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Using Figma for Presentations: 2021 Update

January 23, 2021

In 2017, I published Using Figma for Presentations . At the time, Figma was still in beta (and didn’t even have prototyping yet!), and most design teams I knew were skeptical about it as a tool — and of collaborative designing as a concept.

Since then, Figma has grown to hundreds of thousands of users, with design teams from some of the most recognizable brands in the world using it daily. Also, since then, I joined and left Figma as a design education manager and community advocate, and have started my presentation design agency, Zacht Studios .

I’m still betting on Figma to be a significant player in the presentation tool game. I wanted to update that 2017 article with the new strategies I’ve learned and the new Figma features added since to create and present with Figma even better.

First, I like to set up a new Figma file with the intention of creating a presentation:

Template Slides

I like to stick these on a separate page in my Figma file to keep my documents tidy.

Using Figma Components, create the base of each slide type. For example, a title slide, a section break, a top title, and a blank slide with just a footnote.

Since I am setting these as Components, I can use them in this file, and I will also publish them to the Team Library, so anyone at Zacht Studios can access them.

The next step is to go back to that original page and start making a deck. I create a new Frame of the same size and place an Instance of one of my Template Components inside it. The reason I do this, instead of just placing an Instance on the canvas by itself, is because I’m going to want to layer other content on top of it.

Figma Instances support Overrides. An override is changing a property of an object that is part of the Component. In this case, that could be changing the title of a slide, or it could be something like changing the color or typeface of an element just in one instance. The benefit here is, for example, having a 30 slide presentation created, with each slide having unique content, and then being able to make changes to the template layout rather than each individual slide separately.

You can also set Styles in your file — or use existing Styles from your Team Library — to adjust type and color choices (among other things) across multiple slides at once, including the template slides.

Before I get too far in the content-creation process, I like to set up some additional structure for my slides:

Figma’s grids are powerful. For me, they help maintain consistency, a critical piece of good presentation design . I usually use just one grid layout of columns for an entire project, but there is a lot of flexibility in Figma if you feel comfortable using multiple grid systems. You can pick any Frame to start with and then save your grid layout as a Style. Then you can use it on any Frame.

Auto Layout

Figma’s auto layout helps maintain spacing rules that you create. Much like Grids, it is another structure that can help maintain consistency.

Now that I have foundational structures in place to lay my content out with confidence, I can use these additional Figma features to mimic more traditional presentation tool features:

Any text or text box in Figma can become a hyperlink. Select the text you want to add a link to and the chain icon appears in the toolbar at the top-center of the interface. These are clickable in the Presentation view (more on that in a second) and in exported PDFs. You can also add hyperlinks in Comments.

You can export your deck as a single PDF file by going to File > Export frames to PDF. Figma will generate a PDF with every Frame on the current Page — another reason to set up your Template Slides on a separate page. Figma organizes Frames left-to-right, top-to-bottom and your PDF pages will follow that order (so will your slideshow in Presentation view, unless you adjust with the Prototype panel).

Sharing/Collaborating

This hasn’t changed much since my original article: “By clicking the share button in the top right corner, you can enter an email address to invite others to collaborate, or generate a shareable link.”

Some of my favorite Figma collaborative features, that eclipse presentation tools like Google Slides, are Observation Mode and Embedding .

When in Presentation mode, using the keyboard shortcut "⌘\" on macOS or "^\" on Chrome OS and Windows hides the toolbar and footer.

If you are going to embed a Figma file on a webpage or share the Presentation mode link with someone else, you can add "&hide-ui=1" to the end of the URL to keep the toolbar and footer hidden there as well.

Alternatively, you can use the Prototype panel to do this by setting the Device to "Presentation".

Animation (aka Prototyping)

Figma is, first and foremost, an UI design tool. With it being flexible enough to do other types of design work, like presentation design, it’s many features can be used beyond their original intention. Prototyping app screens is a core competency, but using that to animate slides and create Keynote-like transitions is more than possible. Smart animate is the Figma equivalent of Keynote's Magic Move.

Community: Files

Via the Share menu, you can publish your file to the Figma Community . Check out our resources, available for free at figma.com/@zach (me) and figma.com/@zacht (Zacht Studios). Other Figma users will be able to create a duplicate of your file to make their own (they will not be able to edit your original file).

Community: Plugins

As of writing this article, there are hundreds of plugins for Figma .

Here are a few of my favorites:

• Stark , contrast checker and colorblind simulator
• Unsplash , free stock photography
• Material Design Icons , Google's icon library
• LottieFiles , use Lotti animations in Figma
• Brandfetch , easily find and place company logos (great for deck making)
• Map Maker , for generating maps directly on the canvas

Additional Tips

Open your file again in another window with Presentation mode so you can see what your audience is going to see in the presented version of the slide.

Use Swap Instance to quickly try out your other layouts for a slide or build out additional slides quickly.

All that to say, there are a lot of great features intended initially for screen design that extend to making great slides fast. 

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How to Animate in Figma

Animation can bring your designs to life, adding an extra layer of interactivity and engagement to your projects.

Figma, a powerful design tool, offers various features to help you create animations easily and efficiently.

In this article, we will discuss the fundamentals of animation in Figma and walk you through the process of creating animations using Figma’s powerful features.

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Understanding Animation in Figma

Figma’s animation capabilities mainly revolve around its prototyping features. You can create smooth transitions between frames, animate object properties like position and size, and even use Smart Animate to create more complex animations with minimal effort. Here’s a quick overview of the types of animations you can create in Figma:

• Transitions: Apply simple animations between frames, such as fade, slide, or push.
• Property animations: Animate changes in object properties, like size, position, rotation, and opacity.
• Smart Animate: Automatically animate differences between two frames, such as the movement or resizing of objects, making it easier to create complex animations.

Now that you have a basic understanding of animation in Figma, let’s dive into the process of creating animations.

Creating Animations in Figma

Follow these steps to create animations in Figma:

1. Design Your Frames

Start by designing the frames you want to animate. Ensure that your objects and layers are well-organized and appropriately named, as this will make it easier to create animations later on.

2. Switch to Prototype Mode

Click the “Prototype” tab in the top-right corner of the Figma interface to enter Prototype mode. This mode allows you to create connections between frames and add interactivity, including animations.

3. Create Connections Between Frames

Select an object or layer on your first frame that should trigger the animation, such as a button or a menu item. In the right-hand panel, click the “+” icon next to the “Interactions” section. Drag the connection handle (circle with a plus sign) to the target frame you want to animate to.

4. Configure the Animation

After connecting the frames, configure the animation details in the right-hand panel. Choose an interaction type (e.g., “On Click” or “On Hover”), set the desired animation or transition (e.g., “Instant,” “Dissolve,” or “Smart Animate”), and adjust any additional options, such as duration and easing.

For more advanced animations, you can use the “Smart Animate” option, which will automatically animate the differences between the connected frames. Ensure that the objects you want to animate have the same layer name in both frames to take full advantage of Smart Animate.

5. Preview Your Animation

To preview your animation, click the “Present” button in the top-right corner of the Figma interface or press Ctrl + P (Cmd + P on macOS). This will open a new browser window with your interactive prototype. Test the animation to ensure it works as expected and make any necessary adjustments.

