graphics, while the contextual properties panel supports styling, resizing, and layering.

To organize your slides, arrange frames from left to right and top to bottom on the canvas. This order determines how slides progress in presentation mode. For large decks, group related slides in rows or sections for a clear visual structure. Consider using slide variants—such as section titles, sub-section titles, and standard slides—to visually separate different parts of your presentation.

For users managing multiple slides, plugins like Super Tidy can automate frame naming and spacing, streamlining deck organization and allowing for quick adjustments during iteration.

Adding Interactive and Collaborative Elements

Figma Slides supports interactive components that foster audience engagement during presentations. The interactive elements available include:

  • Polls: Collect live feedback from your audience on specific questions and display results in real-time.
  • Stamps: Allow audience members to mark completion or agreement visually.
  • Alignment Scales: Gather sentiment or consensus on a topic using a Likert scale.
  • Prototypes: Embed clickable Figma prototypes directly within slides, enabling users to demonstrate interactive product flows without leaving the presentation.

All collaborators with edit access can contribute to the slide deck simultaneously. Real-time cursor chat, in-line comments, and audio support facilitate discussion and feedback. The Share button allows you to invite team members or external stakeholders, controlling their access level as needed.

AI-powered features in Figma Slides can adjust the tone of your slide text. Use the tone selector to quickly make copy more concise, expanded, professional, or casual, depending on your audience and context. AI can also generate presenter notes to support smooth delivery during live sessions.

Presenting Your Slide Deck

To present a slide deck, open the file and click the Present button in the right sidebar. Choose between presenting in full screen or with presenter notes. Presenter notes appear in a separate window, enabling you to reference talking points without displaying them to your audience.

Figma Slides supports collaborative presenting. Multiple presenters can open the deck in presenter view, and the spotlight feature lets each person take control seamlessly—eliminating the need to prompt for “next slide.”

For offline presentations, preload your slide deck by selecting Make available offline in the options menu. This ensures uninterrupted presentations even without an internet connection. Note that embedded prototypes and YouTube videos will not be interactive while offline.

To share your presentation with an audience, copy the presentation link from the presenter view. Audience members with at least view access can open the deck online and interact with live elements. For private or screen-shared presentations, you can present slides without granting direct file access.

Tips for Exporting and Sharing Content

Figma Slides allows importing of existing .pptx files, making it easier to migrate decks from PowerPoint. When exporting slides for external sharing, be aware that Figma’s PDF export may result in large file sizes, as PDFs are rendered as images. To reduce file size, consider compressing PDFs using tools like Adobe Acrobat’s online compressor or third-party web services. For high-resolution images, export graphics as PNG or SVG at higher resolutions for use in newsletters or social media posts.

While Figma Slides streamlines the process for digital presentations, it may not be ideal for complex print layouts or documents requiring CMYK color profiles. For those needs, traditional desktop publishing tools remain preferable.

Figma Slides brings together design, collaboration, and presentation in a single workflow, making it a strong choice for teams seeking to streamline deck creation and delivery. Experiment with templates, interactive features, and AI tools to build presentations that stand out and keep your audience engaged.