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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. 

If you have questions or additional tips to share, please reach out: [email protected]

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15+ Figma Presentation Templates (+ Slide Deck Style Graphics)

If you are a designer on the hunt for the perfect Figma presentation template, look no further! Our post features a collection of stunning slide deck templates that will level up your Figma design project presentation and showcases.

Figma is a versatile software that’s capable of handling various types of designs, including slide decks. You can use Figma to create stylish slide decks and presentations to showcase your projects and present new concepts to clients without having to rely on any presentation software like PowerPoint or Keynote.

One of the main benefits of using Figma to design slide decks is you get to craft more attractive and visual slides for the presentation. And with this collection of Figma templates, you’ll be able to go above and beyond with your slideshow designs.

We handpicked a collection of Figma templates that feature slide deck-style graphics and layouts. You can use these to make your own presentations, slideshows, and more.

Let’s dive right in and explore these free and paid options that will impress clients and enhance your presentations.

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Aesthetic eCourse Slide Deck for FIGMA & PSD

This is a dynamic collection of 100 customizable slide templates for Figma and they are perfect for creating engaging online course-related presentations. This creative template not only includes visually pleasing designs but also provides a host of layouts like quotes, infographics, and lists. Suitable for webinars, influencer content, and marketing pitches, it’s a practical solution that saves you time and resources while elevating the visual appeal of your presentations.

Fashion Slideshow Promo Template for Figma

This Figma presentation template offers a chic, minimalistic, and contemporary design, optimal for delivering your fashion-related content effectively. It features high-quality screens, customizable layers, fonts, and colors, and is fully editable, enabling you to customize its vector shape to your taste.

Infographics Figma Presentation Template

A useful Figma presentation template for creating engaging, data-driven presentations. It offers stunning visuals, dynamic roadmaps, and insightful timelines that effectively communicate information. It includes slide layouts in Photoshop, Figma, Sketch, PDF, and PNG formats, all fully editable for easy color changes and a free font. Unleash your data’s potential with this captivating infographic template.

Circle Infographic Presentation Template for FIgma

Explore the Circle infographic presentation template for Figma, a set of slides designed for creative data visualization in slide decks. With this template, you can create mesmerizing presentations, make compelling roadmaps, and craft insightful timelines. The kit comes with PSD, Sketch, PNG, and PDF files, and options for easy color changes. Plus, it’s fully editable and even includes a free font.

Process Diagrams Figma Infographic Template

This Figma slide template makes showcasing intricate workflows and procedures simple. It comes in various convenient file formats, includes an array of visual displays, and features editable graphics with clear color combinations. Its user-friendly design is perfect for crafting beautiful process diagrams and roadmaps for your presentation and slide decks.

Business Strategy Infographic Slides for Figma

This Figma template includes an assortment of fully editable infographics related to various business-related concepts. It’s especially ideal for crafting eye-catching business strategy presentations. The package includes Figma files, unique icons, three slide infographic templates, and free access to a creative font.

Digital Marketing Infographic Slides for FIgma

This is a modern Figma infographic template that transforms your presentations with beautiful infographics. It allows you to showcase data in visual form with stylish digital marketing infographic slides. It includes 3 slide templates in Figma, Adobe XD, and Sketch formats.

Hero Header Templates for Figma

Even though these Figma templates are for designing website header sections, they can also be used to create attractive slides for your presentations. This pack contains seven innovative, fully editable, and scalable header designs perfect for an array of slides such as food delivery, online stores, and tech tools.

Hero Section Design Figma Templates

Another collection of sleek, modern hero design templates for your slide designs. It includes 11 distinct hero header layouts, fully customizable with Figma. They are excellent for creating cutting-edge website designs and slide decks for various presentations.