6. Iterate and Refine Your Animations

Continue creating connections and configuring animations for all the elements you want to animate in your project. Test and refine your animations to achieve the desired effect and ensure a smooth user experience.

Tips for Animating in Figma

To make the most of Figma’s animation features, keep these tips in mind:

• Keep animations simple and purposeful: Avoid overusing animations or making them too complex, as this can distract from your design’s main purpose. Use animations to enhance the user experience and guide users through your design.
• Maintain consistent timing and easing: Ensure that the duration and easing of your animations are consistent across your project to create a cohesive experience. This helps users become more familiar with the interactions and feel more comfortable navigating your design.
• Use components for repeated animations: If you have elements with similar animations throughout your design, use components and instances to maintain consistency and make updates more manageable.
• Test your animations on different devices: Animations may look and feel different on various devices and screen sizes. Test your animations on multiple devices to ensure they provide a consistent experience for all users.
• Collaborate and gather feedback: Share your animated prototypes with clients, teammates, or stakeholders to gather feedback and make improvements. Figma’s real-time collaboration and commenting features make it easy to work together and iterate on your animations.

By following these steps and tips, you can create engaging and effective animations in Figma. Animation can enhance your designs and provide a more dynamic and interactive user experience. With Figma’s powerful animation features, you can bring your designs to life and create captivating projects that stand out from the competition.

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Creating presentations using Figma

In the design world, creating effective presentations is crucial. Ask any designer, and they’ll tell you that the ability to articulate design concepts can be the difference between an idea that soars and one that nosedives.

And when it comes to crafting these presentations, Figma stands out.

Not only is it a versatile design tool that lets you customize your slides however you want, but its prototype feature allows you to create the sort of unique transitions you won’t get with any other tool.

Surprisingly, creating stunning presentations in Figma is pretty straightforward. This guide is going to show you how you can do it. We’ll also review the pros and cons of creating presentations in Figma.

So, if you’re ready to start creating presentations that captivate your audience, let’s jump right into the steps involved.

Step 1: Create a Figma account

To use Figma, you’ll need to create an account. If you don’t already have an account, go to Figma and click the Sign up button in the top right corner. Enter your email address and password in the fields provided. Click the Sign up button, and you’ll be logged into your Figma account immediately.

Step 2: Create your first presentation frame

Open a New design file . You can rename the file by clicking Untitled at the top of the page. Next, click the Frame tool (F) and select Presentation > Frame 16:9 from the templates on the right:

Once you’ve created your first frame, rename it by double-clicking the blue title on the top left of the frame. Enter a new name for your frame and press Enter :

You can also change the background color by selecting the frame and picking a color from the Fill options on the right sidebar.

Step 3: Add your title text

To add title text, click the Text tool (T) and write your title. Stick to one or two words per line and use a different text box for each line. To modify your text size, color, and so on, go to the Text menu on the right sidebar.

With your title text sorted, it’s time to move on to the next step.

Step 4: Add your cover image

Start by drawing the shape that will house your image. It can be a rectangle, ellipse, or any other shape you prefer. We’ll be using a trapezoid for this example.

Draw a trapezoid by using the Pen tool (P) . Next, click the trapezoid and go to Fill in the right sidebar. Select the colored square to open the Fill properties. Click the image icon and select Choose Image :

Select the image you want to use and click Open . The image will automatically adjust to fit the shape you drew earlier.

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Once your image is in place, it’s time to move to the next step.

Step 5: Create your first transition

The first transition will open the image vertically, while the text will slide in from the left. To achieve this, start by duplicating the entire frame. Select the frame and hit Ctrl/Cmd + D .

On the left frame, reduce the image height to about 1/6th of its size. To do this, select the image and divide the H attribute by six from the right sidebar. Then, align the image center vertically and reduce the image layer opacity to 0 percent:

Next, select the first text box, press Shift , hold down the Space bar , and drag it left until it is outside the visible rectangular frame. Ensure that you hold down Shift and Space to avoid the text box from actually going outside the frame. We need the text to remain within the frame for the transition to work.

In the image below, notice how the text appears outside the visible frame but is still within the Cover slide frame in the layers panel:

Repeat the process for the other text boxes, dragging them a little further each time to create variety in the transition. Then, select all text boxes from the layers panel and reduce their layer opacity to 0 percent.

To finish the transition, go to Prototype from the right sidebar. Select the left frame and go to the blue circle that appears on the right side of the frame.

A plus sign will appear. Click on it and drag the arrow to connect it to the right frame:

In the dropdown menu that appears, click on Instant and choose Smart Animate . Select Ease in from the animation options. Adjust the timing to 1000ms. You can leave everything else in default.

Test your transition by clicking the Play button. If you’re happy with it, return to Design mode to continue working on your slides.

Step 6: Add more slides

We’ll use a different transition style from the second frame to the third. The image will shrink, and the text will go outside the frame. To achieve this, rename the second frame to Slide 1 . Duplicate it ( Ctrl/Cmd + D ) and you’ll have Slide 2 .

Go to the new frame and move the text boxes outside the visible frame (just like we did previously). But this time, move them to the right. Then, set their opacity to 0 percent:

To achieve the image shrinking effect, click on the image, hold down Shift , and drag the bottom-left resizing handle inwards until it’s about 1/6th of its original size. Next, set the image layer opacity to 0 percent. You’ll have a blank canvas to add all the elements you wish to include in Slide 2.

Add your heading and body text to Slide 2. Also, add an image the same way you did for the cover slide:

Let’s add some animation to create a smooth transition from Slide 1 to Slide 2.

Select the image in Slide 2, and copy it using Ctrl / Cmd + C . Go to Slide 1 and paste the image ( Ctrl / Cmd + V ). Resize the image to 1/6th its original size and set the opacity to 0 percent. Move the image to the back using a shortcut ( Ctrl / Cmd + [ ):

This action will create a zooming transition effect.

To animate the text in Slide 2, select all the text boxes and group them ( Ctrl / Cmd + G ). Copy this group and paste it into Slide 1. Move it to the right of the frame using the dragging technique ( Shift + Spacebar ) we used for the cover slide. Set its opacity to 0 percent.

Next, go to Prototype . Connect Slide 1 to Slide 2. By default, Figma maintains the attributes of the previous transition. Leave it as is:

You can play the prototype to ensure that everything works as it should. Once everything is in place, we can move on to the next step.

Step 7: Add mockups

As a designer, your presentations will often involve mockups of your design. So, let’s go over how to add mockups to your presentation slides.

Go back to Design mode and add a new frame. This frame will be Slide 3 . Next, create a mockup. You can use Figma plugins like Clay Mockups 3D , Mockuuups Studio , or Vectary 3D Elements to generate quick mockups.

Paste your mockup inside the new frame and resize it to fit:

To ensure a smooth transition, copy the mockup and paste it into Slide 2. Scale it to about 1/6th its original size. Position it in the middle of the frame, reduce its opacity to 0 percent, and send it to the back. This action will cause the mockup to zoom in when presenting.

Go to Prototype mode and connect Slide 2 to Slide 3. Leave the animation settings as is.

