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Figma Slides
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#72Packaging on this is interesting – from pricing page:
How much will Figma Slides cost when it is generally available? Figma Slides will be included in all Starter plans for free or can be purchased for $3 per seat/month on Professional plans, and $5 per seat/month on Organization and Enterprise plans.
Do I need to have a full Figma design seat to use Figma Slides? No, you do not need to have a paid Figma Design or paid FigJam seat to use Figma Slides. You will need a paid Figma Design seat to use advanced design tools in Figma Slides.
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#73Meanwhile, I use typesetting (Typst) to create slides. I know I should just dump it and use Google Slides but I just can't help myself, as a hacker in spirit. Take a look at one of my school project presentations, Hypnotherapist-GPT: https://typst.app/project/r-gKDYaSo4KvbEJo-LNYTV
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow, I didn't know about that Keynote feature, that's amazing. it really shows the extent to which they care about visual design as an end result. I desperately wish Apple's office apps got more development. They have the potential to be world-beating (especially Numbers) but Apple seems content to just update a couple of minor features a year and leave it at that.
Keynote is absolutely the presentation software a designer would create, if they didn't have to do it while being saddled with inappropriate technologies. I'm a pragmatist and I understand why collaborative editing and web-based "files" won out...but when you use a well-crafted piece of desktop software like Keynote it really makes you wistful for what might have been. People have forgotten how much of a hole you dig…
You prompted me to try out the little-known web version of Keynote on iCloud.com. I expected it to be surprisingly good if not quite up to the desktop standard, since Apple's front end web teams do amazing work. And sure enough, that's what it is.
I focused on animation features and it has most of those available in the desktop version, but it's missing a few (e.g. action build effects). It's also missing some of the image adjustments. But it's got Magic Move, and shape subtraction/intersection[1]. Most importantly feels pretty good to use, though it takes a while to load (on Chromium). I've no idea if they implemented that inner-detail object alignment - don't have an easy way of testing it.
[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/keynote/combine-or-break-apa... - note the feature about breaking apart SVG images too, I wonder if that's related to the inner-detail trick.
Re: Figma Slides
#75At my previous job we used Google Slides, and I rapidly came to hate it. Here's why Figma Slides has me excited: - I use animation a lot, for many reasons, such as keeping audience focus on parts of the slide and visually explaining information changes and multi-step processes. It's particularly helpful for video. Figma already has much better tools for this; Google's are not particularly powerful and buggy as hell.…
Yeah it's like slide software was bifurcated: either you can actually collaborate (google) or make quality slides (keynote). Finally some hope: Figma actually does both of those things really well. I'm also excited by what you can potentially do programmatically in Figma. Has anyone ever tried using the google slides API? It’s one of those APIs where you sort of wonder if you are the only actual user or if other peop…
Totally with you on Google's lack of SVG support. SVG works fine in PowerPoint, and Keynote even lets you break SVGs apart[1]. It's embarrassing that Google were beaten by both MS and Apple on basic web standards support.
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#77Its crazy that Figma has time to bring out a completely new product but has no time to just implement a Dark Mode for FigJam [1]. Its been 3 years and counting. [1]: https://forum.figma.com/t/dark-mode-for-figjam/3147
Happy to see them making the correct prioritization
Well in that case many won't be using FigJam which is a real shame because it is an awesome product. The only thing stopping me from using it is that it causes eyesight issues. It is not even some fancy feature. Basic accessibility in 2024 shouldn't be a big ask. Especially considering they implemented dark mode for Figma in 2022 [1]. Extending to FigJam is just a few more lines of code. Shouldn't take 3 years to do this.
[1]: https://forum.figma.com/t/launched-figma-dark-mode-theme/229...
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As a dev, I say more power to them. I support people using better tools for things. Maybe if we kept this up we’d all be using good things, and not stuck with MS Teams and Google slides because little Timmy in marketing chews crayons and can’t figure out how to use anything but the most basic software.
it's possible to make your point without disparaging others that you feel are beneath you
No, some people should be shamed into being better.
I was shamed into using more advanced operating systems and it ended up with me having a hugely important and detailed understanding of operating system design. This has been hugely beneficial not just to me but to every person I worked with since.
I would not have elected to do this and not edged out of my comfort zone if I had not been shamed.
I was resistant to change otherwise. It is a good motivator.
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Interesting. I don't know a single person that uses google slides in a professional context. It's ppt files or even just pdfs. Designers will whip something up in InDesign or Illustrator if they want total control in rare instances, though.
To add another data point, I can't remember the last time I've seen a PowerPoint. Maybe in high school? In every job I've had, people used Google Slides, if presenting a slideshow at all. Additionally, when designers have demonstrated things (e.g. mock designs), they have always shared a Figma window.
Europe (especially germany, or gamedev) is all PPTs.
I sold google workspace to my org and Google Slides is what is giving me the most backlash because it is considered woefully inadequate compared to powerpoint. Especially around brand identity tied to fonts.
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There's useful animations—guiding the audience that something has changed for ex. Then there's the terrible animations—a gif of a meme playing in an infinite loop. These make the slide unwatchable for me.
Agreed. I've given a few conference talks and found judicious animations super helpful when I'm presenting code. Showing 10 lines of code on a screen at once is a surefire way to have the audience either not read/understand it or to read it, but ignore what I'm saying. So I like to build up a slide full of code by starting with a couple line (eg the function definition), then adding a few more, then a few more, and t…
It’s not ideal to have slides that only work if everyone is paying attention at all times. This animation should not be used to impart information. You can highlight changes in other ways.