Eshoin – Ecommerce Hero Header Templates

Eshoin is a collection of modern header designs for Figma, which are also perfect for enhancing presentations, and various projects. With a sleek, professional layout, the templates come in editable formats (.PSD, .xd, .fig), and feature a 1920×1080 pixel, 16:9 ratio design incorporating Google fonts. Primarily designed for product showcasing, they ensure an appealing and informative display for viewers.

eCommerce Hero Header Design for Figma

This eCommerce-themed header design lends a clean aesthetic to your website or slide decks. It’s user-friendly, adaptable for small to large businesses, and ideal for crafting bold product showcase slide layouts. With compatibility across Sketch, Adobe XD, Invision Studio, and Figma, all components are vector-based ensuring a sleek design.

Free Figma Presentation Templates

Don’t forget to try these free Figma templates.

Free Deck Template with Fresh Folks Illustrations

This is a bundle of beautiful slide designs featuring cute and fun illustrations that add a creative and more engaging look to presentations. The slides have multipurpose designs that can be customized to make various types of slide decks.

Free Figma Pitch Deck Template

This free Figma presentation template comes with a set of bold slide designs for making pitch deck-style presentations. It has several slides with gradient colors and minimal designs.

Free Grey Pitch Deck Presentation Template

With more than 20 different slide layouts to choose from, this Figma presentation template is one of the best options for crafting a convincing pitch deck to win over your clients. And it’s free to use.

30+ Free Presentation Slides for Figma

This free Figma presentation template comes in both light and dark color themes. You can use it to make elegant and bold presentations for various branding and business slide decks. It includes over 30 unique slides too.

Free Figma Presentation Template

Use this Figma presentation template for free to design bold and professional presentations for your business and design projects. The template is especially ideal for startups and entrepreneurs for creating pitch decks.

Free Elegant Presentation Template for Figma

Another free presentation template for Figma. This template includes several creative slide layouts with elegant designs. They are suitable for a wide variety of slide deck presentations. Even though it uses a different language, you can easily customize each slide to change content.

Building a Pitch Deck in Figma

Over the last years, I have built a ton of pitch decks, and I literally tested every presentation design software out there. For the first couple of years, I was using PowerPoint because everybody was working with it. After gaining more and more experience designing pitch decks, I decided to work with Keynote, simply because I preferred its design features.

Having a background as a designer, I always felt slowed down and limited when using the presentation software heavyweights. In addition to that, no tool existed on the market that allowed me to work collaboratively with my co-workers. This was one reason why my desktop was a chaotic collection of these files:

That was the time when I decided to try to build the next pitch deck in Figma. 

Figma  is a fantastic design tool that is famous for its real-time collaboration-feature. I solely used Figma for graphic and website design - until now.

The first steps to create a pitch deck in Figma

I started building the pitch deck template by creating a collection of slides. I shaped frames with the dimension of 1920 x 1080 and defined my colors & fonts for the project. I suggest you do the same because it is an excellent way to change everything in one step at a later point in time.

By predefining the design, I was able to keep all pitch deck slides in the same style. I recommend you to choose a nice color set beforehand, so none of the slides stands out negatively from the other slides.

I decided to go with soft colors, which are lovely to look at!

From that point on I simply created each slide after another, always having an eye on the design slide to keep all slides aligned.

In a final step, I put all slides into the correct order and exported everything as a .pdf. You can also use the Figma Preview Mode up on the right to see what you have built.

Introducing the Figma Pitch Deck Template

‍I enjoyed building slides in Figma so much that I decided to design a  Figma Pitch Deck Template  based on our professional  pitch deck template , which helped hundreds of founders get funded within the last years.

The Figma pitch deck template features 102 easy to edit slides, 300+ predesigned elements, device mockups, maps, and hundreds of content proposals.

You can download a  free version  with 12 slides or get the  full version  with all slides for just $19.

Start building your pitch deck in Figma today.