Step 8: Label mockups

Duplicate the mockup frame. This new frame will be Slide 4. Use the Text tool to add a title and description to explain the different features in your mockup. Group the title and description together and name it:

To connect the text to the feature it’s describing, draw a line with the Line tool (L) . While drawing, hold down Shift to keep the line straight.

Next, we’ll add an indicator. Draw a circle with the Ellipse tool (O) . Reduce the fill opacity to 50 percent and add a Background Blur of 20:

Group the line and indicator together and label it.

To add labels to the next feature in your mockup, duplicate the frame (Slide 4) and add another bullet point indicator and text. Repeat this process for all the features in your mockup, duplicating the frame each time.

Next, go to Prototype , connect the slides, and press Play to see if everything works correctly. If you’re happy with the slides, it’s time to wrap things up.

Step 9: Create the final slide

Once you’ve added all the information you need in your presentation, end the presentation with a final slide.

To do this, duplicate the previous frame to create another slide. Use the Text tool (T) to add a final word for your audience. Center the text vertically and horizontally.

Next, copy this text and paste it into the previous frame. Scale it down to about 1/6th its original size. Press K before scaling it to keep it formatted. Center the text vertically and horizontally. Reduce its opacity to 0 percent and send it to the back:

Go back to the final slide. Use the dragging method to move all other elements except the “Thank you” text outside the visible frame. Drag them in different directions for a more dramatic effect:

Finally, go to Prototype and connect the final frame to the one before it. Click Play to see the finished presentation.

Step 10: Share your work

After all the hard work, it’s time to share the finished project with your audience. So, here, we’ll be going over how to Export your work, Share it with your team, and Present it to an audience.

To export your slides as a single PDF file, go to File > Export frames to PDF . Figma will export every frame as a PDF page in your slide deck. Your slides will be organized from left to right and top to bottom, meaning the leftmost frame will be the first PDF page, and so on. Note that if you export your slides as PDF, there’ll be no animation effects.

To share your work with others, click the Share button in the top right corner of the Figma interface. Enter an email address and click Invite , or simply copy the shareable link and send it to anyone you wish to invite to the file.

To present your work in Figma, click the Present button in the top right corner or press Ctrl/Cmd + Alt + Enter . Once in presentation mode, switch to fullscreen by pressing the Spacebar .

Voilà, that’s how you create and share a presentation in Figma.

But is Figma really the ideal tool to use for your next presentation? Let’s help you decide by analyzing the pros and cons of using Figma for presentations.

Pros of creating presentations using Figma

Real-time collaboration.

Figma is great for team projects as it allows multiple users to collaborate in real time, promoting teamwork and efficiency.

With Figma, you can invite up to 500 collaborators to your file (200 can have editing access). Now, that’s a large community of collaborators.

Easy export and sharing

Figma allows you to share your presentations in different formats, such as PDFs, JPGs, or interactive prototypes.

Compatible with multiple platforms

A major pro of Figma software is its ability to work smoothly across various operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux) and browsers, ensuring compatibility and promoting accessibility.

Access to a plugin library

Another great benefit of using Figma for presentations is the easy access to a library of plugins that can speed up your workflow.

Time efficiency

Figma allows you to duplicate and reuse design components, which comes in handy when you want to create multiple slides with similar layouts.

These are just some benefits that make Figma a powerful tool for creating collaborative and highly accessible presentations. But as we know, every tool has its downsides, and Figma is no exception. So, let’s examine some disadvantages of using Figma to create presentations.

Cons of creating presentations using Figma

Learning curve.

To use Figma efficiently, you must know your way around the interface. For anyone using the software for the first time, there might be a learning curve that can slow down the creative process. This can be an issue if you need to build a presentation with people who have no experience with Figma.

Limited offline access

Although Figma offers an offline mode, there is a limit to the features users can access. This limitation can be an issue when you need to edit or access your presentation from areas with limited internet connectivity.

Design-focused, less presentation-focused

Figma is primarily a design software best suited for designing user interfaces, so it might lack the advanced features you’ll find in dedicated presentation software.

Needs enough RAM and a decent graphics card

For Figma to run smoothly, it requires the right amount of RAM and a decent graphics card. So, if you’re using an older computer, you might not have the necessary specs to run this software.

Now that we’ve analyzed the pros and cons of using Figma, we believe you have enough information to decide if it’s the right tool for your next presentation. So, let’s wrap things up, shall we?

Figma is a powerful and versatile collaborative design tool that you can use to create stunning presentations. Its prototype feature allows you to create unique transitions that make your presentations stand out.

Although there are some drawbacks to using Figma, such as the learning curve involved, the tool has many benefits that make it worthwhile, especially since it’s what many of us designers use in our day-to-day. So, if you’re looking for a tool that you can use to share your ideas in a visually appealing and accessible way, Figma is a great option.

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How to Use Figma for Presentations

Figma is a familiar name to hear or even a work tool for those in the web development and graphic design industry. Still, for those unaware of what we’re talking about, Figma is a UI Prototyping software. Although news about Adobe acquiring the software was the uproar of late 2022, recent news points out a canceled deal between both parties . Alongside Sketch and Adobe XD, they are the preferred tools for UX/UI projects due to their simplicity and collaborative features, but where does Figma fit for presenters?

In this article, we will explore how Figma can benefit presenters by creating more powerful graphics, such as how to convert Figma graphics into PPT presentations and vice versa. Let’s get started.

Table of Contents

What is Figma and How Can it Help Presenters?

Getting started with figma, adding frames to figma, using templates vs. creating from scratch, how to import ppt templates to figma.

• Adding and Editing Text in Figma
• Incorporating Visuals and Effects in Figma

Adding Transitions in Figma

How to export figma designs to powerpoint, presenting and sharing your figma presentation, plugins and tools to check in figma.

Before we dive into how Figma can transform your presentation game, let’s first understand what Figma is. Figma is a cloud-based design tool that enables collaborative design, prototyping, and user interface (UI) design. It’s renowned for its flexible design tools, accessibility, and real-time collaboration features. 

Unlike Illustrator, Figma is intended for collaborative projects between web software designers, as it simplifies design decision revisions, helps accelerate the design-to-code transition, and its easy-to-share link access declutters the file-sharing process. In the case of presenters, it tailors a quite specific niche: teams inside IT companies that have to create presentations but don’t want to acquire other dedicated design software licenses. As the mastery of Figma is a common factor for this type of presenter, they intend to know how to properly apply those tools to presentation design.

Additionally, Figma natively supports SVG format, which allows users to import PowerPoint and Google Slides templates into its platform and customize them for the presentation requirements.

Go to Figma’s website and sign up for a free account (or premium) using the Get Started from Free button.

A new dialogue box will open, asking to provide the email and password for this new account or using Google to sign up.

Now that we have created the account, this landing page will welcome us each time we log into Figma. It mainly displays the Teams in which we are members and any free team will be flagged with the Free logo in cyan color. 

Click on Design File to start creating your new Figma document.

Designing Presentation Slides in Figma

Figma templates are available by browsing in the library, and we can access a limited selection depending on the topic we choose. To locate this library, click the Or browse templates link in the dashboard.

The Community, a resource intended for Pro users, has a broader selection arranged by topics. 

If you are a free user, you have to either work your way through the vast range of graphic design tools or pick from those limited templates in the library, hence why we highly advise you to check our selection of professional PPT templates and Google Slides templates , which you can customize and import into Figma to save time and design decisions. Below, you can see an example of a Figma presentation template for branding.

This FigJam file (NB: FigJam is a whiteboard tool incorporated into Figma. Users can buy just a FigJam subscription if their intent is not to use advanced prototyping tools) is a simplified version of what you can do with Figma, and you can add – from left to right – the following options:

• Shapes (the circle button, which allows you to switch to a square, rhombus, triangle, and a selection of simple shapes)
• Sticky notes
• Stickers – by clicking the More button, we can browse the library, import a new template, enable widgets or plugins, insert code blocks, and add a timer or media elements.
• Connector arrows
• Section boxes (to create new layouts)

For the purpose of our tutorial, we will start from scratch, import a PPT presentation template, and customize it to suit our presentation’s needs.

In Figma, we work with frames rather than slides. It is a common mistake presenters make, and it often leads to confusion when switching between slides. To create a new slide, access the Frame tool (it is the icon resembling a hashtag). You can create the frame by drag and drop to your preferred size.

Or you can save time by using the frame preset listed for presentation, in this case, in a 16:9 aspect ratio.

As you can see, by default, Figma places the frame too close to each other. We recommend moving them a bit apart so it gets easier if you intend to add some transition effect.

We can place elements like mockups inside our presentation slides using third-party plugins.

Unlike other software options, native PPT or PPTX are not accepted. If we want to import PPT templates to Figma, we must convert the presentation slides to SVG format. 

First, open PowerPoint and go to File > Export > Change File Type . Select the option Save as Another File Type .

From the format list, select SVG format.

We can select just one slide or the entire slide deck. Then go back to Figma and click the F logo icon, File>Place Image . You have to click and drag to resize the image, and by holding SHIFT, you preserve the aspect ratio.

Because we’re working with SVG format, Figma will group the template elements together in a group called Clip Path Group . Expand it to access each individual element (it’s best to preserve them grouped so you can move the slide without any issues).

Adding and Editing Text

One of the advantages of the SVG format is that it allows us to edit the imported elements. For instance, if we select the Conclusion placeholder text and want to change font weight and color, we can do that at the right sidebar options.

We can also add text boxes by clicking on the T icon at the top bar and dragging the text box wherever we need to place it.

If we want to add a hyperlink to the text placed, click the Create Link tool and insert the desired URL.

Incorporating Visuals and Effects

As we did with the slide, we can add or replace visual elements inside our Figma presentation design. Let’s take, for example, the following slide imported to Figma, which boosts an image of students in the park. 

We want to replace that image from our PC with another. To do that, go to the right sidebar, and with the placeholder area selected (it should have an image icon), go to Fill > Image and then click Choose Image .

After that, the image is loaded, and we can crop, extend, reposition, and even work with the photo editing sliders available to make it suit our project’s needs.

One considerable difference we need to consider is that Effects and Animations in Figma are intended for web design, meaning you won’t get the entire selection of effects you might be used to in PowerPoint or Google Slides. 

Also, animations are mostly geared toward navigating different pages rather than making elements stand out, like in presentation software. Some complex animation effects are only available to Pro users. However, you can still use Figma for presentations, and most of the transition functionalities can be achieved in prototype mode. This way, you can design your slides using frames define the interactions between them, and then press the play button and present it.

Go to the Prototype tab at the right sidebar menu to create a transition between slides. Hover over the first frame and locate a plus icon. 

Click on it and drag the arrow into the next frame. A new menu will open with the effects available for the transition.

Out of the possible animation effects, here’s a brief description of each one.

• Instant: This transition immediately switches from one frame to another with no visible animation.
• Dissolve: This effect gradually fades out one frame while fading in the next, creating a smooth transition.
• Smart Animate: Figma’s Smart Animate recognizes matching layers between frames and animates these layers smoothly. It’s useful for creating more complex and realistic animations. We highly recommend using this one.
• Slide In / Slide Out: These transitions make the frames slide in or out from different directions (left, right, top, bottom).
• Push: Similar to Slide In/Out but also moves the current frame in the opposite direction, giving the effect that one frame is pushing the other out of the way.
• Move In / Move Out: These are similar to Slide and Push but typically have a more subtle movement, often used for modal or pop-up animations.
• Custom: Allows designers to create a more tailored animation experience by adjusting properties like easing and duration.

Exporting from Figma to PowerPoint is the reversal process we did before. On the right sidebar, we find the option to export. Click on it to make it active, and you can select the scale for the created graphic and the format of your preference (between available options: PNG, JPG, SVG, and PDF).

The format to be selected depends on the kind of output you require. We recommend working with either SVG or PDF for editable files. For completed work, choose PNG as it’s the best quality format.

Unlike PowerPoint, the slideshow mode in Figma works frame by frame, meaning you won’t be able to switch between slides if using Figma if you create them by page. Pages work like a new document in the same project. To fix this issue, copy the assets into a new frame and place it next to the previous one you did on the same page.

Click the play button at the top bar to access the slideshow mode.

Figma will open a new tab in your browser, focusing only on your selected page.

NB: Figma may show 1/2 page if you try to place the slide, but something went wrong with the sizing, and you try again. In this case, you will only get one page in the right size and a wrongly sized one, not the other pages you created. To fix this issue, check if you don’t have an extra asset of the imported presentation slide but in the wrong format.

If you work by frames, here’s the result when entering the slideshow mode.

Alternatively, you may export your Figma presentation to PowerPoint and run the slideshow from there. A convenient way to export your presentation from Figma to PowerPoint is Deck. This plugin will allow you to choose the Frames to export and prepare a .pptx slide deck with your presentation in editable format. 

Then, you can continue your work in PowerPoint or just use PowerPoint to present your slideshow.

Although Figma is a prototyping tool, we can find some useful plugins for presentation design.

• Deck: For users looking to take their Figma presentations into PowerPoint in a fully editable format, work with Deck . Remember that some effects, like complex transparency layers, may not be supported by PowerPoint.
• Font Replacer: A useful tool for replacing fonts across multiple frames simultaneously. It works best with the pro version, as its free mode has some limitations.
• Feather Icons: Offers a collection of open-source icons. The icons are uniform in size and stroke weight, but the collection is somewhat limited.
• Contrast: Useful for checking color contrast ratios (adhering to AA and AAA standards). It only works on solid fills.
• Max Line Length: Helps maintain typography rules by checking the maximum character count across text frames. It does not support mixed fonts.
• Datavizer: An alternative to Microsoft Excel. Great for creating data visualizations like charts and graphs , with the ability to feed in your data?. 
• Remove BG: Efficiently removes background images with just one click. Another turnaround is to remove the background inside PowerPoint . 
• Image Tracer: Converts raster images into vector graphics, simplifying the creation of vector assets. If you find this tool insufficient, you can check our selection of vector images for presentations . 