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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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Pitchdeck Presentation Studio Figma Plugin

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Create and present slide decks with animations, videos and links from your Figma designs

• Super easy animations and real-time previews inside Figma. • Embed GIFs and YouTube/Vimeo videos anywhere in your slides. • Attach clickable URLs to any elements in your slides. • Quickly re-order slides by visual position, Figma layer order or drag and drop. • Automatically generates password protected presentation URLs. • Simple, seamless and easy to use presentations in the browser. • Includes speaker notes, timer, laser pointer, and slide controls. • Control your presentation from your phone by scanning a QR code. • Present in fullscreen with notes and controls on a second screen. • Export to PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides and PDF. • Relaunch directly from the Figma sidebar in your projects.

— To use Pitchdeck

1. Install Pitchdeck and create a new Figma project. 2. Create as many frames (slides) as you need for your presentation. 3. Add any images and text to your frames to design your slides. 4. Run Pitchdeck inside the page containing your frames. 5. Apply some animations, embeds, links or notes to each slide. 6a. Select the “Pitchdeck URL” format and click “Upload Presentation”. 6b. Or, select PDF/PowerPoint/Keynote/Google Slides and click “Export”. 8. Enjoy your presentation!

For step-by-step video tutorials: • Create and present an animated deck – https://youtu.be/CgHfcrm3oXw • Embed videos and GIFs – https://youtu.be/sT8Rt1DLnCM • Add clickable URL links -https://youtu.be/vyqGdJy8Hdw • Export to PowerPoint – https://youtu.be/IkiG4PWJZEM • Export to Keynote – https://youtu.be/yJ3W1pjS0LI • Export to Google Slides – https://youtu.be/BkMRUL5SvmE • Export to PDF – https://youtu.be/W_W8aYQvg28

— Additional Notes

• 16:9 ratio frames are recommended (eg. 1280×720 or 1920×1080) for the best results.

• If your presentation contains many slides with large images, please note that Pitchdeck may take a bit longer to initially load (and refresh) your frames.

• If you add or update any layers in your Figma file while Pitchdeck is already running, you can click the “Refresh” icon in the Pitchdeck header menu to refresh your layers and make them show up in the Pitchdeck slides and animation previews.

• Pitchdeck will automatically detect if a layer contains areas of full transparency and set “PNG” as the default export format, otherwise it will be set to “JPG”. You can override this to set the export format of any layer to JPG or PNG by adding your own export setting.

• You can set a solid background colour on any slide by setting the “fill” of that frame to the colour you’d like in Figma.

• Presentation URLs will automatically expire after a 30 day period of inactivity (30 days after the link was last accessed and viewed); if you would like to re-activate the URL after it has expired, simply run Pitchdeck in the Figma file and click “Upload Presentation”.

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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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Today I'm going to be showing you how to embed a live Figma prototype into any element of your slides in a Figma presentation using the Pitchdeck Figma plugin.

To get started all we need to do is open up a Figma file, click on the little "Resources" icon at the top here, and if you search for the word "Pitchdeck", you'll see Pitchdeck pop up. All you need to do is click on the Pitchdeck result, and then you can run the Figma plugin by either clicking on this "Run" button here or you can click on the little "More options" icon and click on "Save Figma plugin" and that'll just make it easier to access it later. I've already saved it to my Figma plugins list, so to run the Figma plugin I'm just going to go to my Figma canvas, right click, go down to "Plugins" go down to "Saved Plugins", click on the "Pitchdeck" item, and that's just going to run the Figma plugin we saved a second ago.

If you're new to the Figma plugin, the way that it works is it basically treats any frames on your page as a slide. I've got a bunch of different slides here and in each of those frames I've just got a bunch of text layers and content layers, and those will get treated as individual layers in your slides that you can add things like animations and links and inputs to; for today's Figma tutorial, I'm going to be focusing on how to embed a live Figma prototype. To do that, all I've done is just set up a brand new frame called "prototype Embed" (you can call it whatever you want), and inside of that frame I've just got one layer, it's just a rectangle layer called "Embed", and this is basically just going to be a placeholder layer for where we want our Figma prototype embed to go.