Figma shouldn’t be considered a presentation software alternative to PowerPoint, Google Slides, or Keynote. It is an extremely practical tool for specific presentation niches, like web development or product development, but it won’t fit the requirements of most industries. The secondary downsize is its steep learning curve compared to the customary presentation software options.

If you intend to create advanced or complex shapes for your presentations, pair PowerPoint or Google Slides with Adobe Illustrator and work around vector graphics. Presentation templates and online vector graphics simplify that process for most users. On the other hand, if you want a cloud alternative with collaborative options, we invite you to discover our guide on how to work with Canva and PowerPoint to create presentations .

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How to Make a Killer Presentation Using Figma

From sleek transitions to impressive design elements, Figma lets you make amazing presentations. We’ll show you how.

There are a million ways to make a presentation, but Figma is an underrated tool for it. The prototype feature in Figma allows for a multitude of customizable transition options. Not only will your transitions wow your audience, but you can incorporate plugins for extra pizazz and keep your audience engaged, making you feel confident in your skills.

We’re going to show you how to make a killer presentation using Figma; just follow this guide.

1. Set Up Your First Presentation Frame

Open Figma and click New design file. Click the Frame Tool ( F ) to draw your frame or to choose a preset frame on the right using Presentation > Slide 16:9 . You can create a master template to save time.

Rename your frame by double-clicking the blue title on the top left. Set a background color; although, you can always change it later by highlighting all frames and changing the fill color.

2. Add the Title Text

Use the Text Tool ( T ) and write your title. Use separate text boxes for separate lines, with only one or two words per line. Set your text preferences in the Text menu on the right. Figma uses Google fonts, so you may want to know the best Google fonts pairings .

3. Add an Image

You can use a stock photo or take your own relevant photo. To add an image, draw a rectangle using the Rectangle tool ( R ). Your image will sit in this shape.

Click the rectangle and go to Fill and click the colored square . Then click Solid > Image > Choose image . Find your image and click Open . Hover over the image to reveal 4 white circles. Click and drag one circle inwards to round the corners of your image.

Arrange your layers so that the image is at the back and the text is on the top layer. You can drag the layers in the layers panel or by using C md/C trl + [ to send a layer back or C md/C trl + ] to bring a layer forward.

4. Create the First Transition

The first transition will open the image and allow the title text to slide into the frame. First, duplicate the first frame by selecting it and hitting C md/C trl + D to duplicate it.

On the left-hand frame, scale the image down by reducing the height attributes in the H box to around 150, leaving a horizontal slit of the image. Center-align it by selecting both images across the frames and clicking O ption + V (Mac) or Alt + V (Windows).

To complete the image transition, select the left-hand image. Then change the opacity to 0% in the right-hand menu in the box next to Pass Through under Layer. This will make the image invisible before it transitions and opens.

Click the first text box and hold down Shift . Start dragging, then also hold down Spacebar and continue dragging the text off of the frame. It looks like it disappears once out of the frame. Without the addition of the spacebar, this transition will not work, but if you hold the spacebar before dragging, it will only move your frame.

Do this again for your second or subsequent text boxes, but drag them a little further left to add some variety in the transition. With the text still selected, reduce the layer opacity to 0% the same way you previously did for the image.

To set the transition, go to Prototype . Select the left-hand frame and click the blue circle that appears in the center of the right-hand side of the frame. Drag it, so the line goes to your second frame.

In the drop-down that says Instant , select Smart Animate . Then change the box with the stopwatch to 1000ms. This will set your transition to take one second from the click of the mouse. The other settings should be set by default. Ensure you do not rename frame titles after setting a transition, otherwise, the files won’t connect.

Click the Play button to test your transition. Go back to Design to continue your presentation design.

5. Add More Slides

To transition from slide 1 to slide 2, duplicate your right-most slide ( C md/C trl + D ). In the new frame—slide 2—move the text boxes out of the frame using the previous technique ( Shift + Drag then Spacebar after you’ve started dragging). Move one text box to the left and the other to the right of the frame. Set the opacity to 0% for both.

For the image, scale it down and move it slightly off-center, then set the opacity to 0%. This, effectively, gives you a blank canvas for your second slide. You can add the content on top of the invisible assets from the previous slide.

Add a large image to the center of the frame. To add some decorations on top of your image, use a Figma plugin for GIFs or download a sticker GIF from Giphy and drag it on top of the image. Select your main image and any GIFs, and group them together ( C md/C trl + G ), this ensures that Smart Animate will work properly.

Select the group and copy it ( C md/C trl + C ). Then paste it onto the frame of slide 1 ( C md/C trl + V ). Scale it down and set the opacity to 0%. Then move this layer to the back ( C md/C trl + [ ). This ensures a smooth transition into the next slide.

Go to Prototype . Select slide 2 and click the blue circle to drag it to slide 3. Figma’s default in the prototype menu is to use the previous settings, so they should be all set according to the previous transition. Go back to Design .

Duplicate the last slide ( C md/C trl + D ). This slide will use the same image as the previous one, but we will scale it to one side of the frame. Move the image to the left of the frame by dragging it while holding Shift . Hover on the right edge of the image until opposite-facing arrows appear, click and drag the right edge of the image towards the left until satisfied.

Go to Prototype and link the two frames together. Then go back to Design .

Add a title and body text to the right of the scaled image, and group them together. Copy the text group and paste it onto the previous slide. Click and drag the text group to the right of the frame like before.

6. Add a Mockup

Create a mockup; check out our guide on creating mockups using plugins in Figma . Add a new frame, then paste your mockup onto it. Resize the mockup to fit the frame.

Copy the mockup and paste it to the previous frame. Resize it to fit within the image portion, then move it to the back of the layers and set the opacity to 0%. Link the frames in Prototype .

7. Add Labels

Duplicate the mockup frame. Add a title and description to explain parts of your mockup. Group the text together and name it. Then, you can create a frosted glass indicator for your bullet points and lines. Group together one line with one circle. Line up your indicator with what it’s describing and add your description next to it. Link the frames in Prototype .

Duplicate the frame and add another bullet point indicator with what it’s describing. Prototype this again. Duplicate each frame per bullet point, so each bullet point transitions alone.

8. End Your Presentation

Duplicate the last slide. Write a final word or two and center it. Copy the text and paste it onto the previous slide.

Scale the text down by holding K while scaling it—this keeps your text formatted while sizing it down. Place your text somewhere near the top of the mockup and send the layer to the back, under the image. Set the opacity to 0%. Go back to your final slide.

Move all the other objects out of the frame using the dragging method. The transition will slide everything out towards the sides and top as the text moves down from the top and expands. Link slides in Prototype .

9. Share Your Figma Presentation

You can access your presentation anywhere that you’re able to log in to your Figma account or share the URL with others, so they can watch from anywhere. To present your final presentation with its transitions, click the Play button and present in full-screen mode.

You can also save the frames as PDFs, although you’ll lose the animated transitions by doing that.

Level Up Your Presentations With Figma

Not only is this presentation minimalist, which won’t overwhelm your audience, but the transitions are professional and clean. It doesn’t take a UI/UX expert to use Figma in a way that benefits your presentations, no matter your job role. Present with confidence, and you will be inundated with questions about how your presentation was made.

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How to create and present animated presentations from Figma using Pitchdeck

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Today, I'm going to be showing you how to export your collaborative presentation slide deck designs from Figma into a real animated presentation that you can actually present.

To do that, we just need to install a Figma plugin called "Pitchdeck" and if you haven't already done that, you can go to the top left of your Figma app and click on the little Figma icon, and if you go to "Community" or "plugins and search for the term "Pitchdeck"; underneath the plugins tab you'll see a result pop-up that is called "Pitchdeck Presentation Studio". If you haven't already installed it, you can go over to the right hand side where you'll see an "install" button, and if you click on that install button it'll change to look something like mine, where it's got a little checkmark and says "installed" next to it; once it looks like that, then we're ready to go back to our project and export these collaborative presentation designs from Figma to an animated presentation.

Now that we've got that installed, we can jump back into our Figma design file, and in this case I'm just going to use this Dieter Rams "Ten Principles for Good Design" collaborative presentation pitch deck that I designed in Figma; and this is just a really nice demo to see how it all works because it's quite simple and we'll be able to clearly have a look at how to present this directly from Figma. So, the first thing we need to do is open up the plugin by right-clicking anywhere, going down to plugins and then clicking on "Pitchdeck Presentation Studio"; this is just going to run the plugin that we just installed the Pitchdeck plugin and what it's doing right now is it's looking through all of these frames on the left hand side, and it's interpreting each frame at the parent level of the the root level of the page as an individual slide; each each frame is treated as a slide and then it's going through all of the layers in each of those frames and it's interpreting them as individual layers that can be used as elements inside each slide for animations and things like that.

Now that the Pitchdeck Figma plugin has finished loading, you can see here that it's interpreted all of our frames. If we have a look behind here you can see that all these frames have been added into the plugin and each frame is being treated as a slide; you can see up here we've got 11 slides.

The first thing to note is that while it is mirroring the frames from the side here, you might notice that the ordering is a little bit different; in fact, it's exactly reversed. The reason for that is because typically when you're designing in Figma, you'll tend to design one frame and then reuse that frame for the next frame and just change the content; when you copy/paste things in Figma it will copy paste it next to the the frame right next to it, but in the layers panel here it'll actually add it above the current frame; you end up with this strange sort of reversed layer order and that's the reason why the Pitchdeck Figma plugin automatically reverses the slide order by default, because it assumes that you've been copy pasting this whole time and your first frame is at the bottom and your latest frame (or last frame) is at the top.

What it does is it just completely reverses that; straight away you get the correct order that you'd expect for your slides, but having said that if you've done it a different way or you just want to update the order, you don't have to touch any of the frames in Figma, you can leave those as they are; you'll see over here in the Figma plugin when we hover over this little "drag" icon in our layers, if you click and hold that and then drag it you can actually move these layers around freely in the Figma plugin itself, and these are independent of the layers over here; if you update the layer order in here your original Figma file as will not be modified it just is kept in the Figma plugin itself; if you want to move those around you can just drag them and drop them and that will reorder these frames super easily; now this one's frame one and this one's frame for but we do want the "intro" at the top; I'll just put that back up, but you can see there how quickly you can reorder all those frames or create a custom order or just mess about with them just by dragging and dropping them there.

The other thing to note is that if you delete some frames in Figma or if you change something around, you can just click on this little refresh icon here and what that will do is it will just load in a fresh set of frames from Figma; these are kind of already loaded in now, so if you make any changes they won't show up straight away in the Figma plugin but if you do need to make some changes or add new slides or delete slides, the way you can do that is just by changing them in your Figma design clicking on the "Refresh" icon and that will once again load all of those frames and and reinterpret them as fresh slides; but for now we're we're happy with our design we just want to animate it and export it as a presentation we can actually use.

Okay, so the first thing to note is that obviously this is our preview area; whenever we change a slide here, this will change the title and the preview of the slide; this is exactly what's going to show up in our presentation once we export it shortly. There's another section underneath that preview which you can see here; the label says "Speaker Notes" and speaker notes is just a text area where you can add any text that you like; you could put bullet points in here, you can add a paragraph, you can add a few words; anything that you like really. The purpose of the speaker notes is (later on we'll see it shortly), but when we export this collaborative presentation, these speaker notes will get carried over; so if you're presenting this to an audience you can basically leave these notes here and get them later when you're presenting and they'll be stored against these frames. That's just a really nice way of adding some extra context that you don't want the audience to see, and it's just for your personal use down here; you simply just type in some text, you don't have to hit save or anything, it'll just be stored there and that's pretty neat.

The other thing you've probably already noticed is that these layers are not static. Obviously in Figma they're just static, they're just some pixels on a frame, but Pitchdeck allows you to animate these frames. By default, they don't have any animations applied to them, but I've already animated these frames and those animations get saved when you close and reopen the plugin, and that's why you can see that these frames I've already got some nice animations on them.

If you do want to animate some of your slides, for all of the elements of your slides you can choose which ones you do (and don't) want animations on. You can see here when I hover over these layers in the right-hand side, this is basically representing the layers from our Figma file; you can see here it's a it's a one-to-one match with all these layer names; at the top here we've got this this image, we've got text, all these layers of text, and there's a drop-down box here (a select box) where we can click on that, and you'll get a whole suite of animations that you can apply. These are predefined animations, you can just pick one and they will they'll work; what we can do is change that to "scale", you can "rotate" it if you wanted to for some reason; it's a bit extreme, but why not do something crazy like "jello" or something like that where it just kind of comes out; these are a little bit attention-grabbing. The more conservative ones would be at the top where just a very smooth sort of "fade in" and "fade out" and you can change the timing as well; if you want that to come in last you simply drag the timeline over to the right here, and that'll come in after two seconds; you can change that to be however you want, you can also make that go for three seconds and have a really smooth and slow.

The other neat thing you can do is if you've already setup your animations on one frame or you've set up a certain animation let's say on this image that you really like, you don't have to manually recreate that on every single other layer if you don't want to; a quick way of copying those layer styles over to other layers it's just by highlighting the layer that you want the animation for and you'll see this button pop up, if you hover over it only, you'll see a pop-up that says "Copy"; if you click on that copy button it says "the animations have been copied", and what you can do is go to any other frame or any other slide and any other layer and you just hover over that and you'll see that the "Paste" button is now enabled. All you have to do is click on paste, and that will get carried over from whatever you just copied; you can see here now the image animation is exactly the same as the one we just copied, and you can do that from any layer to any other layer and it's just a really nice way of being able to store an animation and distribute it across other layers without having to go into the select box and manually select that animation every time and then drag the timeline if you already know what animation you want; that's just a really simple way of doing that, if you want to go about doing it that way.

Of course, the animation styles are completely up to you; there's there's a lot of options, and if you don't want an animation you can simply set it back to the default and just click on "no animation", that will just disable it; you can see here that just never animates at all, and that's kind of neat. I'll just copy that back again; if I copy that from a different slide I can re-enable that back on here just by copy pasting it, or I can just go to "no animation" and then change it back and it will keep the timeline; it won't remove that if I decide to just turn off the animation to see what it looks like, you can do it that way.