In this case I'm going to be embedding a different Figma file; I've got this other landing page design that I grabbed from the Figma Community and I'm going to be embedding this as a live Figma prototype in our Pitchdeck presentation. The first thing I'm going to do is just change the Figma prototype background and I'm going to change it to the same color as my presentation slides. In this case it's going to have a white background, so what I want to do is in my design or the embed that I want to include I'm just going to click on the "Prototype" tab here, then I'm going to go down to the "Background" option and I'm going to change that to white. You can just change that to whatever background color you want; in this case I'm just going to leave it to white, which matches the slide background as you can see here, the outer background border that I've got set is white, so I'm going to set the prototype background to white as well.

Then, to get the Figma prototype link all you need to do is click on the little play button here to go into present mode and this is going to load up the Figma prototype window; what we want to do is we want to click on the "Share Prototype" button, and then we want to make sure that the settings are set to "Anyone with the link", so "Anyone with the link" is selected instead of "Only people invited". I've got "Anyone with the link" and then "Can view"; I want to set that to "Can view" instead of "Can edit", as it doesn't need to have an edit permission, just "Can view". Once those two options are set, you can click on the "Copy link" icon here; click on "Copy link", that's going to copy it to our clipboard, and then we're basically ready to go.

Now I'm going to go back to my presentation design, I'm going to go to my "Prototype Embed" slide and instead of applying an animation, I'm going to go to the "Embeds" tab; I'm going to click on "Embeds" here, and that's going to give us a text area to paste an embed link. In this case I'm going to be pasting it onto this rectangle layer embed layer here that we set up, I'm going to click on the input field and paste that Figma prototype Link in that we just copied from the Figma file, and you can see here it instantly loads up the Figma prototype. We can scroll through this, we can interact with it if it has any interactivity, we can do that as we'd expect, but for today I'm just going to be mainly using it as a way to present a live Figma file inside of our presentation.

Now that we've got that set up, I'll just mention that you can use this on any layer; if you did want to apply it to a different slide you could apply it to, for example, this little rectangle layer. We've got our little image layer, you could paste it in there, and that would replace that layer with the Figma prototype as well. Obviously, that's going to be a bit smaller and it's got this overlay on it, so maybe this isn't the best slide for it, but I just wanted to show you that you can basically embed different things onto different layers in any slide, and that will work as expected; I'm just going to remove that.

Now that we've got our embed set up, all I'm going to do is now export this so we can actually present it in the browser. What we need to do is click on the "Export" button in the Figma plugin; I'm going to click "Export" make sure the format is set to "Pitchdeck Presentation (Web URL)"; I've got that selected, and then all I need to do is click on "Update Web Presentation" or "Upload Web Presentation" if you've not already uploaded one yet. I'm going to click on "Update Web Presentation", this is basically just going to quickly upload all of the images and slide data and we're going to get this message here that lets us know the presentation is ready to go.

You can either send this to your end user or customer as a separate password and URL, but in this case I'm just going to make it quick and copy the "Passwordless URL", which will automatically log into the presentation for me. I've copied that to my clipboard just by clicking this little "Copy" icon, and if I go to my browser and paste that in; I'm just going to hit "Paste" and then "Enter", and this is going to load up the presentation that we just uploaded from Figma. We can jump around here, we can load up our different slides that we created, we've got all of our animations and things like that, but of course we want to actually check out slide two in this case. I'm going to click on slide two, and this is going to now load up the live Figma prototype that we just embedded using the Figma plugin.

You can see here this is the live Figma prototype added exactly where we wanted; you can see we've got our outer kind of padding that we kept on the slide to make sure that we've got a bit of a buffer, we've set the background to the prototype as white as well which means we can basically now scale this up and down, and we can scale it without having any issues with background colors or anything coming through from the Figma prototype. That's really nice if you want to make it bigger or smaller or go full screen, the prototype is going to scale up and down with that as well.