I didn't already say; obviously it changes the preview on the fly, so whenever you change an animation like this as we were just doing, it changes it on the fly but if you've already changed it and you just want to kind of keep looking at it or playing it, this little "Play" icon on the right-hand side of the animations toolbar, if you click on that that will just keep replaying it and you can do that as many times as you want just to see that animation continue. That's roughly it; the animations are designed to be very, very, simple; very straightforward and very easy to replicate across different frames, and that's what they look like. You can have fun with that you can make it adapt to any certain design aesthetic or branding that you that you have, if you have sort of an animation guideline or if you want something a bit more crazy or a bit more fun compared to the more sort of smooth and conservative animations at the top, that's completely up to you.

Now that we've set up our frames, we've ordered them the way we want, we've added our speaker notes, we've added all of animations that we want, we're happy with it; what we can do next is we can export or update this this presentation. I've already created a link before, but if you haven't this will say "Upload Presentation" and if we click on this little select box here you can see that if there's a few formats, and there's two groups as "animated" exports and "static" exports; static exports are things like PDF files PowerPoint files Keynote files; these are things that can get saved onto your computer, and I'll go over them in a separate Figma tutorial, but for today we're going to be looking at the animated one, because we want all these animations to actually do something.

What we can do is, we can (we've already got it selected), but if you select the "Pitchdeck URL" export format and yours might say "Upload Presentation" if you haven't done it before, but mine says "Update Presentation" because I've already created one. I'm just going to click on "Update Presentation" and what this is going to do is, it's going to generate frames or slides from all of this data that we've just put in, all of our image data, all of our speaker notes, all of our animations, all of our layers and it's going to create a presentation URL that we can use and present from anywhere; we'll see what that looks like in a second, at the moment it's just uploading all of the image assets, all of the animation data online, and in a minute you'll get a URL a password-protected URL; you'll only be able to use it if you have the password, and we'll see what that looks like in a second. It'll depend on how many images you have and how fast your internet connection is; I'm in Australia, so my internet connection is horrible (amongst many of the worst ones probably in the world), but we'll wait for this to finish uploading and then I'll show you what it looks like; hopefully it won't take too much longer.

The other thing to know is that if you've already uploaded this and you just want to get the details out (I'll show you in a second), but this little "padlock" icon up here, if you click on that, which you can (I'll show you in a minute), you'll be able to get this URL and password that you're going to see in a second straight away; you don't have to re-upload it every single time to get this link that we're about to see, you can simply get it just by clicking on that icon.

Alright, we're finally done! The Australian internet has worked, and we've got our link. You can see here that it says are a secure presentation link is ready we can copy the secure link below which is this one and the password and this is going to let us present our deck; what I'm going to do is I'm going to copy this password and then I'm going to open up this secure link and you can either do that by copy pasting this link by copy that copying that button, clicking that copy button, or you can click on this secure link icon; that's what I'm going to do.

Okay; I've got my URL here and this has just opened up the URL that we've just clicked on, and you can see that we've got a prompt to login to this deck, and because I've already copied the password, all I need to do is paste that here; I'm going to just paste it and you can see the "Login" button is now available; if I click on that (I'm just going to minimize my Figma window for the time being), I'm just in Chrome at the moment, and you can see here that it's loaded up our presentation after it's authenticated with our password. This is neat, this is exactly what we just exported from Figma; and you can see that we've got this little control panel down here in the bottom left, and there's a few things to go through; I'm going to go through all these with you just so you can see how it all works.

The first thing to know we've got simple controls; if you click on next that brings in our our next slide with all the animations that we set in Figma there's also a slide selector; if you do want to jump to a certain slide straight away you can see all of our frame names have been turned into slide selections; if I want to jump to number six or number nine, I can quite easily do that using this selector and I can use previous and next buttons as you would expect, you might not be able to see this but if I also use my keyboard; if I go "left arrow" on the keyboard and "right arrow" on the keyboard, I can navigate through those frames; if I push the "spacebar", that will also advance the frames as you would expect from something like Keynote or another presentation platform; that's a really easy way to present as well.

The other thing you may have noticed is that our toolbar just disappeared, and the reason for that is it's set to automatically disappear once it's inactive for a few seconds; if you just don't move your mouse, the mouse cursor disappears and the controls disappear; but to get them back, all you have to do is just move the mouse again and they'll pop right up. It will also not hide it while you're using the toolbar, so if you've got your mouse over the toolbar section and you're actually doing stuff, it knows not to to get rid of that; if you've got your mouse down here and you're wondering why it's not going away, you just have to move your mouse away from that toolbar and then it'll disappear and get out of your way; once you've done that, you can navigate with the keyboard once you've actually closed that off and don't want to show it to anyone, that's a really nice way of doing that.

We can also go into full-screen mode; if you click on this little full screen icon on the top the bottom right where it says "fullscreen", if you click on that that will actually take us into the proper "HTML fullscreen" mode; I have no browser window now; end-to-end the screen is just purely my presentation right now. This is perfect if you're presenting on a TV, or presenting on a projector to an audience, you want to go into full-screen mode and make it really seamless. Again, I'm just controlling this right now with my keyboard, using the "left and right arrows" and the "spacebar" if I want to just jump to the next frame. If you're in full-screen mode and you push the "Esc" key you can close it, which I've just done, or you can also click on (you can't see it in this recording maybe), but at the bottom it says "windowed", and if you click on the "windowed" button, which is exactly where the full-screen button was, it just changes to say windowed; if you click on that that'll bring it back to this windowed sort of version; that's really neat. The full-screen mode is awesome for presenting to an audience if you don't have all this desktop stuff or or Chrome window anywhere, that's really nice.

The other thing that we can do is enable the pointer; if you've if you've used laser pointers in real life you will have an idea of what this is; if you click on pointer you can see here that we now have this this red laser beam virtual laser beam that I can use to to point at things; that's really nice, I'm just using my mouse right now to move that around it just follows your mouse and if I again go back down here down to the bottom toolbar you'll see that it's selected the red laser pointer by default but you can scroll left and right with this using your mouse and you'll notice that there's a bunch of different options If we want to use, let's say the "nyan cat", we can select "nyan cat" and that will let me use nyan cat as my cursor. This is kind of just for fun; obviously, if you want to be super professional you can use the the red laser pointer, but if you're like me and you want to use Nicolas Cage's face to sort of highlight things, that option is available.

There's there's a whole bunch of them; we've got Xzibit, Fry from Futurama, there's this funny dog/curious dog, we've got Carlton from The Fresh Prince, you can make him dance on things; there's this there's quite a lot of them; Dodge, Keanu Reeves; just many, many. This one is very funny, I don't know what you would ever use this for, but it made me laugh and I thought it would be quite funny; so that's in there as well. You can play around with those if you want to just have fun with the pointers, that's how you do it. If you want to turn the pointer off you simply just click on pointer again, and that will be toggled off, and once again you've got no pointer.

The next thing I want to cover is the notes section; if you click on "notes", this will open up another window; you can see here I'm just dragging this over here, and you can see on the right-hand side now we've got this this whole new panel that we didn't have before. If I go down here, you can see that at the bottom of my controls it's telling me that we're now "connected to the remote control" and on the remote control it's telling me that we're "connected to the presentation"; these two things are now linked they can talk to each other, so if we click on next in the controls, it will change the slide in the main window. These are two totally separate windows, but they can interact with each other; I can jump around here, I can go to different frames, and the cool thing is you can see up here it's telling me what slide I'm currently on, what slide I just came from, and what the next slide is going to be.

This little navigation bar up here will tell me that above that I've got a slide timer; this is just keeping track of the entire presentation I can pause that and reset it I can start it again pause it and start it this allows me to keep track of how long I've been speaking and it's just a really nice way of keeping track that you're not going over time if your presentation has a time limit and of course you'll notice the speaker notes the speaking it's that we added in Figma and now showing up per frame or per slide whenever we select a new one; you can see here that the notes just keep changing and those are specific to each each frame these never get shown to the audience these are only shown to wherever you've got this; the cool thing you could do is you could have this presentation window over here on one monitor and then you could put your control panel or speaking that's frame on another monitor and control that from a laptop or control that from a secondary screen and that way you can just have all these displayed to yourself including the timer; that's really neat.

The other cool thing which ties into what we were just looking at is the pointer; if you click on this pointer icon in the remote control you can see it brings up this little interface and it's enabled the the remote control on the right hand side and if we drag this little icon around just by using the mouse; if you click and drag on that icon again you can completely remote control that that laser pointer from a separate screen and again you can obviously change those cursors, and this is two way binded as well; for some reason you changed in the presentation mode you can see in the other window it's getting changed and the same thing obviously happens the other way; you can see here and same if we enable and disable the pointer you can see if I enable it from one it also enables it in the other and disables it from the other as well; that's pretty neat that you can do that.

You can change that as much as you want control it from the secondary window and that just completely correlates to the main presentation; you've got a you've got an idea of where that's going to be if you're not actually looking at it the whole time; I can just turn that off again and if we close this off now if we happen to close that window you can see down here it immediately tells us that we're now not connected to the remote control if you want to recon you simply just click on the notes button again and wait for that to open and you can see it's now changed to connect it again and now we're connected; if you do accidentally close it or it drops out you can you can totally just just close it reopen it from here and it'll reconnect itself automatically and now you can see that we've gotten control over it again just by reopening it.

The other thing that you can do which I think I'll have to cover in a separate video (because I don't have a video set up at the moment), but what you can actually do is instead of just using this notes window on your computer and control it from a different screen, the alternative thing you can actually do is control it from your phone. You'll notice next to the "notes" button there's another button called "remote"; if you click on "remote", this will bring up a QR code, and if you've got your iPhone or your Android phone or your smart phone with you, what you can do is open up the camera, hover it over or point it at this QR code that we're looking at now, and if you open up the link that it prompts you with, that'll take you to the browser and on your phone what you're actually going to get is exactly the same interfaces we just looked at in this window here.

This interface is going to load up on your phone, and you're going to be able to do everything that you just did in this remote control from your phone, including the laser pointer you can touch on the touch screen and drag that laser pointer around you; can touch these buttons and and change the slides; you can make these selections; you can do your timer you can read your speaker notes, all from your phone; that's a really cool feature if you prefer to walk around while you're talking or you're not close to the laptop that you're actually presenting from you can do it all remotely just by opening up that opening up that QR code on your phone.

I'd recommend testing that out I can't show you that on my phone right now because I'm not recording my video on the phone but that's how you do it you just open up the remote button scan this QR code and you'll be ready to go exactly the same thing you'll see once you connect to it on your phone this will change to say you're connected to the remote and your phone will also tell you you're connected to the presentation; it works exactly the same way as the notes window but the remote just lets you go mobile and actually take it with you on your phone via the internet; that's super fun.

That's essentially what it looks like; you can obviously customize this presentation back in Figma or if you want to change it, but once it's on this link, you're you're pretty much good to go you can present this from anywhere you as long as you have a browser; that's all you need, it's just a cloud-based presentation and you just take that URL and password that we looked at before with you. As I said before, we'll go back into Figma and I'll show you how to re-access that password if you do need it.

So, I'll jump back into Figma; you can see here this is what we got once we uploaded or updated the presentation to the link we're just looking at. If I close off that Figma plugin and reopen it; and the way you can reopen it quite easily if you've already run the Figma plugin once is, you can go over to the right-hand side here and under "Plugin", you'll see the little pancake icon with "Pitchdeck" next to it; if you click on that icon, what that's going to do is it's just going to relaunch the Figma plugin without you having a right-click, go down to plugins and go down to the "Pitchdeck Presentation Studio" Figma plugin again; that's just a really nice way of launching it back up; once again it's just loading up the frames from our Figma file.

The neat thing about this is it's all collaborative; the the cool thing is because everything is in Figma, and you're already using Figma for all your designs and component libraries and brand and all that sort of stuff, and you've probably got multiple designers or content authors, or production people, all using Figma to generate a presentation like this; whether it's to present to a client or present to another stakeholder or somebody internally because you're using Figma, you get the collaborative design features for free Basically any presentation becomes a collaborative presentation; you're just making these collaborative presentations, and then get all the benefits of being able to export it directly from Figma using this plugin.

Again to get that URL and password back you don't have to re-upload the presentation again if you haven't stored it somewhere if you didn't email it to somebody and just want to really quickly access it; all you need to do is click on this little "padlock" and that'll bring up this little panel here and give you the same URL and password that you you got when you confirm the upload; again you can copy/paste those the password and the URL if you want to send it to somebody, or if you just want to open it really quick, you can just click on that link again where it says "secure link", you just click on that and that'll open up your browser and just use the password again to to get back into it and you can close that off just by clicking on this or clicking anywhere else.

That's pretty much it you can see how everything kind of came together at the end there all of our speaker notes which we saw all of our animations that ended up being in the presentation the order of the slides all worked out the way that we expected it all kind of comes come straight from Figma and I think that's really cool because again if you're doing everything in Figma already and you're already kind of collaboratively creating presentations in Figma you don't need to use a tool like PowerPoint or use a tool like Keynote where everything is disconnected from Figma and you kind of just want to use Figma as your source of truth for creating pictures or presentations and this lets you do that just by translating all that that good Figma design work into of course animations and things that are more specifically designed for a presentation like speaking notes and remote controls and things like that.

Okay, I'll leave it there; I think that was a fairly comprehensive overview of what you can do with the Pitchdeck Figma plugin in terms of generating presentations. In another Figma tutorial, I'll go over these other export functions that I mentioned, which would be exporting your collaborative presentations from Figma to PDFs, exporting presentations from Figma to PowerPoint files, exporting presentations from Figma to Keynote files and exporting presentations from Figma to Google Slides. We can do all of that as well, but for day today I just really wanted to go over the fundamental concepts of Pitchdeck and explain how it works demonstrate all of the the features that are currently offers, and show you how to take your collaborative presentations from Figma into a real platform that you can present with, and get all those cool things like animations for free.

Thank you as always for watching, and I hope that you've learned something from this Figma tutorial that's relevant to what you want to be using Figma for. Of course, if you have any feedback, please let me know, as I'm always trying to make these plugins the best that they can be. Thank you again, and we'll speak to you again very soon.

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