That's basically what it looks like there, and I don't think this really has any interactivity, but this is a live Figma designl, so what we can do is if we go to our Figma landing page in the design, and we want it to change some of this content. For example, if we just jump in here and change this to; I'll just quickly change the font, so we'll just make this "Arial" for now and replace that; we can basically change this content here to be "Presentation Live Updates" here, and if we go back to our presentation you can see here that it's basically updating in real time. If I just move that over a little bit for you to see, we can see here that this is basically going to change in real time; this is 100 live from Figma embedded in your presentation. You can basically make changes to that presentation even after the link has been shared or while the presentation is happening; maybe you want to present something and make changes in Figma while you're presenting, that could be a interesting use case as well for showing off work to clients that's in progress.

That's basically it, I just wanted to show you the basics of how to embed a live Figma prototype into your presentations that are viewed in the Pitchdeck web application; this is a really easy way of going about it and it gives you a lot more flexibility to enhance what kind of content you can show in a presentation that you're sharing with clients or teammates or stakeholders as well. Let's leave it there for today, I hope that's been interesting for you if you've been wondering how to include live Figma prototypes inside your presentations this is a really, really easy way to go, especially if you're already using the Pitchdeck Figma plugin, this is just a new embed that's been added.

If you want to see what other embeds are available, you can click on this little "Supported Embeds" link in the Figma plugin, and that's just going to open up a link to the documentation and give you a whole list of examples of other services that are supported to embed into your slides as well. As I said, you can kind of jump in here and this will load up a bunch of different examples; we can see we've got Figma designs, Figma prototypes, Loom, Lottie files, Google Docs, GIFs, MP4s, SoundCloud; all these different platforms you can embed directly into the Figma plugin for your presentations.

Let's leave it there; thank you as always for watching, and we'll be back soon with more Figma tutorials like this one very soon.

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Figma Widget URL : https://www.figma.com/community/widget/1124060556615523237

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A simple, synchronized presentation deck. Blast through your next presentation deck with page templates including a cover page, descriptor pages (full and minimized), and layout guides. Each page presents the project title, author, and date which are synchronized to all pages on any update. The widget also organizes itself into sequentially numbered pages for managing exports. Create a landscape legal presentation, export as pdfs (merge) and you have a document that presents well on today's 16:9 monitors as well as prints predictably.

Presentation Deck Widget, source: contentful , figma

• Change Layout . This will switch between the six different layouts ranging from cover pages to the various content pages.
• Rotate . Change the layout from portrait to landscape.
• Page Size . Switches from letter to legal size.
• Show Borders . This toggles the visibility of orange dotted lines that demark the borders within the content pages.
• Lock Widget . This locks or unlocks all of the Presentation Deck widgets on the stage.
• Confidential . Shows/Hides a red "confidential" flag in the footer of the files.
• Refresh Widget . If some data did not bind the way you expected, it may just be a refresh issue that can be resolved with this button.

Presentation Deck Features, source: contentful , figma

There are a number of inputs on the widget that if changed, will effect other Presentation Deck widgets.

• Project Name . Found as the main title in the cover pages or on the lower right hand corner of content pages.
• Author . Just below the Project Name or in the center of the page for smaller page layouts.
• Date . Found next to the Author.
• Page Name . This is the main title on pages and will be used to create the table of contents on the cover page with a table of contents.

Presentation Deck Data Bindings, source: contentful , figma

• Cover . A simple cover that will present the minimum project title, author, and date.
• Cover TOC . A more complex cover that builds a table of contents based on your pages. Pages are automatically numbered based on their position next to each other starting from the upper left, down, then right.
• Descriptor . A content page with a section on the right for fuller descriptions or notes.
• Descriptor Small . A content page with information about the project at the bottom.
• Page Only . A content page with no information for content that is larger. To name this page, you will need to first choose "Descriptor" or "Descriptor Small", name the page, then change it to "Page Only"

Presentation Deck Page Layouts, source: contentful , figma

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